Explain the meaning behind your screen name...

Mine was determined up as I watched John Kerry get swiftboated in the spring of 2004. I was irate at what was going on.

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Name of my old cat Turtle and me Sue. Turtle passed away in 2005. I keep it in memory.
Besides its unique.

I missed Prairie Dog who passed away while I was in MD without my wife and daughter, and truffle late that fall. Ben passed away on Thanksgiving evening 2005 just shy of a year old.

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which is also a reference to Ralph Wiggum from the Simpsons.

"Me fail English!? That's unpossible!"

but.. in fact.. umm.. well, nevermind.

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No...really, it's a generic assigned number from another website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjBvPHqO9KU

Tuesday afternoon.
I'm just beginning to see,
Now I'm on my way.
It doesn't matter to me,
Chasing the clouds away.
Something calls to me.
The trees are drawing me near,
I've got to find out why.
Those gentle voices I hear
Explain it all with a sigh.
I'm looking at myself, reflections of my mind.
It's just the kind of day to leave myself behind.
So gently swaying through the fairy-land of love,
If you could just come with me and see the beauty of
Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday afternoon.
Tuesday afternoon.
I'm just beginning to see,
Now I'm on my way.
It doesn't matter to me,
Chasing the clouds away.
Something calls to me.
The trees are drawing me near,
I've got to find out why.
Those gentle voices I hear
Explain it all with a sigh.

If I used one of the MB's songs for mine, it would have been Gemini Dream.

I like the flax plant - useful, pretty, and I like bees and honey. Sort of a weird choice, but hey, it's worked. :hi: Mad! Hugs to Sonia!

From wiki: The leaves are glaucous green, slender lanceolate, 20-40 mm long and 3 mm broad. The flowers are pure pale blue, 15-25 mm diameter, with five petals. The fruit is a round, dry capsule 5-9 mm diameter, containing several glossy brown seeds shaped like an apple pip, 4-7 mm long.

In addition to referring to the plant itself, "flax" may refer to the unspun fibres of the flax plant.

Flax is grown both for its seeds and for its fibers. Various parts of the plant have been used to make fabric, dye, paper, medicines, fishing nets and soap. It is also grown as an ornamental plant in gardens.

"Flaxbee"..."Flaxbee"...it has a nice ring to it.

My youngest daughter is lucky I didn't know about it when we were searching for names... :D

I'm happy to hear I've made you smile :) :hi:

Really an interesting name! Sonia says hi! She loves going out on the patio this time of year, and has become an escape artist!!!!

Heard mama and ladies of the church use that all the time growing up. Then I saw the Betty Bowers Unsaved trash bumper sticker.
Makes me laugh and mama's face would melt if she knew I used the name.

Someone told me they were having a argument with someone about the Iraq War in the parking lot after church. Someone who joined in to listen couldn't help make their opinion known: "Hell, those people don't believe in Jesus or nothing!"

My screen name is obvious if you know I live in South Carolina, although someone once blasted me for it because they read it as scantily clad GOPers and had a vision of Rush and Cheney in thongs.

It just kind of popped into my head and didn't need random numbers added to the end to make it unique...

and he got it from a pack of rolling papers -- the one with the red stripe on it means there are five leaves left in the pack.

Rizla are better, because they tell you when you have 10 left. More time to plan.

Jack Lemmon and Shirley McLaine if I remember right. I'll have to check that out sometime. I remember as a kid my mother had an album of movie themes and I liked the theme from "The Apartment".

GuiTaRMAN

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1. it is the colors of the only good college and basketball team: THE University of Kansas Jayhawks (or Fighting Manginos-- depending on the season).. the NCAA Champion and Orange Bowl Kansas Jayhawks, if I might add. ;)

2. it is a take off of one of my first and favoritest email accounts (anyone remember when hotmail WASN'T owned by M$?)

3. it perfectly describes my political views-- I gots a little bits of everything.

