On my Juno email, 35 years ago, to remain anonymous, I signed my name as "Runner". (I ran 5 miles a day, 6 days a week). Then Glenda caught wind of it, outed me. Oh...THAT'S Nicole. No one else posts photos like her....and .....she's a runner. 😂 I gave up.

I was eating lunch on the remains of a freshly cut tree and not feeling creative.

Well, I wanted to be just The Hobbit, but it was already taken. This was about 100 years ago when Spike was in charge. I was mainly on the roses site, and was also mainly a lurker. I left that site as it lost my interest. I do have 23 rose bushes, and thats enough to keep me plenty busy. I'm also a mom, so there you go. Im on the short side....but no hairy feet!

I am a conifer person who likes Tsuga canadensis in particular. Also, by signing my posts with ”tj” I can search for my past posts easier with a keyword and those initials.

tj

I had a nickname I was well known by from the time I was 11 years old until I left it behind entirely when I got married at 22. When I was 17/18 I used to go to a bar where most everyone called me by that nickname. But one of the older regulars there always would greet me the same way. I'd walk and hear, "What's the deal, Wildchild? " Someone calling me something different. LOL So when I came to the KT decades ago I figured why not. When houzz took over I had to change it so I added the 2x2. It was my derby car number and the numbers are a private joke to people who would know me well.

I think my name is pretty self-explanatory.

I have always liked the name Anastasia, which I would have given to a daughter. So my name is a shortened version, together with mb, an abbreviation of the province in which I live.

Mine is from a long-dead tortie cat I once had. She wasn't even one of my favorites, as I recall, but I liked the name and maybe would have named a daughter that.

I’ve always wanted a middle name. My user name looks like I have one. But in reality, it is the first 2 letters of my first name, D for my last name and 61 thrown in from a house address.

Mine is an amalgamation of lyrics from one of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, “China Cat Sunflower”. If you know, you know.

Mine really has no meaning, I could have used a little more imagination with my choice. Something on the gardening side caught my interest and I wanted to participate (Spike, and I was a paid member back then). I quickly entered an old nickname no one has used in many decades 'Mor' and added my gardening Zone 8, I've never bothered to change it, I'm really not quite that dull but my user name certainly is.

Eld, you can have my middle name, my gift to you....it's Dale. A Navy buddy of my Dad. It could have been so much worse - the man's last name was Quackenbush😂

morz, your dad and mine might know each other. I'm serious. Rear Admiral Quackenbush was in the same field as my father, so I bet your dad was too!

My first name and the last name of my ex-husband.

My first name and NM, where I live

The last 2 dogs we had were pekingese….

I made up the name Kendrah long ago as my screen alias on all kinds of websites. It is my go to. I picked it out of thin air. I don't even like the name much and haven't loved the people I know named Kendrah.

Mine’s not very original. Before discovering KT I posted primarily to a few garden topics. So, my initials, my geographic area & my planting zone.

It's an acronym.

I've got it!

Don't Acquire Don't Owe it's Easy and Simple

DADOES!

My initials and Fenton glass which I was googling the day that I signed up.

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

🤔

DADOES

My original UID was based on my first name, initials, and age I was when I joined GW. (I think for the second time; I vaguely remember having a lurker acct around the 1998-99 timeframe, but being afraid to post much.)

My new name reflects a desire to have a unified branding for my future social media based horticultural presence.

Signed up shortly after I moved to Arkansas to what I believed would be my forever home. Sadly things didn't go so well after moving to Arkansas. We ended up getting a divorce and I moved to Ohio. I just left the name as it was.

Huh, I always assumed dadoes was a woodworker.

Marilyn C was the name of one of our shrimp boats at the time.

my brother was 18 months old when i was born and couldn't pronounce "charlene", it came out "nina" and it stuck as my nickname. when i met my husband, for some reason, he started calling me "ninapearl the dancin' girl". i have no idea why because i have 2 left feet!

I am a Pat, but wanted it to be known I was female.

I know I've told this story before, but.....

My name used to be par3 because at the time I lived on a Par 3 golf hole. At some point, Garden Web was having one of its famous glitches and I couldn't access my account. After several maddening attempts at creating a new name -- each apparently not meeting with the guidelines at the time (though it would only reveal them one at a time.....no numbers, no special characters, etc.), resulting in the same error message "please only use letters a to z" - I angrily pounded lettersatoz on the keyboard, and.......here I am.

By the way, speaking of golf, I got my second hole in one last week - 10 years and 3 months since my last one. I'm trying to update my profile pic, but it doesn't seem to want me to do it. Too similar, perhaps? 😄

Vgkg is short for Veggieking, a nickname given to me by a niece.

