Pondering UserNames and Avatars

[Sac_mec (imported)]

Jesus, I probably don't need to point out that Jesus is very commonly used in Spain also, including the Basque Country. So whilst you may lack Iberian roots,your chosen user name 'takes you there too!'

[forbessr (imported)]

Mine is a relic of a 5 year, online & long distance relationship. He was a Scot, hence: forbes. He was Jr & I was Sr. I got used to using it whenever I was stumped for anything more creative.

Photo is Yours Truly.

[EricaAnn (imported)]

Erica Ann has been my "private" name since I was about 8 years old and finally began to understand who I am and what I was. My birth name is far to masculine to me to really fit who I am so I chose this name, one because I always liked the name Erica and secondly, there were no other girls in my class at the time by this name. Didn't want to share.

My avatar is just a female representation.

[A-1 (imported)]

Dad told us that he could trace his ancestory to Jamestown, VA & Captain John Smith's colony in 1607.

Mother always said that was because his people were kicked out of England and sent to the American penal colony for stealing horses... :shakemitk



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[JesusA (imported)]

Dad told us that he could trace his ancestory to Jamestown, VA & Captain John Smith's colony in 1607.

Mother always said that was because his people were kicked out of England and sent to the American penal colony for stealing horses...

I guess we can both trace back to horse thieves in our ancestry, mine more recently in Poland – the reason that branch fled to the New World. I would bet, though, that at least half the folk here have horse thieves in their lineages. It was a common enough practice.

My FAVORITE (though dead end) branch of the family tree was three brothers, each of whom was shot and killed, in bed, with someone else's wife. It happened over about a ten year period. The second two were clearly too dumb to learn from their brother's mistake. The third of them, at least, should merit a Darwin Award!

[Slammr (imported)]

One of my ancestors was given the choice of prison in England or servitude in the Colonies. He chose the Colonies.

Among those 10,000 prisoners of war from, possibly the Battle of Dunbar, but more probably from the battle of Worcester, was 19-27 year old Robert Abernethy, a minor Scottish noncommissioned officer under Lord Leslie , and possibly his brother William, both from Abernethy, Banff, Perthshire, Scotland. William Abernathy emigrated to America about 1650, and settled down in Connecticut and married Sarah Doolittle, the daughter of a New England pioneer. Back in England, the able-bodied prisoners of war from the battle of Worchesterr were marched to Durham and Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Cathedral at Durham was converted into a prison, and there the unfortunate Highlanders spent some time as captives of war, and many died from disease, malnutrition and some from fighting amongst themselves. Robert Abernethy was imprisoned in the Tower of London. The English Council of War in London discussed what to do with the prisoners of war, and decided to continue the policy of sending prisoners to the Colonies. The Top Scottish officers were either executed or imprisoned, as was Lord Leslie, but the minor officers were given the choice of prison in England or servitude in the Colonies. Robert Abernethy chose the latter, and was shipped with a group of 1610 men to Charles City in Virginia in early 1652, by an order of the Council to Sir Arthur Haselrigge, in charge of prisoners, to deliver them to Samuel Clarke, for transportation to Virginia. This order included 900 Scotsmen for Virginia, and 150 more to be sent to New England. Robert suffered many hardships and privations along with the other prisoners of war on the journey. The English Council of War had intended the penalty as unpaid servitude (slavery) but the Virginia Colony authorities decided to pay him a salary during his five years of service (where he learned the art of tobacco growing and trading). LINK (http://www.open.org/~glennab/abernathyhistory.htm)

[I Worship Women (imported)]

It is interesting the usernames people chose, not only here on EA, but on other message boards and places like eBay.

Some usernames are very imaginative. Others seem to have had little thought or imagination at all behind them. And some, you really have to wonder about.

[Gil (imported)]

Gil is my name. I don't look anything like my avatar. But ducks figure prominently in some of my favorite metaphors: ducks in a row, ducks on a pond, and like water off a duck's back. This all goes to what I strive for in my life: order and tranquility.