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In reply to the discussion: How did you come by your username? [View all]WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)204. Sigh...
I foolishly married the man whose name I took.
(Just kidding. I love my husband a lot.)
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My first try was "Zombie Holocaust," but that was deemed either unacceptable or already taken.
ZombieHorde
Aug 2012
#26
I was really pissed at the swiftboating of John Kerry in May of 2004, and hence the SN.
madinmaryland
Aug 2012
#35
I come from people who either lived on farms (with apple trees) or had apple trees in
applegrove
Aug 2012
#39
I cleverly combined my real first name with my real last initial, so no one will ever break my code
mike_c
Aug 2012
#46
Well, I knew I wanted to use my own name, Peggy.........and I live in California!
CaliforniaPeggy
Aug 2012
#52
Mine is short for Monkey Man, a nick my GF gave me back in my mountain biking days.
Monk06
Aug 2012
#69
My username comes from the protagonist of the graphic novel "Transmetropolitan" by Warren Ellis
Spider Jerusalem
Aug 2012
#73
It's an adjective meaning "similar to the music of the Scandinavian composer Sibelius".
sibelian
Aug 2012
#127
An album by Dream Theater which is one of my favorite contemporary bands.
Systematic Chaos
Aug 2012
#140
You mean that area where Pete Seeger helped save some big polluted river?
FailureToCommunicate
Aug 2012
#184
I got it from reading the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#164
Yes. He came here. He was quite radical for his time. And he came here to live for a while.
JDPriestly
Sep 2012
#206
It was the last thing I heard before the first time I got my ass kicked. nt
ohnoyoudidnt
Aug 2012
#188
It's short for Manhattan Baby (where I was born, NY, not Kansas) and my initials BB
mnhtnbb
Sep 2012
#200
Love British Invasion music/era, am a musician who uses certain amps -- AND I have a voice...
VOX
Sep 2012
#212
I've always loved yours, by the way. Mine is homage to Grandpa and Cherokee ancestry, live in TX and
txwhitedove
Oct 2012
#218
My expressed my feelings about the country after Bush stole the election.
sinkingfeeling
Oct 2012
#223