Nicknames?

Hi everybody

I was just wondering about the stories behind some of your nicknames. John173 said his was a reference to John 17:3.

Mine is the meaning of my name; "Jeannette" = "little gift of God". On another forum I chose the nickname "Little Doris" (Doris is from the Greek for "gift"), but people started addressing me as "Doris" which sounds very old fashioned!

When working in a nursing home several years ago there were [i]four[/i] old ladies called Doris! Two of the Doris's shared a room, and after they were separated Doris R kept asking "Where's Doris?" Which gave the impression she was confused if one didn't know she was looking for her former room mate, Doris M!

Jeannette (LG)

This should be an interesting thread. :-)

I chose 'Roniya' because it is the Hebrew meaning of my name. Translated it is 'Joy of the Lord'.

~Joy

jimdied2sin-

When I was a lukewarm / false convert I used the grace of God as a license to sin. God will just forgive me for it when I repent later...

My nickname is to honor the power of Christ to cleanse us from sin and not just to forgive us (cheap grace).

blessings in Him - Jim

LittleGift wrote:
On another forum I chose the nickname "Little Doris" (Doris is from the Greek for "gift"), but people started addressing me as "Doris" which sounds very old fashioned!
Jeannette (LG)

I also originally used "Doris" because its the name of one Genus of a creature called a sea slug, which I find amusing. One species of [i]Doris[/i] is bright yellow with spots, a ring of feathery gills on its back and two little horns - unlike me I hasten to add :-P

Sea slugs are fascinating vcreatures, and usually very colourful compared with garden slugs. One (not a Doris) is called the Spanish Dancer because it has red and white swirly "skirts" and actually does twirl around as if its dancing.

Oops, this isn't the place for a Biology lecture
;-)

Interesting..
Wonser is my last name..

And a friend of mine was trying to figure out how to spell it, 'cause she had only ever heard it--never seen it spelled before. She started off, "W... uh..."
And got stuck. So I continued for her with the "o".. and she said, "W-o-n... like in wonton?!" So she has called me Wonton ever since. Definitely one of my more interesting nicknames.

So I decided to use it as my name here on SI.

Ahhh... the wait is over... here I am!

I wish I could say it was something spiritual ... like I was studying Leviticus and was impressed with the burnt sacrifices. But alas... it was nothing spiritual at all... lol.

I was on a hunting / camping trip with a couple of my cousins and some friends one time. I think there were 7 or 8 of us. We were at camp one evening, and I was doing some meat over the camp fire, and it got burnt pretty bad cuz I got distracted and didn't keep the spit turning like it should have been.

Everyone partook of the meat, but someone made the comment, "Mmmm mmmm!! He sure makes some good crispy critters!"

The name has stuck ever since. People in my "un-cyber" life call me Krispy too... not everyone, but those who know me real well.

Krispy

Yea, well boys... let that be a lesson! Assumptions are often wrong! lol

I get a kick out of this, cuz this isnt the first time I've been asked about the name on here... and people always assume it's some super spiritual thing. Nope. I'm just a down to earth mountain boy that happens to love Jesus. Not a whole lot more spiritual than that, nor do I think we need to be.

Krispy

Jay... c'mon, bro... who you tryin' to kid? We all know you sat up all night trying to think that one up!

8-)

Krispy

Goldminer wrote:
Somehow LittleGift ... I will have an impossible time thinking of you as a slug, sea or any other kind.

All God's creatures are beautiful in their own way - even slugs!

As a small child I used to play with worms and spiders in the garden - much preferred animals to dolls. In recent years I was sometimes called "bug hunter".

In school, a less complimentary nickname was "Olive" because I used to be very skinny and played hockey with my hair in a pony tail and arms and legs flying.

Get it? Think Popeye cartoons! :-D

Jeannette

CJF wrote:
ummm ...

One meaning of my name that I've come across is "womanly love"...

It didn't seem appropriate!! :-)

That sounds lovely, why not appropriate?

Jeannette

Roniya wrote:
This should be an interesting thread. :-)

I chose 'Roniya' because it is the Hebrew meaning of my name. Translated it is 'Joy of the Lord'.

