What's in a name? Username meaning discussion thread.

[RMD]

Required Minimum Distribution would have been my guess.

Hmmm...I kind like your guess better...  If anyone else asks, I'll go with that.  ;)

[MsSindy]

Aw, man, now I wish I had a cool user name (feeling that peer-pressure all over again!).

My name is Sindy, and spelled that way by birth.  Probably a little too unique to be on a financial website, but you'll find that I don't really offer intimate details that the rest of the public probably doesn't already know (or that I would be upset/embarrassed if they did find out).

Not sure why I chose Ms - I'm a Mrs., and not a feminist, which I tend to associate 'Ms' with  (at least back in the '80s it was that way, not sure how people feel about it now.....I think it's useless......hmmmm, maybe I should change my user name.....)

I think AOL randomly assigned this to me back in the day with some random numbers after it and it just stuck.

[Workinghard]

I picked the name workinghard for this forum.  Ironically, since I first joined, i have been picking up 8-14 hrs a week of overtime.

 In the past when I picked up OT hours, I wouldn't really see it in my paycheck.  Now that I'm finally eligible for the 401k program, there's a huge difference. 

I am so excited about the opportunity to earn and save more!  I want to increase to 25% going into my 401(k).  I'm at 20% now. The next jump will take place if I get the standard 3% pay increase this summer.  If the overtime slows down, it will just cut into our after tax investments.

[Dr.Vibrissae]

Vibrissae = Whiskers.  Dr.Vibrissae is an homage/play on my profession and facial hair.

[MissStache]

Marcher Lords were landowners on the Welsh/English borders (known as the Welsh Marches) between the 11th and 16th centuries.  I live in that part of the world, and last time I checked, I was female, so I figured I would be a MarcherLady.  The irony of taking ownership of a middle-ages male title on a 21st century website amuses me.

Awesome!  Love the esoteric historical references, and it helps that my family is Welsh (a few hundred years ago), though I guess that would make us bitter enemies :)

[Christiana]

Christiana is a name from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; I have a Mustachian lifestyle, but my core identity is Christian.

[NeverWasACornflakeGirl]

I just changed my username.  I originally had my real first name, but I'm getting more comfortable with posting more personal financial information, and I don't want to use my real name.  So I'm using the title of a Tori Amos song.  She says she "never was a cornflake girl" and felt more comfortable "hanging with the raisin girls."  So, to me it means a girl/woman who is out of the ordinary, like a Mustachian.  :-)

[Insanity]

I just changed my username.  I originally had my real first name, but I'm getting more comfortable with posting more personal financial information, and I don't want to use my real name.  So I'm using the title of a Tori Amos song.  She says she "never was a cornflake girl" and felt more comfortable "hanging with the raisin girls."  So, to me it means a girl/woman who is out of the ordinary, like a Mustachian.  :-)

Tori Amos Rocks!

[Dr.Vibrissae]

Anthony and Cleopatra?

[NeverWasACornflakeGirl]

King Lear

[NeverWasACornflakeGirl]

King Lear

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

Take that, attackers of liberal arts education!

[MarcherLady]

my family is Welsh (a few hundred years ago), though I guess that would make us bitter enemies :)

Let's call it 'neighbours' :-)

[Zaga]

Required Minimum Distribution would have been my guess.

Hmmm...I kind like your guess better...  If anyone else asks, I'll go with that.  ;)

That is what I assumed your name meant as well.

[fadedsunrise]

Because I like half puns/poetic images?

My favorite book series has always been LOTR, and a sometimes hobby of mine is photography. A /faded/ sunrise is somehow just something that occurred to me when thinking about both things one day.

[marty998]

King Lear

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

Take that, attackers of liberal arts education!

Final year of school we had to study King Lear. IIRC (11 years ago!) that passage is just after Cordelia says she loves him according to (to her bond?) as a father no more no less. None of the gushing claptrap like the other sisters.

Would it be fair to say that Cordelia is a mustachian? She didn't need a kingdom like the other 2?

[arebelspy]

Because I like half puns/poetic images?

My favorite book series has always been LOTR, and a sometimes hobby of mine is photography. A /faded/ sunrise is somehow just something that occurred to me when thinking about both things one day.

Seems like what you'd get when you instagram filter a sunrise.  ;)

[grantmeaname]

Sepia sunrise

[fallstoclimb]

Ha, this thread is hilarious.

