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lonely persuader
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
488 Posts |
 Posted - 06/28/2006 : 03:19:02
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Originally posted by switchy
"Switchy" was a song idea I was working on at the time. It was basically just a beat with the word "switchy" repeated quickly over and over. I thought it was so cool for some reason, and figured I'd use it as my username for everything. But then I got over it, and turns out this is the only board where I use the name.
Ya, your right. it's crap. |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 08:56:07
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And I thought it had something to do with I Switched You.
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 09:46:19
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
And I thought it had something to do with I Switched You.
Me too. I am dismayed by this sad revelation.  |
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edbanky
= Cult of Ray =
Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)
388 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 10:08:59
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"I Switched You" has its own cool rhythm. Love it.
"yeah alot fo people do lipsynch & i aint really suprised to see rihanna do it cause iv'e seen her on alot of show's where she's done it so its no suprise"
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Cult_Of_Frank
= Black Noise Maker =
Canada
11687 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 10:13:06
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Originally posted by BLT
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
And I thought it had something to do with I Switched You.
Me too. I am dismayed by this sad revelation.
And I. Woe betide us all!
 "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 10:14:53
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No I knew it was from a song he was working on.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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Erebus
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1834 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 10:25:13
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I was flipping through the dictionary for some forgotten term when I happened on "Erebus", definition one: "a personification of darkness in Greek mythology". Yep, sounds like me, I thought, and you know the rest.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 10:34:38
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That's quite cool. I should peruse the dictionary more. Hey, it's how Pixies got their name too.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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switchy
- Gigographer -
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 18:19:28
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Originally posted by Cult_Of_Frank
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Originally posted by BLT
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Originally posted by Carolynanna
And I thought it had something to do with I Switched You.
Me too. I am dismayed by this sad revelation.
And I. Woe betide us all!
i'm sorry for breaking all your hearts, guys. but now that i think about it, that song idea of mine was possibly inspired by "I Switched You". so there's a happy ending after all. |
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Suicide_Samurai
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
431 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 19:08:10
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2006 : 22:14:13
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Originally posted by Broken Face
I've said it before: i wish i just chose "Brian" as my username. Mine was a stupid impulsive choice.
-Brian
I kind of think of "Brian" when I see "Broken Face" now, and vice versa. |
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awestruck
= Cult of Ray =
USA
377 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 14:53:09
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| no one has posted on here in a while, but i am going to tell how i came to my user name. The line in Speedy Marie,"-Nothing can strike me in such awe" Hence, awestruck. |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 18:48:45
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2007 : 20:34:35
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Originally posted by Carl
Carl is my real first name.
the mystery is ruined
lost in the grain. you know what i'm sayin? |
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jackruby
- FB Fan -
USA
71 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 13:10:17
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Jack Ruby is a very interesting character from a Camper Van Beethoven song. I would have picked something Frank related, but I was so heart-broken to find that Jefrey was already taken.
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <
USA
3111 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2007 : 13:30:09
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I badly wanted to be Billy Radcliffe on here when I was signing up, but I saw that it was already taken. Momentarily, I was ready to pay a hit man to take out the really Billy Radcliffe so I could take his name. But I'm too cheap, so I went with another FB song that I was loving at the moment. In hindsight, there are a million other names I'd have liked better -- including using my first name, Cohen -- but this one has served me well enough.
I'm still wondering about floop, though. Where's that come from? That's a good one. My favorite ever, though, was when Gary Green (he of "That Burnt Out Rock and Roll") showed up and made ONE post, under the name Johnny Cash.
 Please pardon me, for these my wrongs. |
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Jefrey
= Cult of Ray =
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 01:21:15
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My name is Jeff, but with 2 f's. But in college my girlfriend's roommates called me "Jefrey with one F", and cause Trompe Le Monde had come out that year. D = R x T.
However, now I think it pretty much sucks and I wish I could change it.
I go by "jeffamerica" everywhere else. Once upon a time, before president George W. Bush, America wasn't such a bad thing. I'm going to stand my ground and hope we become liked again by the world and my stage name won't be a negative any more.
