To ask what your MN name is inspired by?

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Mine is a lyric from a Julien Baker song, and about setting personal boundaries in place.

whats yours?

I smile every time I see your name, especially if it’s a matter of Morris Zapp apparently offering advice on something really unlikely like slingback shoes or whether someone’s utility room is in fact haunted.

And I can never quite imagine you not chewing a dead cigar and drawling ‘The J is for Jehovah.’ 😀

A photography exhibition I went to years ago

Bizarrely, two of my favourite past names came
to me in a dream (Honestly! Shows how much time I spent on here back then).

One was ThreeFeetHighAndRising (a reference to both the De La Soul song, my rapidly growing kids and also to sometimes feeling overwhelmed) and the other was MotherOfAllHangovers.

Other than that, I have had so many names over the years, they're usually just nonsense now. Llamalines doesn't mean anything other than I like llamas and it sounded a bit like a bus or train company which made me smile.

I change my name every time I feel like I've shared too much personal info, which is fairly often 😁

And after 16 years, I'm out of ideas for meaningful names now!

Oh I love that! Yes I have little in common with my safari suited namesake. I don't even like Jane Austen. But I do possess a certain louche charm at times 😉

We are a group bound by the creed that humanity is better and more noble after very nearly 2 drinks than at any other time.

Elf. And it's almost my time to shine once again.

I deleted my account and left MN, only to come back and that is when I realised, I am unable to leave MN 😂

The 118th element in the periodic table

@Laiste you know I’ve never seen father Ted I really must watch that

My cat. Who isn't actually called Mr Tiddles. That's a pseudonym to protect his identity.

I'm not German and my knowledge of the Language is weak but I have had someone speak to me in German on the forum before because they assumed.

It's actually a reference to a book featured in my favourite TV series, Dark on Netflix which is in German

Mine refers to the ward I was on when I had a mental breakdown and sectioned. It was a big turning point for the better for me.

The antagonist in Dashiell Hammett's novel The Maltese Falcon (which also introduces Hammett's best known character, Sam Spade). Gutman, who is aptly named given his ample gut, also appears in the film adaptation, though the spelling of his name changes from Casper to Kasper.

PLEASE watch it. It's so funny.

People told me to watch it for years and i didn't. (i have a tendency for that) By the time i watched it for the first time Dermot Morgan (Father Ted) was long dead irl. Which i found quite sad. (same thing happened with me and Soprano's James Gandolfini)

The first time i watched it it was 'Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse'. It isn't the first episode but it's a damn good opener 😂

Yep Father Ted is brilliant. I think my favourite episode is Speed 3. Or possibly A Song for Europe.

I LOVE Father Ted.

DP and I manage to work some sort of reference in most days without even trying!

For example, we passed several rabbits in a field recently and both of us said ‘hairy Japanese BASTARDS!’ at the same time

My street is home to a school of magpies, who just will not bugger off! You open the curtains, one's on the outside windowsill or one happens to be flying past right at that moment. You arrive home and there's 2/3 sat on the drive to greet you. You're doing the washing up and there's at least 1 watching you from the bird bath in the back garden.
DD says they're haunting us

Favourite poem [and the only one I can remember from school] .

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)

then take a deep breath and on we go

@Laiste thanks for the tip! Going to see where it’s available online and add to my list!

Ha, like Deadpool!

My current one is from a song by Rodriguez, and I adopted it as a tribute on or shortly after the day he died.

@MorrisZapp isn’t it though!

I kind of forgot about it, then when we bought our house we had to have a bat survey for nesting bats and I just remembered MAUREEEENNNN and it came back to me and inspired this name 👌🏼

I now sit outside on “bat watch” seeing them swoop about merrily

And until my nan went into a care home I would shout “there’s a bat” and she’d run like merry hell even in her 90s as she’s petrified 😂

After Bishop Brenan, go with father Ted racist (are you right there father Ted) and speed 3.
My name is my favourite animal, in my grandfather's first language and my favourite number.

Someone called in LBC to call James O’Brien a ‘Gu Pudding Ramekin Hoarder’ and YouTube recommended me the link.