Join or Die? And other stories about Avatars and Nicknames...

[Faux Pas]

And our Ozzies didn't ?

I don't recall any of our Aussie brethren jumping in the fray but, jb did a pretty good job for a page or two. It was two fold as I did spell it wrong to begin with. I didn't see his point from the beginning as a name as a name as a name and I was cocky enough to take the position as "WTF is it to you"  . All ended well enough and I found jb to one of the most knowledgeable around. I miss him even. His hard hitting sharp edged style I find to be very appropriate in most cases.

[Blues Fairy]

...which reminds me, it's high time to change my avatar!   

[I/O]

...which reminds me, it's high time to change my avatar!   

Awwwwwww, now who would guess, Mama is Russian and Bub is a Scot?

I/O

[myrddin]

I have always liked/associated myself with bears and since bears are also another name for police, that is my fascination with bears.  Now the crazy part has to do with a few things I did when I was younger that were just outside the norm of law enforcement thinking, so I combined the two and viola!

I'm sure it's modesty that led you to "A" crzybear when we all know you're actually "THE" crzybear!   

[myrddin]

My first choice for a handle would have come from astronomy, if astronomers weren't notoriously uncreative.  Terms like "Big Bang" and "Black Hole" were originally coined derisively, and they'd make bad handles anyway.  And NGC 224 would just be weird. 

So I went to mythology, which often happens when I cross the very thin line to my right brain world.  I shot past the Greek names because they're usually taken.

"myrddin" is the Celtic name for Merlin from the tales of King Arthur.  Not sure what happened to the capitalization, maybe I was reading too much e.e.cummings. 


The current avatar is actually a very sweet and lovable Weimaraner looking uncharacteristically fierce.  To me, it symbolizes a need to look at the "whole picture".

[myrddin]

heh.. admittedly the cloak of invisibility spell does have the additional benefit of increased comeliness!  Don't wanna scare these RW's away from the board immediately..

OK, Daveman, it's possible the verbiage is coincidental, but if it isn't and you know what "THAC0" is, one of your Dark Secrets is out!    (Talk about scaring people away!!)

[Daveman]

OK, Daveman, it's possible the verbiage is coincidental, but if it isn't and you know what "THAC0" is, one of your Dark Secrets is out!    (Talk about scaring people away!!)

LoL! Let's just say I have no clue what you're talking about.. completely coincidental .. and no armored monsters were injured in the making of this post   :evil:

[Daveman]

My first choice for a handle would have come from astronomy, if astronomers weren't notoriously uncreative.  Terms like "Big Bang" and "Black Hole" were originally coined derisively, and they'd make bad handles anyway.  And NGC 224 would just be weird. 

So I went to mythology, which often happens when I cross the very thin line to my right brain world.  I shot past the Greek names because they're usually taken.

"myrddin" is the Celtic name for Merlin from the tales of King Arthur.  Not sure what happened to the capitalization, maybe I was reading too much e.e.cummings. 


The current avatar is actually a very sweet and lovable Weimaraner looking uncharacteristically fierce.  To me, it symbolizes a need to look at the "whole picture".

Oh I dunno, QuasiStellar makes a pretty good double entendre...     UranusRings would have been a little over the top though... but you're correct, references from within Andromeda would have been nebulous at best -- or there's something you're not telling us..     

BTW That's one Sirius looking dog! 

Okay, enough geek humor...  the big picture reference is cool.

[Missouri-Hunter]

The screen name I normally use is political in nature, so due to my intention of coming here to learn (and since this board is so mellow compared to some I frequent) I decided to use a name that's more informational than antagonistic.
    I used my pic as an Avatar here going with the whole info theme like my screen name, but here's a few I currently use on other boards;

I use this one because I'm learning to cook.

 
This is a pic I took of Dawn Creten and her truck Scarlet Bandit. You can just see her head over the top of the truck.  (This site might not allow hot linking images). Someone had mentioned global warming, so I put up a pic of a 1,700HP alcohol fueled Monster Truck. 


This is one I use because after a certain political statement I had made, one of the guys said I was paranoid.


