Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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Recently u/ThisIsHowItStarts asked how people came up with their username, and "I was reluctant to post because of how nerdy my story was. Anyway, growing up in the 70's and 80's, I was a big fan of Jean Shepherd, a writer and storyteller best known for the film, "A Christmas Story," which he also narrated. In the late 90's, shortly before he died, I was emailing back and forth someone who was running his fan website, and at the end of his correspondence, he wrote, "Excelsior, You Fathead!" It suggested some inside joke perhaps either from one of his stories, or perhaps his radio show or PBS series.
To this day, I have no idea what the reference is from, but it cracked me up and stuck with me. Something about it I always found funny. When someone points out a great discrepancy, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and the contrast is outrageous, it would make me laugh.
Excelsior. Latin for ever upward. Poem by Longfellow. Catch phrase for Stan Lee. And a name I really liked, and thought, if I ever posted on social media, that's what I'd use. Wish I had a better story.
That’s a great story no need to be embarrassed we all have something in our past that brings us joy. I love the name. Thanks for sharing.
This is a fantastic story. Each person is different and unique. I like your username.
However; I don’t think I was the one that I asked about the user names. It was somebody else, I want to say rooftoptendie, but she was long gone by then.
Well done 👏👏👏👏
🤷🏻♀️ Yep I’m the curious cat.
So this is something that you requested right?
I made a post a few weeks ago. It was fun getting the answers. You replied. Wasn’t looking for credit or anything.
Oh I love that. Neat how it stuck with you. My username is boring. Real name is Suzanne, and all my life I’ve been called SuzyeQ. When Q surfaced I just capitalized the Q at the end. Even my little grand boy calls me Suzye.
I love this. I immediately think of the song Susie Q by Creedance Clear Water Rival “CCR”. I thought your name was Susie or a variation or possibly someone from your life.
No I’ve always been SuzyeQ. It was funny when I was waiting on my 1st grand boy to arrive and my daughter asked what I wanted to be called. I said I don’t care, whatever he wants to call me. She thought about it and said she wanted him to call me Suzye. At first I thought it was odd, but I love it. Heck he could’ve called me old bat and I would love it. ❤️😂
I love this! I’m gram, had that picked out a long time. I’ve been gram since my grand dog came here. I watched Days of Our lives forever back when it was good. Mrs Horton was gram to her grandkids. She was such a sweet gentle “character” and made homemade donuts. I didn’t want to be grandma because I could never meet those standards of my own. I called my dad’s mom Muh. He & brother called her Mother and guess Muh was all I could say. Called his dad Nunya pronounced noon ya fast together. My muh called him Henry Jr and I guess that’s what I thought it sounded like. My husband picked Paw Paw & she’s starting to say baw baw. Just told him yesterday he might have a new name. He said, she can call me whatever she wants😍😀 Those grandkids are amazing and life changing aren’t they.