other message boards?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
other message boards?
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Tue, 07-26-2005 - 11:09am

since we were discussing other message boards, i'm curious - where else on the net do you all hang out? what other ivillage boards do you all go to (either regularly or just occasionally)? what about non-ivillage boards? friendster or myspace?


on a different topic, when was the last time you googled yourself? someone else?

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
Tue, 07-26-2005 - 3:25pm

i think i've discussed the origin of my name here before, haven't i? yes, we took on a common made-up name when we married. that's the only name i've gone by since 1997.


it is very hard to make up a name, and one of the things we considered when doing it was that we didn't want to use a "real" last name. that is, we certainly didn't want to just pluck a name like "smith" or "parker" out of nowhere and use it as our last name. so we made up a name that sounded like a last name (though we had many hours of laughter over possible crazy-sounding names like "jen gobbledygook" etc.)

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
Tue, 07-26-2005 - 3:26pm
you are so funny! that's kind of why i am scared to go skateboarding at a park - not that there are any future olympians there (maybe future X-gamers) but i'm just afraid to seriously injure some little kid.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 07-26-2005 - 3:40pm

You might have told us but I can't remember hearing about it.






iVillage Member
Registered: 03-20-2003
Tue, 07-26-2005 - 3:45pm
My friend, on her first day skiing, plowed into a little kid and ended up picking him up and holding him on her lap (while she was leaning way back on her heels).





iVillage Member
Registered: 11-15-2004
Tue, 07-26-2005 - 5:10pm
Okay, I'm confused aboaut the name thing.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-11-2004
Tue, 07-26-2005 - 5:23pm

well it wasn't "so i wouldn't have his last name" but yes, we both took on a new last name that neither of us had ever had before and that we thought we made up from scratch (but apparently not because it turns out that people actually do have the name).


i.e.: jennifer reynolds marries frank white and they become jen and frank whismeld (hey, i just made up "whismeld" - i wonder if there are people who actually have THAT name too.)


and i still use that same made-up name now even though we are divorced.

iVillage Member
Registered: 05-01-2003
Wed, 07-27-2005 - 7:13am

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iVillage Member
Registered: 05-01-2003
Wed, 07-27-2005 - 7:16am
There's a porn star out there with my name too!
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-01-2003
Wed, 07-27-2005 - 7:20am
Sounds a little stalker-ish to me too.
iVillage Member
Registered: 05-01-2003
Wed, 07-27-2005 - 7:26am

You are so interesting!