why did you choose THAT nickname?

forloveandsqualor thats why i called my dd esme for her middle name and coincidentally it is mil name too (got so many brownie points)

oooh - thanks othersideofthechannel - highjacking sounds horrible - I don't want to do that!

I've done it, hop over there if you want to satisfy your curiosity!

Teafortwo, I am going to start you a thread in living overseas otherwise we might get accused of hijacking.

Wow - othersideofthechannel, living in Nord Pas-de-Calais you really are just over the other side of the channel! Great name! How long have you lived there? Do your children feel French? Was it a planned move or did you, rather romantically, simply end up living in France? And have I asked too many questions? he he he!!!

Mine has been my nickname for years. When I was 18ish me and a group of friends were sitting around drunkenly wondering who we were in a parallel universe and what we were called. One of the guys (who came up with nearly all of the alter egos) decided I was a stripper called MistyPeaks!!
It stuck with me. I have even received post from an old work colleague addressed to Misty Peaks
I name changed a while back to my fave character from a book - but it was just really lame. I am Misty. So back I came!!

Used a version of my own name for a couple of months before I realised you didn't have to, then swapped to DDs nickname.
Then DD got older and her nickname got better known amoungst people I knew, plus another, more prolific, poster joined with a similar-but-different name and I didn't want people to think I'd half inched her's so I changed to this (which is the name of a Firefly class spaceship from a defunct, but genius series by Joss Whedon not my usual state of mind)

Used to babyblue (don't know why) but changed to discodizzy because I am very very dizzy (DH calls me dizzy) and i'd been out dancing the night before.

Teafortwo, I'm in the Nord Pas-de-Calais (not from Bergues if you have seen the Dany Boon movie).

I am unknown and I am a rebel.

And I was originally mrsbang and wanted to retain the link, lol.

Because it has bits of my name, my nickname and I like the way it sounds.

have always loved blackadder
was MrsMiggins but when ex left, changed to MistressMiggins

I am trying this one out for size.. normally something else but now more people know I am on this site.

I'd wiped DS's nose an awful lot of times the day I chose my name...

Because I like names that sound like something else. Like Rudolph Hucker.

I picked mine out of the air TBH, it summed up a typcal day for a SAHM probably the way I was feeling that day !
15 years ago I would definately have been 'Scouting for Boys' !!!

my name is an acronyn which stands for:

not
a
strong
woman
me

and was my mn years ago - because that was how I felt. But I was persauded to change it to something else, so I have been phoenixsoaring and more recently paperchain since then. but right now I feel like good old naswm again

My first cars name.

Because I like Jay-Z. And I got bored trying to find a name that got taken and I wanted one that wouldn't take ages to type when I log in...

'For Esme - With Love and Squalor' is the title of a story by JD Salinger. It's a great story - and 'love and squalor' pretty much sums up parenthood, I think.

I posted a similar thread not long ago.
I was just my forename, but it's a very unusual spelling, so easily googleable(?)
I use a P2P programme for downloading music and saw this nickname in the chatroom one and loved it, so I pinched it.

i was talulasmum when i first joined (which is a combination of my 2 dd's name's ) daft punk is a band i loved from years ago.