Saturday, March 06, 2021

A Rose by Any other Name........

 


 

When we are interacting online - only online, never having ever met - we become (I think) our nicknames...... like Windy and Boosghost and Hermione and willie and PK and so many others.... and of course morningstar.

I for one create a persona based on the nickname...... and then flesh it out through comments and sometimes from the blogs you write.  Today I am curious to know how you settled on your online name........ there must be some story behind it right?? 

 

I'll tell you how I came up with morningstar.
I have always been an early riser - often getting up before the sun... one morning I was outside and there was one star in the sky... one lone star.  I thought 'ahhh a morningstar'.  Every morning I would look up and feel comforted (for some reason) by the morning star shining down.  Sooooo when I first logged on to my first BBS (Bulletin Board Services - wayyyyyyyy before the internet) I needed a screen name... because I only ever logged on first thing in the morning I decided on morningstar. 

Way back then I had no trouble with morningstar - it appeared I was the only one using it!!! No "that name is in use" messages.   Now however if I sign up for something new - the 'that name is in use' pops up frequently.  Lately I have been receiving emails for some Morningstar charity..... their email is morningstar@..... .com whereas mine is morningstar@....ca  I don't know how many times I have contacted them - forwarded emails to them ........ le sigh

So tell me how did you pick your online name? any interesting stories behind it???

 

 

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quiet peace in the early morning......with a hot cup of coffee 

22 comments:

  1. Mine is neither elegant nor beautiful. I jumped into blogging without giving it proper thought. I was going to be Elis - something from my childhood. But after an annoying online fuss - all in fun, they began calling me Pissed Kitty. Which got shortened to PK. When I wanted to publish I certainly wanted a beautiful, lovely, feminine name - but it was too late. My readers knew me as PK and that was that.

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    1. LOL I love it!! Pissed Kitty LOL

      You know now every time I see "PK" I'm gonna say Pissed Kitty right??!!

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    2. Sigh... yeah, I know.

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  2. Anonymous2:06 pm

    I love your name because it has a dual and quite polar, meaning. Commonly it is nickname for Venus, since it is considered the predominant morning’star’. But it is also the name for a medieval mace-like weapon with a spiked ball on a fixed handle. You have to love that combination!

    As for me? Mine is a name I used as a nom de plume when I was writing and cartooning for the SandMutopian Guardian. It is a blend of my initials and a past role play persona.

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    1. I kinda thought it might be something to do with your writing :)

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  3. Lol to PK. Can't imagine you as a Pissy Kitty. Maybe you can think of it as Purring Kitty, or Pretty Kitty, Precious Kitty now?

    Anyway- I chose Wilma from the Flintstones because that seemed to suit my personality. However I giggle more like Betty ( a family name so that was a definite out! I didn't choose Fred for B because he's more like Barney in personality. He HATES it by the way- which is why I often shorten it to B.

    Not long after I started blogging my good friend,Lillie, started calling me Willie. It seemed to be a better fit, but as my blog is named Barney Married Wilma, I still use her face. And to be honest it is still fun altering the cartoons to suit my posts.

    willie ( oh and I don't capitalize the w simply because I like the look of all lower case- no submissive reason )

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    1. small w cause you like the look more!! Glad you shared that tidbit I thought maybe it was the old submissives always use lower case letters rigmarole

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  4. Hi Morningstar,

    I love your story. I'm always interested in learning how blog friends come up with their online names.

    Mine is based on a childhood nick name.

    Then there is Scrappy Doo (hence my pic). I can get riled up when I feel someone had done me or a loved one wrong. "Let me at em". Rick used to say I was getting my Scrappy on lol.

    Hugs
    Roz

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    1. LOL now there ya see - I did NOT picture you as scrappy!! another element to you - gotta love it!

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  5. No great mystery about my online name. Prefect a name that I used to be called when I first started playing and DT another old name now unused. At the start I thought about just using Prefect but I suspected that there would be a lot of other Prefects out there, so I added DT, except in lower case letters to personalize the name to me. Since then, I have not seen one other person on the internet calling themselves Prefect :)

    Prefectdt

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    1. mmmmmmm now see Prefect I assumed British background and all that you had been a Prefect when you were in school :)

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    2. I had been a prefect in school and I did use my prefect's badge as part of my schoolboy outfit in my early days of playing, that's why people started calling me prefect.

      PS: I stopped doing the schoolboy thing back in the early 90's

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  6. For me, selkie was a given - D. called me that as a nickname as did some of my family - because I was a dreamer, loved the myths and stories of Ireland and was a child of the ocean so it worked perfectly!

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  7. (smiling) I remember the picture you had on your blog
    selkie does fit your perfectly :)

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  8. My reason in part is because I just needed a simple name to comment (didn't plan on becoming a blogger ever.) And we are fans of animated shows and musicals and that kind of thing, so I chose a cute clip from Peter Pan where one of the Lost Boys calls the young girl, Windy Bird. Eventually, I needed a name for my husband and did NOT want to call him Peter Pan. Although Hook would have been a good one, dog gone it!
    Anyway, I went with what matches Windy, the wind, weather, and thought of things like Thunder, Lightening, and settled on Storm. Then for the title of my blog connected to the two names with many possibilities. That was fun. I am still very happy with my blog title When the Storm Whispers to the Wind. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! Hugs, Windy

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    1. ohhhhhhhhhh Windy I love your explanation for your name and Storm's !! I always felt your names and the name of your blog were very descriptive and gave me a wonderful picture!

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  9. Thanks for the question. I always wondered where your name and Prefectdt's came from, so now my curiosity has been satisfied.

    I chose Hermione because at the time I had just discovered the Harry Potter series, and I really identified with Hermione. I was a lot like her in school, except for the magic part. I named my husband Ron because (spoiler alert!) she marries Ron Weasley in the final book.

    Hugs,
    Hermione

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    1. ahhh to be honest - that reveal wasn't that surprising - even though I am probably the only human alive who has not read/watched Harry Potter
      the Hermione nick creates quite a visual of you in my mind...... long curly hair right?? (god don't disillusion me!! LOL)

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    2. Yes, pretty much the same style and colour as my avatar.

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    3. I am SO jealous!!! :)

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  10. sugarsack is a lifelong nick name first given to me by my grandfather almost immediately after birth .... when Al Gore invented the internet and i was logging on my first AOL account i chose it and it has stuck... by this time everyone but people at work call me Sugar...

    ss

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  11. I love your name Morningstar, however, PK wins hands down!

    Mine is a play on the Sheriff's nickname as a child. That's it.

    Hugs
    Boo

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