I've also used pics of the Enterprise (NCC-1701 from Star Trek), various guns, assorted women and some of my hunting scenes and vehicles.
 

[Simoni]

Thanks, MH!

You'll find that FSU women have a great interest in cars and trucks, mostly cars. 

We are also star trek fans; we just ordered matching crew shirts :-)   I'm blue and she is red.

[Tamara]

What an interesting thread.  I always wondered what I/O stood for.  Now I know. 

My user name and explanation are similar to Sandro's, even more obvious. It is simply my real first name and a picture of me taken at work when I had a year contract with Fluor for translating technical materials and had to work from their Chemical Technology Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

[SANDRO43]

I had a year contract with Fluor for translating technical materials and had to work from their Chemical Technology Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Talk about similar experiences . I did the same for an Italian pharmaceutical company that had just been taken over by Warner Lambert, then I resigned to join IBM Italy.

[Tamara]

Talk about similar experiences . I did the same for an Italian pharmaceutical company that had just been taken over by Warner Lambert, then I resigned to join IBM Italy.

Sandro, so it is not only the concept of nicknames and avatars that we have in common! LOL 

[myrddin]

Oh I dunno, QuasiStellar makes a pretty good double entendre...     UranusRings would have been a little over the top though... but you're correct, references from within Andromeda would have been nebulous at best -- or there's something you're not telling us..     

BTW That's one Sirius looking dog! 

 I can laugh now, but imagine talking about the 7th planet in a planetarium full of 12 year olds!  After tiring of the joke, it's now called "Urectum"   


When I rescued the dog, she was 6 months old and already had a name.  I didn't feel comfortable changing it.   Kind of like I'm stuck with "myrddin" now. 

Apparently I'm 51/49% left brain/right brain (and yes, 51/50 has already been suggested  )  I have a large number of interests and no single field stands out far beyond others. 

Even though astrophysics is #1, and I've since thought of other names, I've dug myself a nice little rut with this ID so I'm sticking to it!

Okay, enough geek humor... 

Au contraire!  One last bit, then I'll be good 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp6eswhgOKk[/youtube]

[SANDRO43]

I can laugh now, but imagine talking about the 7th planet in a planetarium full of 12 year olds!  After tiring of the joke, it's now called "Urectum"   

That's be Urano in Italian: several of our words end in -ANO and therefore lend themselves to jokes - among others, Ciambellano (Chamberlain) sounds very similar to C'ha un bell'ano (he has a fine posterior) .

[Missouri-Hunter]

Thanks, MH!

You'll find that FSU women have a great interest in cars and trucks, mostly cars. 

We are also star trek fans; we just ordered matching crew shirts :-)   I'm blue and she is red.

The dreaded red shirt! 
Don't let her go on an away team with that shirt on. 

[Simoni]

Thanks for the warning.  She is tied to the ship!  :-)))
The USA is the only "alien" world she will go to!   LOL

[GoodOlBoy]

Mr. Wikipedia says:

Good Ol' Boy is a slang term used, either to self-identify as or to refer to a male, usually white and of Northern/Western-European descent, who lives in a rural area and/or subscribes to a traditionally "rural" lifestyle. The term is generally thought to originate in the rural areas of the southern and southwestern U.S. While other terms such as redneck, hick, yokel, "Bubba", and "white trash" are also applied, though usually pejoratively and are often interchanged with "good ol' boy," the "good ol' boy" is more of an idealized image of rural Americans, Canadians and Australians.

What else can I add? 

As far as my Avatar.

This is my beautiful and smart wife (Marina).

She is from Omsk, Russia and that is a Colt .45 Defender that she is firing.

She would range qualify as "Expert" in the Corps with both rifle and pistol.


GOB

[Faux Pas]

Mr. Wikipedia says:

Good Ol' Boy is a slang term used, either to self-identify as or to refer to a male, usually white and of Northern/Western-European descent, who lives in a rural area and/or subscribes to a traditionally "rural" lifestyle. The term is generally thought to originate in the rural areas of the southern and southwestern U.S. While other terms such as redneck, hick, yokel, "Bubba", and "white trash" are also applied, though usually pejoratively and are often interchanged with "good ol' boy," the "good ol' boy" is more of an idealized image of rural Americans, Canadians and Australians.

