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catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

0 posted 2001-07-18 08:03 AM

How did you all pick your Passions name? Those that are not your daily name. I'll start, of all the places I have seen, Catalina Island in Southern California is the most beautiful. And I am a full moon woman, in every way, except I don't turn into a wolf

Lets here what inspired you?
Sandra

[This message has been edited by catalinamoon (edited 07-18-2001).]

inot2B
Member Elite

since 2000-09-18

Posts 2205
Arkansas

1 posted 2001-07-18 10:10 AM

Ok it's time to admit. Turn inot around and you have my first name, Toni. I used inot2 on a chat room in ivillage, so when I joined here I thought inot2B was more poetic.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2001-07-18 10:30 AM

Here begins a boring story:

I chose my forum name because that is a name I’ve used for two years. When I got my computer, I wanted an identity other than my ‘real’ life identity. I think I wanted to hide behind the anonymity of a name that would be recognized as someone I never thought I could be.

I sat at my dining room table with poetry books, a thesaurus, a dictionary and paper and pencil. I knew I wanted an identity that would exemplify my body of work. I love ivy…the way it looks against a brick wall. I thought about each of my poems as a leaf of ivy on that vine. "Leaves of Inspiration" was my first choice, but couldn’t fit a suitable ‘name’ in there. I read about vines..about ivy…about branches…..until I realized that I could do a play on words.

The Vine……..deVine……..everyone mistakes it for divine (heavenly)..but actually it is the vine. Poet seemed the perfect first name….Poet of the Vine…..Lines deVine….deVine Lines….I’ve used them all.

Besides, it’s not bad to be called Poet. I hope I am one. And to be called deVine or deVine one or Lady deVine is quite a compliment!

So I put together my ‘mission statement’ that is on every web site I create for myself.

When you find love in each special line
know it was created by Poet deVine

Fading Away

Member Elite

since 2001-03-14

Posts 3131
Lynchburg, Virginia

3 posted 2001-07-18 11:05 AM

Aww.. Poet, I liked that..

My name is very unoriginal. I chose it because it was my name for opendiary.com at the time. I tend to use to the same user names for many things so I won't be confused with which name goes to what.

--Marie

You think yourself a failure, but perhaps the biggest loss is winning...

Romy
Senior Member

since 2000-05-28

Posts 1170
Plantation, Florida

4 posted 2001-07-18 11:19 AM

Well...I borrowed my puppy's name because it was easy to remember! How original is that?

Alicat
Member Elite

since 1999-05-23

Posts 4094
Coastal Texas

5 posted 2001-07-18 01:12 PM

Well, mine is kinda like inot2B's. I have a very large name, and one of the middle names is Alastair, which I started using almost exclusively back in 89 (there were just too many Michaels and Mikes at college). A friend of mine thought Alastair was too formal a name for our circle of friends, and shortened it to Ali, which stuck. Alicat was only a brief step away.

Now, my other alias, which I use at Yahoo, is persnikitty, and no, it was not derived from persian kitty, but persnickety, combined with my inherent feline qualities exemplified by Alicat. Ergo: persnikitty.

Jesse Jaymz
Senior Member

since 2000-01-24

Posts 708
Youngstown, ohio

6 posted 2001-07-18 02:09 PM

well since Jesse Jaymz IS my real name i thought i coudlnt play this game. then after hours of crying and throwing a fit. ok ok i didnt do that but it sounded good didnt it? hehe. anyways i realized that all my friends here also know me by my nic name Broken Angel. so gather round yall and heres a tale hehe *sorry in a GREAT mood today

* i had a very good friend named maggz. me and her where like brother and sister. one day i was really hurt and crying badly. she came up to me, hugged me and siad jesse you are such an angel. but why are you always broken. and the name just stuck. sadly my dear friend maggz passed away alittle over a year ago. to remember her i got a tattoo on my shoulder of the words broken angel in jappanesse. she is forever apart of me and no matter how happy i get i will always be that broken angel

i love ya maggz, where ever you are

jesse

When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her - but, alas, she was waiting for the perfect man. :(

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

7 posted 2001-07-18 02:55 PM

It’s not hard to figure. Put me on highway, show me a sign, and take it to the limit, one more time.

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

8 posted 2001-07-18 03:54 PM

Yeah, I knew this would be fun! Sharon, I would not have guessed you were "of the vine" rather than divine. I will give you both, then. Interesting word play.
Sandra

Severn
Member Rara Avis

since 1999-07-17

Posts 7704

9 posted 2001-07-18 08:43 PM

~sniff~

I thought I'd made it up. I thought I had invented it. Severn has a nice, cool long sound...it's pronounced Seh-veeern btw.

Then I find out from a delightful English friend that ~wail~ there's a huge river in England called the Severn.

Then I take a walk downtown and just happen to find myself walking along Severn Street.

I haven't gotten over it yet. I'm a cliche!

~waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaail~

K

zzz
Member

since 2001-06-06

Posts 55

10 posted 2001-07-18 09:20 PM

well im afraid its not as interesting as most i just got fed up of getting refused with any thin i could come up with that described me when needing a name so out of fustration hit the z key !

Jamie
Member Elite

since 2000-06-26

Posts 3168
Blue Heaven

11 posted 2001-07-18 10:52 PM

Did You Know:

The Severn is Britain's longest river

100 bridges cross the River Severn

The Severn has the second highest rise & fall of tide in the world

The worst flood on the Severn happened in 1795

rearrange the 2nd and 3rd numbers and... i know--that is reaching...lol

all to say-- at least your already taken invented name is interesting....heh
HK>LK

There is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.
byron

Dopey Dope

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Member Patricius

since 2000-08-30

Posts 11132
San Juan, Puerto Rico

12 posted 2001-07-19 03:03 AM

When I was 14 I picked Dopey_Dope. It was my first ever internet name.

I went to Washington State for summer and they use the word DOPE to mean COOL.

So I came back to PR and told all my friends my new word...."I'm dope" (meaning I'm cool).
They'd comment "dope? you mean you're dopey!"
they'd think they were real witty.....haha

So I just used : Dopey_Dope
Thought it was original enough....

Some people think I do drugs cuz of it....haha......i'm straightedge...no drug or booze has ever entered my body cept for tynelol and the like.

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