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Amory Blaine is the main character of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel

It's simple. I like it. Use it for all the forums i'm registered on
 
I don't even remember my name on the old board, mostly lurked.

I went to UConn. I went to Kansas. Husky and a (Jay)Hawk. Avatar changes from time to time. Probably time for a new one.
 
1998 I was really bored and needed an internet fix for UConn. Followed internet links to McDs old UConn site and found the Yard. I scaled a rear fence and fell in. I lurked for a week and had to post in a thread called "Hot Chicks of the Boneyard" which was top 3 ranking of Husky women hoopsters. Took the nickname of my fave Husky back at that time.

Damn you Israeli Army!!!!
 
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Was playing poker on line and met a regular on the womens board. Never had heard of the boneyard at the time, we started talking hoops and he told me about this site . Was using the screen name for the poker site so just carried it over.
No real meaning.. Live in ct , kidd was a nickname
 
Kitaman said:
Do you know all the lyrics? Perhaps many years ago I could have kept up but now I'm catching about every 3rd of 4th word.
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I could probably still rip most of them off. But for the older guys...there's the internet.

Back in the day, my favorite part was:

It's Busta Rhymes and I'm feeling irie
Come on over cause I'm having a party
Milo did the right thing and brought the vibe
The sound's too pissed now the party's live
 
HooperScooper said:
I think you may be right. I'm too old to remember that far back!
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You are not old enough yet. Ive learned quickly that being old as it pertains to memory is being able to remember a boneyard posters tag line from 15 years ago (or say Joe Namath's 1968 passing stats) but cant remember where I had lunch yesterday.
 
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CTMike said:
Cmon don't leave us hanging!
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In my mind it is brilliant. I should just keep it in my mind.

You asked for it. I wanted a name that had something to do with Connecticut given my preference for ct in my former, but no longer accessible name, ctchamps. I was born in Ct and went to UConn. So CT, Conn, uconn, UConn were bandied about.

I love to bring together many references and I was still upset about ctchamps so I figured I'd corrupt conn to con ( I felt conned out of my old name) and do my best Charlie Chan imitation (Chinese detective I loved to watch growing up sometime during the Ming Dynasty when it was accepted to hear actors portraying Chinese characters pronouncing l's for r's) and put my philosophical bent together with the claims people made regarding my arm chair psychology. So con is for connecticut and confucius and being conned, fleud is freud as would have been pronounced by Charlie Chan who often quoted confucius, freud is for The Sigmund variety and the slip is for Freudian slip which Sigmund would have attributed to my preference of utilizing Chan's incorrect pronunciation and my misuse of con for conn, all indicating my unrepressed anger for not being able to use ctchamps.

So Confucius says (as stated by Charlie Chan) I made a Fleudian Slip when I wrote con. I was so screaming angry I wanted to write fleudslipkahn but I figured that would be too obscure (and nerdy) and eliminate any UConn reference.

The entire scope of this exercise with all the play of the words and the multiple meanings took less than a minute. Since neither of my parents were drug users I've often wondered if they adopted me and I was the product of one or both parents who habitually took LSD.
 
intlzncster said:
I don't even know w tf that thing is.
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It's a beer. In fact, it is Be Hoppy, from Wormtown Brewing. The logo for which is:
beer_119521.jpg


And no photo or beer manipulation occurred. I lifted the glass, and that is what I saw.
 
fleudslipcon said:
In my mind it is brilliant. I should just keep it in my mind.

You asked for it. I wanted a name that had something to do with Connecticut given my preference for ct in my former, but no longer accessible name, ctchamps. I was born in Ct and went to UConn. So CT, Conn, uconn, UConn were bandied about.

I love to bring together many references and I was still upset about ctchamps so I figured I'd corrupt conn to con ( I felt conned out of my old name) and do my best Charlie Chan imitation (Chinese detective I loved to watch growing up sometime during the Ming Dynasty when it was accepted to hear actors portraying Chinese characters pronouncing l's for r's) and put my philosophical bent together with the claims people made regarding my arm chair psychology. So con is for connecticut and confucius and being conned, fleud is freud as would have been pronounced by Charlie Chan who often quoted confucius, freud is for The Sigmund variety and the slip is for Freudian slip which Sigmund would have attributed to my preference of utilizing Chan's incorrect pronunciation and my misuse of con for conn, all indicating my unrepressed anger for not being able to use ctchamps.

So Confucius says (as stated by Charlie Chan) I made a Fleudian Slip when I wrote con. I was so screaming angry I wanted to write fleudslipkahn but I figured that would be too obscure (and nerdy) and eliminate any UConn reference.

The entire scope of this exercise with all the play of the words and the multiple meanings took less than a minute. Since neither of my parents were drug users I've often wondered if they adopted me and I was the product of one or both parents who habitually took LSD.
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Phorcys said:
Alternatively, is there any meaning behind your choice of avatar? (Mau, you don’t need to answer this question; and I agree, by the way.)
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My avatar is my favorite KO moment. The power scream from the 2014 NCAA tournament. Enhanced with the super saiyan treatment.

