Actually, looking back over this thread it seems to consist mostly of answers from people who didn't stick around.
Still, it was started by Ali and I posted an honest, if brief response in it, so we give it gravitas.

You too now.

There are a couple of other threads on this topic. Looks like I never saw this one. My handle is an old college nickname.

see:
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=6317
and also
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=9224
and
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=669
and again
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=2122
and uh
http://cellar.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1197

You win the prize for being the most thorough.
I lose for mostly just searching under my own name, which means I missed at least three (concluded before I joined)

Interesting reads though.

I want to change my name to: ema cympeltin

I want to change mine to "Imma Letya"

There must be more threads. I remember addressing the issue once but most of those threads are before my time.

Yeah, I don't claim to have done an exhaustive search. There must be more.

ok but I only have coffee and donuts to offer...and a good ear.

Kind of sounds familiar. Is it the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant you're refering to?

Me...

I'd change it if I could, but no point in doing so now. It serves as a reminder how things were about three years ago - I really felt like I was going mad - family issues, extended family issues, etc...

There's a lot of drama in my extended family. We (my wife and I) rarely get involved anymore (although they'd love for us to "solve their problems" again). We learned they'd just take advantage of us and then dump on us later anyway. Sad to say, but our own grown kids did a number on us too.

The other part of it is my sense of humor. It's a little off the norm. :nuts:

My reasons for my user name were threefold: only one of those reasons is still relevant, and that is the obvious reason.

I wish I had chosen Heywood Jablomee.;)

I saw some very cool photos of Saturn recently, and fell in love.

my handle? PFA

wtf is a pfa?

Favorite band. (I am far from being a queen in any sense of the word, let alone having my own Ryche.....)

you know, pfa: personal freakin' anecdote. Now, mind your own beeswax.

yeah, then why post about it at all? I don't know about you all, but I dont' care THAT much. ;)

Pulled from _ _ _ ... air yeh, thats it air, pulled from air.

Ohhhhh...

Must learn more mnemonics. And no, kiddies, that isn't pronounced 'pneumonics'.

H-H-HAGGIS - I laughed so hard I stuttered!

A long time ago, in a land faraway .. there were Very Few English People on this board ....

A little tavern from long ago and far away and a little town more recently and closer. I wanted something different than my usual nom de plume.

To be fair, you're not over-run now. Undertstand your point though.

Funnily enough, sleepy finger typed it in some olde tongue (cut & pasted)
ti be ffaie, your moe overrin noe

Nice....

BTW - did you see David Mitchell on Who Do You Think You Are?
I always thought Gaelic was pronounced Gay-Lick.
But the scholars went for Gallic (as per French) all the way through. I admit I missed the beginning, but is this a new thing? Like Tutankhamun, Urunas, Boudicca etc?

the non-vanity license plate version of my handle is Pilot Hi-jinx

I must have lost my handle. She left owing her bills. Again.

Can I handle it? I'm like a broken axe. I ain't nothing but handle.

classicman: putting the ass in clicman since 2007

Hi Fred!

to be ffaie ... the (Scots) Gaelic language is referred to as "the Gallic" as far as I know. As to the wider cultural reference, I dunno!

I always read it as pil-thi-jinx. Always wondered what it meant, too.

howdeh!

yeah,a few years back we were having a similar discussion and there were several different spins on it.....(too lazy to look it up, too early and not enough coffee yet!)

I stole mine from a dead Hobo. Really.

Better not have been one of the hobos I killed. I retain all rights to my dead hobos.

Mine is easy: I am an obnoxiously conceited and self-assertive person with pretensions to smartness or cleverness...okay, maybe not so smart of clever, except in my own consciousness...but my delusions often break free and find their way into a blog/post somewhere before being ignored or scoffed at (also by me).

Speaking of dead hobos, there's one over at a shut down Wendy's over near my house. Know anything about that one Shawnee-girlie?

Uh, no, er...eh...

Not fileting and cooking one's dead hobo is abuse of a corpse, and frankly, not very environmentally friendly.

Not to mention a waste of good meat. I mean really, there are starving people all over the world. At least donate some to the local food bank.

I have two handles. I got them from beer.

I used to dig graves. The old part of a local cemetary was so cluttered w/graves & giant headstones & crypts that the machinery couldn't get everywhere it needed to. So...We were the crew that hand dug the graves in the older sections. Anybody need a hole?:yelsick:

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