Why did you pick the name you picked...

[banned]

...to post here?<br><br>Out of all the possibilities...<br><br>like....<br><br>Donald Duck<br>I Love Burritos<br>Anonymous<br>Mets Suck<br>Puppies Are Cute<br>Martin Bormann<br>Dangerous Housewife<br><br>....why did you pick the name you did?<br><br>I picked mine about a year ago when I registered for an EZBoard not long after getting bounced off another board for making some antiwar comments. I did not realize that the guy I was arguing with in the thread was (a) a mod and (b) an ex Marine who served in Desert Storm until he (c) banned my ass. THEN everybody else in the thread was like, didn't you KNOW he was a mod and an ex Marine? How the hell was I supposed to know? I just thought he was an armchair warrior. Anyway, the other people in the thread urged me to email the site owner and ask to be reinstated because usually bannings were just 'wake up calls' and not permanent. Unfortunately I had just fired off a scorching email to said site owner being, shall we say, uncomplimentary about his choice of moderators, and letting mods ban people for disagreeing with their politics.<br><br>I could just as easily have picked Burned Bridges as banned <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> .<br><br>So, why did you pick YOUR name? <p></p><i></i>

[Homeless Halo]

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[israelirealities]

I love your little story, I have those a lot :-)<br><br>My name - I was asked by an American alternative Blog to create a blog in English, that will be linked to the main blog, where I will report daily from Israel (a formalized "ISrael bashing" blog), and a Paletinian guy was supposed to create a parallel blog from the territories to complete the picture. They suggested the name "IsraeliRealities" and I did it, for 2 days, only to find out this is too much work, and no money :-). So I aborted the project and was stuck with the name, which I started liking. I got to know the Palestinian guy, who also didn't feel like doing all this, and we keep in touch. Maybe some day we will make the project. I thought that the American liberal guys do not realize : 1/ that English IS NOT our native language and so its a hassle to write daily 2/ we are POOR here, and so we expect some financial asssitance for the job of relating our plights and showing our wounds in public 3/ that it fucking dangerous for us here to do that, its not just a pasttime fun for bored americans who want to feel "good and peace making liberals". <br>So this IS israelirealities.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[Homeless Halo]

Glad you're here. <p></p><i></i>

[israelirealities]

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[wintler]

'Wintler!' is the hand behind the door that Harpo Marx keeps running to get messages from in the office scene, early in that unsurpassed cultural document, 'The Big Store' (194? 193?). Margret Dumont maintains surprised affront right thru dozens of interruptions and Groucho's desk catching fire. If i have idols, it is them. <p></p><i></i>

[Connut]

I guess is really easy to figure out - my husband is a prosaic, black and white kind of guy and views my explorations into 9/11, ritual abuse, political scammery and things out of the main stream, with a jaundiced view. Therefore, being a conspiracy nut, I became Connut. Glad to know your "backgrounds" too! <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

It's 'cause I'm a musician and songwriter, of course. I used to have a website with that name, but I couldn't work within it and the webmistress moved to Australia...<br><br>Anyway, here's my current one: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.soundclick.com/maryk" target="top">www.soundclick.com/maryk</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[thrulookingglass]

Well, the name seems trite now (didn't realize it was overly used throughout the internet)...when I first came here everyone had these dramatic names (dreamsend, nohaven, antiaristo, etc) figured I needed to follow suit. But the inspiration came from the scene in JFK where Garrison is meeting with his staff in a New Orleans restaurant...<br>"c'mon think people! y'all need to start looking at things on a different level like the CIA does...now we are through the looking glass here people...black is white, and white is black" <p></p><i></i>

[Gouda]

