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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:48 PM
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Why did you change your name?
I don't know why I ever picked my original name. I never liked it.

My new name is from the poem about birth days.
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michigandem2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:52 PM
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1. mine had kerry in it..and I found this during the campaign
but I figure I will be here well beyond the kerry years..LOL! so I changed mine to michigandem2...that about covers me..LOL
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:52 PM
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LTR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:53 PM
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3. This is the original one I tried to sign up with
Didn't take, for some reason. I came back a few months later (8/03) with RatTerrier, a name that just popped into my head (must have been the dog barking).

I use this name on other message boards, so I thought I'd be consistent.
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:54 PM
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4. I didn't really like the one I picked
It was a split second choice. I like my new one so much I even made a custom avatar.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 10:59 PM
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5. Nice avatar.
:)
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:06 PM
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8. Thanks! With google and photoshop, it only took an hour. n/t
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Wat_Tyler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:00 PM
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6. I was fed up with being Matcom.
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:32 PM
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43. Everyone knows
you're just a Will Pitt sockpuppet anyway. :P
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LifeDuringWartime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:05 PM
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7. because i could!
and the talking heads make me wanna dance ;)
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Breezy du Nord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:07 PM
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9. Sounded too girly
Like I was one of those stupid 13 year old AIM addicts who writes things like "OMG bUSH ROX K3RRY IS STOOPID WTF."
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MiddleRiverRefugee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:10 PM
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10. Too many letters
I keep misspelling it every time I logged in. Plus it's how I feel these days.

Not that I'll miss the old username too much; couple months ago I went and bought the domain name unidentifiedbassplayer.com, and .org, and .net. My ISP has a great deal where they'll tie all three to one set of files.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:11 PM
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11. To honor my great (x4) grandfather...
...who fought in the Revolutionary War w/ the CT militia. Seems appropriate, given where we are now, after the election. :thumbsup:
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:13 PM
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12. as long as chuckie mutt stays
god I gotta copy and past all these old names and new names :shrug:
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:21 PM
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14. CM stays! He'd kick my ass if I left him out...
...and he knows where I live! :D

...or he'll just sleep thru it.;)
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:42 PM
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16. oh now THAT is cute!
keep the Chuckie pics coming...he really cheers me up :-)
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:47 AM
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33. Chuckie Puppy pic...

If this doesn't warrant a collective "AWWWWWW," nothing does! :)
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:08 AM
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34. I just love the "my posts" feature
so I could wake up....check my posts and see THAT FACE!
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:50 PM
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19. Is that the Heard/Hurd family of the Mass. Bay colony?
because I'm one of them.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:05 AM
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31. Hmmm... not sure...
Edited on Tue Nov-09-04 06:05 AM by Cooley Hurd
I'm not sure. Adam Hurd came to the US in 1640 and settled in CT. I'm part of that Hurd herd. We're probably related, though, so "HI COZ!":hi:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:12 AM
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36. BEcause SLB is stalking me
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:15 PM
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13. I'm a fan of Tragic heros....
which is a good thing being a Dem these days.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:39 PM
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57. "The Grapes of Catch-22"
Sorry, I just felt compelled to say it!

:toast:
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:35 PM
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15. I always wanted the space
Kenneth is the name on my birth cert
Ken is the name I typically go by

Kenneth means Handsome
ken means knowledge, or range of wisdom

so I always wanted to be Kenneth ken, but when I registered nobody I saw had spaces, so I didn't know if I could use them (DU 1)
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:43 PM
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17. And I thought you'd change it to
Charming as Hell :D
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:53 PM
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20. LOL - how did I guess you would say that?
but that will come back (presumably) when they stop overwriting my sigline with the name-change reminder.

:hi: nsma

I really like my name, I just didn't like it not having a space for clarity.
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-08-04 11:49 PM
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18. Changed it cuz I had no vowels
and though I love the song (Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad), using those initials as a user name was maybe a bit off putting.

This is better.

