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Re: What does your nick stand for?

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I think it's weird when Lily Hunter calls me "ellie" but that might be because I knew her through work before I knew that she was a Bonanza fan. I knew her first by her real name and she knew me by my real name. I don't know any other Bonanza fans in real life, but I think I'd prefer to have them call me "Ellie." Somehow, it just feels right. :yes
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This is a cool thread!

I like many others registered in a hurry. I was on BW and I just had to get into all the places I couldn't go as a non member so I didn't give it much thought. Now I wish I had, but I wouldn't change. Everyone knows me as praterfarms1.

Prater is my last name and we live on a cattle farm. Years ago we had to come up with a name for tax purposes. We were sitting there with the tax guy and my Husband said "It's the Prater Farm." I had to add the 1 when I got an email address, can you believe it someone else had praterfarms. :lol Anyway, I get easily confused :yes , so to keep it simple I use praterfarms1 for pretty much everything. Over on BW most folks just called me prater or PF.
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ellie wrote:I think it's weird when Lily Hunter calls me "ellie" but that might be because I knew her through work before I knew that she was a Bonanza fan. I knew her first by her real name and she knew me by my real name. I don't know any other Bonanza fans in real life, but I think I'd prefer to have them call me "Ellie." Somehow, it just feels right. :yes

I know what you mean. I know some people from BW in real life and it's funny, but I prefer to call them by their online name. :lol
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Re: What does your nick stand for?

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Mine comes from having been a professional model maker for film & tv, with a hint of the main tv show I had some involvement with superimposed onto my photo :lol . Incidently I build model railways / railroads and my favourite type of loco is the American standard 4-4-0 which is why that is the photo. Like a lot of you, I also needed to think of something quickly to use hence that name.
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I signed up too quickly. Thinking it would be used to get into the form and not as my nick name I used my real name Liane. Liane is the plural of Liana.
The Liana plant is a flowierng vine in Africa, So. America and Hawaii. Think Tarzan.
Americans pronouce Liane as Leeann. I don't like that. My mother spoke German to me and she pronounced it in three syllables Li/a/ne (h)silent h.
People call me Lee to simplyfy things.
Please don't call me Leona.
When my mother went to register me in school they said we don't have Lianes in this country so they said I was Leona. Those who spoke English to me said Leona and the German speakers said Liane. Now I just use Liane.
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Mine is from one of my favorite movies Cheyenne Autumn, When I first joined a Bonanza site didn’t know if have enough room there was already a username of Cheyenne so I shortened it to Chey .
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mine is PERNELLSulli = Pernell is my all time favorite actor and ulli is my name ...so I want to say I am Pernells ulli forever :grin
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Pony, I can totally sympathize with you about the nickname. I got stuck with a name that has only one possible nick and it's a guys name that I don't like. My user name has my real name hidden in it; my middle name is Anne hence Annie, my first name starts with a K and my lastname starts with a G. I joined the library on Brands before actually joining the forum there and finally here and Annie K Cowgirl was the first thing I could come up with that seemed to fit. I get a thrill every time someone calls me Annie, Annie K or AKC! I love having a nick even if my online friends are the only ones who call me that!
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Re: What does your nick stand for?

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I'm another one who chose in haste believing she wouldn't be visiting BW a lot... Hmm. How wrong can you be?

So I borrowed my dog's name!
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Re: What does your nick stand for?

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I joined some Bonanza Boards several years back.. really had no idea what to use as a sign on ID!!!

I picked 'girlfromwl' -- and just stands for Girl from Wolf Lake.. my home town.

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after joining one board, I was into roll playing with a few now Boomers members and I was named 'Ma' there.. and that too has stuck..

I much prefer to be called either by my real name 'Eva' or by my old roll play name of 'Ma'.
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