What is your name?

[pete]

I just go by my name- pete. It's short for pppppppppeeeeeeeeeettttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeee.

[Washroad]

My name is Brian. I think it's a Scottish name. Dunno.....

I'm an off-roader. There is a "Mecca" for off-roaders in California called Glamis. Biggest sand dune area in the United States. I camp there with my friends in "wash 16" and if you go to Glamis you know exactly where that is. To get to wash 16, I drive down 6 miles of whooped-out dirt road called the.....

Washroad.

So, my name means nothing to leather, but since I post on several bbs, I got tired of trying to remember just who the hell I was from one bbs to another and just changed everything to Washroad.

Check out www.asasand.com and www.glamisdunes.com to see what I do for fun (actually, it's a lifestyle I hope to never give up).

I love the smell of 110 octane in the morning!

[JustWakinUp]

Name - Mark

Nickname - Came from years back and all my buddies used to call & I would always tell them I'm justwakinup. It just so happened they would call as I was napping or waking up in the morning.

Name Confusion - For the first few years of marriage I was confused and thought my name was Damn It, My wife always said, Damn It Mark !

Now I'll just go by about anything.

[Johanna]

I get confused sometimes remembering everyone's screen name, real name and the name of their business. Makes me wish I'd started a spreadsheet long ago and kept up with it. We have 187 Mikes, Daves and Steves (no, I just made that number up, but you get the idea!)

My name is Johanna Schroer. Schroer is pronounced "Shrare". When I started doing leather, I was Johanna Alger. Most of the time, "Johanna" is all people need to hear- there is only one in leather land that I know of, and that's me. Lots of people call me "Jo" and that's fine with me, especially if it involves coffee or chocolate.

One of the neat things about this board compared to other forums I belong to is that not too many people choose to remain anonymous here. We sign our names, use our business names in our signatures, know each other in real life from shows and doing business. One member remarked that he wouldn't sell anything he wouldn't put his name on, and didn't want to write anything he wouldn't sign either. I think that's one of the things that makes this place so special- people are proud of what they do and who they are. Someone else said, "Yeah, and it keeps us honest!"

Johanna

[Bob]

Well, my name is Bob, short for Robert. I used that name because, well the only other name I go by that my wife calls me. I can't put it here...

Besides, I could think of no other name to use.

[Jordan]

My nick names over the years have been based on my last name which people have alot of trouble with, Nygaard, most places like the doctor's office just calls out my first name so's not to offend anyone, as their pronunciations are downright comical to me, but have been deemed pretty much politically incorrect and offensive, so now it is just Jordan. Can't even begin to pronounce the Norwiegen version, been told it means new farm, so my name loosely translated would be Earthy New Farm.

[Crystal]

Well- Crystal is it. Friends and family call me Crys (Chris). I was going to use my nickname but was concerned everyone would wonder why I was calling myself Crys (Cries).

I married into my last name - Dick. Yeah, that is some combo - took me a while to actually make the change from my maiden name.

[wildrose]

Crystal - if you think that's a tough name combo: when I worked at a community college there was a man with your married last name, and his first name was Harry. God honest truth. What parent does that?

(It that's too adult of a bit of humor, mods feel free to delete it...)

[Crystal]

Crystal - if you think that's a tough name combo: when I worked at a community college there was a man with your married last name, and his first name was Harry. God honest truth. What parent does that?

(It that's too adult of a bit of humor, mods feel free to delete it...)

My Father-in-law's first name is: Richard.

Worked with a guy who's friend's last name was Lear. They actually named their baby girl: Krystle Chanda Lear. WHY DO PARENTS DO THIS TO THEIR CHILDREN???

[Schno]

My name is Schno. People often ask me about it, where it came from, what it means. I have a short answer that I throw out in most cases, because people are usually hoping for a great story behind the name and I'm rarely inclined to explain the real reason. I simply tell them that I have hippy parents. (And that's true... it just has nothing to do with my name.)

My name actually came from taunting I used to get as a kid. Thanks to genetics and nocturnal proclivities, I was never one to tan and get color and all. So the kids in my neighborhood took to calling me 'Snowman', 'Snow White', 'Frosty', etc. As I got into my mid-teens and discovered punk rock, I decided to take the moniker as a badge of sorts. And just to make sure that I wouldn't run into someone with the same name, I did a little creative spelling to make it unique. The name stuck and I went for a number of years with 'Schno' as a nickname. Finally, I decided to make it legal once my mother started calling me by it.

I figure that the Indians had the right idea anyway. Parents should name their children, but those children should find their own names upon reaching majority. Ever wonder what you would have named yourself given the chance?

Oh, and the last name is Mozingo, and that one I was born with. But that's another story...