Wow howdy! New boards? New members? (explain your username)

[latraviata]

I am an opera lover.

My favorite opera is Mozart's Don Giovanni, less suitable for a username since I am 62 year old widow.

[Not That Kind of Dr]

I'm going to loveyou! I love all things history but really American history from the late 1500's to I guess to the 30's. Each year I get a little closer to liking the present era. 5 years ago I would have said up until the civil war but as you can see I'm growing and not just in the butt.

What is your favorite time period and what time is your expertise?

How kind of you, Ladypuglover! I'm always thrilled to hear from the history lovers. I specialize in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English/British history, but my husband is an Americanist who often covers the periods you're interested in. One of my main complaints about the patriocentric folk is how they misuse history to argue that young women traditionally have lived at home with their parents until marriage. I can't speak to other times and places with the same level of detail, but that's simply not the case in early modern England, where the majority of young women worked as domestic servants in other households from their mid-teens until they married in their mid-twenties (generally, to husbands that they chose without much parental involvement). They also kept their own earnings because the point was to save up for marriage. Thus, even those Puritans that the dominionists so cherish and want to emulate didn't have many stay-at-home daughters.

[TheSassyOne]

Hi,

I'm new to FJ. My user name [TheSassyOne] is one of my hubby's nickname's for me. Sometimes it's endearing and sometimes it's frustrating for him, just depends on the situation. :lol:

[dawn]

mine's boring. It's my first name

[dormouse]

Dormouse, after the Alice In Wonderland character of course... I have CFS/fibromyalgia and tend to fall asleep as soon as I'm sitting in a couch and not talking (watching a movie or reading), and I always oversleep in the morning whenever I'm on a day off, so my husband said I reminded him of the little mouse falling asleep in a teapot. Also, I have a tiny facial features and look kind of like a mouse. :animals-mouse:

[MamaJunebug]

Marian the Librarian, love that ditty you posted!

zeebaneighba, I was so glad to see someone with that name join up. I love the dumb crocodiles!

First time I read the original Skippyjon Jones book and saw his mama, Junebug...

...I knew I'd found the icon to denote my mothering style. (Which icon was once described as "a raccoon on acid," but the Jones family are actually Siamese cats. No biggie...we're cool with species-confusion issues...)

I've totally enjoyed everybody's stories! Thanks to all who have, and who will, post!

[kittypie]

kittypie because I love kitties...and the name is sort of a take-off of "cutie pie".

I'm almost 53, widow, no kids (stupid infertility). I'm a conservative Christian, raised fundie-lite (open Plymouth Brethren). But spent most of my adult life "backsliding" (har har har what a stupid term). Had my first panic attack at a Bill Gothard seminar when I was 18. I don't go to church now because I'm sick unto death of the American Evangelical business model and entertainment industry.

I love snark.

When oh when do I get to be a frumper???

[Triplet3]

How kind of you, Ladypuglover! I'm always thrilled to hear from the history lovers. I specialize in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English/British history, but my husband is an Americanist who often covers the periods you're interested in. One of my main complaints about the patriocentric folk is how they misuse history to argue that young women traditionally have lived at home with their parents until marriage. I can't speak to other times and places with the same level of detail, but that's simply not the case in early modern England, where the majority of young women worked as domestic servants in other households from their mid-teens until they married in their mid-twenties (generally, to husbands that they chose without much parental involvement). They also kept their own earnings because the point was to save up for marriage. Thus, even those Puritans that the dominionists so cherish and want to emulate didn't have many stay-at-home daughters.

I'm a great history lover too! My undergrad degree was in History and Music (joint honours), and in the history side of the course I specialised in late medieval British history. Even the music side of my degree had a historical slant, because I specialised in historical musicology (again, the late medieval period). My history dissertation was on a medieval Countess's will, and my music one was on late medieval 'boar's head' carols. I'm not just interested in the medieval period, though, or indeed only British history - I find social and cultural history of all periods particularly fascinating, going right up to WW2 or thereabouts. I think in terms of American history my favourite area is from roughly 1500-1800. Have you read 'A Midwife's Tale'? It's the last book on American history I read, and is really interesting - I definitely recommend it, if you can get it in the US (I'm from the UK). It's based on the diary of Martha Ballard, a late 18th-early 19th c. midwife in Maine, and does much to dispell the fundies' notion that women in the past didn't work. ;)

Like you I also find fundies' misuse and misunderstanding of historical sources to be really, really frustrating, and I say that both as a history nut and a professional archivist. I don't understand how they can misinterpret sources so drastically, and completely dismiss the arguments of the (vast majority of) historians who think otherwise, without presenting anything like a decent counter-argument.

[oolong]

Marian the Librarian, love that ditty you posted!

zeebaneighba, I was so glad to see someone with that name join up. I love the dumb crocodiles!