There were two made at the time, and some people here say they like the 2nd, more 'professional' one (here). But I preferred the one below. It was more electric, more raw and gritty, more powerful....exemplified taking the stairs:

AuYWjs4.gif



It was actually modeled off the best super saiyan gif of all time, the great Miguel Herrera:

frnXxyM.gif
 
Somebody else appropriated my real name in one of the many switches from one site to another, so I started using my dad's name to honor him. He was a huge Husky fan, and I'm the same smart ass he was (OK, probably a lot worse), so his presence is still being felt here long after his passing 35 years ago.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
It's a beer. In fact, it is Be Hoppy, from Wormtown Brewing. The logo for which is:

And no photo or beer manipulation occurred. I lifted the glass, and that is what I saw.
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ahahahahhahaha I literally looked at that thing for a minute long. The best I came up with was a weird circular silk screen print (a bad one at that) of a smiley face. Now that I can 'see' the beer -> dumb arse. In fairness, it's a small screen. But still -> dumb arse.
 
HuskyHawk said:
It's a beer. In fact, it is Be Hoppy, from Wormtown Brewing. The logo for which is:
beer_119521.jpg


And no photo or beer manipulation occurred. I lifted the glass, and that is what I saw.
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That's wild. A beer version of tea cup reading.
 
fleudslipcon said:
In my mind it is brilliant. I should just keep it in my mind.

You asked for it. I wanted a name that had something to do with Connecticut given my preference for ct in my former, but no longer accessible name, ctchamps. I was born in Ct and went to UConn. So CT, Conn, uconn, UConn were bandied about.

I love to bring together many references and I was still upset about ctchamps so I figured I'd corrupt conn to con ( I felt conned out of my old name) and do my best Charlie Chan imitation (Chinese detective I loved to watch growing up sometime during the Ming Dynasty when it was accepted to hear actors portraying Chinese characters pronouncing l's for r's) and put my philosophical bent together with the claims people made regarding my arm chair psychology. So con is for connecticut and confucius and being conned, fleud is freud as would have been pronounced by Charlie Chan who often quoted confucius, freud is for The Sigmund variety and the slip is for Freudian slip which Sigmund would have attributed to my preference of utilizing Chan's incorrect pronunciation and my misuse of con for conn, all indicating my unrepressed anger for not being able to use ctchamps.

So Confucius says (as stated by Charlie Chan) I made a Fleudian Slip when I wrote con. I was so screaming angry I wanted to write fleudslipkahn but I figured that would be too obscure (and nerdy) and eliminate any UConn reference.

The entire scope of this exercise with all the play of the words and the multiple meanings took less than a minute. Since neither of my parents were drug users I've often wondered if they adopted me and I was the product of one or both parents who habitually took LSD.
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That is deep man!
 
CTMike said:
That is deep man!
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I'd say more like far out and would like @August_West's wife to determine if I have antennae (reference from the Tau of wife thread). My mind loves to juxtapose a lot of different things which can be creative at times but hampers the ability to focus. My wife and son are infrequently kind. They sometimes say I'm from an alien world and accidentally left here by aliens. Most of the time they don't pull punches and just say I'm strange.
 
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Dove said:
1998 I was really bored and needed an internet fix for UConn. Followed internet links to McDs old UConn site and found the Yard. I scaled a rear fence and fell in. I lurked for a week and had to post in a thread called "Hot Chicks of the Boneyard" which was top 3 ranking of Husky women hoopsters. Took the nickname of my fave Husky back at that time.

Damn you Israeli Army!!!!
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I always thought it was a Mandeldove tribute. I've learned something today.
 
fleudslipcon said:
I'd say more like far out and would like @August_West's wife to determine if I have antennae (reference from the Tau of wife thread). My mind loves to juxtapose a lot of different things which can be creative at times but hampers the ability to focus. My wife and son are infrequently kind. They sometimes say I'm from an alien world and accidentally left here by aliens. Most of the time they don't pull punches and just say I'm strange.
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wow, my wife would love you. She is convinced that our dog got abducted, had his paw shaved and a needle inserted into it.


I have to update that thread because a different classic came out last night.
 
intlzncster said:
My avatar is my favorite KO moment. The power scream from the 2014 NCAA tournament. Enhanced with the super saiyan treatment.

There were two made at the time, and some people here say they like the 2nd, more 'professional' one (here). But I preferred the one below. It was more electric, more raw and gritty, more powerful....exemplified taking the stairs:

AuYWjs4.gif



It was actually modeled off the best super saiyan gif of all time, the great Miguel Herrera:

frnXxyM.gif
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OK, but what about the name?
 
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