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rockmusic84
= Cult of Ray =
USA
256 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 07:31:54
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"Rock Music" (Pixies song) + 84 (the year I was born) = rockmusic84. :)
Join The Cult of U-MASS - IT'S EDUCATIONAL!!! |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 11:17:35
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Originally posted by coastline
I'm still wondering about floop, though. Where's that come from? That's a good one.
i'll never tell..
but thanks.
lost in the grain. you know what i'm sayin? |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
5454 Posts |
Posted - 03/10/2007 : 11:34:37
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awestruck
= Cult of Ray =
USA
377 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2007 : 11:22:34
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| Ok i cant remember his name... Adam? but anyway he is a wonderful actor. I have heard he is great on Broadway. I recently seen Titus and he starred in that movie. Good movie. I like the odd stuff. I am an English major and we were studying Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. |
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Crispy Water
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
819 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2007 : 12:58:24
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I had an old account years ago but lost the password. When I signed back up my thinking was that I wanted to choose two words that are never sighted together. About a year ago I stumbled upon a link that led me to http://www.crispywater.com/ and my life was ruined. I would love to know how long that company has been in business and where they got the name from, because I can't figure out what the hell such a name has to do with the products they sell.
A subsequent google search also taught me to never again disregard the boundless possiblities when describing a word so widespread as "water." I should have picked crispy molecules or something.
Nothing is ever something. |
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Superabounder
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1041 Posts |
Posted - 03/11/2007 : 15:47:15
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Mine is obvious of course. I once indignantly sent an email to the moderators because someone else had posted with a name very close to mine, like Superabound, and I asked them how could they allow someone to get almost the same name as mine. As it turned out, that guy had joined before I did, so I was the jerk.
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 15:57:30
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I chose mine cos when he sings it, it's so unexpected but then he follows it with 'Don't you understand?' and you do. Usually my impulse choices suck but I'm not gonna regret this one. Plus I got to make up neat shit for my profile.
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2564 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 16:24:40
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I always think of my sociology work when I hear that. Malinowski and his observations on the Trobriand Islands.
"The arc of triumph" |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 16:37:55
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Yeah he's totally off the verandah
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Visiting Sasquatch
= Cult of Ray =
USA
451 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 17:44:45
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| Bigfoot's sojourn in the freak show. |
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that means soda
- FB Fan -
Canada
73 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:16:02
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Originally posted by edbanky
Mine is the passingly mentioned guy in the back of who's car Ward Stradlater would give girls "the time" in Catcher In The Rye. It happens that no one else really uses it, and so far, I have escaped Salinger's (lawyers') vigilantly guarding attention.
My former (johndietzel) is a buddy's name. I figured since I was trying to stay superficially anonymous, it was kind of rude to use someone else's less-than-common real name.
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"Clinton is a shithead."
- Ray Bradbury
of course, old ed banky... I should have known... I'm sometimes using Rudolf Schmidt.... which is what holden answers when the lady he kinda flirts with in the train asks his name...
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that means soda
- FB Fan -
Canada
73 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 18:23:54
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well, carl once tried to explain mine in a pretty clever way, but you'd need to speak french to understand... he basically guessed that my last name had to be Carbonneau because, when you literaly translate the sounds into english, it means Carbon water... and that means soda...
I'd like to say he was right, but not really, in fact not at all. My explanation is pretty inane. It just popped in my head one day when I was getting out of the schoolbus.. and I thought it was weird, because it's kinda rare a logic statement brings you to the conclusion "soda". also, I like it because I'm not sure just what I intend to mean with it.
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HeywoodJablome
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1485 Posts |
Posted - 04/23/2007 : 23:27:30
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It was either this or Hugh Jorgan.
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2014 : 07:52:28
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Come on, who else? There are some good usernames around these days. Origins?
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
4204 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2014 : 11:48:38
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Originally posted by trobrianders
Come on, who else? There are some good usernames around these days. Origins?
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Ed is the hoo hoo
We'd all love a treatise on the origin of pot's username.
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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
2564 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2014 : 13:44:46
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I love when old threads like this come back up to the top...but how do you find them? Do people scroll down 50 pages of topics until they see something that could be revived? Or did you actually remember this thread, tro?
"The arc of triumph" |
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2014 : 03:50:43
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I was just thinking I like the name hammerhands and wondered about its origin. I imagine some Mario Bros type Canuck lumberjack type character smashing pesky termites with his hammer hands. So I searched a half-remembered term, "username", and the thread popped right up, took two seconds.
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <
Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2014 : 05:01:51
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BunsenH. Am I right?
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