[Daniel_Plainview]

My name merges two aspects of my personality: I'm a DOOMER + I'm a WARRIOR

Ergo: DoomWarrior

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RedStateGreen', '
')So I pondered a good name for the blog for a few days and this one just came to me. I thought it was clever.

[charliebrownout]

My nickname among family/friends is Charlie, when I was a little kid I was CB or Charlie Brown or Charlie Bear (only to my grandparents on that actually )

Brownout made an obvious choice. Charliebearmarket...just not as much fun.

I have thought about it, though, and I also like the nickname

Serfette...you know...like Smurfette only more subjugated, taller, and less blue.

If anyone wants it...have at it

The name is Charlie from Charlene. The icon I picked is from The Maxx a comic book by Sam Keith ...Also dig Zero Girl and My Inner Bimbo...but always related most to Julie in the Maxx.

So there ya go: all the info you didn't want--in a nutshell.

[PhebaAndThePilgrim]

Good day from Pheba, from the farm:
About the time I was signing up on Peak Oil I was also doing genealogy.
I began with a four generation trace of my direct maternal line.
The doctors wanted to find out if I needed the super expensive genetic test for cancer.
I am a cancer survivor, and my Mother died of cancer.
Well four generations went to 5, then 6,then 7, and finally 8.
My 8th generation grandmother was named Pheba.
As near as I can tell, she was a Chickasaw Indian living in Chickasaw Indian Territory in Tennessee, later McNairy County, Tennessee.
I have searched high and low for absolute proof she was Chickasaw.
She was born in 1804.
There is a tombstone declaring the first "white" person born in McNairy County in 1926. McNairy became a county in 1923.
She is listed in the census as being born in 1804 in Chickasaw Indian Territory.
She was married to Alexander Stringer.
I have good reason to believe, from a one line statement in an early journal, that Alexander's father fought in the battle of King's Mountain during the revolutionary war. (Mel Gibson, The Patriot depicts the battle)
Alas, The McNairy county courthouse was burned during the Civil War.
Many records have been lost.
I have another grandmother. Pheba's great great granddaughter also named Pheba.
Not Phoebe. Pheba was a common female Indian name among the Cherokee/Chickasaw.
I wish the Chickasaw had kept records like the Cherokee did.
have a great day, Pheba.

[drew]

Mine's really easy.

My name's not Drew, but really close.


Drew

[RedStateGreen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PhebaAndThePilgrim', '
')As near as I can tell, she was a Chickasaw Indian living in Chickasaw Indian Territory in Tennessee, later McNairy County, Tennessee.

[DrBang]

I completed my PhD in Explosives blasting in the mining industry about the same time as I registered.

Dr Bang

[ShinyOldLady]

Got mine from a TV series (Firefly, now defunct) about new societies getting started on other planets after outgrowing/fucking up earth. Sort of a cross between a western movie and SF, but no aliens, just people trying to survive under the challenges of starting over again. I'm hoping when TSHTF, we don't have to start from scratch the way life is portrayed in the series.

[Daniel_Plainview]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ShinyOldLady', ' ')TV series Firefly about new societies getting started on other planets after outgrowing/fucking up earth. .... just people trying to survive under the challenges of starting over again. I'm hoping when TSHTF, we don't have to start from scratch the way life is portrayed in the series.

[lawnchair]

Lawnchair is my nickname from bike club rides, when I was the only recumbent cyclist ("The Flying Lawnchair"). Now there are other 'bent riders in the group, and I don't go out on club rides too often, but the nickname has stuck.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ShinyOldLady', 'G')ot mine from a TV series (Firefly, now defunct) about new societies getting started on other planets after outgrowing/fucking up earth. Sort of a cross between a western movie and SF, but no aliens, just people trying to survive under the challenges of starting over again. I'm hoping when TSHTF, we don't have to start from scratch the way life is portrayed in the series.

[Lumpy]

Hey, this thread is fun ... interesting, too.

Anyway, my first name is hyphenated, with the initials being "L-M".
My middle initial is "M"
My last initial is "P"

Put them all together they spell Lumpy (well, they SOUND like Lumpy).

In addition, I am 1/2 Irish, and look it. A rather roundish, short Irish woman. My husband has taken to calling me "My little Lumpster", after my peakoil name.

It's quite endearing, actually He likes me roundish, and we share our dreams/plans/hard work toward readiness --- which we short-hand refer to as peakoil ready, even though it's so much more. So when he calls me "my little Lumpster", it's a loving reference to how he feels about who/how I am, and to how much we share.

What's that? You think that's mushy? I don't care -- I think it's great!

Lumpy

[Pops]

I'm sure I mentioned this before (what else is new) but when my first granddaughter was born I wanted to pick my own grandpa name:

I thought Pops was better than gampy/gramps/gampa/papa/etc.

I brainwashed her and Pop was the first thing she said - the first I didn't slap her for saying anyway...


It's what all my kids call me.

BTW, apologizes to all the gampys/gramps/gampas/papa 's out there.


(Either that or it stands for Peak Oil Pragmatist)

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PhebaAndThePilgrim', '
')I have searched high and low for absolute proof she was Chickasaw. She was born in 1804.