<p>Can’t help wondering about some of the screen name origins. My jmmom is among the more obvious - j for S#1 and m for S#2 (really step-grandson). </p>
<p>Corollary to screen name etymology: screen names I should have used
For me, overeducated (BA and two Masters), podunky (inspired by one of the Texas’ posters referring to Mass, Maine, RI and Dela as “podunky” and that is where you’ll find me.</p>
<p>Back in the day, I was a competitive figure skater. And my name’s Jen. Unfortunately, when I signed up for my very first screen name, Jenskate was taken and Jenskate1 was born. And now I just use it everywhere because i’m too lazy to remember more screennames.</p>
<p>D’s name and parent role. Boring. also showing a lack of foresight. After oldest D leaves I will be working with the second D. I should have picked a more general name or like George Forman I should have given all of my children the same name.</p>
<p>My last name begins with McK so i was called Mack by a lot of people. When McDonalds came out with the Big Mac way back when, they had the Big Mac Attack promo. They started calling me Mack Attack and it’s just a corruption.</p>
<p>mardad - lol on your George Forman line.</p>
<p>Pretty self-explanatory. Plus my D sometimes refers to me as such.</p>
<p>D is extremely involved in classical ballet training. We live 1.75 hours from the studio (3.5hours round trip X4days/week) .thus, Im the Tutus Taxi.</p>
<p>I used to play a lot of role-playing games. TLAK is really an acronym for To Love And Keep, but then I “Vulcanized” it (haha for Star Trek fans) and made it my … Jem Ha’dari name. <em>Nerd glasses</em></p>
<p>I quit gaming in 2000. Don’t worry. :)</p>
<p>Mine’s my Hebrew name.</p>
<p>baby = “little” or “young-like”</p>
<p>bird = “a species of animal given to song and flying south for the winter”</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Profession (I’m an applied mathematician) + Dad</p>
<p>I wanted to be just “A Parent” in order to remain anonymous. College stuff gets a little crazy round where I live, my kids were involved in some activities that had their own very small worlds, and I didn’t want to be identified by my locale or by my kids’ interests.</p>
<p>The “5” happened because I kept forgetting my password and having to rejoin. Somehow I could never get a password reminder from my old site! With this one I have it saved automatically. Wonderful for the old brain. ;-)</p>
<p>substance abuse</p>
<p>Elizabeth is my name, 22 is my old hockey number (before we got new jerseys).</p>
<p>S#2 is sometimes called Dr. Drew (is that guy still around??) by his friends. </p>
<p>mardad: I’ll have the same issue in a year or two. I participate in one other forum and my screenname there is boisewinesnob. Maybe it would’ve been smarter to use the same one…oh well!</p>
<p>With a kid in college, mine is self explanatory.</p>
<p>I use “Peggy” because that’s my name. I’m not very good at thinking of creative names, and don’t really care about being anonymous. I have a tendency to use my daughters first name. Then again, I’m the person with the Day Care sign in my front yard with my phone number on it. If you call me looking for day care, I’ll give you directions to my house. Husband says that if a weirdo comes out and kidnaps Jacob & Becky (ages 2 and 3), they get what they deserve (think “Ransom of Red Chief”). </p>
<p>I guess I could be “MillikinMom”. Although my favorite is TutuTaxi. I did a 50 mile each way, four times a week, for two years. Was on first name basis with the people at the coffee shops between here & there! Maybe I should have been “TapShoeTaxi”!</p>
<p>Peg</p>
<p>fundingfather – i love it! very clever.</p>
<p>this year’s girl is an elvis costello song, off the album this year’s model. you can blame my dad for that one. he started the cult.</p>
<p>During my early childhood years, my family couldn’t afford to purchase any expensive toys, so I ended up playing with a fairly cheap toy(s): marbles.</p>
<p>A variant of a family name – and one of the most often misspelled. It’s Lderochi, just with a lower case L. Which in the CC font looks exactly like an “I” – so I’m gotten real used to being called “Iderochi” or “iderochi”.</p>