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Across the Fence:  About the User Name You Picked  |
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
1022 Posts |
 Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 09:24:47 AM
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Has this topic been done before? I couldn't find it and I've often wondered about it.
Tell us Farmgirls out there WHY you picked the "User Name" you did. What's the story behind the name? Or, is there one?
Does it represent you well? If you could change it, would you? Why? To what?
(By the way, you can't change your User Name. Don't even try. We all know you by the one you picked. I just thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind the one you came up with!)
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Georgia Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
212 Posts
Denise
Atlanta
GA
USA
212 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 09:26:54 AM
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Well, mine is obvious, I am a girl and I am from Georgia. I guess I wasn't very creative huh??
Proud Farmgirl Sister #113
http://mybigcityfarm.blogspot.com/ |
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amyartgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
991 Posts
Amy
Junction City
Ohio
USA
991 Posts |
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bohemiangel
True Blue Farmgirl
2087 Posts
Bridget
Ligonier
pa
USA
2087 Posts |
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country lawyer
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
1022 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 09:35:51 AM
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So, I'll go.
I picked my user name without any thought whatsoever about it. I had never visited a forum before, so I didn't really know how boring my user name would turn out to be. It's true that I have always liked the image of a "country" lawyer (if you've got to be one at all.) So, that's where the name came from, that image.
There are so many user names here that are so clever! and cute! So, yes. I would change it if I had it to do over again. To something friendlier and carefree and cute-sie and clever and nothing at all to do with being a boring old lawyer. |
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Peanut
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jennifer
Waverly
Virginia
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 09:40:38 AM
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I picked my username because out of all the crops that we farm, peanuts are my favorite. I really love that we carry on the "Virginia tradition" of farming peanuts.
"What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 09:57:19 AM
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Mine is extremely boring. Like you, Country Lawyer, I had never been on a forum, chatroom, etc and had no idea I could make something up! It's simply my name. Since it was already taken I added my house number. Can't get more boring than that. I would definately change it if it didn't mess things up. Though I don't know what I'd change it to.
Farmgirl Sister #35
"If you can not do great things, do small things in a great way." Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)
my blog: http://lisamariesbasketry.blogspot.com/
My Website:
http://www.freewebs.com/lisamariesbasketry/index.htm |
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kydeere40744
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
Jessica
Kentucky
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:03:18 AM
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My family has collected antique 2-cylinder John Deere's for as long as I can remember and we use to go to shows a lot. We've also collected John Deere stuff over the years. When I was little, one of our ag teachers called me "little John Deere." He has since passed away. Being that I am from KY and love John Deere stuff (even before it was 'cool' and you saw the merchandise popping up at department stores), I got my username. The numbers are my old zipcode. I did have one on here without the zipcode, but I couldn't remember the password to save my life and I had deleted that email account - thus a new one.
~Jessica in Kentucky & Miss Wilma's Niece~
Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow...
http://bluegrassprincess.blogspot.com/ |
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lovelady
True Blue Farmgirl
533 Posts
Toni
Indiana
USA
533 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:04:05 AM
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| Well, mine sounds like the most boring one here, as it is just my last name. Nothing really creative about it. But, it was given to me by a wonderful guy, so I think I'll keep it. :) |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:06:47 AM
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Well- My "real" name is Alyssa. In High School my best friend for some reason couldn't pronounce it so she nicknamed me "Alee" (pronounce Ah-Lee) and then my nieces and nephews couldn't (at first) pronounce Alyssa either so they started calling me Aunt Alee (pronounced Alley, but more often coming out as Owie hehehe) So I just stuck with Alee. I like having a nickname and now more of my friends call me Alee than by my given name!!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
Please come visit Nora and I our our new blog:
http://FarmgirlAlee.blogspot.com" target="_blank"> http://FarmgirlAlee.blogspot.com |
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Hideaway Farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1553 Posts
Jo
Virginia
USA
1553 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 10:54:49 AM
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I have to jump in here and say that I really like the user name country lawyer! It's neat to hear other farmgirls tell how they came up with their name.
My story: when DH bought our farm three years ago, it already had a name, and as I told the seller, "he had us at the name" so I am all about Hideaway Farm + girl!
Jo
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Edited by - Hideaway Farmgirl on Jan 15 2008 10:55:47 AM |
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myfairlady636
True Blue Farmgirl
226 Posts
Janice
Fort Bridger
WY
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 11:01:44 AM
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Mine has multiple meanings.
#1 I am the county fair director
#2 In Greek mythology, Pygmalion, the king of Cyprus, found so much fault in womankind that he resolved to live unmarried. But after painstakingly sculpting a statue of a beautiful woman that he named Galatea, he came to regard his creation as so perfect that he fell in love with her.
This story is the basis for the more modern story of Eliza Dolittle in "My Fair Lady". The play is about a phonetics professor's efforts to refine the speech and manner of a cockney flower girl for life among the gentry as a platform for social critique, demonstrating the artificiality of class distinctions in turn-of-the-century British society.
"Yes, you squashed cabbage leaf; you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns; you incarnate insult to the English language! I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba." --Professor Higgins.
I have all too often felt like the cockney flower girl who keeps trying to grow up to be a respected and fine woman.
My Fair Lady Farm Girl Sister # 92
"Our lives have meaning, purpose and direction"
http://millberrycottage.blogspot.com/
http://myfairlady636.etsy.com |
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palmettogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
571 Posts
sue
camden
south carolina
USA
571 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 11:04:42 AM
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| living in south carolina now...palmettogirl seemed to fit. i used to be "flamingosue" when i lived in florida. my son picked that one out when he was little. i would change it to something more interesting but i can't think of what i'd change it to! |
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 11:25:48 AM
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Mine is partly from the name of my farm - 'Bee Haven'(a story in itself) and partly from an old joke(I remember Liberace telling it) about his first girlfriend(Iknow, he didn't have any girlfriends...), whose name was 'Miss Bea Haven'. And probably because my dh thinks I do misbehave every time I spend money at an auction, thrift store or antique store! LOL! :D
Farmgirl Sister #50
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?"
