Yes, in my experience it’s the most common name for them in Spanish. I have also heard picaflor (flower-pecker) and visitaflor (flower-vistor), and chupaflor (flower-sucker) also apparently is used (although I have never heard it personally. Zumbador (zoomer) is used in Mexico and the Caribbean.
Awhile back when I was starting an old blog, I thought “Hello Ninja” was a clever play on "Hello Kitty"and decided to use that as my blog name. It just stuck as a username.
Homie is a derivative of my last name. People call me “Homie”; in fact, my nickname is more common among my friends (& my wife’s side of the family) than my actual name. To get my attention, you would say “Hey, Homie!”
But it was my brother who gets most of the credit. Whenever he sees me he imitates Barney from The Simpsons and says, in Barney’s voice, “Hey Homie!”
Nívea is Spanish for “(fem)white as snow” (yeah, I know the snake’s name is in Latin) so I’ve always thought of you as The White One and had this sort of Snow White mental image or you. Didn’t know you came with fangs and a hood… gee, I guess Snow White did take over the family’s business after all!
PS: Nívea and the brand of creams are stressed different in Spanish. For some reason I always thought of you as the tilde snowy version, rather than the no-tilde creamy version.
I used to live in El Paso, which is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It’s in Texas, but is closer to LA than it is to Houston. People rarely know where it is, even though it is a metropolitan area of at least 1.5 to 2 million. Maybe with the noteriety of Ciudad Juarez (right across the bridge from downtown) more people will know about it. I miss El Paso.
Now I just live in hell at the tip of Texas.
You miss that place? Good lawd why?
Ha! Lots of friends, huge house/pool up on the Westside of the mountain, some semblance of seasonal weather, much nicer people and less traffic than where I am now, etc. I know people either love it or hate it.
Well, the humor is particularly Czech so maybe, in spite of your husband’s ethnicity, it’s just not up his alley. Also, if your unfamiliar with the context of the Czech lands under the Habsburgs, I guess a lot of the stabs that Hasek takes at the Austrians but also at the Catholic Church may just fly right past you. Still, even when you’re not Czech it can still be a very enjoyable read and most of the people that I’ve made read this book (and there’s a number of them now, none of them Czech) have enjoyed it.
A piece of literature that it’s been compared to (and not undeservedly, in my view) is Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 - not incidentally also one of my favorite reads, but Yossarian was taken on this board :). In fact, there’s one of Heller’s later works (Something Happened, IIRC) in which Yossarian and Švejk actually meet. So I’ll venture here that if you liked Catch 22 and you have more than a passing interest in Central European history of around the turn of the century, you’re going to like Švejk.
I got my name a long time ago when someone asked where I was and another guy said “Joe? He’s kicking back over there.” Since that day I have been Kickback_Joe.
I’ve always loved almost everything about kites (though I do tend to favour single-line kites over two-line or multi-line kites.)
And it’s so neat to design and build kites, (and thereafter fly them!)
Kitemaker is what I am, and my real first name is Chuck, so my SDMB username is kitemaker_chuck.
I forget…
My username is a slang term for my favorite weather, rain.
No, I am not a fisherman nor a fish.
I play bass fiddle and I specialize in older forms of jazz and it’s offshoots. Specifically, swing, dixieland, rockabilly and -wait for it- jump blues.
Shameless plug 
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7A_UEZGobo&feature=channel
How do you type?
Got mine from the stovetop…Hi, Med, and Lo around the dials.
My last name starts with Nott, and people call me that. JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you…” So, my moniker is a pun on JFK and my name. That, and I seem to have an encyclopedic stack of useless information in my head. Nobody wants to play Trivial Pursuit with me, unless I spot 'em a couple of wedges.
[Judge]I’m giving you the only name you spelled correctly, Max Power.
[Homer]I got it from a hair dryer.
Born: 1970
Because artichoke.
Mine is boring. I’m an electrical engineer and a computer geek.
When I signed up for a yahoo e-mail account many years ago, engineer_computer_geek was too long, so I shortened it. Being the incredibly creative person that I am (ahem) I use the same name pretty much everywhere online.