Why did you pick the name you picked...

[Pants Elk]

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>I'd</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> like to know how robertdreed came up with <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>his</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> ...<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>(is there an "irony" emoticon?) <p></p><i></i>

[FourthBase]

"Homeless Halo"...hmmmm<br><br>Wouldn't happen to have anything to do with a certain angel expelled from heaven, would it? <p></p><i></i>

[petron]

Nickname. Pronounced pee-tron. My name is Peter but my friends call me Petron for some reason, then again me and my group of friends all have funny nicknames for each other. Like PorkSword, Dominican, ButtSniff & CronDog. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Sweejak]

No one can say my last name, in high school this nick stuck. <p></p><i></i>

[Homeless Halo]

something like that. <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

I am with ya on Gouda, Gouda. Here's the BEST: water crackers...smoked gouda....and Adriatic fig jam.<br><br>YUMMMMM.<br><br>And Wintler, may I assume that you work for Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga and McCormick?<br><br>Here are 2 fave Marx Brothers lines I have used for nigh onto 40 years now and people almost NEVER get them:<br><br>Someone says "May I join you?"<br><br>Response: "Why, am I coming apart?"<br><br>or someone says "Are you alone?"<br><br>and I say "No, you're here."<br><br>I think people were sharper back in the '30s when the Marx Brothers' films first came out.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...here's one of the Hungadunga exchanges in "Animal Crackers", between Jeffrey T. "Hooray for Captain" Spaulding (Groucho) and perennial straight man Zeppo as his secretary Horation Jamison. Mrs. Rittenhouse of course is the incomparable Margaret Dumont.<br><br>Jamison: 'In care of Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga, and McCormack...'<br>Spaulding: You've left out a Hungadunga! You've left out the main one, too. Thought you could slip one over on me, didn't you, eh? All right, leave it out and put in a windshield wiper instead. I tell you what you do, Jamison. I tell you what. Make it, uh, make it three windshield wipers and one Hungadunga. They won't all be there when the letter arrives, anyhow.<br>Jamison: 'Hungadunga, Hungadunga, Hungadunga...and McCormack.'<br>Spaulding: '...and McCormack.'<br>Jamison: 'Gentlemen, question mark.'<br>Spaulding: 'Gentlemen, Question Mark!!' Put it on the penultimate, not on the dipthonic. You want to brush up on your Greek, Jamison. Well, get a Greek and brush up on him!<br>Jamison: 'In re yours of the fifteenth.'<br>Spaulding: I see.<br>Jamison: Now, uh, you said a lot of things here that I didn't think were important, so I just omitted them.<br>Mrs. Rittenhouse: Well!...(Spaulding swings at his head and misses.) Whoa, Captain! Good gracious! Oh, my!<br>Spaulding: So...you just omitted them, eh? ...You just omitted the body of the letter, that's all. You've just left out the body of the letter, that's all! Yours not to reason why, Jamison! You've left out the body of the letter!...All right, send it that way and tell them the body'll follow.<br>Jamison: Do you want the body in brackets?<br>Spaulding: No, it will never get there in brackets. Put it in a box. Put it in a box and mark it 'fragilly'.<br>Jamison: Mark it what?<br>Spaulding: Mark it 'fragilly.' F - R - A - G...Look it up, Jamison. It's in the dictionary. Look under 'fragile'. Look under the table if you don't find it there.<br>Jamison: 'Quotes, unquotes, and quotes.'<br>Spaulding: That's three quotes?<br>Jamison: Yes, sir.<br>Spaulding: Add another quote and make it a gallon. How much is it a gallon, Jamison?<br>Jamison: 'Regards.'<br>Spaulding: 'Regards.' That's a fine letter, Jamison. That's an epic. That's dandy. Now I want you to make two carbon copies of that letter and throw the original away. And when you get through with that, throw the carbon copies away. Just send the stamp, airmail. That's all. You may go, Jamison. I may go too.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :rollin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[morganwolf]

Oh, dear. I'm so shy! (Not kidding, seriously.)<br><br>Urm. Em. Cough.<br><br>Okay. This is the deal.<br><br>Back in 1998, I went to one of those New Age shops where there are trained shamans offering weekend workshops. I signed up (along with a friend of mine) to do a 'power animal' journey. Okay. I met my power animal, but it wasn't a wolf. Although, I met a wolf on the way and he helped me come back from this deep-ass trance-state I was in. So, the next day, I decided to take the name Wolf, and I've always loved wolves, so that's fine.<br><br>The Morgan part?<br><br>Erm. Um. Cough. Itch. Wriggle.<br><br>I've always loved the King Arthur tales, and identified with Morgaine, or Morgana Le Fay, but I preferred a gender neutral version, so I shortened it to Morgan.<br><br>Now, I spose you want to know if I'm M or F?<br><br>I think, like 'Pat', I'm gonna let you all wonder. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :smokin --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smokin.gif ALT=":smokin"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Cheers,<br>Morgan <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...cuz when guys imagine their "power animal" it's likely to be a 1969 Cougar XR-7, black with a maroon racing stripe, bucket seats, and a V-8 engine so it goes like shit through a goose.<br><br>Also, when they read King Arthur, they imagine being Lancelot and getting to pal around with Art while boinking Guin, at least till Art gets wise <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br><br>I hope you like my one and only Camelot joke:<br><br>One day after Lancelot has proven his skills as a knight, Arthur has to go away for a few days. He takes Lancelot aside and says "You are a fine and pure knight, Lance, and the only man in my kingdom I can trust with this, the key to Guinevere's chastity belt which she wears whenver I am away."<br><br>Lancelot say "I am honored, my King, by your trust."<br><br>Later that afternoon, as Arthur and his retinue ride out of the gates, Lancelot leans out of the window Guinevere's bedchamber and yells "Hey, Arthur! You gave me the wrong key!"<br><br>Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, that was known as SPAMALOT! <p></p><i></i>

