I don’t know if this has been asked before, or explained before. I did a couple of searches but turned up nothing.
You know, I’ve been reading here for years and years, and always saw the name of one of the wonderful, lovely, hard working admins [/shameless sucking up], TubaDiva.
All these years… and suddenly a light went on. I admit it, I’m a little slow sometimes. Does the username mean our wonderful, lovely, hard working admin is a diva? A diva of the tuba?
Because for all these years… I’ve been pronouncing it TubaDiva… er… sounds like… Scuba Diver.
Was that intentional, or am I to burn in (terribly amused) humiliation for the rest of my days?
If it was a pun, or a joke, and I’m just getting it now, it’s cracking me up something terrible. If it wasn’t a pun, or a joke, it’s still slaying me. Someone enlighten me!
(If this was posted in the wrong forum, my humble apologies. I’ll be diving with my tuba in the meantime).
It’s a pun and a joke! She really does and/or has played the tuba.
I made a reference to my having played the tuba in a thread once, and when I got home from work there was an email to my home account from her, with the subject of “About that post you made”, and I thought, “ohmygod, what did I say? Who did I piss off? Am I banned???”
And it was just her saying, “Hey, I play(ed) the tuba too!”
I got the nickname from the conductor of an ensemble I played in a few years back; it was actually a backhanded compliment because the ensemble was filled with serious screaming divas of every stripe and I was more, um, reasonable in my demands, let me put it that way.
When I first signed online, it seemed the perfect name.
And yes, I am and have been a tuba player, for most of my life, in fact. Play a bunch of other instruments as well and have been caught singing a time or two also.
Bah, mine is boring. My name is Anastasia, and my husband used to call me his star, his “Anastasaeon”. I thought it sounded kinda pretty. Meh. He also used to call me his flower, his “Anastasalily”, but it didn’t have quite the same ring to it.
I just can’t believe for all this time, I’ve been thinking it was some play on Scuba Diver. Reading something you’d posted earlier and suddenly I think “… deeeeeeeeva! Not “die-va!” [Napoleon Dynamite]Idiot![/ND]” All these years I’d wondered what tubas had to do with diving. Or if you played the tuba and dived, too. Possibly at the same time.
I’m usually on top of those kind of things, and poke fun at those who mispronounce words or use them incorrectly, etc. It’s only fair that I out myself when I do the same.
I wanted to call myself Superman, but my lawyers advised me that copyright infringement is a losing battle. So I chose Superdude, which is essentially Superman’s less mature, way cuter little brother.
And obviously, anyone who plays the tuba would be refined and sophisticated enough to instantly understand Ms. Diva’s name. There’s a lot of us here, aren’t there, Ethilrist?