First time I read the original Skippyjon Jones book and saw his mama, Junebug...

...I knew I'd found the icon to denote my mothering style. (Which icon was once described as "a raccoon on acid," but the Jones family are actually Siamese cats. No biggie...we're cool with species-confusion issues...)

I've totally enjoyed everybody's stories! Thanks to all who have, and who will, post!

Well you ought make that your avatar, Mama J! And LOL to what I have bolded.

[Hane]

Mine comes from the early days of Saturday Night Live. Garrett Morris's Chico Escuela character used to address Jane Curtin as "Hane.". Hey, it's nicer than "Jane, you ignorant slut" (what Dan Ackroyd called her).

[FJismyheadship]

Over at the other board, I couldn't think of a username when I signed up, so I just put down the first thing that popped into my head... freemissjinger. I didn't really like it... but I got stuck with it. When we moved here, I abbriviated it, because I figured people could figure out it was me that way, and I didn't have that long name that I hated lol

[Not That Kind of Dr]

I'm a great history lover too! My undergrad degree was in History and Music (joint honours), and in the history side of the course I specialised in late medieval British history. Even the music side of my degree had a historical slant, because I specialised in historical musicology (again, the late medieval period). My history dissertation was on a medieval Countess's will, and my music one was on late medieval 'boar's head' carols. I'm not just interested in the medieval period, though, or indeed only British history - I find social and cultural history of all periods particularly fascinating, going right up to WW2 or thereabouts. I think in terms of American history my favourite area is from roughly 1500-1800. Have you read 'A Midwife's Tale'? It's the last book on American history I read, and is really interesting - I definitely recommend it, if you can get it in the US (I'm from the UK). It's based on the diary of Martha Ballard, a late 18th-early 19th c. midwife in Maine, and does much to dispell the fundies' notion that women in the past didn't work.

Like you I also find fundies' misuse and misunderstanding of historical sources to be really, really frustrating, and I say that both as a history nut and a professional archivist. I don't understand how they can misinterpret sources so drastically, and completely dismiss the arguments of the (vast majority of) historians who think otherwise, without presenting anything like a decent counter-argument.

Hi, Triplet3! Historians everywhere! I teach medieval English history too although it isn't my strict speciality. Which medieval countess's will did you examine? Yes, I've read A Midwife's Tale and have loved it since my undergraduate days. My husband has taught it quite a few semesters, but I think he's taking a break from it right now, just to stay fresh as an instructor. Have you seen the documentary based on it? Interestingly enough, the author of A Midwife's Tale, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, is an active and devout Mormon, yet also identifies herself as a feminist. I imagine that she's got her reasons. She's clearly not stupid. I just wonder how she reconciles the two.

[Triplet3]

Hi, Triplet3! Historians everywhere! I teach medieval English history too although it isn't my strict speciality. Which medieval countess's will did you examine? Yes, I've read A Midwife's Tale and have loved it since my undergraduate days. My husband has taught it quite a few semesters, but I think he's taking a break from it right now, just to stay fresh as an instructor. Have you seen the documentary based on it? Interestingly enough, the author of A Midwife's Tale, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, is an active and devout Mormon, yet also identifies herself as a feminist. I imagine that she's got her reasons. She's clearly not stupid. I just wonder how she reconciles the two.

Wow, I didn't realise you were a proper professional academic! I feel embarassed now - I'd presumed you were on my sort of level in terms of historical study. I'm not surprised you've come across 'A Midwife's Tale'. I suppose I should have guessed that it would be widely known in the US, too - I must have forgotten to plug my brain in this morning. No, I haven't seen the documentary, though I'd love to. Is it available outside America? The will I studied was that of Elizabeth Montagu, Countess of Salisbury, who passed away in 1415 after nearly 20 years as a widow. It was really interesting looking at the will and seeing what it said about her life, her household, her piety and so on.

[lilah]

Hey guys this is ms*jess. I decided to change my username to something more anonymous.

[samithemage]

Long time lurker here, but I've never posted before. My user name comes from the fact that when I was a little girl, I loved fantasy books and wanted to grow up to be a magician. (I still love fantasy books, but gave up on the whole magician thing.) Sami's been my nickname since I was a kid.

[Not That Kind of Dr]

Wow, I didn't realise you were a proper professional academic! I feel embarassed now - I'd presumed you were on my sort of level in terms of historical study. I'm not surprised you've come across 'A Midwife's Tale'. I suppose I should have guessed that it would be widely known in the US, too - I must have forgotten to plug my brain in this morning. No, I haven't seen the documentary, though I'd love to. Is it available outside America? The will I studied was that of Elizabeth Montagu, Countess of Salisbury, who passed away in 1415 after nearly 20 years as a widow. It was really interesting looking at the will and seeing what it said about her life, her household, her piety and so on.