[morganwolf]

<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>Come to think on it, there were mostly girls at that power animal workshop, which was run by a man. The sex ratio with these things is always M=1:W=50 or so. I wonder what that says about the women there? Or the lack of men? Hmmm. It was pretty interesting. Once we got underway, the shaman drummed for about 30 minutes straight - a long time! It felt like 10 minutes to me. I was down so deep, I didn't want to come back. My experience was pretty close to how people describe NDE's. (Long story - wrong thread.) When we all returned to ordinary reality, we all talked about our journeys, and some chick complained that she hadn't found her power animal and demanded a refund. This was the same chick who was terrified that she's find her power animal and that it would be a snake. Right then, I'd have put her out of the freaking room. (That's just me.) Another person said she fell asleep. A third claimed she saw a white buffalo, and was overcome with tears. The shaman told her she had been blessed. He didn't say much to me, but he looked at me kinda funny.<br><br>I loved your Camelot joke. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :b --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tongue.gif ALT=":b"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>And I have not yet seen Spamalot! But I plan to! <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...I attended an informational lecture about "Vision Quest" tours that took people out into the wilderness as supposedly young Native Americans [probably guys only] did, to fast and meditate and get a vision which, in some tribes, gave the person their name.<br><br>It sounded interesting, but I was afraid that after 3 days and nights with nothing but small amounts of water, the vision that I would see before my eyes would not be one that would, when translated into a name, bring me much respect among my fellows in the tribe.<br><br>"Yo, there goes Bigmaclargefriesandacokeandsupersize it! Yo, Biggie!"<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[Iroquois]

I have always been drawn to the Native American tribes of the area around Michigan, and the Iroquois name has always had a particular resonance with me. So, really it started as just a gut thing. I work much better that way, believe me.<br><br>Anyway, my brain's job is to verify my gut, and I actually did that before I registered the name. I read this article: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.tolatsga.org/iro.html">www.tolatsga.org/iro.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> and found a lot of about the Iroquois that I liked. Some I knew before. Most, despite a BA in Cultural Antropology, I didn't. My focus was more on religion and European prehistory. There were too many pro-dig types in NA anthro, something I wasn't comfortable with.<br><br>The reasons that reinforced my gut is a pretty long list. Here's a few that stood out. The Iroquois were matrilinial and their representative system of government helped inspire the US Constitution. It is the Algonquin word for rattle snakes, and a rattle snake is depicted on the Gadsen Flag. Also, my metaphor for the PTB is a pit of snakes rather than a many tentacled leviathan (a touch of irony). And, its a punk thing. Mohawks (though not possible even in my youth with my hair type) were more than just a fashion statement to some, you know.<br><br>I don't know what my totem animal is. My best guess is that I lean toward some kind of deer. I don't suspect snake in the least, however. It was a political choice, not spiritual/totemic.<br><br>And banned, you're killing me. Thanks especially for the fragilly joke. I've been trying to remember where I first heard it ever since I saw the movie "A Christmas Story". I assume they copied it as a homage the the Marx Brothers.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

...was during Groucho's TV game show, "You Bet Your Life" when he had a lady contestant who raised Rhodesian Ridgebacks. <br><br>"What kind of dogs are those?" Groucho asked.<br><br>"They're lion dogs," she answered.<br><br>"Well, I'm a lyin' dog myself..."<br><br>Does anyone know this song, and was it one of Groucho's:<br><br> I love to go swimmin' with bow-legged women and swim between their legs<br> Swim between their legs<br> Swim between their legs...<br><br>I never heard the rest of it because Gramma would have made it across the room and smacked Grampa by the time he'd gotten that far.<br><br>Things were different for a girl back in the 50's. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[metaxa]

I would never want to belong to a group that would have me as a member...<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.binnys.com/images/spiritslabels/103285L.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Sweejak]

Off topic Iroquois, but here are a few of my Iroquois links.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/EoL/chp8.html">www.ratical.org/many_worl.../chp8.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=173">www.believersweb.org/view.cfm?ID=173</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://tuscaroras.com/pages/history/about_iroquois_constitution.html">tuscaroras.com/pages/hist...ution.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>