What's in a name?

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CAUSAL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by iamzoe:
wish fulfilment.
Must. Be. Strong!

BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

*snort*

Ohmigod, you gotta stop that; you're gonna give me an aneurysm!

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

URSULA

Thursday, January 5, 2006 2:36 AM

My nephew named me "Ursula" because he thought I looked like Ursula the Sea Witch in "The Little Mermaid". (I do!)

The 4400 came because I double registered on an old chat and couldn't get back in without the number.

SPACEHOPPER

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:27 AM

I don't know if you had Spacehoppers in America, but they used to be popular in England. They're these fairly big rubber balls with two handles protruding from the top and a smiley face painted on the front (if you can call any part of a ball its front) and you sit on them and bounce happily along.

Sounds nice enough, right? They were accountable for a huge amount of injuries in the UK at the height of their popularity (hence they are no longer popular).

So let's recap... It's a cute, innocent-looking and seeminglingly harmless thing that in fact has the potential to be very violent and dangerous.

Remind you of anyone?

Deep, I know :P

VIOLETRIX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:52 AM

should i do mine again?

i'm violetrix, but i'm haven't always been. since i was fourteen i've been Jane in some form or the other. it started with a jane's addiction cd cover... anyway, in college i became 3jane, (as in Gibson's neuromancer) which got shortened to janie. but you try using "3jane" or "janie" to sign up for email or a message board! forget about it. so i started using violetrix, which is (was) this great perfume that was discontinued. and i haven't had any trouble getting any accounts anywhere. but i still get called "3jane" and "janie" and "sweet jane" (like the lou reed song.)

that's the long version. well, i guess i could make it longer.

-V

i'm quite partial to violetrix now. or violet. or V.

http://violetrix.blogspot.com
you won't remember anyway

VIOLETRIX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:54 AM

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I don't know if you had Spacehoppers in America

like those pogo balls we had here in the States in the '80's! i had one of those, i think.

http://violetrix.blogspot.com
you won't remember anyway

VIOLETRIX

Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:57 AM

Quote:
FINN MAC CUMHAL

it's been awhile, but i studied him a bit in college when i was studying Celtic folklore.

http://violetrix.blogspot.com
you won't remember anyway

CITIZEN

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:06 AM

All you ever didn't want to know about Space Hoppers and were glad you didn't ask:

Quote:
Space Hoppers - also known as Hoppity Hops, Hop Ball, and Kangaroo Balls - bounced into the UK during the Summer of ’71 and served absolutely no useful purpose whatsoever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1971/toys1.shtml
http://www.rcoc.co.uk/SPACE%20HOPPER;WHAT%20IS%20A%20.htm

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

KWICKO

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:06 AM

Mine came from... umm... my car. Yup. Unimaginative as that may be...

Anyhoo, here's how it came to be:

'Round summer of '97, I was in need of new transportation. My trusty old '84 Honda Civic had finally breathed its last, after more than a dozen years of me abusing and misusing it. Being that it was such a solid and fun little car, I went looking for another one. This time, though, I wanted a little more pep than my old one could muster with its whopping 1.3 liters of mousepower, 4-speed manual transmission, and NO options at all (no A/C, no radio, not even a rear defroster!). After a couple weeks of looking, I came across an '87 Honda CRX - basically a shortened two-seater Civic. The seller wanted $1800, it had working A/C, and best of all, it was the higher-performing "Si" model.

The seller was a Chinese grad student at the University of Texas, who was graduating and heading back to China. I took the car for a test drive, loved it, and when I returned, she said - and I quote: "The car is very... how you say?... Quick-o! Yes?" I drove it home that day for $1600. Still have it, too. I started autocrossing it in '98, won my class a few years with it, and slowly started "improving" it - to the point that it is no longer street legal!

Anyway, I got hooked on CRXs, joined several CRX and Honda web boards, and my username has always been "Kwicko" on all the Honda boards. I seem to suffer from an addiction to those little cars - right now I own three, not including a couple that I've bought and resold.

So that's my story. I'm sticking to it!

Mike

"Kaylee, find that kid that's taking a dirt nap with baby Jesus; we need a hood ornament."

MOOSE

Thursday, January 5, 2006 4:38 AM

Been my nickname since my High School football days. (I was the smallest guy on the team)

WORKEROFEVIL

Thursday, January 5, 2006 5:12 AM

Worker Of Evil is one of the many, many names Odin was known by. I happen to like Norse mythology so I chose one of Odin's lesser known names. For a while (elsewhere) I used the screenname Gullinkambir, which is the name of the golden rooster that crows at the start of Ragnarok, signaling all the warriors of Valhalla to come forth and fight the freed denizens of Niflheim. I'm pretty sure nobdy actually cared about that, but it's too late now, isn't it?

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