Triplet 3, never apologize for loving A Midwife's Tale! It is the kind of book that people become evangelical (in a positive sense) about because it is just that good: great story and insight into how historians go about their work. Here's a link to the documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/midwife/.

[keen23]

I've been using Keen23 as my handle since 2000. It was my TWOP handle, my simsonline handle, any message board I post on, and I even blog (sometimes) under it. It's my last name (married name) and the day of the month I was born on. Before I got married, in the dawning hours of the internets, I was kb823.

[Triplet3]

Triplet 3, never apologize for loving A Midwife's Tale! It is the kind of book that people become evangelical (in a positive sense) about because it is just that good: great story and insight into how historians go about their work. Here's a link to the documentary: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/midwife/.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I wasn't apologising for loving the book! I just felt a bit embarassed about initially presuming that you might not have heard of it, when actually you're an American academic historian so obviously have heard of it.

I went onto the pbs website to see if I could buy the DVD, but unfortunately it says that they can only ship within the US and Canada. I'll have to stick to reading the transcripts through the link you gave, and see if I can get hold of the DVD through other means.

[bananacat]

Some of these names are fun! Mine's... pretty boring. I have a cat. And her name is Freya. That's pretty much it. I try to use different usernames in different places, and they're all pretty random.

I need to get a cute photo of my cat for an avatar!

Yes, please get a pic of your kitty to use an avatar! One of the things I like most about avatars is seeing all the cats and dogs.

[Bozoette]

"Bozoette" is my username for two reasons: I used to be a circus clown back in the 70s (I promise I wasn't scary) and I'm a fan of the Firesign Theater. On FT's album "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus", Clem mentions that "my mother was a bozoette in high school". In real life, I'm a bleeding heart liberal, old hippie, married 31 years, with one son who's a cop. That's karma for ya!

[gardenvarietycitizen]

I was gardenvarietycitizen on the old board too. Just a... garden variety citizen. Ordinary person. It's one of the very short list of "obvious anonymous references" I use on the internet (like some others I've been online from the text-only days, I would post under my actual name back then, one happy result of marrying was getting rid of that name!).

My avatar is portion of the scanned front cover of a children's magazine from 1942, full of militaristic propaganda. Those kids were garden variety citizens of their time, buzz cuts and bowl cuts for all! It just happened to be on my computer already clipped to the correct size when I needed an avatar.

I came to fundies by an interest in homeschooling (which I still have) on USENET. I found the fundies, was fascinated by how their lives are so extremely different from mine as a non-Christian grown up in Japan, and just got addicted. I found Free Jinger from the TWOP board where I'd gone to look up some information on the Duggars and found I was more interested in the stuff that kept being called "off topic" than the actual show (I've never seen their TV show).

...at which point I realized that wow, there are people who read Vision Forum and the Maxwells page and imamother other than myself? Yay! :dance:

[Guest Anonymous]

Lissla Lissar is a character in the Robin McKinley novel, Deerskin. It's a retelling of a very dark French fairy tale called Donkeyskin. Lissar goes through truly horrible stuff, but she eventually finds a place where she's loved and accepted and happy. (Oh, and there's a bit of vengeance.) She also loves dogs and has lots of them, and I do too.

[SlipmeaMikki]

My name is Mikki. When I was in 7th grade, my science teacher liked to give nicknames to his students. Instead of going with the typical "Oh Mikki, you're so fine," he decided to call me SlipmeaMikki after the Seinfeld episode where George takes revenge on his boss by slipping him a Mickey Finn. It was the only somewhat creative name I could come up with when I finally joined FJ!

[zeebaneighba]

Hane wrote:

Mine comes from the early days of Saturday Night Live. Garrett Morris's Chico Escuela character used to address Jane Curtin as "Hane.". Hey, it's nicer than "Jane, you ignorant slut" (what Dan Ackroyd called her).

Ugh! That's my real name, and I'm old enough to have been in HS during that era of SNL. I got called "Jane, you ignorant slut" all the time.

[tingeofginge]

I've been lurking for a long time, and am actually kind of nervous about dipping my toes into the posting waters, but figured this is a good thread to introduce myself. I'm a 29 y.o. married mom of two boys. Liberal, feminist, freethinker, etc. Started homeschooling this year only because school wasn't working for my son (but will be trying virtual school next year). Raised Catholic until my mom stopped going to church, before my first communion. After that, just indoctrinated on the existence of god, but we didn't practice any religion. Until I was in my twenties, I would've said I believed in god but just wasn't into organized religion. Now, I find myself leaning more toward atheist every day. Found FreeJinger back when Emily (of under $1000/mo) was being "bullied" by all the big meanies. :lol:

I'm a huge Tim Minchin fan, and actually just saw him live last night (so awesome!) so my username comes from one of his songs. Also, I do have a tinge of ginge irl. :)