Mine's my old AOL name, because when you are a teenager it's really really really important to pick a meaningful but abstract name that no one "uncool" will understand.  From the REM song: 

Gentlemen mark your opponents
Fire into your own ranks.
Pick the weakest as strategic
Move. Square off. To
Meet your enemy.
For each and every gathering
A scapegoat falls to climb.

When I was a teenager I was like 'awesome this reflects how I'm so moody and that being sad is worth it for how happy I can be!' 

I guess now I could argue its about how I took out all those student loans just so I could pay them off? 

[MountainFlower]

I picked something totally different for this forum for whatever reason.  Normally I choose "Paularado" because my name is Paula and I'm in Colorado.  Just wanted more anonymity I guess. 

I do live in the mountains where the wild columbines grow, hence my avatar. 

Great Thread!

[Tweet]

Tweet...cause I work with birds. Which is a bit ironic since the species I work with don't even have vocal chords.
The avatar is a reference to the movie Rio...which features birds and is set in Brazil-my home country!

[thurston howell iv]

Because "III" was already taken.  :)

Additionally, it occurred to me that Mr. Howell was the quintessential tv rich guy back when I was a kid and now in retrospect (after some MMM therapy), all the trappings of "wealth" seem sort of foolish especially when everyone on the island was already living the MMM lifestyle and it was working!

[MrMoneyPinch]

I do have a 'stashe, but it is small.  And I was not feeling original that day.

[MrCash]

Hello!  I'm new.

My username is based on my heavy emphasis on the use of cash over credit.  Not that I have a problem with credit if used properly, but for my own purposes I use only cash.  Also, it's the pseudonym I use for my FI blog.  :)

Mr. Cash

[RNwastash]

I'm a registered nurse, I love what I do, and I have a stash that is growing.  Soooo original. I love this site and the forum!!

[Storapa]

Storapa- Swedish for Big Monkey. 

Why, because my tiny brain thinks it's funny. 

[okonumiyaki]

Okonumiyaki - a Japanese pancake type dish.  When I lived in Japan it was about the only thing I could afford to eat when I went out, we called it Economy-Yaki and I grew to really like it (Japanese comfort food)

And it is rarely taken as a username...

[blackomen]

Blackomen - the name of my World of Warcraft guild (despite having quit playing the game 2-3 years ago)

[ivyhedge]

ivyhedge = an ivy league educated hedge fund manager.
But you'd never ascertain my background by casual observation! ;)

[frugalnacho]

I am frugal and I like nachos.  I have used the nacho moniker for various online accounts for the last 20 years, so I just stick with it. 

[Little House]

My user name is very straight forward, I like Little Houses and it's the name I use when I post articles on my blog "Little House in the Valley." I also wanted to stay quasi-anonymous.

[madage]

Turns out the first two letters of my first, middle and last names spell a two-word phrase that perfectly describe the times we live in. I squashed it all together to keep 'em guessing.

[whitewaterchica]

Fun thread :-)

I am a girl (woman, really) who spends much of her free time playing in whitewater (kayaking).

[dragoncar]

I like nachos

Human being confirmed....

[Grid]

Haha wow I was NOT pronouncing that right!

I always thought are-ah-bell-spee sounded kind of off.....

My in-head pronunciation was similar, but it was more err-uh-bell-spee.

I've been a huge fan of renewable energy since college, and I think the electrical "grid" system will be an important part of moving that direction.  My computer science research has focused on deformable grids as well these past months.   Also, grids = spreadsheets = some of the files/calculators in MMM articles that helped me first understand FI.

Really late edit:  I'm not sure when I realized the fitting connection to Tron, but that is now reflected in my avatar and "Personal text".  Will change the text to "And then, one day, I got in!" if/when FI years from now.

[Bourbon]

I didn't use my standard username from the ancient 90's.  I try not to carry it over to "real world" sites like this one where there is some personal information, probably out of inflated paranoia. 

So Bourbon.  Because I'm in Kentucky, and.................. I like Bourbon.  Have an excessive quantity of it at home thanks to wife's job too.

[MoneyCat]

MoneyCat = I like money and I like cats.  That's about it, really.