~Joy

That's lovely, Joy

I like this thread, too. Personally, I dislike nicknames. Let me clarify that I mean that when I was in middle school, high school, and university, I saw many people who received nicknames that pulled them even further into that classification or category, even if they were just variations of their own name...(ie...dumbkid(that was one of the worst), fatty1, fatty2, fridge, trippy, smasher, montyburns, klepto and many many more...even with just the variation of their own names, people continue to place connotations on them which I see many people cannot be freed from (I know only Jesus can set us free, but some people can be held down by peers and a nickname).

I understand nicknames here on SI are more 'holy' than those of my younger years, but I know that we are sometimes limited by the labels that people place on us. As for me, I never had a nickname. When I was younger, I wanted one, but as I grew older I grew to love the name I was given. I learned its meaning and have come to be protective of it.

When I was younger, I went through hell in a town was called Mira, so last year, when I met my now fiancee, I was surprised to hear that her name was the same as that place. God is funny. From my days of hell on earth, it is as though I have found a little bit of heaven with her.

Therefore, my name did not take much thought, but the meaning to me is significant. When I signed up to sermonindex, my fiancee was beside me. I wanted just to be 'Brian', but that was taken and then my fiancee suggested 'Brian and Mira': hence BrianMira.

Do not get me wrong. Nicknames are good for many people, but just not me. I want people to know me and know anything and everything that they can about me. I do not want to be 80 and be known as A-hole or bones. I am quite content with it and am unwilling to change it for anyone, but God himself.

I like most of yours though... so far... :-( :-)

God Bless those that are able to live up to their name...
BrianMira

P.S. as for Krispy...like Paul mentioned, I ,too, could have had a name similar to that because of the things I put my brain through... :-? maybe KrispyKoker or KrispyKracker or KrispyKola... thank God that I only like Crispy Fries now...

wonserwonton wrote:
Interesting..
Wonser is my last name..

And a friend of mine was trying to figure out how to spell it, 'cause she had only ever heard it--never seen it spelled before. She started off, "W... uh..."
And got stuck. So I continued for her with the "o".. and she said, "W-o-n... like in wonton?!" So she has called me Wonton ever since. Definitely one of my more interesting nicknames.

So I decided to use it as my name here on SI.

What's a wonton? :-?

KrispyKrittr wrote:
Ahhh... the wait is over... here I am!

I wish I could say it was something spiritual ... like I was studying Leviticus and was impressed with the burnt sacrifices. But alas... it was nothing spiritual at all... lol.

I was on a hunting / camping trip with a couple of my cousins and some friends one time. I think there were 7 or 8 of us. We were at camp one evening, and I was doing some meat over the camp fire, and it got burnt pretty bad cuz I got distracted and didn't keep the spit turning like it should have been.

Everyone partook of the meat, but someone made the comment, "Mmmm mmmm!! He sure makes some good crispy critters!"

The name has stuck ever since. People in my "un-cyber" life call me Krispy too... not everyone, but those who know me real well.

Krispy

Lol Krispy. Reminds me of a conference I attended. It was self-catering and i burnt the toast one day. The theme of the next talk just [i]happened[/i] to be "The Whole Burnt Offering"

jeannette

JaySaved wrote:
I can't say that I spent a lot of time and deep study on my nickname: My nickname is Jay and I am saved.

jeannette

IRONMAN wrote:
well this is a most interesting topic. i'm sure Krispy's response was pretty shocking...i remember i asked him what that was about coz i too thought there was some lofty insight i couldn't figure out...well that was not to be :-P i though perhaps we could call him Krispus Maximus but that didn't' stick...

anyhow, IRONMAN is an old college nickname i got coz i spent a lot of time in the gym. anyhow there is also IRON MAN the marvel comic character. anyhow in choosing a handle here, God led me back to that old nickname and in time i began to see why. Iron doesn't bend, it breaks, and to break it one must use a tremendous amount of force. anyway God has since been forging me into a tool for His use, hence the signiature.

God bless

Amen Bro

Apparently iron has to be [b][i]hammered when hot[/i][/b] and plunged into water in between heatings and hammerings, to make it (just a bit) bendable. There's a word for the process but can't remember just now! Apparently the process does something to the arrangement of atoms in the iron.

Excessive pressure will make unheated, unhammered iron snap.
Which isn't a thing one wants to happen to a sword in the middle of a battle.

A good parable in that :-)

J

BrianMira wrote:

...I understand nicknames here on SI are more 'holy' than those of my younger years, but I know that we are sometimes limited by the labels that people place on us.