Yeah, I've whittled my email accounts down to two, and may get rid of one (I guess I really have 3, but one just forwards to another), and both are hotmail accounts from before the MS buyout.

edit: drunken spelling

Okay Dr. Dust Range...

just sayin'

I can read "braille."

no, not a peeping tom, but a PI.

her call letters were "KC" (they called her killer chick). Thought she was awesome and wanted KC as a username. Since KC was already taken, by the time I came to DU, I went with KC2. That's the story. :hi:

"Adso's Letter" is a letter wriiten by a 10th century monk; Adso wrote "Letter on the Origin and Time of the Antichrist" to the Frankish Queen Gerberga around 950 CE, in response to her inquiry as to whether Norse raids along the French coast signalled the appearence of the "pre-cursors of Antichrist."

It held significance for me at the time because it demonstrated the psychological impact the raids were having.

EDIT: ...the Norse raids also seem to be effecting my spelling abilities... :dunce:

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Are the cat's your alter ego?? Or is it the other way around. Our's just basically control us!!1!!

BTW, didn't you used to have a different sn several years ago?

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Nah, just Bertha is my alter ego. She's wittier and less serious than I am. Well, everywhere but on DU. On DU she's just a username.

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And yes, the cats control us. Although we have begun to take back the night: they're getting used to being kicked out of the bedroom at bedtime! :woohoo:

Until Sonia comes in and does the bladder dance on us to get us to feed her!!

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My dad would have loved it; he was so into puns and wordplay...

very simple ;) :hi:

one of the few required reading books I absolutely loved in HS.

Sorry it can't be seen today!

became so disgusted with his Country's government he stopped being Captain America and adopted the persona of Nomad

I loved Captain America when I was just a tiny little kid, but didn't know that - I guess this would have been the early Reagan years, so "Nomad" must have been long gone. Now I want to read it.

his Nomad identity didn't last long, but I liked the concept. A true Patriot that had become so ashamed with his goverment. Seemed very fitting for the bush years.

n. Informal
A political activist who publicly opposes war, a particular war, or the proliferation of weapons; a pacifist.

...and getting it so very, very right the second time around, whether he deserves it or not.

Also the part I'd wanted to play in Twelfth Night, though because I'd written music I was designated Feste.

The revelation came upon me during a particularly bad poker tournament.

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nickname I've had since the mid 60's.

it just stuck.

Often used in the phrase "kama'aina discount", really a sneaky way for hotels, restaurants, etc. to charge us the actual price while marking it up for the tourists.

Although I had been around less than a year when I delurked, there were (and are :( ) very few Hawai'i posters here, so I grabbed it for myself.

BTW, have you checked out the Hawaii forum?

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like I said, we don't have a whole lot of kama'aina posters at DU. The fast pace and snarky style would tend to put off most true kama'aina: "Eh brah, no talk stink!"

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around Idaho.......


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no really

I was "lost" in a few ways when I joined du
and I am in NJ!!


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lost

5 years old....now she is 11 years old.

We picked her name as our user name because we were new to the internets
and wanted an easy name to remember.


The Tikkis

short for JoAnn and the year I was born, so jojo54.

And no, I don't mind anyone knowing how old I am. I feel and look great.

and had just lost a favorite cat friend of mine. My name's just a little remembrance of Sammy the cat. That's how I referred to him, sammythecat. He was a cool little guy and one day he never came back. I hate to think of it, but a fox or an owl probably got him.

After many tries of "already in use, try again", I took my left hand and typed 4 random letters (SAZE) and added misery. Voila, new user name and it has always been available.

Joe. I found him on my college's campus in 1999, on the day that Joe DiMaggio died (hence his name). We knew absolutely nothing about his past, other than he was trained as a hunting/tracking dog. I think he was either a full beagle or a beagle-basset cross. Shortly before I signed up at DU, he died at the approx. age of 16 or 17.

Joe was a true 4-pawed populist. He didn't care about race, creed or religion. He cared about long walks, restorative naps, and whether or not you were going to finish that sandwich.:D

for dream

I've been waiting for SO long for Congress to take action, but alas, they continue to let me down.

from each other, one out the front door and one out the back. Not an easy thing to do when the cats are determined to fight.

So I just used the description of what I'd been doing as my screen name.

