Where did your screen name come from?

[ThatsTheLastISawOfHim]

Just curious how people choose their names and if they have any meaning. I'm a regular name changer (although I never announce the name change, feels like it defeats the purpose somewhat!) and have been on mumsnet for a couple of years.

My current one is a line from Judge Judy, I thought it was time for a change and that was the next thing i heard on the telly. I realised that it might seem like my DPs left me afterwards but that got me thinking, where do others get their names from. Anyone care to share?

Title of a Jean Rhys novel. Check it out if you like depressing modernist fiction

Got into the havit of calling DD babaganoush as a baby, so if she is the baba that makes me the mumma...

Mine is from an early season of The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills.

Wanted to change my username, had just reread a favourite book (Be My Enemy by Christopher Brookmyre) and would have been Sarahparlabane - she has a lead role in some of the other JP novels - but that was taken, so went for Jack instead.

The next thread I posted on I happened to 'meet' JohnLapsleyParlabane, (same chap) discussing reusable nappies of all things!

Hyperemesis pregnancy, first pregnancy ever and I just felt wooden and dead. And like I had little use for anything

I have a v childish sense of humour plus a nod to my Scottish blood. I was once quoted in the Daily Fail after they nicked something from mn. I don’t think they got the rudeness

I change my name regularly.
I wonder if that's why I've been framed?
Many Line of Duty fans believe I've been unfairly arrested.

Mine is from the scene with the Japanese twins in Austin Powers 😁

It's from The Dark Tower books...basically 19 is a recurring theme and when it all starts going badly one of the characters states it's all gone 19.

This year seems to be bringing one set of insanity after the other and there's always more "world ending" bad news being shared so it felt like an appropriate username until I make too many personal references that can be connected and change again.

A thread where people were discussing Jeremy corbyns coat

Richard IIIs motto and loyalty is one of my strongest personality traits.

Itsallgone19 love it, I have a long and devoted relationship with the Dark Tower saga

I deliberately use an online random user name generator as I don't trust myself to pick something that doesn't give clues to who I am, esp since the data breaches.

From A Room With A View.
Eleanor Lavish is the novelist who writes Under a Loggia, and puts Lucy Honeychurchin it.
Played by Judi Dench in the film.

Debbie Harry album. Also my secret persona as I'm usually disguised as a fat, middle aged woman. You'd never know I was a rocker unless you counted my piercings.

Years ago DS2 was in a raged over something that we wouldn't let him do. He was about 8 at the time and that was the best insult he could come up with.
As he stomped up the stairs he was muttering 'mum can't cook chicken' in an attempt to destroy us!

That may be my next username!😂😂

Mine is a shortening of a longer name I had. It was the Danish for " A cup of Coffee thank you" but everyone just used the first 4 " Enko" so I figured I'd just change to that..

A Sinatra song.

Enko everyone thinks I'm Drs Pouse.

Because I couldn't make my mind up

It's from the Gilmore Girls, as many of my previous names have been. The corner of bark and cheese is a pavement cafe in Italy they visited, so called because the whole time they were there a small dog yapped and Rory tried ordering something in Italian (coffee probably) and got given a piece of cheese instead.

The lyrics to my favourite song.

Mine is based on a character in the Bible/Torah who decorates the temple. Like an early interior designer!

It's not a username, it's a request! 🤣 🍷

Well as an anglo-Italian, and massive pre-Raphaelite fan (Highgate cemetery and Birchington level of obsession), why not ?

And if you screw your eyes up really tightly

From the shipping forecast on Radio 4. I find it so soothing and timeless, although I do worry about the poor fishermen when it occasionally gets up to Storm 10.