Screen Names

[Mackdogmolly]

I was recently asked the origin of my screen name, which made me wonder how you all came up with yours. Some are intuitive, but most are a mystery to me. Care to share?

Betsey

[ellbon]

Mix of my real name. 
was easy to remember 

 

 

yours is a dog you had I am guessing 

[Baynanno1]

19 minutes ago, Mackdogmolly said:

I was recently asked the origin of my screen name, which made me wonder how you all came up with yours. Some are intuitive, but most are a mystery to me. Care to share?

Betsey

 

Betsey, are you going to share the origin of your screen name?

 

Baynanno1

Bay . . we live at Batemans Bay

nan . .  a growing number of grandchildren . . and now great-grandchildren

no1 . . what can I add?

 

Trish

[Skicruiser55]

I came up with mine as I like snow skiing, cruising and I was 55 at the time I setup the account.  I had an earlier account from 2003 Skicruiser45 but couldn’t remember the password and no longer had that email address.  

 

Kathy 

[Mackdogmolly]

1 hour ago, ellbon said:

Mix of my real name. 
was easy to remember 

 

 

yours is a dog you had I am guessing 

Yes, the explanation is in post 34 of “RCL Announces No Vaccines Required”

[TeaBag]

I often wish I had chosen something better.  I was participating in a cooking forum and everything I tried as a screen name was already taken so I ended up with Teabag because my initial starts with a T.  As for the "bag".......just butt into a line-up where I have been waiting too long and you will see the demo!  Just kidding!  I did change it for a short while and met another cruiser who knew me by the former name and he told me to change it back so I did.  Some people have really great screen names.

[ellbon]

4 hours ago, Mackdogmolly said:

Yes, the explanation is in post 34 of “RCL Announces No Vaccines Required”

Guess I have to find it.skipped that read as it us just stupid to say we are not checking.

[ellbon]

4 hours ago, Mackdogmolly said:

Yes, the explanation is in post 34 of “RCL Announces No Vaccines Required”

Just read the post. Your poor mother..knew one Bessie who babysat me,

[excitedofharpenden]

7 hours ago, Mackdogmolly said:

I was recently asked the origin of my screen name, which made me wonder how you all came up with yours. Some are intuitive, but most are a mystery to me. Care to share?

Betsey

In a hurry to think of something clever and witty when I joined Cruise Critic before my very first cruise in 2003 I failed and came up with how I felt and where I live. Excited in a place called Harpenden I became!

 

Phil 

[Grandma Cruising]

I think mine’s pretty self explanatory - I’m a grandma and I love cruising.

[Riocca]

Used to be part owner and director of a company that manufactured vending machines, one of the key models was called Riocca, a deliberate misspelling of Rioja for copyright reasons.

We sold the company to an American corporation in 1999, and that funds the cruising habit 😀

 

[Medeba]

My screen name is the name of my lovely grandparents house.  It was created from the initials of their three children's forenames.  Sometimes confused with Madiba, the name often used when talking about Nelson Mandela.

[Bloodaxe]

Mine is a nickname given to me by workmates years ago, my name is Eric.

Erik Bloodaxe was the Viking King of York and said to never take any prisoners.

They seemed to think it suited me, I can't think why but it stuck.

[royallondon]

Mine is as a result of having no imagination but gratitude to an ex employer of 28 years pre retirement and provider 10 years post.  Having funded our cruises for a total of 38 years (well not quite) I thought it the least I could do!  

[Rabo]

Mine is very simple. Rabo had been my nickname since I was a child . . . short for my last name, Rabinowitz. I even had the domain name for many years  (acquired in the early years of the internet) until a corporate entity by that name decided it was worth their while to purchase it from me. Surprisingly, that transaction has funded our cruises for the past several years.

Jerry

[Mackdogmolly]

8 hours ago, ellbon said:

Just read the post. Your poor mother..knew one Bessie who babysat me,

Yes, she always hated it, and in her later years, would sometimes introduce herself as Betsey.

[Mackdogmolly]

7 hours ago, excitedofharpenden said:

In a hurry to think of something clever and witty when I joined Cruise Critic before my very first cruise in 2003 I failed and came up with how I felt and where I live. Excited in a place called Harpenden I became!

 

Phil 

Love it! And you seem to remain excited about cruising!

[Mackdogmolly]

2 hours ago, Rabo said:

Mine is very simple. Rabo had been my nickname since I was a child . . . short for my last name, Rabinowitz. I even had the domain name for many years  (acquired in the early years of the internet) until a corporate entity by that name decided it was worth their while to purchase it from me. Surprisingly, that transaction has funded our cruises for the past several years.

Jerry

I love that, Jerry! 

[northengirl]

I live in the North of England and I am a girl. The girl part may be pushing it a bit these days as I am now a grandma but I still feel young inside! 

 

 

[excitedofharpenden]

1 hour ago, Mackdogmolly said:

Love it! And you seem to remain excited about cruising!

Yep!  Maybe I should change my screen name to "stillexcitedofharpenden" lol 

 

Phil 

[curmudgeon98]

Stay off my grass!!  😁     (actually, I haven't had a lawn in more than 20 years, the hillside is too steep,  but it's what I say to the deer than come around to eat the blossoms off my flowers).

[norn iron]

Hopefully mine is simple and a bit local.

I live in Belfast Northern Ireland, and we have a bad habit at times of speaking too quickly.

If you say Northern Ireland really quickly omitting the 'th' and the 'la' you should get norn iron.

[Mackdogmolly]

34 minutes ago, norn iron said:

Hopefully mine is simple and a bit local.

I live in Belfast Northern Ireland, and we have a bad habit at times of speaking too quickly.

If you say Northern Ireland really quickly omitting the 'th' and the 'la' you should get norn iron.

Thanks for the explanation. I probably never would have guessed!

[Hearts51]

Lifetime supported football team (Heart of Midlothian) and the score (5-1) against local rivals in the Scottish Cup Final! 

[TeaBag]

1 hour ago, norn iron said:

Hopefully mine is simple and a bit local.

I live in Belfast Northern Ireland, and we have a bad habit at times of speaking too quickly.

If you say Northern Ireland really quickly omitting the 'th' and the 'la' you should get norn iron.

now, I know.  I tried to figure out your name too.  I'm Irish born also.  We were scheduled to be in Belfast on Silhouette Sept 16 but we cancelled the cruise as it was too soon to trust this COVID mess is over.