Congrats on the hole-in-one, letters! That’s on a par with getting the Wordle on the first try!

Yes, congrats on the second hole-in-one!!!

My dog at the time I signed up was Murray.

From roxol to Roxsolid!!! 😀

Mine was inspired by Pacific Palisades and I wanted a name so strong to fit my ambitions in those younger years when I often flew across the country to Silicon Valley and surrounding areas for meetings and work.

I have had so many names here that I don't remember them all. I started here the day this forum opened - as one of the refugees from the HGTV message boards.

Current name: I'm a scorpio. I was looking for a new throwaway email address and added a random color to the front of it. There are also other characters in the email address, so I'm pretty incognito, even telling you that much.

I had a cat named Jupiter, and I sometimes called her Jupidupi. It was just the first thing that popped into my head.

I love that so many of us have memorialized our pets. Fafnir and Tristan, you were good dachshunds! I miss you every day.You too, Argos.

My dad used to call me Suzieque.

Obvious? I was in a hurry and had to pick a name. I like flowers and things French and I had just been looking at some Lalique glass.

I’ve explained mine previously but it shouldn’t be hard to figure out. Growing up we lived on a hill with several acres of woods behind us which I enjoyed exploring for the rocks and whatever i could find. Our neighborhood sort of sprawled downhill toward the lake for about 4 blocks, ending near a park (which is now a large well-kept park and walking trail). There were large areas of trees in between the blocks so we had our shortcuts through the woods, and we would walk through the woods almost all year to get to our friend’s houses. In summer we were either swimming at the local pool or in the lake when our parents allowed it, and almost always went to some sort of scout camp. I’ve always loved being outdoors, I enjoy gardening and visiting other gardens, or anything that gets me outside.

When I had to select a name back in the Jurassic era I had no idea that it could be important and you also dont want to use your real name. Well as it happens I have an extremely common first name so that hardly matters. In order to use my name I had to tack on an extra letter so I started at the beginning of the alphabet and ended up with an e which has the merit of making my name look scientific as in being a common ending for Classes and families and such so I stuck with it. I am being HU'ed for the second time and while it cured itself the first time I seem to have a terminal case at the moment. I tried to fix it for a while but decided I have better things to do with my remaining life.

patricia with an e

I love when this topic gets re-introduced!!! A lot of the oldies I knew the back-story, (Annie hasn't chimed in yet), so it's nice to see the newer stories, and I've been curious about some of them!

Mine is an acronym....Just Another Sh*tty Day in Paradise

I’ve had mine since i joined GW before Spike had us pay. teacups anyone?

And I put MI so everyone would know my state! I wish everyone put in their state!

I had a terrible time trying to garden because I had a family of groundhogs living near my back yard. I had to resort to trapping them and rehoming them elsewhere. Hence my name!

When I first joined I was Kathy-PA. At some point I couldn't log in and had to change my user name. Sooooo kat the first 3 letters of my first name lan first 3 of my last name. Not very original I know 🤷‍♀️

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?

Mu username is just my initials and a hobby that I'm getting too old to love anymore.

I had a number of other names, dating back to Spike. When Houzz acquired GW, I went back to my roots (see what I did there?) since I found THS when I was looking for info on hydrangea. Maybe early 1990s?

ETA Delivers Aid, Does Others Extra Solid. Many thanks Dadoes, you've been there for a lot of us, and saved me more than a few times. Solved the 20' wrap around dryer vent issue, among other things.

ETAA This made me think of Mama Pinky. RIP

I was Breenthumb. Pretty self explanatory, (brown/green, win some lose some) with plants on the"other side". Mostly Houseplants, Cactus and Conifers. Yup, way back when Skip owned the site.

Now, signing into GW through Google Chrome, I became SS, my initials. It's easy and I'm OK with that.

This has been a really fun thread. Interesting how our names came about.

The name of our long-gone Sheltie. But I do like socks too, have quite a few pairs.

I had at least one other ( I think possibly 2) name here long ago and I don't recall why I changed. Anyway, I guess when I became Salonva, my job used initials for everything. My initials are SAL. When I was going on vacation, I agreed that they could contact me but I did not want to use my regular email at the time. So, I set one up with SAL on Vacation @xxx whatever. When I was signing up here, I thought Salonva was good shortened. It's funny because a few people have assumed I am in Virginia, and even a beautician. Not at all. But that's my story.

I've enjoyed this, and I think Jasdip takes the cake!!!!!

back in 1997 when I found the kitchen table we were just listing our names and what state we lived in...hence Liz-ga