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To ask what inspired your username/which username you wish you had thought of for yourself

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scarednoob · 02/03/2016 00:24

Reading the threads and sometimes the usernames are very funny! Mine is exceedingly dull; I'd just found out I was pregnant and had a question for the pregnancy board - hence being scared and new.

Tonight (whilst waiting for said baby to go the F to sleep!) I am laughing at needascarfformygiraffe.

So indulge/entertain a sleep deprived zombie - what's your name and where does it come from?

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665TheNeighbourOfTheBeast · 02/03/2016 22:47

Because numbers run consecutively in cul-de-sac..and prison cells ?

Because one day I was admiring my neighbours neatly pedicures hooves?

Because I like to let people know I've gone up in the world ?

You choose

BennyTheBall · 02/03/2016 22:48

I change my name quite often.

Right now, I am channeling Top Cat.

To ask what inspired your username/which username you wish you had thought of for yourself
Twunk · 02/03/2016 22:53

Mine's not clever - Just a combination of Twunt (twat/cunt) and wink. I think Twunt was gone. No idea why I chose it though. I've grown fond of it over time.

Catsize · 02/03/2016 22:53

When I gazed out of the window at my old house, contemplating a username, I saw a road with cats' eyes.

Someone has used Catsize on something I tried to join recently. In my fantasy world, I like to think it was a MNer.

BillWagglestaff · 02/03/2016 23:03

Mine's an homage to the bard which was all the rage when I was at school.

Buzzardbird · 02/03/2016 23:07

Needascarf I also assumed it was a Smartest Giant In Town reference.

MrsSteptoe · 02/03/2016 23:16

Husband's an antique dealer (peripatetic - which is a nice way of saying he doesn't have a shop, but buys at sales and runs stuff to dealers immediately). He sees himself as dashing and artistic. I see him as Steptoe. My MN name was always going to be either Mrs Steptoe or Hercules (the horse that pulled the cart).

MoonlightandMusic · 02/03/2016 23:23

LittleBoots - Shock Caligula was most definitely not a babe! Although, given Suetonius was essentially the Daily Fail journo of his day, maybe the poor chap was maligned...(probably not though).

cantthinkofabloodyname · 02/03/2016 23:50

Mine is pretty self explanatory.

Fatmomma99 · 02/03/2016 23:56

before I read the thread, I wonder how long it takes someone to mention Chris and the Horse? I reckon (conservatively) before the end of page 2!

(are all 9 pages saying the same as me?)

CaughtUpNearTimbuktu · 02/03/2016 23:57

I fancied a change

littleshirleybeans · 03/03/2016 00:01

Not been on here for ages and ages but I remember the elderly Korean lady thread Grin
Great username 😉

littleshirleybeans · 03/03/2016 00:09

My first username was cubbie which is my name for myself in RL ie I make my poor dh call me that. (I rather fancy myself as a lion cub, or maybe it's just that I want one!)
Then I realised you have to be creative on mn so I had a breaking bad themed name.
And may I say I was the only one in the uk to watch it (with dh) until everyone jumped on the bandwagon 😂😂😜😜
Left for a while when the format was changed here as it annoyed me and by then, I could get on FB on my phone 😝
Couldn't remember my old BB name so picked a name from the catcher in the rye.
Tbh, I was really surprised that no one else had already got it!

SecretWitch · 03/03/2016 00:13

I'm a nice Jewish girl who practices witchery in her spare time.

Bazza2 · 03/03/2016 03:45

Ilove I'm in Cornwall right now but also live in Oxfordshah, want me to bring you a pasty?

dontcallmecis · 03/03/2016 04:28

guess.

BillSykesDog · 03/03/2016 04:29

I would like to say reading Dickens. But as I spelt Sikes wrong I have to admit it was actually watching the musical 'Oliver!'

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scarednoob · 03/03/2016 05:55

handlikecowstits Hahahaha that name has really cheered up this delight of a 5.30am feed!

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scarednoob · 03/03/2016 05:55

That should have been bold not strike through. Stupid bleary eyes and knackered ham fists mashing at the screen!

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FuckYouChrisAndThatHorse · 03/03/2016 06:19

Fatmomma, I like to believe it's less the sweariness and more the implied narrative.

But it's probably the sweariness :o

CaptainWarbeck · 03/03/2016 06:33

I bloody love Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love, and had seen a JassyRadlett on here already who's another character.

Captain Davey Warbeck is one of my favourite characters. He's a dithery health-obsessed relation who is always making outlandish statements about people's health and having to retire upstairs to rest in a cold bath ('very good for the liver, you know).

MyUserNameIsGreat · 03/03/2016 07:11

Mine is self explanatory. I was very surprised it hadn't already been taken.

LittleBootsTheBabe · 03/03/2016 09:10

Granted moonlight but apparently it's what the happy crowds called him

GaryGilmoresEyes · 03/03/2016 09:44

Mine is the song that was playing on the radio when I registered.

Withershins · 03/03/2016 10:57

Mine means "in a direction contrary to the usual; in the wrong direction" which is about right for me generally Smile.

I also remember as a child that there was a myth that if you ran withershins (anticlockwise) around a Yew tree in a graveyard, saying the Lords prayer that the devil would appear. Its quite a "witchy" word.