How did you choose your user name?

[imlovely]

Im just lovely so I went with imlovely lol

I had tried a few others that I liked better, but they were taken

 

[AprilRayne]

It's interesting to see how many people have changed their usernames since that first thread! When I was younger I always wanted to be a singer in a band and call it Aprilrayne. The month of April is usually raining so I just changed the spelling! LOL My name's April!

 

[akathegnat]

I have a really short attention span. I can't pay attention and stay in one spot for more than 2 seconds most of the time. Just like the little flying bugs, gnats. So my husband calls me his little gnat. So that's where aka(aka=also know as) the gnat comes from. My real name is Sarah.

 

[4getmeNot]

mine is cause i don't want anyone to forget me!! lol

i changed mine- it used to be my initials.

 

[ColdDayInHell]

I was listening to the song "Cold Day in Hell" by blues guitarist/singer Gary Moore and I thought it would make a good user name.

 

[S. Lisa Smith]

This is complicated. The S. stands for Sally, my first user name on an old, now defunct Crossdresser's forum. When I called my wife's office I would use different voices to kid with the receptionist. One of my voices was Lenny Leach. I learned how to do a woman's voice and I would call in as his sister, Lisa Leach. I settled on Smith as a very common last name. So S. Lisa Smith was born. That's my user name on a few crossdressing forums now, so I use it here also.

 

[ColdDayInHell]

Originally Posted by S. Lisa Smith /img/forum/go_quote.gif This is complicated. The S. stands for Sally, my first user name on an old, now defunct Crossdresser's forum. When I called my wife's office I would use different voices to kid with the receptionist. One of my voices was Lenny Leach. I learned how to do a woman's voice and I would call in as his sister, Lisa Leach. I settled on Smith as a very common last name. So S. Lisa Smith was born. That's my user name on a few crossdressing forums now, so I use it here also. LOL!!!! Complicated indeed. I almost lost you at Lenny Leach.

 

[Jadeanne]

When I joined my first crossdressing forum I wanted to have a unique screen name.

My first initial is J and the first 3 letters of my middle name are Dan.

I decided on a spelling that I thought was suitable and I liked.

I haven't encountered many other Jadeannes on the internet.

 

[Darla]

My wife had a coworker by the name of Darla. This woman was crazy in that she had once had a husband cheated on her so when she remarried she wouldn't let her husband go on a business trip without her going along because she didn't trust him. She did miss a lot of her own job because of this.

well anyway about the time i had my first crossdressing experience going to a Halloween party (story on my profile page) we decided to adopt the name since we thought it was kind of ruined already.

I know stupid reason, but it has stuck

 

[CellyCell]

Bump

 

[Baby V]

Baby is because my fiance always calls me baby and V is short for Vivianette. a lot of my friends call me V, Viv, Vivi or even Vivian! That's about it!

 

[GillT]

It's my name. /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[pinkvanilla]

Pink is my favourite colour and vanilla just popped into my head when I was looking for another word! I liked the sound of it

 

[purpleRain]

This is fun to read.

Pinkvanilla sounds sweet and yummie

I didn't want any numbers in my user name.

A favourite song of mine is Purple Rain from Prince, I love that one, the power of the guitar, a very emotional pop- song! So I must have heard it that day that made me think of this song.

And I love the spirituality and mystery of the color purple.

My real name is Nancy

 

[TracySchapes]

I posted this on my blog Tracy's Happy Place

I've copied it here:

Did your parents name you Tracy?

Ah, no, I picked the name Tracy when I started this blog. I had a name for my feminine self a long time ago, it was Michelle but I never felt Michelle was me. I think for a name to ring true you have to be called by that name.

Since I started this blog and started to participate on the crossdesser message boards, I've been called Tracy a lot. I finally feel I'm Tracy and it's a good feeling.

So then mystery person, how did you decide on Tracy Schapes?

The last name of Schapes is a variation on a family name. My 4th great-grandfather who was German had a last name similar to Schapes. He was born before 1810 in Lower-Saxony a province in Germany. He lost his last name to his wife's last name because the family farm was in her name. That was the tradition. It was more important to keep the farm's name than the male surname. So to honor him, I used his surname that was replaced by a woman's, and replaced my male name with his, so that I could create a female name. Does that make sense?

The name Tracy I picked because it was an androgynous name from the 1960's. That's truthfully how I feel, neither exclusively male nor female. Since I was born in the 1950's I figured I have already taken ten years off my age with that name!

