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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
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 Posted - 12/21/2004 : 08:09:43 [Permalink]
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This thread has been brought up before, but I don't think it's worth combing the archives for. It's been quite a while and tends to be a recurring question for folks who just joined us.
I was reading a book called "The Cat Who Walked Through Walls". In it was a car named Gay Deciever. I thought that naming a car would be interesting. (My brother had a 1976 Ford Mustang II with the Cobra II package he named "Bernadette".) I thought Valiant Dancer was a pretty good name for a car. With a name like that, it couldn't be an ordinary car. It had to be an alcohol funny car. (Because I was really into NHRA racing at that point.)
I never could afford the car. In 1987, I took it for my own handle on a now defunct BBS called the Meltdown. It had a link to a bunch of Usenet discussion boards which eventually became the Internet. It's the only handle I've had online execpt for Delphi discussion boards where I'm VDANCER.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 08:44:56 [Permalink]
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| My screen name is short for Kilgore Trout. He is, as some of you know, a recurring character in many Kurt Vonnegut novels. At AOL I had to use klgrtrout1. Over time people just started calling me Kil. In fact, when someone changed their screen name for whatever reason and came into our chat room, I could always tell if they were regulars if they called me Kil. A few tried to come in incognito and made that mistake… |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 08:54:59 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
I thought that naming a car would be interesting. (My brother had a 1976 Ford Mustang II with the Cobra II package he named "Bernadette".)
Doesn't everyone name their car? My first car was an '88 Olds Cutlass Supreme. It had black interior and exterior, and the interior lights didn't work. Thus, on really dark nights, I could get into and out of my car without being seen. My friends, admiring the advantage of this, called it 'Spycar'-- a name which, until now, I had never considered having for a user name... |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 09:23:46 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Kil
My screen name is short for Kilgore Trout. He is, as some of you know, a recurring character in many Kurt Vonnegut novels. At AOL I had to use klgrtrout1. Over time people just started calling me Kil. In fact, when someone changed their screen name for whatever reason and came into our chat room, I could always tell if they were regulars if they called me Kil. A few tried to come in incognito and made that mistake…
Kilgore Trout and Montana Wildhack are two on my favorite, literary charectors.
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
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Posted - 12/21/2004 : 09:30:28 [Permalink]
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My car's name is Paul, yes it is. A small, convenient city car that I don't drive neither own, but that's there for my sole usage |
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"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
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Paulos23
Skeptic Friend
USA
446 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 09:34:16 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
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Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
I thought that naming a car would be interesting. (My brother had a 1976 Ford Mustang II with the Cobra II package he named "Bernadette".)
Doesn't everyone name their car? My first car was an '88 Olds Cutlass Supreme. It had black interior and exterior, and the interior lights didn't work. Thus, on really dark nights, I could get into and out of my car without being seen. My friends, admiring the advantage of this, called it 'Spycar'-- a name which, until now, I had never considered having for a user name...
I always do, every since my folks got a Rabbit and my mom called him Harvey. |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 09:53:00 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Cuneiformist
Doesn't everyone name their car?
My car is without name, but we call the van "Greased Epoxy".
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 10:30:17 [Permalink]
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Mine comes from two hobbies I was into when I started using online chat sites. I was into Astronomy (Actually some astrophotography using a small scope and digital camera). Thus the "astro". At the same time I was bringing back to life my first pinball machine (thus the "pin"), a 1987 Williams F-14 Tomcat that had been used and abused. Took me three months to get it working right and looking good. I had to learn how to solder and how to read wiring schematics. I had never done either before. Thank goodness for the internet! I now own two machines and hope to acquire more. It's so much fun to fix them up and play'em. With a pinball game you never know what's going to happen, yet at the same time you can get very skillful. Need to get out and take more pictures with the scope though. I've been waiting for an adapter for my new camera (X-Mass gift maybe).
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I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 14:18:27 [Permalink]
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R.Wreck was my real name before I went into the witness protection program.
Oh, shit!
Gotta go!!!
Actually, it refers to my alma matter. 1,000,000 points to the first to correctly guess.
And astropin, I love pinball, though I don't play nearly as much as when the local tavern was the default after work destination. Some of those machines sounded like world war III if you hit the right stuff. Annoyed the hell out of some of the patrons, which just added to the fun! |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5310 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 14:23:07 [Permalink]
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| You went to school at Rent-A-Wreck? Cool. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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ktesibios
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2004 : 18:36:47 [Permalink]
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Ktesibios (more commonly known as Ctesibius if you want to look him up) was an Alexandrian scientist and inventor who lived in the 3rd century BCE.
He's credited with discovering the elasticity of air and inventing several gadgets which used compressed air, inventing a major improvement on the water clock and an instrument a lot like the modern pipe organ.
Being an electronics geek who works in the music industry and occasionally designs and builds original circuitry, it seemed like an appropriate username. I use it on BABB and JREF as well.
Oh, and my car's name is L'il Kimchee-pot.  |
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Renae
SFN Regular
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Posted - 12/21/2004 : 19:26:05 [Permalink]
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In my head lives a jukebox where most people have a brain. The jukeboxbrain plays song lyrics from various stages of my life, including as far back as the Donny and Marie albums I played when I was 8 years old. My life really does have a soundtrack.
Renae is from The Left Banke's Walk Away Renee (with a small spelling change.) I've used BobbieJean as a screen name (from the Springsteen song of the same name) as well as Amanda (from the Boston song.)
I feel left out 'cause I never named my cars. 
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 12/21/2004 : 19:29:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Renae
I feel left out 'cause I never named my cars.
Ah, don't feel left out. I don't name my cars either, unless "lemon" and "that stupid #@%&ing hunk of ^!%#@" qualify as names.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2004 : 08:14:54 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Renae
In my head lives a jukebox where most people have a brain. The jukeboxbrain plays song lyrics from various stages of my life, including as far back as the Donny and Marie albums I played when I was 8 years old. My life really does have a soundtrack.
Renae is from The Left Banke's Walk Away Renee (with a small spelling change.) I've used BobbieJean as a screen name (from the Springsteen song of the same name) as well as Amanda (from the Boston song.)
I feel left out 'cause I never named my cars.
Naming cars is a guy thing, mostly.
I was deeply considering inserting a joke about other songs with women's names prominently featured. Jeanny (Falco), Jenny (Tommy Twotone), Billie Jean (Michael Jackson), Maggie (Rod Stewart), Nikki (Prince), Valerie (The Monkees), Lucy (The Beatles), Elanor (The Beatles, Ray Charles, et al), Layla (Cream), etc. |
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