[YK-Phil]

YK is the way old timers call Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada, but some people take it for Yukon, which they often confuse. People also confuse Yellowknife and Whitehorse, sometimes using Whiteknife or Yellowhorse. By the way, Canadians often joke that their American counterparts have no clue about the barren and empty frozen lands north of the border called Canada, but it is equally amazing for us Northerners that Canadians know practically nothing about the three northern territories which are together much larger than the rest of the provinces. Phil is just the English short version of my name.

[payitoff]

from the bedtime storybook The Napping House

"There is a house,
a napping house,
where everyone is sleeping.
"Everyone," in this case is a snoring granny, a dreaming child, a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse... and a wakeful flea! Uh-oh. Looks like the napping house won't be napping for long"

my kids laughs at this book so hard everytime we read it. And i have 2 wakeful fleas at home. that's it. :)

[gobius]

Mine is from Arrested Development, when GOB and Tobias come up with a business plan for a coffee shop (I think).  They tell Michael it's called "Gobius, as in Go buy us some coffee."

[Spartana]

Dogs name is Mazzie. Add "inator" to names to make them sound cool and badass in a dominating way like the Terminator -> Governator.

I Also used this same username for years..

ETA: i think there's a Taminator on here :)

Ha Ha - I call my yappy little dog The Barkinator.

My name is one I use at another frugal living site so just use it here too (Lazy). It's basically just because I am a pretty hardcore minimalist and would probably be happiest living in some kind of stoic military type barracks with a cot and very minimal belongs....oh and Gerard Butler from "300" there too ...naked :-)!

[sheepstache]

I like nachos

Human being confirmed....

Had nachos been around during WWII Britain, Turing's job would have been so much easier.

[frugalnacho]

Mine is from Arrested Development, when GOB and Tobias come up with a business plan for a coffee shop (I think).  They tell Michael it's called "Gobius, as in Go buy us some coffee."

LOL.  I just watched that episode last night.

[bikebum]

I'm not really a bike-bum, but I like bikes and appreciate the resourcefulness and awesomeness of bum lifestyles, like ski-bums and surf-bums. Maybe one day I'll live up to the name. And sometimes my friends call me a bum because I wear the same clothes for days and eat the left-overs you don't want, yummy.

[AssetGrinder]

I have always been a grinder for cash. I always did what it took to get that dollar. That endless chase. Chose the name Asset Grinder cause its memorable cause the first thing u think is Ass Grinder which is comical

[Cpa Cat]

I chose my internet-name at the tender age of 7, when Warcraft II was the best computer game in the world. It is a bit silly that I haven't changed it since then. The name does occasionally function as a people-who-jump-to-conclusions-detector, I suppose.

I mostly just want to know who warfreak1 is.

[Cheddar Stacker]

I chose my internet-name at the tender age of 7, when Warcraft II was the best computer game in the world. It is a bit silly that I haven't changed it since then. The name does occasionally function as a people-who-jump-to-conclusions-detector, I suppose.

I mostly just want to know who warfreak1 is.

I've thought the same thing many times. Was it another warfreak here, or just another warfreak on the interwebs?? The world may never know.

[Spartana]

A Rebel Spy was the chosen name.

Haha wow I was NOT pronouncing that right!

I always thought are-ah-bell-spee sounded kind of off.....

I figured out his name not too long after I found this site (not bad for a blonde :-)!) but at first I thought it said "Arepelepsey" and thought it was some terrible disfiguring disease. I still pronounce it that way in my head.

[bikebum]

I chose my internet-name at the tender age of 7, when Warcraft II was the best computer game in the world. It is a bit silly that I haven't changed it since then. The name does occasionally function as a people-who-jump-to-conclusions-detector, I suppose.

I mostly just want to know who warfreak1 is.

I've thought the same thing many times. Was it another warfreak here, or just another warfreak on the interwebs?? The world may never know.

I'm betting the 2 is from Warcraft "2".

[Mississippi Mudstache]

This has been an interesting read. My name is pretty boring compared to some. I usually just use my real name on internet forums. But I wanted a little anonymity here since preparing for FIRE is at odds with what a good little minion is supposed to be doing in the corporate world. I chose my name because I live in Mississippi, I work outdoors frequently, and I'm building a stash. Was that too obvious?

[San]

San is the character from Miyazaki's 'Princess Mononoke'.

Who is, frankly, totally badass and I can only dream to be as awesome as she is.

But my husband and I are in a lot of ways like the main characters (San and Ashitaka). I haven't done forum type stuff in a few years, and decided I needed an updated username from what I used to use on my old RP boards >.>