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What made you choose yours?

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I've been using the name Tallulah on the internet for over 10 years now, and abbreviated it to Tally. When I signed up here Tallulah was already gone, so I just used Tally as my username.

 

When I was a teenager I used to write poems. Looking back at them now they are all complete rubbish, but they seemed very meaningful and profound at the time. Tallulah became a character in one of my poems who was like a kind of angel/fairy/protector. She was strong, brave and kind, and all the things I would like to be. I chose to use it as my username because Tallulah was what I was working toward. Even though I have not achieved that yet, I have been using Tallulah/Tally for so long that I actually feel like it is as much my name as my real name is.

 

It's funny that I chose it for myself because Tallulah is a very feminine name and I am not really very girly, and especially wasn't as a teenager. That is a part of Tallulah that I have never aspired to and don't feel bad about not achieving.

 

I like the name Tallulah and if I ever have a daughter I might name her Tallulah.

 

I think my avatar is fairly self-explanatory :)

 

What kind of bird is that in your avatar?

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i dunno what kind of bird it is, just did a google search for a bird flying to go with the lyrics from the song i put in my signature!

 

before that i had a rather cute girlie atvar, not that i am very girlie either. So decided to swap it for something else and the bird was an easy option.

 

Oh and SD is a bit of a cr@p username but it was the only one i could think of at the time when i registerd.

 

edited to say its a great fairgate bird

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Flora used to be a r/l nic-name for me. (in fact a friend of mine still calls me Flora!). I once did some agency nursing in london and went up to the reception in theatre and the receptionist misunderstood me when I told her who I was and went on the theatre tannoy announcing 'Flora Mason is here from the agency'... ALL day the staff were calling me Flora, and I even had a badge with my name on saying 'Flora' (I was too embarrassed to tell them my name wasn't Flora!!!) It was funny at the time!!! :lol:

 

My avatar was made by a member who doesn't come here anymore (and then embellished by baddad for Christmas a couple of years ago)... the pole dancing is because I got drunk once and pole danced on the wooden beams in our local pub :unsure:

 

Flora :)

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Hi

My user name are letter via my name (very boring i just paniced when i joined and couldnt think of anything else at time) and my avatar is for my son because he loves spongebob.

Theresa xx

PS only just learnt how to find the avatars

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I always use my name as my username plus, when necessary an add-on, in this case my year of birth.

 

The other thing,whatever it is called, haven't got around to it, don't know if I will.

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Me online moniker is Garfields' teddy bear, plus a meaningless number that I was assigned on another site as Pookie had been taken...hmph!!

How very dare they!!

 

The Calvin and Hobbes avatar I picked as my eldest has recently discovered the joy that is the work of Bill Watterson, much to my real pleasure.

Its the facial expressions he loves, they're so exagerrated he 'gets' them and can laugh at them too!

I was delighted to find this particular avatar, because every morning I have to cajole two very reluctant boys out their nice, warm, pit and force them off to school, how cruel I am!!

Lijey told me one morning he thought he'd dreamed me waking him up for school, so this really made me guffaw!

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Great thread! :thumbs:

 

Pearl is the meaning of my real name. So is daisy, so on another forum I'm pearldaisy.

 

My avvy was also created by baddad to indulge my warped passion for Tony Robinson :wub:

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I picked mine for several reasons - but mainly I guess because, 1. I get accused of mumbling rather than speaking clearly, 2. I like penguins and 3. I really identified (I know, I'm odd :wacko:) with Mumble in Happy Feet in terms of not fitting in but still being ridiculously stubborn and determined to find ways of doing things my own way and getting there in the end even if it takes longer or I have to take a slightly different route.

 

Oh and I can't sing either :lol: (ear-plugs are not just for autistics!!)

 

My picture changes but usually features Mumble or another penguin - and I don't need an excuse for including Lee :wub: :wub:

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pearl, why does the column in the background collapse??? is he using demolition explosives to bring it down in a controlled fashion????

 

You can see it better in the big version baddad sent me, but I've forgotten where that is. No, he is digging a Time Team trench, & inadvertently undermines the foundations of the castle in the background :lol:

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My avvy was also created by baddad to indulge my warped passion for Tony Robinson :wub:

 

There is something about his voice that I find rather calming. I sometimes listen to audiobooks read by him to get to sleep :lol:

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Well mine is because I like science and watching channels like discovery science. The other part is because I'm kind of a geek. There we go. My avatar is of Dwayne Dibbley in Red Dwarf :thumbs:

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There is something about his voice that I find rather calming. I sometimes listen to audiobooks read by him to get to sleep :lol:

 

*nods* we regularly hear his voice emanating from JP's room reading Stig of the Dump. Rather nice for me to drift off to as well :wub:

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I'm Smiley..............'cos i am! (most of the time...... :whistle: ).

 

Smiley and Poppy are my familys nicknames for me, so, basically, i grin/ned a lot - and had/ve pink cheeks :D

 

The avvy - coz it's preddddy :wub: - i used to have a ickle angel - but she was nekid (how rude!) ;)

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My username is really boring - just my name and initial

 

I changed my avatar recently. I was looking for anything to do with pianos - my greatest love (after my family, of course :lol:). I stumbled accross a website with pictures of Betty Boo on it and was struck by how similar my figure is to hers :whistle::devil:

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My username is really boring too....my real name plus , dare I say it my year of birth ! I was in such a rush to become a member that I could not think of a username with any sort of clever twist and as I have never been called any nicknames or anything apart from my real name stuck with that !

 

My avatar is our dog Cally, a beautiful (well in our eyes) little cross breed who is a double rescue, she is fabulous fun with a great personality and the only who understands Connor, or so he says.

 

Clare x x x

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I chose Billabong because I like funny-sounding words. I'm not sure why it came to mind. Is it used in 'Waltzing Matilda'? (showing my age). I had no idea what it meant until after I'd chosen it. It's 'a branch of a river forming a backwater or stagnant pool', the 'bong' bit specifically meaning 'channel that is dry except after rain'. Think I prefer the channel to being a stagnant pool.

 

My avatar? Well, I thought it was time there was an invisible woman, not just the invisible man. :ph34r:

 

Billabong

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Ha! Ditto Clare and that makes us the same age!!!

 

I haven't got a clue how to do my own avatar so the blowing up one best sums up life in our household!!! (not that anyone actually blows up our house!!)

 

Stella x

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Well, my username (as BD knows) comes from a character from an 80's comedy programme called Absolutely, played by John Sparkes Siadwell 'ere. I was in the Air Force in England during the late 80's and as I grew up in Wales, well etc,etc. and no I do not sound or look like him. My avatar is two thirds of my dogs, these are my two Huskies Noushka and Smithy...

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Not all penguins are cutsey and cuddly :lol:

:o How can you say that?? Did you not see the cute little Mumbles being born (there was me thinking the correct term was 'hatched' :huh:) on the telly tonight?? :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

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my username is hev cos thats my name :lol::lol: and baddad said i look like mrs blobby and he made the avatar for me,good job i dont get offended eh? :lol:

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:o How can you say that?? Did you not see the cute little Mumbles being born (there was me thinking the correct term was 'hatched' :huh:) on the telly tonight?? :wub: :wub: :wub:

You obviously forgot to look at the link i posted :devil:

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My first name is Joy and my surname bedford. so i just kind of added them together but a shortened version of surname. Kind of regret it now as my niece thinks it is a bit porn starish and teases me but it is a lot tamer than my sisters bluetooth name (don,t ask far too rude). :wub:

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My user name is because I am Zo's Mum simple as that (Boring really)

and the avatar kinda suits my personality (I think)

 

OMG Am I really that boring

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