Small Talk: The Prayer Closet

[Love2dance]

My name describes me since I was a little girl. And I found a kindred spirit on this forum who shares my name but with an added "s."

[JenCarroll]

From Josh and Anna thread

http://everydaypsychology.com/2008/01/is-dr-phil-actually-psychologist.html?m=1

But he's technically not licensed to act as a psychologist?

This confuses me. Can someone answer this in small talk for me?

He has a PhD in psychology and held a license to practice until he voluntarily retired it. His current work is not patient practice so he doesn't need a license. There's no dirt there.

[Muffyn]

My screen name was born in a TWoP chat thread. Posters were bemoaning the site closing and also losing their post counts. So when I signed up here I just decided to bring my post counts with me.

 

I share a birthday with RHoNYC SonJa Morgan. I only mention it here because the level of delusion is similar to Michelle's and they both are committed to the big "J".

The big difference, of course, is that Sonja uses a "sexy J".  Mechelle's Js are not so sexy.  

 

Preppy style was big when I was in school.  I tended more toward punk or just plain poor.  I picked up the nickname Muffyn as a joke.  All of my roommates had preppy nicknames only because we got stoned one night and found it funny.  Later I wrote an opinion/gossip column for the school paper as Muffyn VanDerHeyDen.  Someone beat me to the vanity plates for California.  Damn other Muffyn!  I wanted the plates for my Norton. 

[Wellfleet]

Aw. My favorite ever cat, who lived with me for thirteen years, was a tortoiseshell Pyewacket.

 

Psych! One of my great-grandfathers, whom I don't remember because he died when I was 3, named his summer place at Eastham on Cape Cod "Pyewacket" - which until a few years ago I thought was based on Bell, Book & Candle too. But actually stems from some relatively well-known English ghost story [Great Grandpa's family came from Cornwall on the English coast]. PS - from the pages of Duh! magazine: If I had crunched the numbers, maybe it would have dawned on me that the movie couldn't have been Grandpa's inspiration - it came out the same year he died.  

Edited September 14, 2015 by Wellfleet

[JenCarroll]

Well, I don't think my user name needs much explanation, but I myself am baffled as to why I made it one word. I think it may have been a typo.

[Almost 3000]

The big difference, of course, is that Sonja uses a "sexy J".  Mechelle's Js are not so sexy.  

 

Preppy style was big when I was in school.  I tended more toward punk or just plain poor.  I picked up the nickname Muffyn as a joke.  All of my roommates had preppy nicknames only because we got stoned one night and found it funny.  Later I wrote an opinion/gossip column for the school paper as Muffyn VanDerHeyDen.  Someone beat me to the vanity plates for California.  Damn other Muffyn!  I wanted the plates for my Norton. 

Ha! I purposely said big J and not sexy because I just couldn't go there with Michelle...

[GeeGolly]

My user name is a g-rated version of the response I would have to many things Duggar.

Edited September 14, 2015 by GeeGolly

[kokapetl]

Sister Wives show is where mine came from but i spelled it wrong! Stuck with my ninja-posting error from a so -called "smartphone"lol

Meri is the porcine former Head Wife, correct?

[MarysWetBar]

Correct!

Lolz at use of porcine in a sentence.

[kokapetl]

Correct!

Lolz at use of porcine in a sentence.

Why on earth does a hardcore fundamentalist Mormon woman with one child need a wet bar?

[kalamac]

My screen name is just a few letters each from my first, middle and last names.

[Ownedbydogs]

I am a big time animal lover and I do realize who is in charge most of the time :-).  I'm also a Pisces and Mechelle has no business in this pond.

[Readalot]

Why on earth does a hardcore fundamentalist Mormon woman with one child need a wet bar?

no joke she said she needed a place to put her desserts during family gatherings.

[Jordan Baker]

My name is the name of a character from my favorite novel. If I could change it, I'd consider making it Jordyn-Grace Baker, after one of my favorite Duggars.

