The meaning of your USERname - Tiki Central Ohana

A Alnshely Member Oceanside CA Joined: Mar 24, 2002 Posts: 974	A Alnshely Posted posted on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 11:10 AM alnshely is a painfully boring username that came about, I think, because Al wanted to join the board so immediately, without wasting precious seconds devising something creative or even slightly cool. If you have not already met the two of us, you can probably figue we are AL and Shelley. Al decided that since we started collecting mugs and all things tiki together, our name should represent something we both do together. I have pondered many names for myself and vacillate between Shell in the Pacific and Pearly Shell. I like "Shell in the Pacific" best. I came up with it after countless perusals of "The Grog Log"(Hell in the Pacific). I am originally from the Gulf Coast,(MS) and lived along the Atlantic seaboard (VA,MD,FL)for most of my life. The name identifys where I finally landed...Oceanside, CA. Pearly Shell suits me as well since I like that goofy song and I have a passion for pearls. I wanted to find something Hawaiian, but I have not had much luck... Shell in Hawaiian is pu-pu, and Curly is pi'i-pi'i, so those are WAY to "bathroom humor" related. I suppose I will always be impossibly, hopelessly, immature. I am scarred for life by the nickname my father gave me as a baby, that he continued to use far into my extrememly awkward years. He called me Potus. I still cringe. Potus is a shortened version of Hippopotumus. As a baby he said I reminded him of a baby hippopotumus. A kind of heavy, sweaty, lump. He used to sing... "Sweet Potus Ann, is sweeter than the roses..." very loudly in public parking lots. I died many deaths as a child, caused by an uncontrollably silly father. On a lighter note... Al is just Al. Short for Alan. I have many pet names for him but they do not reach into social circles... Baby Man Snuggie Man Snug Master Honey-Bunchy-Crunchy-Munchy Al-igator Al-amander Really though, rightfully he should be called... The Alchemist... One who has, by use of magic and philosophy, developed the elixir of perpetual youth. One who is able to miraculously change a thing into something better. -Shell in the Pacific

alnshely is a painfully boring username that came about, I think, because Al wanted to join the board so immediately, without wasting precious seconds devising something creative or even slightly cool.

If you have not already met the two of us, you can probably figue we are AL and Shelley. Al decided that since we started collecting mugs and all things tiki together, our name should represent something we both do together.

I have pondered many names for myself and vacillate between Shell in the Pacific and Pearly Shell.

I like "Shell in the Pacific" best. I came up with it after countless perusals of "The Grog Log"(Hell in the Pacific). I am originally from the Gulf Coast,(MS) and lived along the Atlantic seaboard (VA,MD,FL)for most of my life. The name identifys where I finally landed...Oceanside, CA.

Pearly Shell suits me as well since I like that goofy song and I have a passion for pearls.

I wanted to find something Hawaiian, but I have not had much luck...

Shell in Hawaiian is pu-pu, and Curly is pi'i-pi'i, so those are WAY to "bathroom humor" related. I suppose I will always be impossibly, hopelessly, immature.

I am scarred for life by the nickname my father gave me as a baby, that he continued to use far into my extrememly awkward years. He called me Potus. I still cringe. Potus is a shortened version of Hippopotumus. As a baby he said I reminded him of a baby hippopotumus. A kind of heavy, sweaty, lump.

He used to sing...
"Sweet Potus Ann, is sweeter than the roses..." very loudly in public parking lots. I died many deaths as a child, caused by an uncontrollably silly father.

On a lighter note...

Al is just Al. Short for Alan. I have many pet names for him but they do not reach into social circles...

Baby Man
Snuggie Man
Snug Master
Honey-Bunchy-Crunchy-Munchy
Al-igator
Al-amander

Really though, rightfully he should be called...
The Alchemist...
One who has, by use of magic and philosophy, developed the elixir of perpetual youth. One who is able to miraculously change a thing into something better.

-Shell in the Pacific

Post #65635 by Alnshely on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 11:10 AM