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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:38 pm
(April 25, 2015 at 4:30 pm)Jenny A Wrote: (April 25, 2015 at 4:27 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: The rest of us want plausible deniability in real life.
What, me say something obnoxious or stupid? No, that was some jerk who posts online, not me!
I'm not asking you to come out. And I certainly say stupid things online and in person from time to time. But most people on Facebook and Googleplus are themselves. I don't find here to be much different. I don't think of my atheism as a wart to hide.
I see you do not appreciate my sense of humor. That's okay.
(I don't like using smileys much, because they give away the game too early. One sees them before one reads all of the words, so one already knows it is a joke before the end of the punchline.)
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— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:40 pm
(April 25, 2015 at 3:57 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: I'm super jelly of all yinz with significant usernames with a story and rooted in mythology and whatnot.
I've been SteelCurtainUSNA, SteelCurtain08, or SteelCurtain everywhere I've been on the web. The Steel Curtain was the front four of the famed defense of the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970's, them that won four championships in six years. LC Greenwood, Ernie Holmes, Dwight White, and, of course Mean Joe Greene.
I hear Mean Joe was actually a pretty decent guy, but he did eat O-linemen for breakfast.
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:44 pm
I always went by "Becca", but in the first grade, my teacher insisted I use my formal name. Unfortunately, we had no erasers on our pencils in the first grade, and I had been accustomed to writing "Becca", so the tops of my papers always read "ReXbecca". The nickname has followed me around since. Plus, I rock 
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:46 pm
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 5:03 pm by c172.)
I came here from the other AF, where I registered as C172. I kept it just incase anybody remembered (and didn't dislike) me from there. I just never really got along with too many folks out there.
Anyhow, C172 only came about, technically, because I couldn't come up with anything terribly clever. I am actually somewhat of an aviation buff, though, being the nephew of someone who works at Boeing, and being the son of somebody who always took me as a little kid down to the parking lot beside the main runway at SAN (Lindbergh Field, San Diego) to watch operations there.
So, C172 is derived from the Cessna 172, a very popular private single engine airplane. I could have maybe changed at some point to B787, since I have no family Cessna connection, but whatevs, as they say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_172
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:53 pm
Brian Boru was the much over-hyped king of Ireland in the late 10th and early 11th centuries ('Brian Boru's March' was also the first serious tune I learned on the pennywhistle). 'Sodding' is a mild vulgarity. '4' because I am extraordinarily skillful at forgetting passwords.
Boru
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:56 pm
(April 25, 2015 at 4:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Brian Boru was the much over-hyped king of Ireland in the late 10th and early 11th centuries ('Brian Boru's March' was also the first serious tune I learned on the pennywhistle). 'Sodding' is a mild vulgarity. '4' because I am extraordinarily skillful at forgetting passwords.
Boru
I love you, but i really really hate that you add boru at the end of your posts. I don't know why i hate that tho. 
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 4:58 pm
(April 25, 2015 at 4:56 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: (April 25, 2015 at 4:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Brian Boru was the much over-hyped king of Ireland in the late 10th and early 11th centuries ('Brian Boru's March' was also the first serious tune I learned on the pennywhistle). 'Sodding' is a mild vulgarity. '4' because I am extraordinarily skillful at forgetting passwords.
Boru
I love you, but i really really hate that you add boru at the end of your posts. I don't know why i hate that tho.
It's a habit I picked up at another forum. Since you love me, I'll feel bad about not trying to stop.
Boru
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Oh I always thought that was something you add in setting. I see you and GC never fail to add that signature.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."
For context, this is the previous verse:
"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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RE: Explain your username
April 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm
(This post was last modified: April 25, 2015 at 5:01 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(April 25, 2015 at 4:40 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I hear Mean Joe was actually a pretty decent guy, but he did eat O-linemen for breakfast.
For all his football awesomeness, the first thing people usually say about Mean Joe is how nice he is... off the field.
The real meanie of the 70's Steelers was Jack Lambert.
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