...When I was younger, I went through hell in a town was called Mira, so last year, when I met my now fiancee, I was surprised to hear that her name was the same as that place. God is funny. From my days of hell on earth, it is as though I have found a little bit of heaven with her.

Therefore, my name did not take much thought, but the meaning to me is significant. When I signed up to sermonindex, my fiancee was beside me. I wanted just to be 'Brian', but that was taken and then my fiancee suggested 'Brian and Mira': hence BrianMira.

My name is Brian Keith Vacheresse and I am quite content with that and am unwilling to change it for anyone, but God himself.

...God Bless those that are able to live up to their name...
BrianMira

The Lord once said to a friend, "Your name is Winifred"

She was a bit annoyed because that was a name she hated. Until she looked it up!

BTW What does the white stone with the new name in Revelation 2:17 mean?

Jeannette

What's a wonton?

Wonton is a dumpling of sorts made of noodle-dough and filled with minced pork, spices, etc, and can be served either in soup or fried. I think it's a Cantonese dish... I only know for sure that it's Chinese. ;-)

ginnyrose wrote:
Interesting thread....

My nickname comes from the one we used to call our - now deceased - daughter, Regina Rose. We gave her several nicknames: BessieJane, Ginny, Ginnyrose, and in the last few years of her life it was down to Gina. Anyhow, when I went on line to another forum, I used this nickname and decided to use it here on SI as well. It is one I can remember! :-o

Sandra aka ginnyrose

That's so sad, Sandra. Losing a child must be the worst kind of loss possible. The Lord does bind up the broken hearted, but there are scars...

seanjol wrote:
Mine is not too hard, at least I used it because it is something I can remember. Sean is my name and the wife of my youth is Joli, whom I call Jol all of the time.

Loved the Krispy answer as well as I have often wondered where it came from. I always thought about Wil E Coyote after a run in with roadrunner when I first started visiting SI.

Krispy, my family and I like to go camping a few times a year up in the asheville-franklin -boone area. Maybe you could burn some Kritters on one of these trips and rightly divide the word with us. :-)

Blessings,

Sean aka seanjol

Wow, Sean, two answers. Are you twins? ;-)

UniqueWebRev wrote:
I happen to think they are gorgeous, but didn't know Doris was part of their name, you biologist, you.(former)Is it Doris something, or Something Dorisii?

This naming system is for all living things, plants and animals. Most dogs are called Canis (as in canine). The wolf is [i]Canis lupus[/i], the dog is [i]Canis domestica[/i] (=domesticated), although most think they are actually the same species because dogs and wolves can interbreed freely.

You will know that they call us [i]Homo sapiens[/i], and imagine that there are other "Homos" that we've evolved from.

Which just shows how stupid scientists who reject God can be (Romans 1).

What happened to the Presbyterian Ministry? Blessed retirement? Too much Welsh Rarebit? If it's painful, we can talk about sea slugs.

Then the call to the ministry came. It was such a relief to give in my notice because i hated teaching in the UK. (I was afraid of the kids, and just couldn't control them!)

Leaving the Presbyterian Church was because I couldn't do infant baptism any more. Not a matter of opinion, but a command of God - He wouldn't allow it. (Although I was never keen on the practice and used to try and make it clear that water didn't make anyone a Christian)

It was hard because it upset my mother who was very proud of me, but in the end I had to choose to obey God rather than man's customs.

Is there a bright blue one? And I love the pictures I've seen of Spanish Dancer! I knew just the one you were talking about, because of the frills.

Not a Doris but a [i]Glaucus atlanticus[/i]

Whoops, forgot about the nickname! I'm an internet evangelist, and God told me I was unique, and so it just happened. 8-)

That's lovely. As I said in a pm, you are indeed unique - and a lovely, lively, warm and loving soul too!

But maybe you'd better stop encouraging me to give Biology lectures - I'm sure not everyone is interested!

Blessings

Jeannette

divdasunder wrote:
For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.- Heb 4:12
This verse stuck with me. Basically my name says the Word has divided me asunder.

jeannette

Jason is my first name and it means "healer", which is kinda ironic since I work in the medical field. :-) My mom and dad have called me J-bird since I was a kid. Alot of my family do as well. So if your a christian your my brother or sister, so you can call me J-bird to.