Explain your username

[Kittenheels54]

Mine is because I love those slippers with the fur on the top & tiny heels..54 is my age

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Or just floating around in the ether

Never tried ether - I understand it leaves a helluva headache? I generally don’t even drink alcohol, nowadays, and other than vitamins, minerals & caffeine just eat and drink.

 

[Cwtchseeker]

When I first came to Lit, I often got confused for a witch or a female…

Cwtch is a Welsh word, with the meaning below… I was seeking a ‘safe space’ and it was/is a place to enjoy being myself…

Hence, Cwtchseeker..

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Easy, it’s my name.

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Easy, it’s my name.

Your folks were avant-garde, with them tildes!

 

[~Elizabeth~]

Your folks were avant-garde, with them tildes!

I added those, just for looks

 

[Shymidwestgirl]

I think mine is a bit explainable on its own but the back story is @shybutobscene was already “going to be used” by another in the future so I couldn’t go with that moniker. Granted I’d not met the person behind the name or knew when said name would be listed or used. But to be safe I went with the name I have now.

 

[DrkSthrnGnt]

If you fill in the vowels, it stands for "dark southern gent," which refers to when I was living in the south and trying to come off as a dark and mysterious stranger on the forums.

 

[SimonSex]

My priest didn’t approve of SimonPeterSex, so I shortened it.

 

[graysilver]

Clearly, I’m a sexy senior man. In excellent shape, distinguished (I’m told), wise and kind and an encourager.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

My libido went through the roof when I went off anti-depressants.

My libido crashed through the cellar floor when I went on mine.

 

[MindYaBitness]

I changed it to this when someone found my old username on a different website. It's a message to that person, should they stumble across this one

 

[MrMakersMark]

3rd try was the charm.

I don't remember what the first 2 attempts were (it was long ago) but Lit didn't like them for one reason or another.

So, just before moving on with my night I glanced up, saw a bottle on the shelf and said ....why not?

Made a drink and a screen name.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

When I was a kid there was a (now-defunct) minor league baseball team called the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I didn't live anywhere near Ontario, but I just thought it was the most bad-ass name I'd ever heard. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered a whiskey jack was a small songbird and not some big, hulky, flannel-clad whiskey harvester, going off into the whiskey forests to chop down the whiskey trees to collect the whiskey inside. Oh well.

 

[graysilver]

Clearly, I’m a sexy senior man. In excellent shape, distinguished (I’m told), wise and kind and an encourager.

Clearly, I’m a sexy senior man. In excellent shape, distinguished (I’m told), wise and kind and an encourager.

Thanks, Somethingnew1124!

 

[Somethingnew1124]

Imagine my disappointment when I discovered a whiskey jack was a small songbird and not some big, hulky, flannel-clad whiskey harvester, going off into the whiskey forests to chop down the whiskey trees to collect the whiskey inside. Oh well.

I will still picture you in your flannel sipping whiskey. I chose to forget all the rest!

 

[Somethingnew1124]

Thanks, Somethingnew1124

Your welcome
I love the part where you added that you are an encourager. It has nothing to do with your name, but you added it. I thought is was very sweet.

 

[English_guy_bkk]

I'm English but left at midish 20s to work in Bangkok. (Not sweeping chimneys)
I love making bread.

 

[graysilver]

Your welcome
I love the part where you added that you are an encourager. It has nothing to do with your name, but you added it. I thought is was very sweet.

 

[SimonSex]

When I was a kid there was a (now-defunct) minor league baseball team called the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I didn't live anywhere near Ontario, but I just thought it was the most bad-ass name I'd ever heard. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered a whiskey jack was a small songbird and not some big, hulky, flannel-clad whiskey harvester, going off into the whiskey forests to chop down the whiskey trees to collect the whiskey inside. Oh well.

I think the time has come where we have that talk about where whisky comes from.

 

[Bigboobbabe]

40DD's.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

Great idea @cactusjack0584

My favourite SF author is Robert A. Heinlein. In more than one book he uses the expression TANSTAAFL, which stands for "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Going deeper, I am a Mechanical Engineer. A professor at University pointed out that this is also a perfect way to express the Second Law of Thermodynamics, dS>0, and it sounds better out loud than "the state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time".

And, it's my second favorite equation.

58 is my birth year, because there already was a Tanstaafl.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

When I was a kid there was a (now-defunct) minor league baseball team called the Thunder Bay Whiskey Jacks in Thunder Bay, Ontario. I didn't live anywhere near Ontario, but I just thought it was the most bad-ass name I'd ever heard. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered a whiskey jack was a small songbird and not some big, hulky, flannel-clad whiskey harvester, going off into the whiskey forests to chop down the whiskey trees to collect the whiskey inside. Oh well.

Surely you know of the whiskeyjack's legendary thievery? A friend claims one once stole a pound of kielbasa off a picnic table in Algonquin Provincial Park. (There may have been whisky involved as well).

 

[BrendaBear]

Easy, it’s my name.

I knew I liked you!

 

[Chillygirl]

I’m in Alaska…people ask about the cold. All my online stuff has to do with being cold.