'Br.Dave Gardner' |
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BarefootGoatGirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1495 Posts
Corrine
North Carolina
USA
1495 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 12:06:22 PM
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a self discription...when i sat down to log in the first time i had dirty barefeet and smelled like my favorite goat, so i just went with it.
It sounds so good to hear myself laugh. --Rascal Flats, "No Reins" |
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junkjunkie
True Blue Farmgirl
1306 Posts
Judy
Lawrenceville
NJ
USA
1306 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 12:26:12 PM
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Well...I think mine is pretty obvious. I like to collect things and I scored a nice chair today on the curb. The name fits.
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4853 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 12:34:19 PM
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Well, let's see..
I'm a Kentucky girl. "Ky"
My husband used to play in an Irish band (like a folky U2), and the singer (who was from Ireland) would always say, "Hay Guuurl" with that brogue, only for whatever reason it wasn't hot, it was peculiar and got on my nerves, so my whenever Jus is feeling cheeky, he calls me "guuurl" which makes me laugh out loud, and thus, was chosen and shortened to "Gurl"(s)
I think Kentucky girls are great--I think Kentucky is great, therefore, I say, that the feminine population of Kentucky is best, hence "RBest"
Farmgirl Sister #80, thanks to a very special farmgirl from the Bluegrass..."She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian.
http://www.buyhandmade.org/ |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 12:45:42 PM
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My user names is the very first one I ever had back when the internet first came about. I like cats and I forgot where I got the charm from but it just stuck. : )
I would like to change my screen name at some point....Something fresh and new.
Cheers,
Heather |
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Beach Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
111 Posts
Vanessa
Williamsburg
VA
111 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 5:52:06 PM
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Well, although I am moving from this island (and the beach) in 2 weeks, I am a Beach Girl who loves to feel the sand in her toes. I love the mountains and other areas but I am truly a beach girl.
However, living at this beach has not been nearly as enjoyable as visiting it was.
Vanessa
Who is currently The Box Queen 
You know you're moving when you have to use your cell phone to call your house phone just so you can find it! |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
8529 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 7:20:46 PM
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Cabin Creek was the former name of our home .. but we changed it to FREEDOM VALLEY FARM .. i would change it here too .. except i lose all those olde postings .. and it is the name of my 'antiques' business lisence .. but everything else goes under Freedom Valley Farm. There are so many Cabin Creek and Cabin Creek Farms out there .. i wanted something unique to me and my honey here. xo
True Friends * Frannie
HEAR MY STORIES
come, visit my:
"GATHERING ROOM" ..
http://freedomvalleyfarm.blogspot.com
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. up for adoption:
http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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lilyblossom
True Blue Farmgirl
416 Posts
Donna
Evansville
IN
USA
416 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 7:30:35 PM
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We have two Shilol shepherds and their names are Lily and Blossom, hence the screen name lilyblossom.
Donna...transplanted southerner, farmgirl #86 |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 7:35:01 PM
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Mine is sorta obvious. When I did daycare in my home for many years the kids all called me Aunt Jenny, since I always had at least one neice or nephew who called me that..it stuck.
Besides..it sounds better than chunky animal lover..haha
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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chicken necker
True Blue Farmgirl
509 Posts
Sherry
Eastern Shore
Maryland
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 7:37:45 PM
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I've replied to this question a couple of times, but I'll stick it here too. I grew up in Northern PA, Amish country with a hippie mom. I got "accidently" transplanted in the city in MD when my mom remarried, and studied Great British literature and art. I met my daughter's best friend's father, who is born and bred Eastern Shore waterman and farmer. He called me a "chicken necker". Here, that's a cut down, because the crab bait of choice for locals is bull lips (eww) and yuppies from the "other side" (of the Bay Bridge) use chicken necks. Once he got over my "English" accent and realized I was a real country, hippie chick, he "accepted" me, lol and has been helping me out by giving me the rules. Like, "we don't use turn signals, you'll know iffen somebodies turnin cuz they hit the brakes"
Now Chicken Necker is it!
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ~anon |
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2875 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2875 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 8:07:38 PM
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| Also obvious...HAve 2 Nubian goats & Great Danes(the LOVES of my life) |
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frannie
True Blue Farmgirl
2246 Posts
fran
bonham
texas
USA
2246 Posts |
Posted - Jan 15 2008 : 9:38:15 PM
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i picked the user name "frannie" because i was pretty naive(dumb) about the computer and didnt even know what a user name was. most folks call me fran, but my dh has always called me frannie.
when i picked that name, i didnt know our other frannie, and it was so confusing to me when i read her post cause i would think , when did i post that?
anyway, if i had to do over i would have called myself texas frannie, cause i'm embarrassed to say i still sometime get confused when i read something about fran/frannie cause i dont know who their talking to or about.....course, people that know me know that alot of times i stay confused
love
fran
(http://farmfolks-frannie.blogspot.com/) |
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Phils Ann
True Blue Farmgirl
1095 Posts
Ann
Parsonsburg
Maryland
USA
1095 Posts |
Posted - Jan 16 2008 : 11:26:35 AM
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Well, mine is certainly obvious. I'm married to Phil Actually, Phil's older brother is married to an Anne, and I could be called #2 or Phil's Ann. Like Country Lawyer (and I do like your name!) I'd change it now, but this was also the first forum I'd been on and was stumped.
Ann
Sairy Hill Thicket
There is a Redeemer. |
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