Back in '03 I was practicing breathholds and tailswimming in the pool at Texas A&M in prep for an underwater photo shoot. The lifeguards started calling me the Mermaid Lady, and it just stuck.
Nickname Origins
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damselfish
, Feb 05 2009 08:02 PM
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Mermaid Lady
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 12:24 PM
Cheers,
Teresa,
The original Mermaid Lady
Bass player for the band formerly known as Opulent.
"'I'm only wearing black until they come out with something darker..."
Teresa,
The original Mermaid Lady
Bass player for the band formerly known as Opulent.
"'I'm only wearing black until they come out with something darker..."
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 12:31 PM
Simon...
hehehe, I'm not sure which is worse. You explaining it or my understanding it! Salvatore is one of my favorite authors. The only one that I try to consistently keep up with as he writes new books.
hehehe, I'm not sure which is worse. You explaining it or my understanding it! Salvatore is one of my favorite authors. The only one that I try to consistently keep up with as he writes new books.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
~JRR Tolkien
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 12:34 PM
My name came when I was trying to come up with a name for an email account several years ago. I had moved 4 times in 7 years and so the name seemed like a good idea. I've used it as often as possible since that point in time.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
~JRR Tolkien
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
~JRR Tolkien
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 01:48 PM
When I first began to snorkel in the Caribbean years ago, my favorite fish was the damselfish. I moved to Traverse City 6 years ago, hence the name. When I joined SD, and realized the Damselfish was already being used, I was a kind of embarrassed 
, but I should have known!
, but I should have known!
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Have a question...get an answer. Email: angels@singledivers.com
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 02:41 PM
I wanted to be as unique as possible, and I also intend to dive Oz some day.
It's a reminder of both.
Sparky the Wonder 'Treme is something else entirely. He's the real Party Monotreme of the two of us, and has stowed away for every dive trip I've made with SD no matter how hard I've tried to leave him behind. Makes out like a bandit with the ladies, he does...
PPM
It's a reminder of both.
Sparky the Wonder 'Treme is something else entirely. He's the real Party Monotreme of the two of us, and has stowed away for every dive trip I've made with SD no matter how hard I've tried to leave him behind. Makes out like a bandit with the ladies, he does...
PPM
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 03:33 PM
My screen name comes from an old comic strip, Rick O'Shay, started by Stan Lynde (pronounced like "wind" the verb, not the noun) in 1958. Rick O'Shay was the deputy sheriff in the mythical town of Conniption, and a philosophical gunslinger named Hipshot (Hipshot Percussion to use his full name) was his best friend. See the image below. Hipshot is the gentleman seated on the left; Rick O'Shay is seated on the right, and Stan Lynde is standing between them.
Rick O'Shay combined humor with real-life subjects. Most comic strips of that time were either serious/soap-opera stories (e.g., Brenda Starr) or humorous (e.g., Beetle Bailey). Perhaps Charlton Heston said it best in his introduction for the book pictured below: "...Lynde is the only cartoonist I can think of who has a foot in both camps." BTW, that was a very amusing book.
Rick
Ah'm a mite confused about where I am, ma'am...you surely ain't no angel, but ah'm too cold t' be in the other place.--Hipshot Percussion
Rick O'Shay combined humor with real-life subjects. Most comic strips of that time were either serious/soap-opera stories (e.g., Brenda Starr) or humorous (e.g., Beetle Bailey). Perhaps Charlton Heston said it best in his introduction for the book pictured below: "...Lynde is the only cartoonist I can think of who has a foot in both camps." BTW, that was a very amusing book.
Rick
Ah'm a mite confused about where I am, ma'am...you surely ain't no angel, but ah'm too cold t' be in the other place.--Hipshot Percussion
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 04:16 PM
Hey, I resemble that remark.
eh, take off, hoser!
-Mitch-
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 04:17 PM
My screen name is simple. It is my first name plus my birthdate. Yeah, I know, no too creative!
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 04:57 PM
In my case, it's obvious....
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 05:38 PM
In my case, it's obvious....
Mine, too!
Just never considered how long it would take to type!
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 06:38 PM
Well, I'm a avid
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ie: Scubaski
and
ie: Scubaski
MADRE FELIZ DIA MAMÁ
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 06:46 PM
When I came to the Nickname field while registering on the SD site, I originally entered Beth without thinking because that's alwasy been my nickname instead of Elizabeth. Then while in Belize in November 2007 the WW came up with Bubbles!
"If life gives you limes, make margaritas." – Jimmy Buffett
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 07:04 PM
I grabbed a guy's fin on a trip and have been known ever since as "finGrabber"! 
and I have the dubious destinction of naming the "founder, we never lost her!" of SD - Wenchie!!
Why Wenchie?? cuz she won't let me call her anything else!
and I have the dubious destinction of naming the "founder, we never lost her!" of SD - Wenchie!!
Why Wenchie?? cuz she won't let me call her anything else!
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 08:04 PM
OK!.... so this is fun but how about YOU Mike? I like your idea and you know that I know what ASD stands for but I dont know what they know so we wont know 'till you decide that we should know what I know that you know that we all should know...... 
BTW much
to you regarding your nickname that doesn't really coun't anymore... 
BTW much
to you regarding your nickname that doesn't really coun't anymore...
I wanna be the person that my dog thinks I am
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Check out the SPREE...come dive with us!
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Posted 06 February 2009 - 08:22 PM
My nickname comes from the buddy system, if you run out of bubbles you got mine buddy... and visa verse.
Fingrabber
back rub in Cozumel in 2004 while on a SD trip.
Bubski
Love Ya Kimmy
Fingrabber
Bubble2Bubble to Bubski after a few margaritas and aand I have the dubious destinction of naming the
back rub in Cozumel in 2004 while on a SD trip.Bubski
Love Ya Kimmy
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