What's In A Name?

[Nicos]

It was my OH who originally joined and we thought we could share - after all, we'd never been on a forum before- and we'd never really be posting

well...it came to pass ..that we couldn't both use the same username and my OH just don't have the time like wot I do , so I pinched his name.
His signature as a teenager looked like Nicos and so the name sort of stuck, although that's not his name and I never call him that.
I do ask his advice as he's a keen gardener so we do tend to chat about the forum!

[Cutecumber]

I grew some amazing tiny cucumbers - just four inches long - and they were really tasty and very cute. My boyfriend really made me laugh when he said they were actually cutecumbers... and I thought it was quite a good username.

I'm not really very cute in fact... more utility girl

[Madasafish]

I am a router but I thought routers were to do with compooters and telekommunikationz.

[srodders]

It was my nick name at the last place I worked - my surname is Srodzinsky

[valmarg]

Oh dear, mine's completely boring. My Christian names are Valerie Margaret, and OH abbreviates them to valmarg.

valmarg

[sewer rat]

Sewer Rat - cause that's what my job was when I joined the Vine - laying / repairing sewers and field drains, installing septic tanks - really glamorous job

[shirlthegirl43]

Sewer Rat - cause that's what my job was when I joined the Vine - laying / repairing sewers and field drains, installing septic tanks - really glamorous job

Rat, I can't imagine why you would want to give that up to run your own veggie business

[sewer rat]

Rat, I can't imagine why you would want to give that up to run your own veggie business

Believe it or not, there are days when I could quite happily take a day off from the veggies and disappear down a drain for a change

[shirlthegirl43]

Would those days co-incide with wet windy freezing weather by any chance Rat?

[sewer rat]

Would those days co-incide with wet windy freezing weather by any chance Rat?

Actually no, they tend to coincide with the third or fourth day of my handweeding onions or something similar

[shirlthegirl43]

Hadn't thought of that, I used to hate 5 mins of onion weeding when I was a kid - I wonder if that's why this year will be my first serious try!

Oops, sorry, chatting on a non chatty thread - apologies folks.

[Hazel at the Hill]

I actually hate being called Shirl in 'real life' though.

*makes mental note...

I'm glad that I know now about Momol's name - that had puzzled me too.

Lack of imagination alert here, too, I'm afraid - Hill allotments plotholder...

[seasprout]

Me...

Well i'm seasprout, the sprout bit is cos i occasionally read Robert Rankin books and there is occasionally a sprout mentioned, 'if you read them, then you may understand'

I wanted a non-generic, non-specific name, but now people think i'm a fella.

However i have no idea about why i use the sea bit..??!!

I do occasionally use 'other', poorer quality gardening forums, and use the prefix sea on other nicknames. But i didn't tell you that.

[Shortie]

Mine comes from when I worked at a pub for a bit, but this was about 9 years ago

One of the guys there used to call me Shortie and it kind of stuck. Can't say I blame him as I'm only 5'2"

I still maintain that Usher et al stole my nickname for their songs, when they say 'Shorty' in them, lol

[HeyWayne]

Mine comes from when I worked at a pub for a bit, but this was about 9 years ago

One of the guys there used to call me Shortie and it kind of stuck. Can't say I blame him as I'm only 5'2"

I still maintain that Usher et al stole my nickname for their songs, when they say 'Shorty' in them, lol

*makes mental note to play this: YouTube - 50 cent go shorty on Shortie's birfday.