female only How did you come up with your user name?

[Rutiglius 0]

I have a dog named Rudy. I always give my dogs a zillion nicknames. One day, I called him by his "Latin" name [tongue in cheek]: Ru - tig - li - us.

It stuck.

[doodlebug11 0]

My Grandfather gave me that name, Doodlebug, when I was a baby just learning how to crawl. I would start out going forward then end up going backwards and we lived in Texas where there are doodlebugs that come out of the ground and that's how they come out, forward then they see something and go backwards into their holes! My sister still calls me Bug to this day and I just love it because my Grandfather was my hero !!! I had to put the 11 on the end of it cause someone else had Doodlebug.

[Mimilou2004 13]

I sure am enjoying this thread!!!!

Mimi

[bashful1269 5]

Bashful from Snow White and the Seven dwarfs is my favorite Disney character. I loved the way he would blush. I am very bashful and blush very easily so...it fits.

[gone 4 ever 6]

I chose mine because I figured with the band my fat would be "gone4ever". :thumbdown:

I too am enjoying this thread.

[FabBy50 0]

Mine is really easy....I got my band in March I will be turning 50 next January so that is my goal to have all of my weight off my then. I'm a little over half way!!

[*susan* 1,709]

This is a fun topic! Um, I suppose I don't really need to go into any great detail about how I chose my name though.

[*slim* 2]

This is a fun topic! Um, I suppose I don't really need to go into any great detail about how I chose my name though.

Nope...Not unless....(wait for it...)Your name isn't really...Susan!:thumbdown:

Ok, I get too silly sometimes.:scared2:

[luluc 6]

mom lost an arm wrestling match w/dad, she wanted to name me lulu & dad DID NOT.

she's called me that since day one - it stuck (c added cause another lulu existed):thumbdown:

[luluc 6]

I always give my dogs a zillion nicknames..

i do the same, each has like 4 or 5:)

[*slim* 2]

So which names do the animals respond to?

[lotsabirds 0]

Because I have lots of birds. Have a new baby hatched yesterday. ahhhhhhhh.

[RestlessMonkey 7]

yes, I suppose if I was to post here, I should probably include MINE!

Many moons ago, I played in a Rock and Roll band, we toured all over the place, and we had lots of nice little groupies. As a result, my band mates gave me that nickname.

I will let your imagination fill in the sordid details......

I have used it ever since, even going back to the "CB Radio" days, where it was my "handle".

HH

O M G

I can't believe you were in a rock and roll band.

(ha gotcha i bet)

What did you play? Besides the field, that is

[RestlessMonkey 7]

About 10 years (and another 50 pounds less) ago, my husband and I decided to avail ourselves of some "continuing adult education" classes. We took swing dancing (most improved and please don't come back) (we were enthusiastic if unskilled) and Yoga.

During our first yoga class, whilst lying on towels brought from home in a dirty "music room" at a local school, in the dark, in the heat (A/C was turned off and just as an FYI it's still 92 here at 1040PM so it was HOT) during "quiet time" (like nap time for preschool I think) I heard a guy doing some fancy "In one nostril out another" yoga breathing. I'm sure to a yogi this is very important. I'm sure it's a skill that takes mastery. But to me, in the heat in the dark on a towel on a dirty floor I thought to myself "Oh my good grief. I am lying here on a towel etc listening to a man SNORKEL his SNOT. And I PAID for the privilege! I started to giggle. I've been told I have an infectious giggle. I don't know if that's true. BUT out of the dark sotto voce I heard my husband grind out "SHUT UP" That made me start to laugh outright (you know you've all been there...it is totally inappropriate to laugh so you really have to just DO IT!) and HE started laughing. And then someone else. And then another.

SOON I think about everyone EXCEPT my teacher (she with the lovely Indian accent...so pretty and exotic) and Mr. SS (Snot snorkel) were rolling around on their towels on the dirty floor in the heat, LAUGHING.

The lights BLARED on. She GLARED at me. She said (imagine the accent please...it took the sting out)

Your mind is like a RESTLESS MONKEY....Leaping from limb to limb. You need to be still!!! Oh no way. I laughed until I almost wet myself.

That's how I got my screen name, and it's also how my husband and I got ejected from Yoga class. And asked not to come back.

So we took tai chi.

Edited August 3, 2009 by RestlessMonkey

[elcee 3,340]

Loving some of these stories. So glad I started this thread.