<p>Haha, Cheers is not English. Can’t think of a UK location that would qualify as Paradise. Purgatory maybe…:)</p>
<p>Robrym?? Robber Rim?</p>
<p>Coueur, tell me that your Miata isn’t red…I’m trying to distinguished between manufactured memory and true deja vu. I look for interesting license plates and have fun deciphering them.</p>
<p>But TM, context is everything. And I just realized that I tend to abbreviate mainly at the beginning of messages.</p>
<p>Momof2inca: I’ve hopped over to this thread to answer your question about my choice of user name. The obvious assumption is that I’m a UMich grad. Wrong - UCLA grad (close - blue & gold). The colors are those of BOTH of my childrens’ colleges. UMich (S grad 2003) and Carleton (Frosh D). We felt it was a slight omen when we found out D’s first choice LAC had the same school colors as brother’s alma mater.</p>
<p>btw, I was at one time a momof1inca.</p>
<p>TD: I can feel my D starting to twitch. And she hasn’t even read this thread yet.</p>
<p>Maize&Blue and Momof2inca: A mom on the opposite coast might be momof1inny. As long as he/she didn’t have an outtee.</p>
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<p>Nope, the color is called “Montego Blue”, although in direct sunlight it looks more like dark green.</p>
<p>Maize&Blue-
Funny where our heads go when we see these names-- I thought of corn when I read your name.</p>
<p>I can’t tell where my name came from and I really don’t know how to pronounce it! LOL
I had to come up with somthing that I could remember, but something that my college student wouldn’t recognize - I was afraid he/she would be humiliated if she/he knew I spent time posting on his/her site. ;)</p>
<p>twinmom: I’m still laughing (and my inny hurts).</p>
<p>jym626: Egad, that’s so funny you thought of corn, cuz I run from any farm references after spending my formative years in a central CA farming community (think garlic, tomatoes & lettuce). Ran off to to sprawling LA-LA land for college, and have lived in the burbs of cities ever since. My D told me during vacation that she was tired of the city and was so glad so picked an LAC in a small town. The generational cycles at work I guess.</p>
<p>Oh, and jym626: I probably missed the reference to your name on a earlier page, but I think of when we used to own a Mazda 626 when I see your name.</p>
<p>Wow, I have been out of town for a few days and I came to see what I missed here and this thread is the longest so I had to read it and it has taken me a while. Very interesting thread! Learned a few new things for sure. </p>
<p>I see my posting name came up in some posts on this topic. My posting name is pronounced or stands for Susie VT (for Vermont). I did not make this up to use for CC. When we first got online in '97, this whole thing was so new to me and my husband was setting it up and I needed a “name” and could not think of one as he was setting it up so he came up with mine as SoozieVT because he calls me Suzy, my family/friends growing up called me Susie (though starting in college and ever since, anyone who has ever met me, I have introduced myself as Susan, which is my given name) and we live in Vermont so my name was basically Susie in Vermont. </p>
<p>When I got on CC 2 1/2 years ago, I just kept using this internet name because it gets confusing for me to use many different names online and so it is simpler for me to recall my passwords and stuff if I stay somewhat consistent. </p>
<p>The thing with CC is that when you post, the posting name only appears in all lower case letters which I did not realize. Therefore, ONLY on CC, does my posting name appear to have all these interpretations. I type it in as SoozieVT but it appears as soozievt. Thus, some people read into it “soviet”, not that it says that but the letters are similar, but in a different order and some see it as “viet”, as in vietnamese, which again is similar letters but not ordered the same…and I am neither soviet or vietnamese, by the way, but am Caucasian and Jewish in fact. Some are saying they read it as “vet” and I must say I am in no field related to vet or health or medicine and in fact, am not that much of even a pet lover though we do have cats. </p>
<p>So, I guess if you were gonna pronounce my posting name it would be:
“soozy - Vee -Tee”. </p>
