The context behind your username

[mummysmagicmedicine]

Just curious!

Mine is because I love wine😍😅

@AnnaMagnani And I think of Rome, Open City whenever I see your name!

Mine was triggered by getting varifocals.

Sad sweet dreamer

Picked this name when my children were still in Primary School.

It's part of the registered names of two of my past dogs.

Because I’m always alert

I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. We are known in the medical world as zebras as medical students used to be told "if you hear hoofbeats, it's likely a horse" In other words, look for the most likely cause of symptoms. It takes decades to be diagnosed as medics rarely think "Oh, it might be a zebra" (i.e. a more rare hoofbeat)

I namechange a lot. Current one is a Dorothy Parker reference. She used to write a book review column in the New Yorker under the pen name 'Constant Reader'. She was asked to review 'Winnie the Pooh' and gave it a one line review as follows:

"Tonstant Weader fwowed up"

I also don't like what I deem twee whimsy and her review made me laugh like a drain, so here we are.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness"

Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms

Love this (from a fellow beekeeper) 🐝

My daughter’s nickname is Bug, and she was a whirling dervish of toddlerness at the time.

She has since entered her Frozen Era and is now much more dramatic and Queen Elsa-y.

Same!

I'm very prone to tearful dramatics if I drink too much gin

It’s just what MN gave me. Couldn’t be assed to think of my own.

I like things that are like me, round

I'm doing a PhD and all I seem to do is insert bloody footnotes.

I think mine speaks for itself.

From the Friends episode where Ross announces he’s put something in the family newsletter: “you’ve seen it, the Geller Yeller” much to Rachel’s obvious disdain.

What's it all about - because I'd never been on here before

Snap!
(other alcoholic beverages are also acceptable)

Mine is from the Leonard Cohen song ‘I’m your man’ - I shortened ‘walk with me a while across the sand’. Love Leonard’s later stuff.

A line from Thelma and Louise.

Oh, I imagined Troy as human! Probably middle-aged and wore nice knitwear, because the woman who knitted our school jumpers in primary school had a sin my age who used to deliver the jumpers on his bike, and was known as ‘Troy the Knitting Boy.’

i swesr I have t thought of him since about 1982.😀

My username is because I saw a luminous plastic statue of the Virgin Mary at the bottom of the pond in our local park.

I’m with you. I once had a whole thread on this very topic when I posted the disappointing results of a weeks worth of avocados. Indeed a different username that I don’t recall!

Mine is because I’m going through a phase of can’t be bothered with some people and the drama they create!
There’s two ways to do something, the nice way or the ignorant way!

because I was traumatised by my builders when doing an expensive and torturous extension and refurb