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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:59 pm Post subject: Explain your username...

I thought it'd be interesting to find out why we chose our usernames or what our usernames mean...

Brant--no need for you to explain! Wink

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amom · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 9:33 pm Post subject:

I'm guessing mine is a no-brainer. Wink

(Actually, it was a play on Cy's old, old username which was "anon")

And yours, Ondi?
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SSSS · Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject:

mine means absolutely nothing-although some folks tried really hard to figure it out. When I signed up I just hit the key four times and viola!
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:26 am Post subject:

LOL@ SSSS!

Amom--that's cute! Laughing

My mom's name was Ondina (her nickname was Ondi) and she was very opinionated. My family jokingly calls me "Ondinita" (little Ondina) bc they say I'm just like her. I figured that'd be a great username for me here since I knew I'd be sharing my opinions...a lot! Wink

And of course "libchit" is in honor of Phony. That's what he called me when I met him on Facebook! Laughing

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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:34 am Post subject:

freethinker · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:06 am Post subject:

Mine came from The Freethinker Society, out of 1880's England, managed by a guy named Foote...He championed labor rights, women's rights, and civil rights, and he was once thrown in jail for
printing a blasphemous cartoon....
He also wrote.....

" * Who burnt heretics? Who roasted or drowned millions of 'witches'? Who built dungeons and filled them? Who brought forth cries of agony from honest men and women that rang to the tingling stars? Who burnt Bruno? Who spat filth over the graves of Paine and Voltaire? The answer is one word -CHRISTIANS. * "
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....and i got a feeling I haven't heard the end of this....
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OndinitaAKALibchit · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:14 am Post subject:

Freethinker- I absolutely love it! It suits you! Wink

And I agree...You have not heard the end of this! Laughing

Trivia (or me sharing useless knowledge):

Ondina (Ondine) means "spirit of the waters". They are mermaid-like mythological figures...

This is what they look like:

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busdriver · Journeyman Joined: 16 Mar 2009 Posts: 3497

Mine is "busdriver". This is what they look like"

this is what "dick" thinks they look like:

freethinker · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:23 am Post subject:

Thanks, Ondi, for beginning my day with beauty, and thanks Bus, for starting it with a huge laugh...!!
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Brant · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:44 am Post subject:

I've got to build a backyard pond and get me one of them Ondinas. Wink

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Brant · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:46 am Post subject:

Cylinsier · Master Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 13229 Location: Oh shi-

Mine is my old user name from all the way back in 2002 when my friends in college got me to start playing counter-strike with them. One of the more common trends at the time was to come up with bizarre spellings of common words for your username. I decided to be Silencer, and then mangled the spelling as badly as I could. I started using it for other stuff and it ended up being my screen name virtually everywhere...except CS where I play as Bass Wolf now. That's another story.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

A hundred years ago, on observer-reporter.com, they would post a daily poll... It had an open comment form (no "submitting" comments---- real time)... And we'd all argue and rant anonymously on there. It was the most ghetto form of communication EVAR. Everyone has their own rhetorical style and that was even more true then. This venue is more of a fluid conversation whereas the poll comments seemed to foster a bit more stylistic flair Smile

Anyway... I wanted my supreme excellence and awesomeness to be attributed to me, so I randomly picked "ellipses" because I am lazy when it comes to punctuation on the interwebz... It was spur of the moment... prior to that, my online moniker of preference was "argylekilla"--- which I still use as one of my personal email accounts (argylekilla@hotmail.com)

Anyway, the whole persona thing... I kinda tried to invent "ellipses" as someone really over the top... kinda like a stephen colbert... hence the email address "thegreatellipses@gmail.com"--- it's all a self-perpetuating lie Smile

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freethinker · Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:06 am Post subject:

Come on, Brant...I happen to know you were found in Catfish Creek with your head stuck in plastic six pack holders
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