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Starlite LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 13489 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject: What made you choose your nickname? |
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Since everyone was so willing to share thier age, I was wondering what inspired you to choose your nickname? I'll go first: My real name "Esther" means "Star"  _________________ “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller |
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Gesine LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 13 Dec 2005 Posts: 13092 Location: Valletta, Malta
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps it's my name. It could be my name. It kind of sounds like it might be a name, don't you think? Or it could just be a made-up name. Or it could be a real name, but not really mine. I'm not sure even I know which of these, at this stage. :)
Esther is a lovely name. _________________ "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world." Albert Einstein |
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opheliad
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 394 Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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I played Ophelia in a school play called "When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet", where all the main female characters from S's plays were brought together. Incidentally, I'm still looking for a copy of that script to reminisce, so if you know of it, please do contact me.
ANYway, my nickname in full (which I use on other sites) is Ophelia Darcy - (ahh, Fitzwilliam!) opheliad is simply a shortened version of this. _________________ "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work.
And out of small things proceedeth that which is great."
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gypsygirl LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 4375 Location: British expat in Waco, TX
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Mine's from "You gotta get a gimick" in Gypsy: Cause if you got a gimmick, Gypsy girl you got it made.
I only chose it because I like the way it sounds, not from any particular attachment to the song or the play. Besides, my childhood nickname was "La Pulga" which means, the flea, and gypsygirl sounds way better than that.  _________________ Karen
"She's read all of Bronte eight times. That officially makes her an octo-Jane-Eyre-ian." Dr. Tom Hanks |
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MermaidMaddie
Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 239 Location: Northern California
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:45 am Post subject: |
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Well, MermaidMaddie came about because a)I'm obsessed with mermaids and b) Maddie is my bratty little princess kitten's name. I often use one of my cats' names as my online "alias" or screen name because I don't like using my real name. (I don't even like wearing a name tag or a "hello, my name is ___ " sticker)
(Technically, she's not really a kitten now, she just turned 2 ) but she's just so darned cute and such a diva. (her brother is sort of a prissy prima donna too, so it think it just runs in the family )
I have multiple cats and of course I love them all...but Maddie's my "100% indoors only" cat and so she's my "baby"
She's just *so* freaking adrorable (and she knows it!) Definitely has a "larger than life" personality. Almost as large as her tail. (My family and I love to joke about her tail because it's so huge and fluffy it should get its own zip code.)
Shut me up now or I seriously will talk about my "babies" all day. Like one of those crazy old ladies who lives with several cats except that I'm only in my 20's . tee-hee.  _________________ "Elphaba, where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true...we call it 'history'. "
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Starlite LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 13489 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:15 am Post subject: |
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LOL Maddie you are funny
Yep Gypsy girl sounds much better then flea LOL
Now is Gesine realy her name of not?
I figured Ophelia had something to do with that Shakespear dude. _________________ “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller |
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shortcircuit
Joined: 01 Jul 2006 Posts: 169 Location: The Middle of Nowhere, CA, USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Hmm... I think I chose shortcircuit because I'm short (my friends at school frequently refer to me as "short Asian woman" ... and I'm not entirely sure why heh.) and I used to have (still do) a fascination with electrical things.... and I guess my brain tends to shortcircuit every once in a while and I go completely random...
something like that. _________________ There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away. -
Emily Dickinson
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Maria
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Starlite LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 13489 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| shortcircuit wrote: | Hmm... I think I chose shortcircuit because I'm short (my friends at school frequently refer to me as "short Asian woman" ... and I'm not entirely sure why heh.) and I used to have (still do) a fascination with electrical things.... and I guess my brain tends to shortcircuit every once in a while and I go completely random...
something like that. |
Love it! _________________ “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller |
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Breefolk
Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 108 Location: Fredericton, NB
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Total silliness on my part. I was talking to my brother about LOTR when we were both teenagers. He had just gotten to talking about the town of Bree when I said that I liked that name. It stuck in my head since then and since Bree is often taken, I go with Breefolk. _________________ -Christiane Levesque |
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:47 am Post subject: |
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| I was writing a story and needed to came up with a name for a character and after a long and agonising brainstorming I came up with Raezel Czer (I've allways been bad at coming up with names for stories). There story never got actually written (rarely they do, I'm good at starting to write, but bad at finnishing), but I just couldn't let my hard work go to waste so I took the shortened version Raezel to use. |
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Caeristhiona LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 3310 Location: Los Angeles
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: |
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It's my real name in Gaelic, and I always liked the look of it. _________________ In my experience, nothing ruins a party like someone suddenly speaking Latin in reverse.
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anna LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 14216 Location: Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Anna is my real name, with a small modificatie to make it easier to pronounce for non Dutch speaking people.  _________________ Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens. |
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Starlite LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 13489 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| anna wrote: | Anna is my real name, with a small modificatie to make it easier to pronounce for non Dutch speaking people.  |
Hee hee does it have a "j" in it??  _________________ “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” Helen Keller |
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anna LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 14216 Location: Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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No, J
Blijf raden haha.  _________________ Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens. |
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anna LibriVox Admin Team
Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 14216 Location: Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Starlite, my name is Ans. Anna is my first baptismal name, so you do not have to guess anymore.  _________________ Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens. |
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