Topic: What's in a name......
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Fri 11/09/12 05:54 PM

I love telling this story....

I didn't create my profile or my user name. Oh, I've since edited the description, but my user name was picked by my buddy's wife Gretchen. She thought that it was "a waste that I wasn't married," so she picked an online dating service (JSH at the time) and created the profile one morning while I was sleeping in their spare bedroom. When I awoke that morning, she proceeded to show me what she'd done and made me promise that "I'd at least try."

How she came up with Roaming Orator: It seemed to her that I'd been everywhere in the country. No matter where she brought up, I'd been there, and had a story to tell about the trip - generally a long and rather humorous one. Traveling storyteller wouldn't fit as a user name, so "Roaming Orator" was born.


I can see why you'd be fond of the story.. it really is a very good one! :thumbsup:
my spidey senses are tingling here though.. are you perchance a writer? huh

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Sat 11/10/12 03:29 PM
Mines is simple. Nautraly Curly. Becasue I have natural curly hair derp...

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Sat 11/10/12 03:38 PM
Mine's self explanatory.

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Sat 11/10/12 06:04 PM

Mines is simple. Nautraly Curly. Becasue I have natural curly hair derp...


I'd say that's a "natural" name to choose then! :wink:

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Sat 11/10/12 06:05 PM

Mine's self explanatory.


I assume you didn't have any problems when registering it on the first try either!
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Sat 11/10/12 06:12 PM
What's in a name......


I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say.. letters in the alphabet?

LOL, my user name is a nickname given to me by my grandfather, and i could tell in the tone he used it, whether or not i was about to get my tail tore up laugh

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Sat 11/10/12 06:41 PM

What's in a name......


I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say.. letters in the alphabet?

LOL, my user name is a nickname given to me by my grandfather, and i could tell in the tone he used it, whether or not i was about to get my tail tore up laugh


it's funny how when WE were kids.. we had a reSPECTable fear when hearing the tone in which our parents called our name!! scared

my how times have changed huh... laugh

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Sat 11/10/12 06:47 PM


What's in a name......


I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and say.. letters in the alphabet?

LOL, my user name is a nickname given to me by my grandfather, and i could tell in the tone he used it, whether or not i was about to get my tail tore up laugh


it's funny how when WE were kids.. we had a reSPECTable fear when hearing the tone in which our parents called our name!! scared

my how times have changed huh... laugh


Haha, my middle name is Thomas, so when my mom said "Mark Thomas" i knew i was in for it

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Sat 11/10/12 06:56 PM
laugh I hear ya.. my dad was the same at our house.. but that MAY be because both my mom and I had the same first name ohwell

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Sat 11/10/12 09:42 PM


I love telling this story....

I didn't create my profile or my user name. Oh, I've since edited the description, but my user name was picked by my buddy's wife Gretchen. She thought that it was "a waste that I wasn't married," so she picked an online dating service (JSH at the time) and created the profile one morning while I was sleeping in their spare bedroom. When I awoke that morning, she proceeded to show me what she'd done and made me promise that "I'd at least try."

How she came up with Roaming Orator: It seemed to her that I'd been everywhere in the country. No matter where she brought up, I'd been there, and had a story to tell about the trip - generally a long and rather humorous one. Traveling storyteller wouldn't fit as a user name, so "Roaming Orator" was born.


I can see why you'd be fond of the story.. it really is a very good one! :thumbsup:
my spidey senses are tingling here though.. are you perchance a writer? huh


Used to be, speeches and such. I've never finished one of my novels, though I have had a poem published.

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Sun 11/11/12 01:17 AM
ERASMUS is a User name that I use on a few sites and is merely a set of letters that I will respond to. It the name of a character in a book I read. I saw similarities between that character and myself so I took it. Research it and found only one other person with it. A Danish Catholic apologist of the 1500s.

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Sun 11/11/12 09:40 AM



Used to be, speeches and such. I've never finished one of my novels, though I have had a poem published.



sounds a bit like me..laugh
I've got a couple of unfinished novels I started over the years.. I just haven't been able to write the endings though.. mayhaps it's because I have yet found me own! spock

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Sun 11/11/12 09:43 AM

ERASMUS is a User name that I use on a few sites and is merely a set of letters that I will respond to. It the name of a character in a book I read. I saw similarities between that character and myself so I took it. Research it and found only one other person with it. A Danish Catholic apologist of the 1500s.


really? huh then how come it says rickyalexander? what

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Tue 11/13/12 03:35 PM
A no thought process to my name ... LA Mom...
I am from Los Angeles,, and yeppers a proud mom of 4

(((((Z))))))) flowerforyou

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Tue 11/13/12 04:42 PM

A no thought process to my name ... LA Mom...
I am from Los Angeles,, and yeppers a proud mom of 4

(((((Z))))))) flowerforyou


HEY.. :angry: yer ma favorite ((((((((((mom)))))))))) flowers
I was JUST thinkin bout you yesterday and intended to email you.. but then I lost power before I got the chance.. tears
I'm SOOO glad to see you again.. mwahhhhhs!! smooched

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Tue 11/20/12 07:47 AM
mine is because I am Irish well part Irish but I'm also part French and did consider ifrench but thought no I really don't want that much mail, and I'm also part Russian and thought of using
irussian2u but that kind of sounded desperate so ibaceltic1 it is.

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Tue 11/20/12 07:57 AM

I named myself after one of the greatest characters in cinematic history, from the classic Manos The Hands Of Fate.




rofl

If you ever get a chance, watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode where they watch Manos The Hands of Fate. I'm sure it's on the internets some-where.


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Tue 11/20/12 07:59 AM
Oh, and I chose whattheheywastaken because whattheheywastaken.

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Tue 11/20/12 09:19 AM

mine is because I am Irish well part Irish but I'm also part French and did consider ifrench but thought no I really don't want that much mail, and I'm also part Russian and thought of using
irussian2u but that kind of sounded desperate so ibaceltic1 it is.


laugh too funny.. either one and you'd have had an email OVERload laugh

good choice though :thumbsup:

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Tue 11/20/12 09:21 AM


rofl

If you ever get a chance, watch the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode where they watch Manos The Hands of Fate. I'm sure it's on the internets some-where.




thanks.. I'll look out for it happy