The combination of the two names sounds like "Tracing Shapes" which to my way of thinking is what I'm trying to do. Trace the shape of a woman on my male frame.

Love, Tracy

 

[cheller]

it a character from a story i wrote. i was a warped version of myself. well...more like exaggerated version. but yeah. the name was Da Cheller & my actual name is Michelle.

 

[Lil-miss-living]

Well i LOVE LOVE LOVE Tim Burton and ANYTHING he is associated with!!!

So, there's a scene in "The Corpse Bride" where Emily (the corpse bride herself) is trying to figure out what it is that Victoria (her rival for Victors love) has that she doesn't!!!

"Maybe he does belong with her.

[sarcastic tone]

Little Miss Living, with her rosy cheeks and beating heart."

It made me laugh and i've used it as my username for everything since!!!!!

 

[Anthea]

Mine is very simple, its my girl name which sounds similar to my boy name.

 

[MagicMaid]

Originally Posted by daer0n /img/forum/go_quote.gif I had the same idea for a thread, you beat me

i have always been a fan of JRR Tolkien, i was once looking for weird names to use as a user name somewhere else, since i love tolkien i thought i could use one of his names, i found daeron, so i thought i would use it, it sounded nice to me, i tried to use it then as a user name but someone else had already used it, so instead of using the letter "O" i thought, well, i wont give up on it just cause someone else is already using it, so i used a zero, instead of the letter and it worked, it has been my user name everywhere for a long long time, an the meaning is:

Daeron

Minstrel of Thingol. Called the 'piper of Doriath.' He was the son of Thingol and Melian, and therefore the brother of Lúthien. When Lúthien wished to leave Doriath to search for Beren, he betrayed her to Thingol who locked her in Hirilorn. When she escaped, Daeron followed her, but got lost in the Mountains of Night. He then went to Palisor where he now plays lonely and wistful music. Previously called Dairon. It was he who first devised the writing system of the Elves, called the Cirth.

http://www.elvenminstrel.com/tolkien...angerthas2.gif

The name Daeron was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the chief minstrel to the king of the grey elves who lived in Beleriand during the first age of the sun of Middle-earth. It is engraved at the top of the page in Angerthas letters, which Daeron is said to have organized into a Sindarin alphabet. The grey elves spoke the Sindarin tongue, for which Tolkien gave us a definitive pronunciation guide.

The consonants are pronounced as in English, or close enough. If you want to be precise, roll the r a bit. The vowels are pronounced as follows:

• a as in father
• e as in bed
  
• o in between the long and short o of English, like they are in most Germanic languages

OK. But actually, the a and e form a diphthong together; i.e., you morph the a into the e. Think about the long i sound in English. It's the diphthong a as in father, moving to a long e sound. Dae in Daeron sounds like the English word die to an English speaker's ear, but it's softer. Instead of sliding all the way to the long e sound, stop at a short e. It feels funny at first because we don't use that diphthong in English anymore. Practice it a time or two. There, by Ulmo, you've got it!
it is also:

Mellonath Daeron is the language guild of Forodrim, both founded in 1972. We study the languages created by Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, in particular Quenya and Sindarin, and the writing systems known as tengwar and cirth. A few results of our efforts are available on these pages.

One of our efforts is to compile indexes of all samples of tengwar and cirth written by Tolkien: the DTS and the DCS (the Mellonath Daeron Tengwar / Cirth Specimina). We do this to help all who want to study these writing systems. If you know of any published script sample by Tolkien which is not in these indexes, please let us know.

An example of the High-elven language

Nelde Cormar Eldatárin nu Tarmenel,

Otso Herunaucoin hrótassen ondova,

Nerte Fírimoin marte nurunen,

Er i More Herun mormahalmas hárala

Morinóreva mí arda, már i fuinion.

Er Corma ilyar turien ar tuvien te,

Er Corma tucien ar móresse nutien te

Morinóreva mí arda, már i fuinion.

I forgot to add, my real name is Nurinia

Wow! That is SO cool. I have always been a Tolkien fan too - my parents named all their dogs after Tolkien characters and they bred them to sell; their business was called Middle Earth Kennels. This must be from The Silmarillion ?

My name is so simple - I used to use Galadriel as a handle, but it's so popular I had to find something else. I love all things magical, and I'm female, soooo, MagicMaid. Creative, right??

My real name is Nicole, but everyone calls me Niki.

 

[Bikz]

My sister's name is Barbara and her nickname is Barbs.

My name's Bianca,and I copied her! That's why my nickname is Bik'z (it used to be Bics,but I like Bik'z)