Forum Name

[Coinneach]

Mine is the Gaelic equivalent of my first name...Kenneth.

[Prester John]

Easy for me.

I'm a presbyter (pres'ter) named John.

So, there you go!

[Raptor]

Great thread concept Mikey! Mine's simple, although I do get tired of being asked if I liked Jurassic Park! Some time back (before we changed the laws here to support revenue raising) I kept a pet Brown Falcon. This experience turned my general admiration for birds of prey into a fanatical love of raptors in general, falconidae in particular. Oops that got a tad long-winded

[porrick]

My very good Irish friend Michael Egan started calling me Porrick (there were already plenty of Pats in our class) when we met in high school in Wisconsin back in 1981.

So, Porrick it is

[porrick]

Easy for me.

I'm a presbyter (pres'ter) named John.

So, there you go!

"prester" is also the plural form of priest/vicar in Norwegian...

[James MacMillan]

It is really self evident.

[pipesndrumsnun]

Mine is yet another simple one - I'm a nun, and I'm in a pipe and drum band (I've been a drummer since 7th grade and am currently learning the practice chanter with hopes of moving to the big pipes some day!). I've found, thus far, that a nun in a pipe band is sort of unusual.

-Casper - I can relate! I've also been "Sister Snowflake" (on Myspace).
-The people in my town call me "Sister Heidi the drumming nun".
-In a couple of other places, I'm stjoesister (because I'm a Sister of St. Joseph).

[cloves]

My name has to do with "cloves" flavored cigarettes. Now I don't smoke at all.....but a girl i used to know did. She had said "they make your lips taste sweet"......i never did try smoking them, but they DID make her lips taste sweet!

[Kid Cossack]

Kid because either a) I'm an arrogant young punk or b) I haven't lost that youthful zest for wondering what's over that way . . . or maybe a little from column a and a little from column b!

Cossack because of Central Asia. The Russian Cossacks have an occasionally dark reputation for participating in/organizing pogroms. That part, I have ZERO sympathy for. The original (Russian) cossacks were serfs that ran away to the frontier to escape their serfdom, and that part I have plenty of sympathy for. The Russian word Каза́к comes from the Central Asian nomadic herdsmen of the, well, Kazakh and Kyrgyz peoples. I'm fluent in Russian (well, pretty good anyway!) and met my (Russian) wife in Kazakhstan when I was working there.

So . . . I an arrogant punk kid/who hasn't lost his zest for life, and a Russian speaker who feels the tug of Central Asia. Ah, the silk road, Tashkent and Samarkand and Khokhand and Khiva!

[Moosedog]

Good thread! I am looking forward to learning how to pronounce a few that have me stumped as well...

I have two very charismatic Norwegian Elkhounds, also known affectionately as "fuzzies" or "Moosedogs."

moosedog