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How did you come up with your nickname?

Phantom of the Opurrra (my kitty) and nothing to do with Oprah. {#emotions_dlg.sneaky}

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

Predators Hockey Fan .... although I dropped the Fan part by popular request.

Fate whispers to her, "You cannot withstand the storm." She whispers back, "I am the storm."

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

On 5/22/2014 Preds said:

Predators Hockey Fan .... although I dropped the Fan part by popular request.

I wondered what your name meant! Smiley Happy

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

My family typically used a shortened version of my full first name. When my brother was first learning to talk, he mispronounced it & that's how it's been since 1966.

Lil bro had another cute mispronunciation: Kentucky Fried Chicken became Funky Fried Chicken & we still use that today, too{#emotions_dlg.laugh}

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

P =the first letter of my name

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q = qvc

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fan = an admirer of someone or something

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Pqfan

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

Of course I am beammeupscottie which I shortened to just scotttie because that's what I go by anyway. Not a huge Star Trek fan but dh was and I saw all the original series.

The beammeupscottie used to be something I would say when exasperated. I've told the story before but once when the dd's were getting to me in a store dressing room (they were little) I said "sigh...beammeupscottie." DD 1 said "what did you say?" DD 2 replied: "She said she wants to beat up scottie."

Anyway, when I was signing up "beammeupscottie" popped into my head and voila!

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

My father was a competitive diver/swimmer when he was in college.

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

Since childhood all our dogs were named Abbey. At the time I chose my name I was just Abbey. With various upgrades of the board, I had to change my original nic. Our family had a cocker spaniel named Abbey #8. We went on to have one more so I should probably change the 8 to 9.

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A stuffed animal my late husband gave me about twenty years ago.

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Re: How did you come up with your nickname?

an old song by The Friends of Distinction....You got me going in ""circles""