Years ago I was choosing my screen name for another forum, now extinct, and couldn’t come up with anything I liked. At some point I started to read a book and realized it had a botanical bookmark there (our local bookstore used to give them away). It had a picture of yucca, a common plant here in Colorado, and a few sentences about how this plant is tough, very adaptable, has spectacular but unpredictable blooms, and can be useful in many different ways. I realized this was a perfect description of me, and the username was born 
Here it was unavailable, so I threw in numbers with an added benefit of creating a lame pun on the Yucatan peninsula, where I once had a nice vacation.
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I joined CC to learn, hence TeachMe. Pretty sure you all know why the 21.
Mine is a mashup of a special year (2000) for our family and a part of the name of an aircraft type that, as an engineer, I spent hundreds of hours on - “Rivet Joint”
My name is self-explanatory, and it still fits! Science Girl is working on a PhD in something related to micro-biology.
When I joined, I tried several names that were already taken. In frustration I tried fly me to the moon and it worked. No particular significance.
Home state/U and grad date. Wish they still did locations. UW to me means Wisconsin, it’s U-dub in Washington when spoken. It’s funny to see HS students monkers and use/misuse on that college forum. The c is not the end of the syllable so never use it to abbreviate. Plus adding an M changes the campus to Milwaukee posters sometimes need to remind the kids. Wonder if by now anyone thinks I was born in 75- ha.
Can’t tell a bundled up skier’s gender. How did a recent college grad become a Parents Forum moderator???
My gender- given some of my replies and background I should sound like one of the guys. Height as well. My H said I was as good as one of the guys decades ago. Being in STEM and majoring in and then working in male dominated fields I often felt more comfortable with men than stuck with the ladies in social situations.
Also short (and sweet) since I hate to type.
Mine has multiple meanings:
- See my avatar for clues - “To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of my favorite movies. Sometimes I change my avatar pic to the one where Scout is wearing the ham costume. Mmmm. Ham.
- I was a Girl Scout leader forever.
- Scout: Best. Cat. Ever.
Mods are not assigned to specific forums; we go where needed. And to further blow your mind, I was still in HS when I became a mod.
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You’ve got the answer.
@skieurope
If I could, may I ask how a moderator is picked/selected on CC, please?
I have seen that several moderators have a very large number of posts.
Pretty obvious. I joined CC right after our son was accepted to Choate and initially posted solely on the Prep subforums where ski also hung out. He graduated from BS and college the same years as ChoatieKid. They are virtual brothers. 
It should be pretty obvious that @skieurope is one of the best and brightest of our CC kids and moderates with wisdom beyond his years. I am so happy he didn’t leave us when he graduated.
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The post count for moderators is deceiving since some of our tasks, like actioning a flagged post or moving a thread to the correct forum, count toward our post count. I don’t really have 40K posts viewable by the public.
Moderators are selected by the administrator based, in part, to their past record of helpfulness and their willingness to moderate. Many very helpful members have no interest in being a moderator. But we’re really going far afield here, so let’s try to keep future responses closer to topic. 
What would we do without @skieurope‘s expertise on Europe‘s royalty?
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I’m a big fan of William Shakespeare –– arguably (inarguably in my opinion) the greatest English-speaking playwright that has ever existed. His poetry is not too shabby, either.
Squirrels are great things. I thought that adding 1 would make it look cool.
Fun thread.
After years of having a user name on another website with “happy” in it, I had trouble finding a username on here that wasn’t already taken.
So I finally submitted 123Mom123 (bc Mom is my favorite role and using only one set of numbers just looked lopsided to me, hence the “bookend” number sets).
I always got the impression that @skieurope attended one of the HYP colleges. Could be wrong?
In fact, I thought HPuck was a ref to Shakespeare.
“future responses closer to topic. :)”
May I be the meanie who suggests we shift back from trying to peg Skieurope? Apologies and no offense intended. Of course, I defer to him of he doesn’t mind.
But he’s left a long trail of clues. Or statements.
I was sitting in a cafe when I joined CC and their sugary cakes, colorful cupcakes and fresh muffins looked worthy enough of a user name.
If you live in Austin, mine will be a dead giveaway!
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