User:Ailanto
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Once upon a time, I had a tough time coming up with a screen name for America Online that was both legal (in the syntactical sense) and unused! Bill? Nope. William? Nope. Patterson? Nope. WWP? Nope. WWPatterson? Nope. WPatterson? Nope. William? Nope. Etc. Nope. Etc. Etc. Nope. Nope. So I thought, considering my lifelong affinity for the Tree of Heaven (That Darn Weed!), how about Ailanthus? Nope! Somebody had even taken that!
But I had a brainstorm, with a capital BR! How about the Esperanto word for Ailanthus? Ailanto! ACCEPTED! Apparently there was nobody on America Online interested in both Esperanto AND Ailanthuses. (Ailanthae?) HA!
I liked the name so I continued to use it, even on other systems, and long after I'd left AOL.
It had become my Netname.
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