I was raised in South Georgia from a very young age. The term Good Ol Boy was actually used as an affectionate term and descriptive as a "good guy" or reliable. Any one of those other terms however were as we said in South Georgia "thems fighting words" and could get your lights punched out by a Good Ol Boy 

[GoodOlBoy]

I was raised in South Georgia from a very young age. The term Good Ol Boy was actually used as an affectionate term and descriptive as a "good guy" or reliable. Any one of those other terms however were as we said in South Georgia "thems fighting words" and could get your lights punched out by a Good Ol Boy 

I hear you Faux Pas.

Funny thing, Mr. Wikipedia forgot a term associated with GOB....Hillbilly.

I use to hear this word in school, when we moved down to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia (shoreline).

I grew up in the "foothills" of the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia, or as we called it back there "God's Country".

Let me throw this one out to you, I thought it was kind of humorous?

"A Redneck lives in trailer park and goes on the Jerry Springer show; a Hillbilly lives in a shack or cabin out in the middle of nowhere and doesn't even have a TV". 


GOB

[Daveman]

I can laugh now, but imagine talking about the 7th planet in a planetarium full of 12 year olds!  After tiring of the joke, it's now called "Urectum"   

now that's funny..

I was a "guest host" of the Fernbank planetarium  (as were other ranking Astrogeeks during the university years) and that had to be one the coolest 'jobs' known to man... but the thought of panhandling to supplement the income wasn't very appealing.

luckily for me, my program was "constellations" so I didn't encounter the 7th Inter-Planetary Conundrum (but man would I have had a blast asking all the kids to pronounce it over and over again, pretending I had no idea what was happening)... at least they did rearrange the syllabic emphasis as well as the phonetic pronunciation from what it was in my grammar school years (that, or we Suthernese speakers were extremely slow in catching on)

I always thought SubParsecs was great too, but no one ever got the joke.   :noidea:

AAAAAAnywho... speaking of Good Ole Boys..  It's a guy... it's a condition.. it's a network ... it's complimentary or derogatory... but mostly to us (another Georgian here), it always represented the salt of the earth Southern Gent -- with or without a can of Bud in his hand and a broken refrigerator on the porch.. 

my favorite Redneck joke is Foxworthy's "If you think The Nutcracker.... is something you used to do off the high dive... you might be a redneck..."

[Missouri-Hunter]

As far as my Avatar.

This is my beautiful and smart wife (Marina).

She is from Omsk, Russia and that is a Colt .45 Defender that she is firing.

She would range qualify as "Expert" in the Corps with both rifle and pistol.


GOB

Cool!  I carry a Defender every day. 



On the Good Ol' Boy subject, to me it's always been a good thing, like in the theme song from The Dukes Of Hazzard. "...good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, ..."   The only negative I've heard is with small, local governments and the political "Good ol' boys' club" that outsiders found it hard to deal with. 

[SANDRO43]

Cool!  I carry a Defender every day. 

What for ? Do you live in a highly hazardous environment?

[Faux Pas]

"A Redneck lives in trailer park and goes on the Jerry Springer show; a Hillbilly lives in a shack or cabin out in the middle of nowhere and doesn't even have a TV". 


GOB

That about sums it up GOB but Redneck wasn't as derogatory as white trash which was usually associated with trailer parks. That was until they turned in to "Mobile Home Parks" 

What for ? Do you live in a highly hazardous environment?

Every environment can be a hazardous environment 

[SANDRO43]

Every environment can be a hazardous environment 

Maybe in the US . The only time I laid my hands on a pistol occurred when I was emptying my parents' apartment in 2001, and found a rusty Royal Italian Army 7.65mm Beretta and a box of rounds that my father, passed away in 1992, had hidden in a commode drawer, probably from his guerrilla times - my father served in the Royal Italian Airforce in WWII, not in the Army.

I went to the local police station to report my finding and asked them if I should bring it over - they said : "Absolutely not, we'll come over and pick it up ourselves", which two officers did the following day.