[Itsnotreality]

My screen name is may be obvious . I was most drawn to this show by the fact that what was shown on air was further from reality than most fiction. Despite the snark, I am sad that this has proven to be very, very true. Seriously kids, It's not reality.

[Chai]

My name is one of my favorite beverages. Hot or iced ;-)

[Julia]

I was named after one of my grandmothers. My daughter was named after the other two.

[ChiCricket]

My slightly older brother called me Cricket when we were young , and everyone else started doing it too. Nobody ever knew why he decided to call me that, as it's nowhere close to my given name. The Chi part is because I'm from the Chicago area.

[zenme]

My name is the name of a character from my favorite novel. If I could change it, I'd consider making it Jordyn-Grace Baker, after one of my favorite Duggars.

 

Do you mean Jordyn-Grace Makiya Baker?

[Satchels of gold]

Such an interesting topic on screen names. Mine is very boring and very self explanatory. Those dogs are my two golden retrievers.

[GeeGolly]

I could have sworn I read that 2 posters were from Central Mass. Now I can't find the posts. Am I seeing things?

[Satchels of gold]

I could have sworn I read that 2 posters were from Central Mass. Now I can't find the posts. Am I seeing things?

No I read that too. I think it was on the Josh and Anna thread mixed in with the real estate info.

[GeeGolly]

Thank-you NC SW. Hey Porkchop & Joe Jitsu913, I have relatives in Central MA. 

[Joe Jitsu913]

I could have sworn I read that 2 posters were from Central Mass. Now I can't find the posts. Am I seeing things?

I'm from Central Mass :)

[GeeGolly]

Joe Jitsu913 I'm from Central Mass :)

Yeesh, we might be related.

[Liz Tudor]

I'm a big fan of my screen name and her family. :-)

[MargeGunderson]

My user name is from Fargo, one of my favorite movies. I am a Virgo who lives in eastern MA (as long as we're sharing signs and locations).

[questionfear]

I had an ex who always picked on me in an attempt to get me to "better myself" aka look and act like she wanted.

She made a huge poster once of all sorts of slogans that were supposed to be inspirational, and one of them was telling me to question my fears. I liked cramming them together, plus I think it annoyed her that I took it as a joke.

It's sort of unique, and I use it for everything, and at this point I've thoroughly reclaimed it as my own image.

[lookeyloo]

My screen name is obvious I think. I'm a Capricorn first born. Pretty typical. Grew up in NJ. Now live in Deep South (where I should have been from if the universe got it right)

[magpye29]

I'm from southeastern Mass.

[Joe Jitsu913]

My screen name comes from my boyfriend's dad (heavy Mass accent similar to Peter Griffin) who can't pronounce Jiu Jitsu. He pronounces it as 'Joe-Jitsu'. He makes it sound like Joe Jitsu is an actual person which cracks me up. The '913' is my birthdate.

Edited September 15, 2015 by Joe Jitsu913

[GeeGolly]

Yikes, we gotta a lot of Massachusetts folks on here!

[Chai]

Hi all the Massachusetts posters! Chai here from Boston!

[Joe Jitsu913]

Is it just me or does it seem like everyone in Mass knows everyone? It's such a small state.

GeeGolly, I might not be related to you, but I probably know one of your relatives! It's a small world!

[magpye29]

Hi, Chai!  I'm from Fairhaven!

[springtime]

Virgo from Amherst MA checking in! (why are we all drawn to this board?) lol

Edited September 15, 2015 by springtime

[ChocolateAddict]

I think that my user name is rather obvious.... I do try to eat healthy but chocolate is my absolute weakness :)

[frenchtoast]

Holy cow, I'm in MA, too.

[emma675]

My user name was the name of my very first dog; I'm not sure where the numbers came from (my name is also a carryover from TWoP).

 

I'm in Texas, if that counts.

[Cherrio]

I used to live in Western Ma.     

 

I use the name Cherrio because I am a former cereal killer.

