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OT Particularly for Nightmist or Anyone With A Cool Name
So, here's your funny story. I was saying to DH that I was thinking of a
new screen name for group. He asked why and I said "Well, I really do like Nana but some of the others have cool names. Neat ones like "Nightmist". So my husband says "Well, if you like stuff like Nightmist, just pick a cool name." I said I couldn't think of one so he said he thought of one as cool as Nightmist. His idea? Oh - ""Ground Fog". Well - I guess he could have gone with "Swamp Gas"! Nana - who has decided that what is good enough for DGD is good enough for her!! |
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NanaV wrote:
So, here's your funny story. I was saying to DH that I was thinking of a new screen name for group. He asked why and I said "Well, I really do like Nana but some of the others have cool names. Neat ones like "Nightmist". So my husband says "Well, if you like stuff like Nightmist, just pick a cool name." I said I couldn't think of one so he said he thought of one as cool as Nightmist. His idea? Oh - ""Ground Fog". Well - I guess he could have gone with "Swamp Gas"! Nana - who has decided that what is good enough for DGD is good enough for her!! What's wrong with just using your first name? And there is nothing wrong with being Nana either. It's Who You Are that counts, not what we call you. -georg (yes, that really is the name) |
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I've always preferred calling that "ground clouds". g
OK: preface. I'm brain fried---first two days of the run of the play, I've not had over four hours sleep in days, I've been up now a whole lot of hours (I ran out of fingers), so take it with a grain of salt. Brain is definitely in uncontrolled free-association mode. I said to myself "what's as cool as nightmist?" and myself replied "Quantum Fairy." I have no idea what it means, but you're welcome to it if you like it. Especially if *you* can figure out what it means. LOL --pig On 11/6/04 15:14, in article , "NanaV" wrote: So, here's your funny story. I was saying to DH that I was thinking of a new screen name for group. He asked why and I said "Well, I really do like Nana but some of the others have cool names. Neat ones like "Nightmist". So my husband says "Well, if you like stuff like Nightmist, just pick a cool name." I said I couldn't think of one so he said he thought of one as cool as Nightmist. His idea? Oh - ""Ground Fog". Well - I guess he could have gone with "Swamp Gas"! Nana - who has decided that what is good enough for DGD is good enough for her!! -- |
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All this screen name stuff comes from hacker culture- it is what you
do if you don't want to have your sins come back at you. What's wrong with your own name? I have used mine, and the same email address, not hidden, for many years without any problems... Or are you all ashamed of yourselves (snicker) Helen Howes Our Lady of the Biscuits http://www.raindropkites.co.uk http://www.helenhowestextiles.co.uk |
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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 23:40:04 GMT, georg wrote:
NanaV wrote: So, here's your funny story. I was saying to DH that I was thinking of a new screen name for group. He asked why and I said "Well, I really do like Nana but some of the others have cool names. Neat ones like "Nightmist". So my husband says "Well, if you like stuff like Nightmist, just pick a cool name." I said I couldn't think of one so he said he thought of one as cool as Nightmist. His idea? Oh - ""Ground Fog". Well - I guess he could have gone with "Swamp Gas"! Nana - who has decided that what is good enough for DGD is good enough for her!! What's wrong with just using your first name? And there is nothing wrong with being Nana either. It's Who You Are that counts, not what we call you. -georg (yes, that really is the name) Nana works. As I said once before, it makes me think of hot cocoa and crocheting in the breakfast nook on a winters afternoon. I never even called my gramma nana and it calls that to mind! I like it. Truth, NightMist is a shortening of what some people called me in a social enviroment where they were nervous of useing their actual names. Nothing illegal mind you, just well based social anxiety. They didn't use their names and as such were uncomfortable useing mine. When I got online (IRC came before web or usenet at my isp) I found that I had to pick a name to use. My first name, being common, was unavailable in any form. So I just typed in what they called me there. It was too long, so I messed about taking out this and that and it left nightmist, so I just capitalized the N and the M. Thus undernet IRC is pretty much responsible for me being called NightMist. When I came to usenet it was to talk to people I knew on IRC in a less scroller coaster prone enviroment, so I kept the name they knew me by. I never changed it because A) I am too lazy to poke into the software's guts and B) because there is almost always at least one Barbara (or variation therof) everywhere. My one concession is signing myself Barbara in rec.arts.fine , they are odd that way there many days. Now I am at the point where half the people I know even offline call me NM or sometimes Misty (when I don't threaten mayhem quick enough). So it's more an accident than anything. It's not all that cool, and to me Misty will always be a pony. You wouldn't believe the number of emails I got from the clueless after they opened up that game called nightmist either! NightMist also a color of car paint and a panda -- "It's such a gamble when you get a face" - Richard Hell |
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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:14:58 -0500, "NanaV" wrote:
I said I couldn't think of one so he said he thought of one as cool as Nightmist. His idea? Oh - ""Ground Fog". Well - I guess he could have gone with "Swamp Gas"! Nana Too funny! Ok. First, NightMist sounds like a gamer's name. Many gamer type names are made by just taking two words that are either opposite meanings, same/similar meanings, or just very unlikely to be put in combination a two word combination with each other and slamming them together until you find something that sounds good to you. For some examples: opposites--Midnight Dawn or Twilight Dawn (I tried Dawn Midnight first but that sounds like a street walker's name.), similar/same.....Dawn Daybreak or Dawn Morning, and unlikely.....Dawn Rhapsody or Dawn Falls. The odd thing is that "Ground Fog" may not be so bad if you get out a thesaurus and look up the words for alternative wording. You could play with that until you find a combination that you like. Let's see.......Ground=earth, and fog can be wispy, so perhaps Earth Wisp. There might be a lot of possible of variations on Ground Fog, some good, some really bad (like "Dirt Pea Soup") but you won't really know unless you play around with it. I've also seen names that were made by taking all the letters in your real name and scrambling them into something new. I love clever names like Helen A Handbasket and Polly Esther, but I can't think of one for myself. So far the best I've come up with is La Mae and Sue P R Suede for fabric oriented names and neither seems to fit me. (Forgive me Polly if it's your real name but this ng does deal with fabric.) Debra in VA |
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I like your DH's sense of humor!
-- LN in NH a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts! http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed "NanaV" wrote in message ... So, here's your funny story. I was saying to DH that I was thinking of a new screen name for group. He asked why and I said "Well, I really do like Nana but some of the others have cool names. Neat ones like "Nightmist". So my husband says "Well, if you like stuff like Nightmist, just pick a cool name." I said I couldn't think of one so he said he thought of one as cool as Nightmist. His idea? Oh - ""Ground Fog". Well - I guess he could have gone with "Swamp Gas"! Nana - who has decided that what is good enough for DGD is good enough for her!! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 11/1/2004 |
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