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Really - I'm not that difficult. Named because of the years spent in Difficult, Tennessee. A very relaxed and calm area. Just a couple of miles from Defeated, TN.
Haha! Love those colorful names - I'm sure they have interesting stories.
We have Little Hope right down the road...and Possum Kingdom. Just...wow.
I fly radio controlled helicopters as a hobby. One day I had a very messy crash in a dirt field - the helicopter was churning-up a cloud of dust, and a bystander remarked "Wow, that's a real dirt grinder."
BTW - I don't wear overalls .
Well, I have to say that I am relieved by that. I will herewith correct my mental image of you!
I have chosen my username, because i still feel very much at home in East Frisia, even though i haven't lived there for over 30+ years.
I was born already in my current location but raised the first two years of my life on a small wadden island with a long sandy beach in the North Sea. That's where my mother originally came from and this is where i still have some relatives and friends.
Also i'm trying to visit the island at least once a year (mainly in the summer :-))
You're from a cold place - LOL! But I bet it's got it's own brand of beauty.
I'd love to stick a psychoanalyst on that one. (JUST KIDDING!)
I don't think we need to read too much into user names, of course.
But to me, user names are a lot like T shirts. Usually the wearer picked out the T-shirt because there was something about the message or logo or whatever that meant something to them. And then sometimes the wearer just grabbed up something off the bottom of their roommate's closet and put it on for merely practical reasons.
So while it's interesting to wonder about in passing - it's not something I'd use as a character call - unless of course, as HFB pointed out, it was something meant to be crude. I feel the same way about the few blatantly inflammatory or obvious names of a small minority of posters on this site, most of whom tend to come and go.
Occasionally, but not often, I'll see a name that's got religious meaning. Or a name that's got a character trait in it, like "gentle" or "Artist" or something like that - and occasionally I see names that include a career field or hobby. I'm pretty sure those people mean to send an indicator of a trait they like or something that they do that's important to them.
I find I sometimes wonder in passing what screen names means to their users, and sometimes get a chuckle out of a name as I enjoy the play on words evident in the names, but other than that, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it.
As for my screen name, it was born when one time I was trying to create an account at the AAA travel site. I tried variations of my real name, some on a few of my favorite screen names ( named for pets) but just couldn't come up with anything, no matter what the name, that wasn't already in use. I personally don't like using names with numbers after them, especially when the number has to be large because there are so many of the same names in use, so I kept trying. After about 50 names, I hit on Travelassie, and found it was not in use. I've used the name ever since for several forums.
To me, it reminds me of someone who is stoned, who was born in 1989. "Dazed and Confused" comes to my mind (the movie). Why did you choose that name and what does it mean to you?
It's the Danish word for Freedom and refers to the year 1989 when the Iron Curtain came down.
It's the Danish word for Freedom and refers to the year 1989 when the Iron Curtain came down.
That's cool! When the Berlin Wall went down, my husband was already in Germany and I was waiting for housing. I got there with the kids just a few weeks later. The feeling was still electrifying and so exciting. I was so glad to be living there during that historic time. We got to go into the former Eastern Bloc countries and in some cases we were literally the first Americans they'd seen in over 40 years.
One of my most cherished memories was of stopping in a little village in what was Czechoslovakia and when the owner realized where we were from, he came running out with little Czech flags and little American flags and put them in the center of the table in an arrangement - and then wouldn't let us pay for any of our beer! We couldn't speak well to each other, because all of us were massacring the German language but we managed to understand the feeling of mutual interest, appreciation, and good will. It was a great evening.
Haha! Love those colorful names - I'm sure they have interesting stories.
We have Little Hope right down the road...and Possum Kingdom. Just...wow.
Off topic aside: Don't forget Whynot, ND and Nowthen, MN.
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Why did you choose that name and what does it mean to you?
