AB usernames

[zgma]

Anyone have an interesting explanation for your username? I don't know if it's against site etiquette to ask, but I am curious.

[zgma]

Haha! No, I didn't have something else specific in mind. I just guessed that it had to do with your city. ARE there other meanings of Yinzer??

[Del68]

Del = Derek, 68 = 1968, when I was brought into this world.

[Dulcinea]

Dulcinea is the name of Don Quixiote's fictional ideal woman. He believe's Aldonza (a kitchen *****)is Dulcinea and then stuff happens, but by pretending her life gets more bearable.

[smudge]

LOL natalie_!

[smudge]

LOL natalie_1982!

[smudge]

Ah noddy, that is so sweet!

[Sproutstick]

Hello, I have been asked on numerous occasions now and directed to this thread by Lindy Loo so here goes:
I created the word 'Sproutstick' some years ago now (the Christmas of 2000 if I am not mistaken).  I had been on a drunken night out with 2 of my friends which was mad and bizarre to the extreme (that is definitely another story though!!).  We returned home, somewhat relieved to have escaped from the madness of the party we had that night attended.  All three of us, desperate for a glass of water (the onset of alcohol-induced dehydration had begun!) entered the kitchen.  What we saw on the kitchen table made us laugh so hysterically we couldn't even drink our drinks without facing away from each other in separate corners of the kitchen (such was our thirst that we HAD to drink but could NOT physically stop laughing!!).
The item (vegetation) on the table before us could only be described as a 'sproutstick'.  A stick with sprouts protruding from all sides - this thing looked almost like a rather large, green percussion instrument!  None of us had ever seen one before - but since then I have seen one every year.  I never realised that sprouts grew on sticks - suppose I had never thought about it - but they do!!!! http://veggies.home.mindspring.com/Images/FarmVisit2003/brussels%20sprouts.JPG
Weird!  I get them every year now - they are so much fresher!!!  (bet you wish you'd never asked now!!)

[Sproutstick]

http://veggies.home.mindspring.com/Images/FarmVisit2003/brussels%20sprouts.JPG

 

The link didn't work the first time!

[zgma]

LOL Sproutstick, yeah - I've gotten them on the stalk before too... and thought about using them in musical performances as well!

[zgma]

Smudge, where did your username come from?