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Offline Watermusic

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #180 on: Wednesday 12 October 05 13:31 BST (UK) »
Ancient original CB handle - use it everywhere where certain amount of anonimity prefered.

Of course, though, everybody probably knows who I am by now!!!

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #181 on: Wednesday 12 October 05 14:00 BST (UK) »
That was a good idea Watermusic, never thought to use my old C.B. handle ;D.
I just used the name of one of my parrots he is called Toad,  because he has froggy legs as he had a calcium deficiency when he was hatched. 
At least my failing brain can remember something simple like that ::)
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #182 on: Wednesday 26 October 05 17:14 BST (UK) »
As my first name is Alma I tried to log on as Al but that was taken. So as my second name is Valerie I took the Al and added it to Val. Not rocket science really.
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #183 on: Thursday 27 October 05 15:18 BST (UK) »
Because it was one I could not possibly forget !!


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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #184 on: Thursday 27 October 05 18:56 BST (UK) »
Because it is a name from which anyone who knows me and where I live would immediately recognise as mine, but is otherwise completely anonymous.
Living in Berkshire from Northampton & Milton Keynes
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Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse, Stevens, Batchelor
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #185 on: Thursday 27 October 05 19:34 BST (UK) »

hi all,well i've been watching this topic for a while,
are'nt rootschatters an inventive lot as regards user names?
mine is just so obvious,my maternal grandfather was born in wales,
so when a cousin of mine (email pal)told me what the welsh words were
for granddad and grandma i decided as the welsh grandad and his origins
not to mention the stories i heard about him over the years were the start
of my 'rellie' quest that i would use taid as my user name.
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #186 on: Wednesday 02 November 05 17:44 GMT (UK) »
Just as a by-the-by; in the part of Wales where I live, Gran and Grandad are Mamgu and Tadcu - but my Dad taught me to say Nain and Taid!!

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Russell, Stonehouse, Agar; Yorkshire/Durham
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Little, Cumberland
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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #187 on: Wednesday 02 November 05 18:13 GMT (UK) »
My choice is two fold-

1. "Northern_rose" is a line from a favourite Beautiful South song.
2. I am an northern girl and proud of it! (Not sure about a rose though!!)

Wilson in the Lancaster area
Clegg in Todmorden
Adamson in Edinburgh
Miller in Edinburgh
Nunn in Norfolk and Co Durham
Smith in Glasgow
Haig in Peebles/Edinburgh
Also Nelson, Gardener, Garnett, Blair, Coleman, Aaronson and many more as the branches expand!

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Re: Why did you choose your Rootschat name?
« Reply #188 on: Wednesday 02 November 05 19:19 GMT (UK) »
Easy tried a few and found them all already taken so i used the name  Liz RR the RR is for Rhodesian Ridgebacks My dogs.
Cairns, Daisley, Sharp, Glegg,Sneddon,Conn
Lilly, Howie/ Howe, O'Donnel. Doherty Harkin.Kelly,Granny,Hotchkiss