My Dad used always say I was an antagonist. I'm not really, but I like 'auntAgonist' as a user name.

aA

"I only regret that I have but One Life to Give for my Country." Nathan Hale

His last words on being executed by the British for being a Colonial Spy.

I guess the apple doesn't want to fall far from the tree.

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I could just as easily have chosen Lame, Fatso, Big nose, Smelly...but Iggo was the first one that came up.

I'd prefer to just use 'Tirade', but I think that was taken when I signed up. It was one character who was split into two seperate beings. One representing light, and one representing dark. Since the one representing the dark side was a bit cooler and less whiny than the other one, I usually prefer to use Dark Tirade if I have to choose one of the two. :P

(500 ft. below for any of you FAA inspector guys, okay?)



Not in this one, but one identical to it.

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Proud member of the E Street Nation ( i.e. fanatic Springsteen fan), and I live in Albuquerque.And chose the picture ( not that you asked) of Marley because like Bruce ( and my other great rock n roll hero, Joe Strummer of the Clash), Bob talked the talk AND walked the walk. I'm a musician ( among other things) here in Albq. and hope that before I'm too old to rock and roll ( feels like that's rapidly approaching) I'll have the opportunity to be in an overtly political band, but maybe my time for that possibility has passed; hopefully some younger guys will carry the torch...Meanwhile, to all of you that have seen or will see the E Street Band on this tour ( they're not scheduled to come within 7 or 8 hundred miles of here) I'm INSANELY jealous.

My younger sister named him, when she was infatuated with an Australian band called INXS. I have no idea why it because Awsi instead of Aussie but she preferred that spelling. Come to think of it, I think she called him Awesome Dude the first few days so that usage had the "w".

Dooger is what I called a dog when I was a young kid. My parents got a kick out of it so it stuck, to this day. When I see a dog I'll think, "there's a nice looking dooger..."

Anyway, when I was registering on message boards early this decade Awsi was laying beside me so I decided to honor him with my user name.

He was put to sleep in July 2005, about two months shy of 16.

And if you know anything about Estonian-Americans, that's a rather rare combination.

Do you suppose it's because of the awful time Estonians had under Soviet rule, and somehow they equate communism with liberalism and so just automatically veer in the opposite direction?

It's really too bad - Estonians are so intelligent and creative to be stuck in some stupid conservative reactionary dogma. I mean, it's not out of any religious dogma, as far as I know.

What do you attribute it to?

When the Soviets took over Estonia toward the end of WW2, the left-leaning ones mostly stayed in Estonia, and the Nazis and other right-wingers fled the country. Most of the Estonians who came to the U.S. in the late 1940s were bitterly anti-Communist right wingers. Estonians in Estonia today are generally far more liberal than Estonian-Americans.

My father was an exception. His family was Socialist, and he had a minor political job when the Nazis invaded. My father had to flee the Nazis with a price on his head. My mom, who was also Socialist in her political leanings, had to flee when the Soviets came to arrest her landlord because he was a boy scout leader - something considered right-wing by the Soviets. My parents met at a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war, and managed to come to the U.S. in 1949.

Although I was sent to Estonian Saturday school and summer camp, my parents didn't like most of the parents of the other kids, and I didn't learn until years later that it was because of their right-wing politics. My parents wouldn't let me go to scout camp because they considered it fascistic. As a college student, I was kicked out of the NY Estonian House for wearing anti-Vietnam War slogans on my jacket. During the late 60s it was even considered incorrect to wear red clothing among Esto-Americans.

I avoided interacting with Esto-Americans for many years until finally finding a few other liberals via the internet.

i added mad after the kerry unelection also...but that was my nick name in high school too

I didn't know that people chose clever little handles.

Believe me, I have my regrets.

When I bought my first Windows machine back in the eighties. I'd been PC_Crone on the local BBS, but that was already taken, so I just combined my first name and the name of my state, Damon Runyon style. This was way before Florida disgraced itself in the 2000 election, so I've since come to regret the choice from time to time. But it's still unique, oddly enough. I thought there'd be at least a dozen more, given the population of this state and how common my first name is among Women of a Certain Age.