How could I not choose "gouda"?!<br><br>From Wikipedia:<br><br>"Gouda cheese is a yellow Dutch cheese named after the city of Gouda. The cheese is made from cow's milk that is cultured and heated up until the curds separate from the whey. About ten percent of the mixture is curds which are pressed into circular moulds for a couple of hours. The moulds give the cheese its traditional shape. Next, the cheese is soaked in a brine solution which gives the cheese its rind and improves the taste. After the salt soaks in, the cheese is then dried for a couple of days before being coated to prevent it from drying out. The cheese then ages for at least a couple of weeks before it is ready to be eaten. The term 'Gouda cheese' is now a generic name, and not restricted to products of Dutch origin." <p></p><i></i>

[lilorphant]

<br><br>LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE<br><br>by: James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)<br><br>INSCRIBED WITH ALL FAITH AND AFFECTION <br> <br>To all the little children: -- The happy ones; and sad ones;<br>The sober and the silent ones; the boisterous and glad ones;<br>The good ones -- Yes, the good ones, too; and all the lovely bad ones. <br> <br>ITTLE Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay, <br>An' wash the cups an' saucers up, an' brush the crumbs away, <br>An' shoo the chickens off the porch, an' dust the hearth, an' sweep, <br>An' make the fire, an' bake the bread, an' earn her board-an'-keep; <br>An' all us other childern, when the supper-things is done, <br>We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun <br>A-list'nin' to the witch-tales 'at Annie tells about, <br>An' the Gobble-uns 'at gits you <br>Ef you <br>Don't <br>Watch <br>Out! <br> <br>Wunst they wuz a little boy wouldn't say his prayers,-- <br>An' when he went to bed at night, away up-stairs, <br>His Mammy heerd him holler, an' his Daddy heerd him bawl, <br>An' when they turn't the kivvers down, he wuzn't there at all! <br>An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby-hole, an' press, <br>An' seeked him up the chimbly-flue, an' ever'-wheres, I guess; <br>But all they ever found wuz thist his pants an' roundabout:-- <br>An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you <br>Ef you <br>Don't <br>Watch <br>Out! <br> <br>An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin, <br>An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood-an'-kin; <br>An' wunst, when they was "company," an' ole folks wuz there, <br>She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care! <br>An' thist as she kicked her heels, an' turn't to run an' hide, <br>They wuz two great big Black Things a-standin' by her side, <br>An' they snatched her through the ceilin' 'fore she knowed what she's about! <br>An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you <br>Ef you <br>Don't <br>Watch <br>Out! <br> <br>An' little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue, <br>An' the lamp-wick sputters, an' the wind goes woo-oo! <br>An' you hear the crickets quit, an' the moon is gray, <br>An' the lightnin'-bugs in dew is all squenched away,-- <br>You better mind yer parunts, an' yer teachurs fond an' dear, <br>An' churish them 'at loves you, an' dry the orphant's tear, <br>An' he'p the pore an' needy ones 'at clusters all about, <br>Er the Gobble-uns 'll git you <br>Ef you <br>Don't <br>Watch <br>Out! <br><br>"Little Orphant Annie" is reprinted from Complete Works. James Whitcomb Riley. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1916. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[nomo]

Because enough is enough.<br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p>--<br>When all else fails... panic.</p><i></i>

[Pants Elk]

*sucks on pipe thoughtfully*<br><br>Y'know, I'm often asked this. It all started when - *fx screen goes all wavy, harp glissando* - I was in, of all places, an internet chat room, and well, *chortle* a bunch of the guys were horsin' around, and we decided - hang on - *fiddles interminably with pipe* - to try to come up with some new names for the<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> male sexual apparatus</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->. Some <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>stupid</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> new names. And, well ... I thought it was funny at the time. It remains, however, supremely stupid. <p></p><i></i>

[robertdreed]

It's like something you'd hear on "Imus In The Morning." <p></p><i></i>

[Col Quisp]

Cuz the Quaker Quisp cereal is so hard to find, and I love that cute lil alien named Quisp. It reminds me of my youth during the 60's, when aliens were waggish and graphics were interesting. <br><br>I imagine Quisp as a colonel from another world. I think subconsciously I named him a colonel because every day I pass a dry cleaner named Col. Quick. <br><br> <p></p><i></i>