A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 Just curious....

Thanks to Merme (I always called her Mermie in my head) for alerting me to this thread. It's neat to see all the names explained. It's good to see Geegee here, too.

My name is Elisabeth. As a kid I called myself Beth until seventh grade, when there were 5 Beths in my homeroom. It was then I altered it to Bess, after a wonderfully eccentric pal referred to me as "Young Bess" (after a book about Queen Elizabeth I's childhood). I liked the -ss at the end, which causes people to think twice about how I spell my full name. (I was named after opera diva Elisabeth Schwartzkopf! Imagine my mom's chagrin when I sang in a rock band in the 80's.)

AINNY-way, I hooked back up with a long-lost friend who had moved to St. Simon's Island, Georgia and in describing the piedmont area where I live, jokingly referred to myself as "Little Bessie of the Piedmont". For some reason I thought of that when I was asked for a screen name, here.

I had no idea it would come off so well.

These posts have all been very interesting to me. Thanks for indulging my curiousity. I feel as if I have met each and every one of you personally now. Except for Weezie!
I am not about to tell you what I have

Dianna

I ment to put my screen name as "Gardenmom32210jr" But I got confused (very easy to do) and accidently put my real name down!


Gdaughter.

I don't think my screen name is as interesting as some of yours, but maybe I can make it a bit more interesting with a puzzle. I'm a big Sci-fi fan and have a license plate that reflects that. Also, when the first of the Star Wars special editions came out, I had one of those refill cups from the convenience store with a picture of Obi-wan Kenobi on it. Somebody at work started calling me Obi-wan and I took it as my screen name.

Now for the puzzle. It should be easy, as I've probably given too many hints.

This is my license plate:
4SBWTU

Oh cmon

Oh! Duh! 1959 is the year I was born.

4s be with you also Obi! My daughter~in~law is a huge Star Wars fan..her cell ring is the theme song..and on & on....

Thanks, Ruddy!

i chose phoenix (well i have been using it for a LONG time) because a phoenix "rises" from the ashes(which trough out life i have had to do many times) and according to dumbledor(sp?) from harry potter a phoenix can carry a "great weight/many burdens and their tears have healing powers. so in my twisted mind i fancy myself after a phoenix

i also believe i was egyptian in a past life (shirley mclain told me that )so phoenix seemd to fit me i guess

dishman is my last name. i am also the only person who will do the dishes at my house... dishmanlady. also i don't have dish rags... they're "dishman rags". that one came from my hubby's gramma dishman.
boring and pitiful i know, but it's all i got


ps..so far i really like it here...everybody's so friendly and full of such humor! thanks for making me feel so welcome.

Hi Obywan ~ I admit I didn't get your puzzle until I read 4Ruddy's reply. I couldn't get past that T....never would have thought WT stood for "With"!

But then agan, I just put my glasses on and found out your screen name is OBYwan. I've always thought it was SKYwan. That's what I get for peering at the posts without my peepers in place!


And dishmanlady, correct your family for me, won't you? A Lady doesn't have "dish rags", a Lady has "dish CLOTHS" or, in your case they would be called dishmanlady cloths. Howz that?



Merme

Merme, I just love you to pieces! My mom would have bopped me for saying "dishrag" instead of dishcloth.

**Merme,
Do you see the word "VIEW" at the top of your page,
***mine's thru Mircosoft header***
click on that word, and the menu bar pops down,
It'll say "TEXT SIZE", another menu bar will pop
down, and say the words, Largest, Large, Medium,
Smaller, Smallest...
Click on the word LARGEST for your self, and the
letters should get pretty big for you...

Weezie

i uused to tawlk beatter then i do naow. been marred up to a hill billy famly fer bout 15 yeers thow. gess therea rubbin awf on mee! haha.

since you liked dish rags so much, here's some more for you...

plaskit...
translation...
plastic
digicle...
translation...
digital
deffity...
translation...
deputy
mayonnaise...
translation...
man, there's
geetyet...
translation...
did you eat yet?

you see what i'm dealing with here? it's like a whole different language!

dish cloths...there..that Is better.

now if i could just convince somebody else around here to use one...yea right!

Weezie, my friend!

