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Why did you choose your mumsnet name?

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motherinferior · 29/07/2003 10:34

This has been preoccupying me (I don't get out much!). Why did you choose your mumsnet nickname, and did it take you any time to decide on it?

I have to admit I pondered briefly about mine, but decided this one would convey a witty self-deprecation about me, motherhood, ability to communicate etc (har har har, pretentious or wot). So I just wondered...

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crossma · 29/07/2003 10:43

think mine is quite obvious but keep thinking I should change it. However, I wasn't cross was very upset and not with anyone close just school head/teachers! Hence cross ma. Interesting to see what comes up like yours motherinferior, it would suit me.

sprout · 29/07/2003 10:56

Motherinferior, I think there's an old thread on this, called something like "how did you decide your nickname?", but I haven't got time now to work out how to do a link. Should be working

Tinker · 29/07/2003 10:57

Always liked yours motherinferior, being an ex-catholic girl. I'll say no more except that mine is an anagram.

WideWebWitch · 29/07/2003 11:09

I like your name motherinferior. There was a Letterland (Letterland is a method for teaching children to read) talking bus on the floor next to me when I had to choose so I chose the Letterland character for W, which is wickedwaterwitch. Not the first time in my life I've been called a witch, it has to be said

eefs · 29/07/2003 11:14

mine sounds vaguely like my real name, it's the way my niece used to pronounce it. Not very original and I think i'd like to change to something a little less like my name as I'm always recommending this site to friends and would hate my anominity to be lost as some posts are quite personal.
I love SueDonim's name and other clever play-on-wrods type names.

butterflymum · 29/07/2003 11:18

I have a little blue butterfly logo against my name on my computer and around the time I was joining mumsnet, I was framing a print for our bedroom which, by sheer coincidence, also had butterflies on it. So, I guess butterfly must have stuck in my mind and as for mum....well, with 3 youngsters, I seem to hear that word all the time (lol)!

butterfly

oliveoil · 29/07/2003 11:19

I used to be a string bean like my namesake and was teased at school as a result, upset at the time but would now love to have the legs I had then, more like Bluto now (was that his name? Popeyes rival? can't remember)

badjelly · 29/07/2003 11:23

I'm always getting called a witch by my mates and dh went through a phase of calling me badjelly the witch (after an ITV kids programme). When I saw WWW's name it reminded me of this and the rest is history!

Frenchgirl · 29/07/2003 11:40

i'm french and i'm girl. A lot of thinking went into this as you can see... how i regret it now!

Harrysmum · 29/07/2003 11:43

Because I am...

sis · 29/07/2003 12:00

It is an anagram and also ecause I'm close to my sisters and I thought that it was good for a 'sisterhood' of mothers website.

whymummy · 29/07/2003 12:04

my little darlings favourite two words

kayleigh · 29/07/2003 12:06

I originally had a nickname that was quite obvious if you knew me but then, like eefs, friends of mine started looking at the site. I changed it to this as it's one of my favourite songs (Marillion) and it was one of my possible names if i'd had a dd. I ended up with 2 ds's so thought i might as well use it myself !

Claireandrich · 29/07/2003 12:15

'cos I can never remember my nicknames in the past, so now I just use the first part of my e-mail address. Boring I know!

lilibet · 29/07/2003 12:17

My Dad's nickname for DD, really wish that I had something original and witty. I love soem of the names, but don't want to change as I would just have to keep reintroducing myself

SoupDragon · 29/07/2003 12:18

Because I'm all green and knobbly!

magnum · 29/07/2003 12:27

Magnum is a nickname given to me by my sis and her dh after a holiday with them abroad. When I tan, the hair on my upper lip goes a lovely shade of blonde giving me a rather fetching moustache (not sure if I spelt that right!!) which resembles that of the famous private investigator, Magnum PI!! Needless to say I don't think my sis uses this site or she'd recognise me immediately!!!

womba1 · 29/07/2003 12:45

within hours of meeting my husband he called me womba, which is the name of a medieval jester or fool. i am a bit of a joker and make people laugh...not always intentionally, i might add! he never calls me by my real name and you should see the looks we get in public!

oliveoil · 29/07/2003 12:49

Magnum - you make me think of icecream mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

sprout · 29/07/2003 13:19

I live in Brussels - and couldn't think of anything more inspired the day I first wanted to post!

breeze · 29/07/2003 13:21

I thought long and hard about it, all for at least 2minutes then it came to me while I was clearing out the empties from the bacardi breezer I had the night before.

codswallop · 29/07/2003 13:22

I was edgarcat for obvious reasons...we then chose codswallop - cant ermember how

bluecow · 29/07/2003 13:29

Mine's the cartoon cow from The Storymakers on Cbeebies. The line at the beginning of the cartoon is always 'blue cow wonders, wonders about the big world beyond her field ' - which I do a bit.
Am so slow I didn't even get SueDonim until eefs mentioned it...

marypoppins · 29/07/2003 14:00

Like Mary Poppins I work with children but don't have any of my own - yet! My very own Dick Van Dyke (oh god, he'll kill me if he reads this)is taking his time coming round to the idea!

Furball · 29/07/2003 14:08

Mine was a word that just popped into my head at the time and made me chuckle. I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH BODY HAIR!!!!!!!