Hi everyone,

Apologies if this has been done before, but as a newcomer, I don't know why you chose your particular (sometimes exotic) username, and I thought it might be interesting for other newcomers ?????


I'll start off :-


Back in 1963, I planned to join the Navy (my cousin was a flying instructor in the US Navy at the time, and kept on at me to sign up) but when my Dad saw the pay (£ 700 a year for aircrew) he said 'seven 'undred ' that's not enough to keep you in beer.

He pulled my leg something rotten about the 700, (he was paying me a lot more at the time to work for him) and I'll always remember that, hence the seven hundred in my user name, together with my first name - boring maybe, but true.



Mike 700

Hi Mike good story lol.

I got my name when I was starting an account on Hotmail and couldn't think of a name and just looked on the desk and my glasses case was at the side from "Vision Value" so there it was and has been ever since on many sites lol. Trouble is that go one some sites and someone always say are you the Visionvalue on so and so lol

Sue

At around the time I registered for this forum I was reading "the owl and the pussycat" to my six-year-old daughter. She learnt to recite it from memory and it was fresh in my mind when I started looking for a forum name.

Contrary to some suggestions I don't think I am related to Posh Bird.

EF

Hi I struggled to come up with a name but had a light bulb moment realised that I had a lot to be thankful for. I am in a loving caring family, still work and only in the early stages of this disease. My house is called "Bethankit" so it seemed apt to use this as my username.
H

One of the Terms & Conditions states that your user name shouldn't be the same as your real name (this is in case you offend someone and they cant then look you up in t'phone book and send the boys round).

So I had to think long and hard about other names I had gone by in the past and as there is to be no profanities, it came to a straight choice between Hoy and Eck,

I'll let you guess which one I chose.

As a child I fancied myself as Sweet Polly Oliver marching off to war - anyone else have Singing Together at Primary School? It sounded a friendly name, quite unlike my real name which is rather sober, i.e. Bible name, daughter in law of Naomi.

At the same time that my health was going rapidly downhill last November, one of our cats was extremely unwell. She spent every evening curled up on my lap purring and we comforted each other. Unfortunately despite the vet's best efforts Topsy did not pull through and died in mid November. When I needed a user name I chose hers so I think of love and comfort every time I log on.

I had a cat called Topsy once. What a nice reason for the name.

Mine's pretty obvious, Leo is my star sign. I'm also very fond of cats from the largest to the smallest! so I thought it was quite apt!

I worked in aviation