[Love2dance]

Feeling left out....not from MA. Hahaha.

Posting from the Los Angeles area where I have lived since I was a toddler.

Edited September 15, 2015 by Love2dance

[Wellfleet]

I feel like I'm at a "I share a birthday with Michelle" anonymous meeting!  I have many of the Virgo qualities.  I wonder what Michelle was like when she was young, other than her cheer leading, and if this cult has beaten the best part of her down.

 

Other Sept 13-ers - Tavis Smiley, Tyler Perry, Milton Hershey, Roald Dahl, Stella McCartney. There were lots of other names, but I only listed the people I recognized. I'm old. LOL Hope you ALL had a great day...

[latetotheparty]

My name:  first got into Project Runway in season 12.  Never touched Duggardom until Joshgate1 and never watched the show.  Most of my media fandoms I adopt after they become closed canon.  It's a bit of a pattern.  :)

 

I'm a Twin Cities Leo who grew up in Detroit.

[Chai]

Hi, Chai!  I'm from Fairhaven!

Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!  so sweet to

see neighbors! :-)

[Readalot]

I love to read(!) from SoCal.

[Muffyn]

My screen name comes from my boyfriend's dad (heavy Mass accent similar to Peter Griffin) who can't pronounce Jiu Jitsu. He pronounces it as 'Joe-Jitsu'. He makes it sound like Joe Jitsu is an actual person which cracks me up. The '913' is my birthdate.

Happy day after your birthday, Joejitsu913.

 

I am from San Francisco and think zodiac signs are a form of mass delusion many people choose to participate in.  

[P2C2E]

In the Dillards thread, some posters were talking about their first CPR training. I was 9, because we had a pool in our backyard and my parents wanted me to know the basics just in case. My mom (who had been a lifeguard when she was younger) even taught me basic lifeguarding. For a 9 year old that was throwing a life ring, using a towel or pool noodle to reach someone and running for help. =) I ended up becoming a lifeguard for my late teens and early twenties. I enjoyed it then, but now I think the responsibility would scare me too much. 

[ramble]

I love reading about everyone's screen names! My name is because I tend to talk a lot. It's a running joke in my family & my mostly ex-bf, who is a man of few words, is baffled by my ability to ramble. For no other reason than peer pressure (j/k) I'll throw it out there that I'm a Libra. However I have no idea what that means & don't pay much attention to that stuff. I live in AR where it truly is pretty easy to six degree yourself to knowing each other with a lot of the state.

ETA: I was 15 when I did CPR training as a part of my lifeguard training. I used to be a water baby. I miss it!

Edited September 15, 2015 by ramble

[Micks Picks]

I'm a pisces.  Name pretty explanatory (I'm Mick), southern Ca, always have had dogs.  Terrier types until I moved to Sacramento for about 20 yrs where I promptly got farmer's border collies and trained them and entered in herding contests and everything else.  I had someplace to go every weekend.  No kidding, I move to a place where I don't know anybody and was the most occupied on weekends according to water cooler thought.  Also go miniature australian shepherds, amazing dogs.  Great at agility, frisbee, flyball, herding, you name it.  The last BC died last year and I'm still heartbroken.  Have one aussie left.  Great guy, but doesn't care to work.  Likes to play at agility and best personality ever with people and dogs.  Really has a great rep.  And photographers took pictures to enter in various contests, he's that pretty.  I am back in So Ca now.  I seem to only like dog people

[Tabbygirl521]

I chose my username because I am a tabby magnet. I like cats, and I think tabbies are especially cool with gorgeous markings. And it's like they know. I have had three different ones decide to live in my yard - cats that actually belong to other homes. It is a little weird. Our back deck is known as Stripehaven.

The 521 is because, like Al Franken, Mr T, and Jeffrey Dahmer, my birthday is May 21.

ETA: LOL at Micks Picks; we were posting at the same time. I guess we can never be friends?

Edited September 15, 2015 by Tabbygirl521