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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:03 PM
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*Stalker* Taverner here - what does YOUR nickname mean?
I'll start - mine's after the Jerry Taverner character from Phillip K Dick's "Flow My Tears The Policeman Said"

Good read for all interested!
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Touchdown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:04 PM
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1. Well. um...running with the ball past the goal line maybe?
:shrug:
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:05 PM
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2. I think mine speaks for itself
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:06 PM
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3. See illustration
:eyes:

My expression for the last 3+ years...
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:11 PM
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4. It's my actual nickname.
Blues diva, E.C. Scott, introduced me as "Blue Jay" when I played the first of a few gigs with her. She confessed afterwards that she forgot my name, and only remembered that it started with a 'J', so she improvised. A lot of my degenerate musician friends were there, so it kinda stuck.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:13 PM
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5. Kewl story
I'd like to say PK Dick himself gave me my nick...after communing with the pink light beam sent from VALIS, but alas, PK Dick was still missing from this reality when I got into his stuff...
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toddzilla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:13 PM
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6. I'm large and in charge!!
Actually, i'm not that large, but i used to lift alot of weights, and i was playing softball one day with some friends when i hit it out of the field and onto this house and someone just yelled it out.. it's stuck since then. i don't mind it.. at least it isnt' derogatory. :shrug:
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SarahB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:17 PM
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7. My dad used to call me this when I was a little girl.
We have our ups and downs with each other, but he was one who gave me many political insights (fitting for this forum) and was the parent I was closest with for many reasons.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:17 PM
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8. Means that in 1/01, I thought it would be funny to twit Cheney with it
with the result that I've spent 16 months explaining that, no, I don't mean me, I mean the unelected VP and CEOissimo of Halliburton. Oh well, too late to switch to disclosedlocation...:)
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:50 PM
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28. Dammit, 1/03 is what I meant. And here I thought King Arthur was the only
one who couldn't count to 5, I mean 3.:silly:
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:18 PM
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9. It's my name
:-)

Kirsten
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:25 PM
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11. Go Sox
It's a long story.to make it short. My name is Bill I hunt and fish a lot. The 537 is my union local number Pipefitters local#537:toast:
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:26 PM
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12. Hey...that's cool!
Edited on Sun May-02-04 02:35 PM by Triple H
I can't believe I didn't catch onto that. ROFL.

Edit: It took me awhile to get "Bertha Venation" too. ROFL.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:28 PM
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15. Yes...pretty cool, if I may say so myself
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:29 PM
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25. Ha! Never figured that out. Clever.
I see by your profile you're in law school.
How much longer?
My son-in-law is an attorney in Boston.
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 11:29 AM
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45. I'm just finishing up my first year
two to go
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Teddy_Salad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 05:09 PM
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37. Clever!
:yourock:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:22 PM
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10. Hello, my name is Juan Diaz
I am a coffee farmer from Venezuala


/props to the brilliant mind of GregW
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:26 PM
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13. Not funny
Do you know Juan Valdez
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:33 PM
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16. um, tough luck?
Yes, but he's from Columbia
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Triple H Donating Member (714 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:27 PM
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14. Badass WWE Wrestler.
Triple H!

Multiple WWE Champion and World Champion, doesn't take sh*t from anyone, and kicks major ass in the ring!
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ewagner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:40 PM
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17. It means
that I am totally devoid of imagination.....and thought I was putting in my e-mail address before I realized what I had done......
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IronLionZion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:44 PM
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18. I don't know
It means I couldn't think of an interesting name.
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:45 PM
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19. I think my name speaks for itself
At least on this board. Freepers would probably scratch their simian heads and say, "Duh??"

BTW, Taverner - you never answered my question about when you went to Valley Christian School! (My niece also went there.)
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:48 PM
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20. *Stalker*....heh
;)

Mine is my *secret agent* name bestowed on me by a childhood playmate. I haven't the faintest idea why or what it could possibly mean. :hi:
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:50 PM
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21. The Wonderful World of Brother Buzz
Early fifties children's television program that dealt with animal life and environmental issues. Ralph ChessŽ, the creater, taught us well.


Here's a picture of me and my honey, Busy Bee (she's a looker!)
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:01 PM
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23. Maybe it's just me,
Edited on Sun May-02-04 03:01 PM by Blue-Jay
but those things are scary-lookin'. And they look more like chipmunks than bees.
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:33 PM
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26. Maybe so...
I guess that's why my mean older brother called me Brother Buzz, and still does to this day, fifty years later.
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 02:59 PM
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22. it's french for irregardless stalker of dookus
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:27 PM
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24. the retired old fart=trof
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Dan-W Donating Member (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 03:41 PM
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27. It's been my license plate for 30 years.
Of course, the letters are all capitals.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:23 PM
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29. Comes from my competitive video game playing days . . .
Name in game was Eric the Awful, then abbreviated to ET Awful or ETA.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:25 PM
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30. In English, it's 'Patrick'.
It's the Irish version, and my given name, seeing as how I was born in Ireland. :)
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:37 PM
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31. Great choice, Taverner
I love PKD.