Now I've had it so long it would be difficult to change.

Two giants of American improvisational music.

Their approaches to playing were diametrically opposite, yet they both created music that will still be appreciated hundreds of years from now.

One of them is snoozing beside me right now.

I am a former frequent listener of a notorious right wing blowhard's talk show. Also am a former Republican (or more accurately am now a Post Reagan Democrat Democrat.

adoring Granny to two freakin' awesome grandkids, and I want a better future for them and THEIR grandchildren. :hi:

you don't wanna know!

1: My name is Richard Steele, and my friends call me "Dick".

2: Back when I found DU in 2004, I couldn't think of a cool
username. But I really just HAD to jump in and start posting,
so I told myself I'd just use my real name TEMPORARILY until
I came up with a DU handle as clever and witty as the ones I
saw when I first lurked here.

3 1/2 years and 24,000 posts later, I've still got NOTHING
in the "clever username" file. I'm almost beginning to think the
"dicksteele" handle may not be temporary.

Almost.

I don't care if it's your real name! It's great! Wish I'd thought up something like that or had a better name (REP is my initials, which I've used in real life forfuckingever).

whenever I see that name, "dick steele" I just get a little tingle up my leg, like tweety. :rofl:

Perro = dog
Perra - female dog

Grande - big

You figure it out -- one of those words not favored on DU.

"Plato", incidentally, is a nick-name derived from the Greek word "platon", meaning "broad". He was evidently very broad-shouldered. He was also a champion wrestler.

that my style (jazz improv) was very laconic. When I joined DU, I couldn't think of anything better to use, and even though I'm a clarinetist who only doubles on sax, I stopped caring enough to want to change it.

On edit: Oh shit! I should have posted the brazillion joke. :banghead:

There was either a music journal I can across doing research as an undergrad, or an excerpt from said journal, called "Harmonicon" that I liked a lot, and wrote down. I think it was from Harmonicon IX. I honestly don't remember what it was now, but my duo used the title "harmonicon" as the name of the b-side on our first 7" record. I may have been using it as an aim name or something before that - I don't know which came first, but it is one of the names that I use on teh internets.

Lost Hills was going to be the name of my band. Then I decided that I really preferred playing solo, and I started using the name for myself. It's an artistic statement...

and if your initials were meo wouldn't you be compelled to make it meow? I should have actually made it MEOw which is how I sign my pottery.

My name and my favorite bird, whom I resemble. Big eyes, beaky nose, dead mouse breath.

Immediately after the 2004 election, I was "blue," with the double meaning of "sad" and a Democrat, here in red Alaska.

My sister is in Anchorage also! She worked on Tony Knowles campaign(s) a couple of years ago.

Do you know who she's supporting for Don Young's seat? We have a couple of good Democrats, Diane Benson and Ethan Berkowitz, and one not-so-good (IMO) Democrat, Jake Metcalfe, competing for the nomination. If she hasn't made up her mind yet, I would strongly recommend Diane. She absolutely rocks.

We like to talk about the exploits of Don Young, the Murkowski family, and of course everyone's favorite, the Stevens' family!

Due to her job, she doesn't like to discuss who she actually supports, although she has told me offline it is democrats.

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Hopefully, their days are numbered. :)

mth - my inituals
44 - Leroy Kelly's number when he played for the Cleveland Browns
sc - South Carolina

Gonna be an exciting season coming up. I can hardly wait.

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Ceile is Irish for "dancer" or "dance"-she was found w/ a broken hip, so she'll never dance.

and it asked for a user name and I looked up and saw the name of a cd on my bookshelf.

sorry but i do.

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"ThinkBlue", it comes from this little affectation of mine:


I ordered 100 of them back in 2005, and put them under the windshield wipers and over the radio antennas of cars i saw with left-leaning bumper stickers or Dem candidates stickers still remaining from 2004.

I have one of them left, and i wear it constantly.

Graduated college, waitressed and bartended for years, finally got a real career started around age 30, married at 38 (had the good sense not to marry any of the previous bad boys!), had my 2 kids at age 39 and 42.

It's all been workin out pretty good!