Whats your Username Origin or meaning?

[Desert O'Piñon]

When I do something, I jump in head first, somewhat a manic behavior. But as my experience, wisdom and knowledge grow, I will likely request a username change in the future. BonsaiManic sufficiently describes me now, but as I develop myself and my art/science, I hope a different name will describe me more accurately.
The members of this forum have already taught me so much. The wealth of information and willing generosity of the people here humbles me. There is always someone who knows, or will give their best possible answer for whatever questions I come up with.
Thank you to all the veterans who stick around and still tolerate us noobs.

 

[SeanS]

It is my name

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Master of Puppets is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. They were great, but that album was a masterpiece.

Im partial to Ride the Lightning after all these years as their peak, imo. Kill Em All is a great debut, very urgent and energetic sounding.

 

[River's Edge]

In honour of my uncle who gave his life in World War Two as a navy frogman! It was on my birth certificate, saw no need to change it.
The username because my first bonsai nursery was located on the edge of the Englishman River, Vancouver Island.

 

[ABCarve]

My first venture into the arts was as a woodcarver. I started a school to teach it and hence the ABC part.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

My first venture into the arts was as a woodcarver. I started a school to teach it and hence the ABC part.

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That's amazing.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

My first venture into the arts was as a woodcarver. I started a school to teach it and hence the ABC part.

I can only imagine how amazing some of your trunks must look!

 

[Carol 83]

My first venture into the arts was as a woodcarver. I started a school to teach it and hence the ABC part.

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Really stunning. And I thought you just made beautiful pots...

 

[ABCarve]

Really stunning. And I thought you just made beautiful pots...

Thank you Carol. Actually it was the maritime arts, boat building, sail making. Woodcarving was the one that grew on me. My degree was a BFA in wood furniture. That’s how David Knittle (he makes bonsai stands) and I became friends in the mid-80s. He got me interested in bonsai.

 

[Thuj Life]

My favorite tree is Thuja Plicata and my favorite rapper of all time is Tupac

 

[doc spring _work]

Original username was autofilled from Google and I didn't second guess it after using "doc" for awhile I got questioned on It and misremembering which username I had been using here gave the explanation for my current one, figured since I have three or so threads of "docs" ECT I figured it should stay and just tossed in a silly nickname I use to be called for my nature to tinker

(Mistakes where possibly made in the naming department on my part )

 

[ACooke]

39 years and 9 months ago a married couple with the surname ‘Cooke’ conceived a child.
They called that child Adam.

38 years later that now-grown child joined a bonsai forum with the imaginative and novel idea of using his name as his username.

And here we are….

 

[baldone]

I am bald and one person
My best friend growing up was Mark and my name is Todd. We started early in life calling each other Fart and Turd. So, this is my sign above my work bench.

 

[WIlliam_Butler_Yeets]

mine is mostly just a pun on the name of an Irish poet and statesman, but I've used it for a number of years now in various contexts

 

[Aaron the Great]

On the day I was born Angels descended from heaven and declared to the Universe that this one shall be declared to be Aaron the Great!

Just kidding! My name is Aaron S, I'm the fifth generation in my family to carry my name but it is never passed down from father to son, always from uncle to nephew. Not sure why, my family is really weird. Back in the mid 1990's me and my girlfriend (now my wife of 29 years) were strolling through a mall and this guy kept asking for us to fill out a survey for him. Finally my wife gave in and made me fill out the darn survey.
"Hey man, I don't want you to be selling my information away so I will get hammered with an endless supply of junk mail" I said to the toe fungus, I mean survey guy.
"We take pride in never selling the information of the fine people who partake our surveys" Toe Fungus said.
So I filled out the survey and for the name I put down Aaron the Great. My wife couldn't believe that I could do anything so heinous! (She now knows better)
About a month later I started getting address labels, credit card offers, loan approvals etc all addressed to "Aaron the Great"
When my wife saw this she didn't know if she wanted to strangle me or to laugh her bottom off.
Since then we moved from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma City and over the years we would still get mail for Aaron the Great. Then in 2013 I got my ham radio license and eventually got a call sign that I really hated so I sat down with the wife and (then) two kids and we agreed on the call sign of K5ATG cause (at the beginning of radio stations and ham radio call signs) K was for being west of the Mississippi River, 5 was for the section that Oklahoma is in and of course ATG is for Aaron the Great.
My username was Aaron S. and I probably should have changed it to ATG so it wouldn't sound so egotistical.
Well that's my story

 

[Bonsai Nut]

With the advent of the Internet in the late 90's, people were creating email addresses, most of which were based around their names. When we transitioned from dial-up Internet to cable (around 1998) we used @Home Network, and I signed up with the email bonsainut@home user name as a lark - and to make my extended family laugh. The user name eventually morphed into bonsainut@cox.net when cox split off from @Home. I bought the bonsainut.com URL at about the same time... with a basket of other URL's that made me happy - like wifeofnerd.com, winojoe.com, etc. Had I been a little more serious and purchased real URL's that people use today for business, I might have made a few bucks I created this web site in 2006 when I was too busy to go to bonsai club meetings, and wanted to have a venue to discuss trees - and to support the bonsai nurseries and craftsmen that didn't have their own web sites.

 

[Oboedatree]

It originally started as oboedahobo an insult from my brother when we were kids due to the word oboe rhyming with both my name and hobo but I sorta embraced it I’m middle school and started using it in video games on the unlikely situation that I played them. I decided to change it up when I joined the site but I may change it back later.

 

[ForrestW]

When I joined I was not seeing people using there name as their username. So I made mine my Middle name Forrest and my last name is Wallace so I made mine ForrestW

 

[Barbells and bonsai]

Earliest/latest hobby

 

[Oddly_Aude]

My name is Aude and I'm odd.