I did what you suggested and NOW I CAN SEE these posts AND all the other cool details I've been missing! My text size had been set on "Smallest!" OOOOOPS!

Geez, what would we all do without cha, Weez?



Merme

a little off topic here, but in continuation of the dish rag thing, i got 1 more of those hill billy terms for you.
my hubby called a while ago and said he'd like to have some "yard bird" for supper tonight...translation...chicken!

i cracked up!

***Merme,
That's what I get paid the big $$$$'s for!!
I am soooooo joking...

But my hubby and computer friend had worked on my computer one night, the next day, I couldn't read a thing.... *and the computer guy is always changing stuff on my computer to his liking and it :p
I KNOW THE FEELING VERY WELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!

****Dishmanlady,
You need to meet Cindy, you and her would get along fantastic.... she speaks that too!!!!
*well, where she lives they all talk like that.*
Glad to meet you and Welcome to the boards...
It REALLY IS ONE OF THE MOST NICEST AND FRIENDLIEST FORUMS THERE IS.... every person here is so special, we've all formed really true bonds.
So, jump right on in, you'll fit in nicely...

Weezie

weezie still has yet to divulge how she got her "name"

Oh Phoenix, be glad you DON'T know!

A few of us do know, but we've all been sworn to secrecy on pains of death! Well, maybe not actual death, but I think if I told, that tiny woman from NY would come kick my Maine butt from here to Topeka! She would, too. And I'd be a-weeping and a-wailing the whole way....

So let's try to figure out JV's instead....I guessed "a new kind of tequila" which sounded good to me and I also guessed "Junior Varsity". Both guesses were bombs, apparently.

You have any likely ideas?

Merme

well lets see merme,
he stated that the V was from his midddle name
VICTOR perhaps?
and the J...
jovial,junior,jumping,jive,hmmmm

(i cant help but wonder about weezie,there is something in her typing that draws me to her )

Let's see, I like your ideas for the J....so,

what if he was a Marine and goes by Jarhead?
what if the V is for Victory?
He's PATRIOTIC!

But his signature mentions keeping it organic....so, how about Jovial Ventures?

If he's a musician, it could be Jammin' Videos or Jumpin Vibrations!

By the way, you COULD send Weezie and PM and plead with her to tell you privately what her screen name means, but then you'd be sworn to take the oath of silence on pain of death as well....

Merme

Okay, I spent the last 15 mins. going through and reading all the posts in here....good stuff!

Loz is what everyone calls me....my hubby, my friends, my nephews and nieces.....That's Aunt Loz to them!!! :p My hubby will be across the other side of the store and be yelling LOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZZZZ!!! People probably think, man she has an ugly name.....

When I was a little girl I guess I snored kind of cute--because they started calling me Laura the Snorer.....somehow it became Loz the Schnoz--I think because they figured I'd get the big family nose..... I don't know exactly where Loz came from.... I guess becaue it rhymed with schoz....My dad gave us all cutsey type names.....My brother was Paulrus the Walrus, and my sis Allison was Allibags the Scallywags....I don't know how these happened either to be honest.....My dad was, and still is a pretty silly fun loving man....very imaginative....he'd put on elaborate puppet shows for us at night, and sing and dance his way out of our bedrooms...he'd tell us stories that he made up himself, that he now tells to his grandkids...He'd take us for mystery trips, and to the park, and for walks....So the names weren't meant in any way to be mean or anything....just fun and silly.....but WOW how mine stuck.....I hated it as a teenager, but embrace it now. My niece used to call me Woz before she could say her L's....and it was so cute......

Cool name, Loz! Thanks for telling us!!

Phoenix, earlier you asked which part of ME are we in? We are in the southern part, right smack dab on the coast....our apt is four blocks uphill from the beach. Having traveled nearly all the world, I wouldn't want to live anywhere else now, but there's no bias in that opinion!

Merme

J is for Jimmy the V which is first letter of my middle name is still not going to be revealed <img border="0" alt="[tongue]" title="" src="graemlins/tongue.gif" /> . I only know three people that had this name. One was an old man back home in New Mexico the other is my oldest son just to get even. He still will not speak to me for this. :p
Jimmy V