<p>Jamimom, I always thought one of your many kids was named Jami but now I see that’s your name. I did not know Coureur and Ellenmope were an “item”. Achat, yeah, I thought it had a bit of a French flair to it. Marite, I knew was French but I have met her in person. Digmedia, I always saw yours as to do with Digimedia. Emeraldkity, I always read as Emerald Kitty but now I can see that it could be viewed as Emerald City. Sac, I learned somewhere along the line has the name that is almost the same as my first and maiden name. Momof2inCA, while I saw the word “inca” in her name, I still realized it was mom of 2 kids in CA because I have been so cognizant of how the posting names will not s how capital letters and how in my own posting name, that is where all these interpretations have arisen cause of how it appears on CC, and I saw that happening with Mom of 2 in CA as well. Mini for a long time, I thought was a woman until we arranged to meet up at the Smith open house and I learned otherwise. </p>
<p>Alwaysamom, love that name. Actually you were posting something about if we all met in person, we would need name tags with our posting names on them. And ya know, yesterday at UMich auditions, one mom came up to me and told me her name and it was her real name and that she was on CC threads I was on (MT one) and it was weird but I had to ask her “who are you” meaning, what is your POSTING name because that was all I knew her by even though yesterday we were using our REAL names! </p>
<p>TheDad, my hubby actually has a red miata. </p>
<p>Now that we have the meaning of the names down and prononciations as well, it would be so interesting to see the people “behind the curtain”. I have met a few CC parents along the way. Quite fun. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>TwinMom, I hope your D has stopped twitching now. :)</p>
<p>Well, my pets have more interesting names than I do, but so it goes. At this point, I will image Coureur as a greyhound (a coursing hound) - “A closer (in meaning) English word to think of might be “courser” –> one who runs a course.”</p>
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<p>Huh? CC does capital letters just fine. Check out TheDad or Maize&Blue.</p>
<p>TheDad: The waters are calm now.</p>
<p>Coureur, hmmm, that is interesting and now I do see how TheDad and Maize and Blue have caps but all I know is from day ONE for me posting on CC, I entered my name not only registering but every time I posted (until the new forum format you had to type in your posting name each time and password), and I entered it the way I have always meant it to read: “SoozieVT” and it has ALWAYS come up as “soozievt”, not by my choice. I assumed this was true for most folks such as Interesteddad or Momof2inca, as examples of those who I imagine meant it to read: “InterestedDad and Momof2inCA”. So, if you or anyone can explain how TheDad or Maize&Blue got caps, I’d love to hear because I always and still prefer my posting name to read SoozieVT because as you can see, the way it is written now, all in lowercase, causes folks reading it as a mix of letters like “soviet” and “viet” and “vet” or whatever (not truly a big deal but I never meant for it to be a mumble jumble of letters but rather straightforward…name and state). </p>
<p>I wonder how they got caps and I didn’t…NO FAIR! 
Susan</p>
<p>Hmmm… I guess it’s all who you know.</p>
<p>-TwinMom</p>
<p>Maize&blue-
In all the time I’ve used my initials and birthday, I never thought about a Mazda. Duh. And to ckr1147, I forgot to mention that I first read your name as “checker”, but then when I read it as “sucker” one time, it stuck in my head that way. Please don’t take that in any negative fashion-- it must have been in the wee hours of the morning, when I didn’t realize how late it is until my interpretations start to take a turn… My husband doesn’t understand how addictive CC can be-- but better this than shopping :)</p>
<p>soozievt,
Yes, that’s exactly what happened with the caps. I know that the first time (on the old board) that I typed in Momof2inCA it did not capitalize and I was stuck with the inca thing. Then on the new board, I assumed that it wouldn’t capitalize either so I typed it in the way I’d always done momof2inca and well, you know what they say about assuming! Oh well, it’s fun to have incas about the house and with another birthday close on the horizon I can’t say I don’t feel ancient either!</p>
<p>endibiisme</p>