The Magistrate was in the hospital waiting an angioplasty after his heart attack. I told him I would post on DU and let his friends know what had happened. (I was a lurker who had never registered.) I was trying to think of an ID when he suggested She Who Must Be Obeyed as a name that would go well with Magistrate. Who can deny a man on his sickbed?;) I only wish it was shorter as it gets to be a drag signing in.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:39 PM
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32. It's a classic name too
but you two are SOOOO different in your posting styles..that that makes me chuckle more than anything....but I can see why he loves you.
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:59 PM
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34. hee hee
You can tell that he reads big thick books and I read headlines. I wish I had his powers of concentration and retention, and his big chewy brain (as I like to refer to it). But we like so many of the same things, and share so many similar views, that we match up very well. Mmmmmmmagistrate! :loveya:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 04:40 PM
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33. EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!
You're creeping me out - like a stalker or something. We have a problem here.


:evilgrin:


PS - what WAS that all about?
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 05:02 PM
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35. Saw that. Perplexed.
Juvenile poster?
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 05:07 PM
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36. Juvenile poster, or
extremely stoopid freeper, trying to start something. Very strange, wasn't it?
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:33 PM
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40. It was...but made me consider changing my name to Stalker
Since no one else has the nick :)
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 05:09 PM
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38. terrya + Terry is my first name. a is the first letter of my last name...
I know...what a boring username, eh?

Terry
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 05:14 PM
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39. was my Congressional dist in AZ
but now I'm re-districted so is no longer accurate. But tis OK cuz the re-districting gave us more seats in the State legislature that are very competitive, so maybe we can add some Dems to the state house here.
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salonghorn70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 08:43 PM
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41. salonghorn70
I am from San Antonio, I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. I love all things Longhorn.

HOOK 'EM HORNS
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Bride of Cthulhu Donating Member (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:25 PM
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42. mine definitely
speaks for itself.
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Failure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:35 PM
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43. Everyone always said I'd be a Failure...
now I'm an artist for YAMAHA pianos, a YAMAHA product specialist, and consultant, recording and performing artist, a fundraiser for Children's Hospital Foundation, married to an eastern-european hottie, can't complain about anything...

they were right.


failure.
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-02-04 09:40 PM
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44. I am the great aunt of triplets.
Christian, Jordan and Alexandra are 3 1/2.
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m-jean03 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 11:38 AM
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46. Mara. Jean. Joined in 2003.
Creative genius, aren't I?:eyes:
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MissMillie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 11:38 AM
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47. Millie is my cat's name
I add the Miss because she's such a dainty little Miss... that Miss Millie.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 11:42 AM
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48. Initials of my name. The Y is lowercase because...
...it's a one-letter connecting particle, like "von" for Germans and "de" for Italians. To be more exact, it means "and".
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 12:06 PM
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49. Planet of the Apes Reference
It's from the Sacred Scrolls:

Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.

It's also the name of my project on aciplanet.com.
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Melsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 12:06 PM
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50. It's my real life nickname
also, the name I use for my art. It is the first three letters of my first name and the last three letters of my last name. I started using it as an email address, and decided it suited me much better than Melissa did.
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Dors Venabili Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 12:16 PM
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51. The name my father R. Daneel Olivaw gave me.
and welcome to me!
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Angelus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 12:42 PM
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52. My nickname came from a show....
perhaps "Angel?" :evilgrin:

Angelus...kick-ass, soulless, evil vampire.

Greatest. Show. Ever. :thumbsup:
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 12:55 PM
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53. Pat Buchanan called my country "Soviet Canuckistan"
Just because we didn't want to kill some innocent Iraqis.
Sheesh, what a sorehead.
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 12:58 PM
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54. kmla = kiss my liberal ass...
Usually a response I use when conversing/sparring with freeper type pinheaded twits when I reach the end of my fuse. Typically right after they say, "Bill Clinton was..... (fill in the freeper blank here.).

Tired of dealin' with the bullshit.
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Duncan Grant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 01:28 PM
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55. Gayest zip code in San Francisco.
I wanted to be known as an 'out' gay man at DU (it worked). :hi:
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