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I spent almost 0 effort coming up with my username and it's essentially meaningless. I usually try to come up with funny usernames, but I just didn't feel like that was appropriate for a political forum and I'm no good at coming up with serious names. So I just said screw it and went with this.
Read the book, instead. It's very good.I'll need to do a "Wiki" search to figure you out!! LOL
Cool, great background story!Back around 2001-2002 or so I was still dependent upon my fallback skills in electronics and IT, so I wound up working at Lockheed Air Force Plant #4 in Fort Worth, TX. As this was a very high security defense plant and it was post 9/11, security was beyond tight.
Armed guards with AR-15's (or something similar), under-car mirrors, hood and trunk checks and every single ID scanned and checked every morning.
My first morning, I show up and give them my driver's license, and one of the more annoying guards decided he needed to give me a hard time.
"What the hell kinda license is this, you look like some kind of plaid terrorist.
Whaddo they call you back in Iran, Checkerboard Strangler?"
It stuck, I was "Mister Strangler" the entire time I worked at Lockheed.
I figure it sounds like the name of a blues band from Chicago.
Someone once said that names reveal a persons character. How much thought do you put into your choice for user names?
Please elaborate, you can't just say that about the three letter agencies, then leave us hanging.As I've joked before, I'm sure mine has gotten me investigated by at least one or more 3 letter agencies, who then felt stupid for wasting that money investigating me considering what it comes from.
You can't post something like "Sock No. 4" without explaining it. I just made up that rule though.
It is available elsewhere on this board.....but I'll share again.Please elaborate, you can't just say that about the three letter agencies, then leave us hanging.
I was nearly 30 years on structural steel and I loved a good demo job. I remember taking down the Clark Street bridge in Vancouver with number 8 torches on propane. The centre orifice in the tip looked like a straw and it was like jet propulsion when you hit the trigger- at the girder bearings we were burning through three layers, four inches thick. The oxygen bottle was a huge stainless thing you'd need three people to put arms around and it was coated inches deep with frost by the end of the day.
Yeah, demo's fun.
Someone once said that names reveal a persons character. How much thought do you put into your choice for user names?
I have to make a confession and hope that you do not take it as an insult because it is not.
I am Greek, and if you are a little bit familiar (even as a tourist) with the Greek language, you will know that one common Greek insulting word is "malakas." And some times (for an especially big asshole) we say that he is a "megalos malakas" (the word "megalos" means "big" in Greek.
So whenever I see your name, I smile because it naturally sounds to me as an abbreviation for"Grand Malakas"
Sorry...
LOL, I was thinking of that movie too when I read that post.From now on, every time I see YOUR handle, it's going to make me think of Gus Portukalous as he introduces, Anita, Diane and Nick, Anita, Diane and Nick, also Nick, Nick and Nick.
From now on, every time I see YOUR handle, it's going to make me think of Gus Portukalous as he introduces, Anita, Diane and Nick, Anita, Diane and Nick, also Nick, Nick and Nick.
LOL, I was thinking of that movie too when I read that post.
My family's not Greek, but it appealed to me too due to having a huge extended family like that. We didn't really have the "same name" thing, but there were still a lot to introduce to my husband.LOLOL
I had a lot of fun watching that movie. Obvously as a comedy it had to rely on exaggerations but there was a grain of truth behind them. And yes, I have many Nicks in my family
Someone once said that names reveal a persons character. How much thought do you put into your choice for user names?
Sometimes I feel like Varus posting here, maybe I could do something with that.Roman History is an avocation of mine especially the latter Republic. Mine is the first name of Gaius Julius Caesar plus the year he was assassinated. Except I got the year wrong - it was 44BC not 46BC.
My family's not Greek, but it appealed to me too due to having a huge extended family like that. We didn't really have the "same name" thing, but there were still a lot to introduce to my husband.
I have a mother who tells me all the time she is moving from state to state because of her "Gypsy blood". Her family has been in America for at least 3-4 generations on each side.I actually do not have a large extended family in the US. The whole Greek part of my family is still in Greece. And in many respects, I (and most I will say) modern Greeks are very different from the typical Greek-American who is represented by the movie's character (father). The Greeks who immigrated to the US in the beginning of the 20th century became entreched in the conservative Greek culture of the time (often as a defense to the difficulties they faced in the US) and never experienced the progress of the Greek culture in the mother country. Most old timers I have met in my community ((and often their children) are veryyyy conservative. Modern Greeks who immigrated like me to the US recently because of pursuing postgraduate education or marriage with a US citizen or whatever carry a different Greek (and much more modern) culture.
He didn’t end well. Actually most of them didn’t end well.Sometimes I feel like Varus posting here, maybe I could do something with that.
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