How'd you pick your user/screen name?

POSTED BY: Shinygoodguy
UPDATED: Monday, October 19, 2009 20:43
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NVG here:

I've been trying to get my bud to ink a Frazetta piece on me fo a while. I just can't decide which one...

Ghostrider was a handle that carried over from who knows where over fifteen or so years ago. Added the NV because I love my home state.



To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Hey Z,

Turns out I was wrong about the Yes album covers. It wasn't Frazzetta, but Roger Dean. Still though Frazzetta's art is fantastic. I tried to find out if Roger Dean was influenced by Frazzetta, since was born in '44, but I haven't found any evidence of that.

Take a look at Dean's stuff and you'll see what I mean. He does mostly landscapes - fantastic landscapes.

No matter.........Frazzetta rules!

BTW thanks for the art.


SGG

Tawabawho?

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Originally posted by chrisisall:

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Originally posted by traveler:
I spend my vacations motorcycling across the United States and Canada. Thus, I am a traveler.

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I am with you in sprit, if not on wheels.

I miss my Suzuki 550E so much.


The laughing Chrisisall

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Funny - I *rarely* miss my Yamaha 850 Special. Bastard bike damn near killed my ass. And it DID kill two other people. :o Far's I know, I'm the only one that survived it.



So... Usernames.

Mine comes from way back when, when I bought my first Honda CRX. I'd had a little '84 Civic for a dozen years, and loved its reliability and simplicity, but when I finally killed it, I was looking for something almost the same, but with a bit more "Ooomph" and a little more fun to drive. I happened upon an '87 CRX Si (bigger, fuel-injected engine, 91hp compared to the old Civic's 62hp) that was being sold by a grad student at the University of Texas. She was Chinese, graduating and going home to China. I test drove the car, it checked out, and when I came back, we talked a bit. Her English wasn't great, but it was cute when she said of the car, "He is very... how you say?... Quick-oh." I ended up buying the car for $1600.

I bought the car at around the same time I finally got online and joined a few of the old original Honda and CRX boards (now long gone), and I needed a username, so I became "Quicko", which just kind of eventually evolved to "Kwicko" (because in comedy, "K"s are funnier than "Q"s, and I am nothing if not a comedian...)

So that's the story. And, well, here I am...

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Boris is my Id. (Inner Dick head)named after Boris and Natasha's Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle. I have Tourette's and when I was a kid years before I was diagnosed the only way I could deal with it was to give it a name and pretend it was an unwelcome invisible tumour I couldn't get rid of. The name seemed pertinent: small but repugnant and persistent and occasionally endearing in an odd way, but ultimately unwanted. I just use the name now to avoid the whole "name has been taken" thing. Interestingly when I'm having a bad Tourettic day, my friends also refer to Boris as a seperate entity...which is kinda nice even though I always insist on dealing with any consequences of Boris behaviour. My real name is Rosaria which is shortened to Rose.

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SN from the ORIGINAL Dune, Children of Dune to be exact. I liked it mostly for the story that went with it and because I can use it on most boards. Too bad Mr. Herberts great work has been sullied.

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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Frank Frazzeta happens to be one of my fav artists of all time. His artwork is incredible, but he also did some work for the rock group Yes. Very Shiny indeed.

SGG

Tawabawho?

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I think you're thinking of Roger Dean, who did most of the Yes album covers.



Frazetta did Molly Hatchet and some Nazareth covers (Expect No Mercy comes to mind).



ETA: And now that I've read a bit further, I see you already noticed that...

Mike

The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means;
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams

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