Oh yeah, you could call me Kathy, too.
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IconoclastIlene Donating Member (554 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:10 AM
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21. I was tired of my name being a woman who took arsenic for
overspending and being an adultress.....
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Neoma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:22 AM
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23. umm...
i miss spelled trouble..
i never posted Before because of that,until i could get it changed
Guess i got my wish.

my New name means 'New Moon' in Greek
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Mandate My Ass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 03:34 PM
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50. Ditto
Monica Lewinsky is so 1990's, besides it pissed off my son and never conveyed what I wanted it to. My intent was to say something along the lines "Monica Lewinsky is not impeachment material" or "If you think Monica was a scandal wait till Bush gets going" but it just didn't come across that way.
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cedahlia Donating Member (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:14 PM
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56. well
Can I just say I love your new name! This one is pretty damn straightforward! :thumbsup:

:-)
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Shananigans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:18 AM
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22. I signed up back in my college days...
Shanneee was my nickname for everything. I'm pretty sick of it! :)

I like Shananigans because when I was younger my best friends mom would always tell us "Don't get into any Shenanigans, girls" whenever we hung out. We always giggled because it was like "Shannon-igans"... Shannon being my real name.

So I played with the letters a bit and with Shananigans being my nickname...well...it seemed a natural change.

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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:28 AM
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24. Mrs.COLiberal
was hubby's suggestion.

I wanted my own identity!
:)
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:11 AM
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35. Ay caramba!
Very nice!

:hi:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:54 AM
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25. I didn't change my name; I would get my ass kicked
Susan
also a "Fridays Child"
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 03:56 AM
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26. Hey! We have amnesty. Skinner said so. No ass-kickings allowed.
But I like your name. It's so small, round, and tasty. ;)
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 04:33 AM
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28. I named it after my cat Skittles
he became a farm cat and statyed with my ex - Skittles is a 27 pound bundle of solid black fur. Yes, I named him after the candy. :D
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 07:21 AM
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32. And here I thought we were going to get an M&M's, or a Nerds, or...
or...TicTacs!!! :hi:


Thursday's Child here. :hi:
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GingerSnaps Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 03:59 AM
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27. I had to
It reminded me of the stolen election last week.

I am eating a couple of cookies right now and I changed it to the name of the cookies.
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Baja Margie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 04:40 AM
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29. Because
Initially, when I registered, I accidentally typed in my full name, Marjorie Grisak. So, anyway, I tried to change it to a user name and I couldn't. And, I was tired of all my posts from here and everywhere else ending up on google under Marjorie Grisak or Marjorie (Drake) Grisak.

And noone really calls me Marjorie too much, except for my husband when he's mad at me. I'm just Margie, and I'm in Baja.

End of story.
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AmericanErrorist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 05:06 AM
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30. Because
after I logged as CocaCola58204, I found out about Coke's killing of Coloumbian laborers. I vowed to boycott the company, but it didn't exactly take. Darn Mother, and her insistance on the stuff!

The new name is was taken from a punkvoter.com bumper sticker I got with Rock Against Bush Vol. 1 . Yes, it refers to *.
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Michael Moonlight Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:28 AM
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37. My old name sounded too much like I was bragging.
My new name is more poetic, a bit softer.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 04:49 PM
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52. What was your old name?
It doesn't appear at the bottom of your post. :shrug:
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:37 AM
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38. When I first found DU...
...I didn't know too much about it. I thought I'd just post a little satire once in blue moon by playing a certain character (guess who).

I found out I liked the site a lot and there was much to discuss as myself--more than I expected--so I couldn't resist posting in my own voice, even though I still had the old name.

Now that the election is over, I've retired the old name due to its having a very limited function which I've outgrown.

Besides, I alwyas used to portray Bush as a funny nitwit and, in truth, he's actually an evil nitwit. There's not much funny about that.
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:48 AM
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40. I like your new name
:thumbsup:
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:04 PM
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41. Thank you...
...you're the first one to say that. B-)
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HEIL PRESIDENT GOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 11:47 AM
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39. Isn't it obvious?
My old one was a real-world nickname but people thought it was some kind of slur.

I finally decided to make the change when I read about 4000 troops for the inauguration...
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blue america Donating Member (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:26 PM
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42. My old one was my standard
sign in for everything under the sun, email, accounts, message boards etc, makes it easier for when I land on a site that I'm already registered for. But DU is more than a run of the mill site, so I shouldn't have a hard time remembering.

Plus, It's the name of my Blue-State merchandise store

http://www.cafepress.com/blueamerica
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:34 PM
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44. I wanted to blend into the woodwork
I didn't want to stand out.

But it was so dang BORING.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 12:58 PM
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45. I was so excited when I found this site...
I just signed up with the first thing that came to mind. I've hated it ever since (my sisters used to call me stevie when they were making fun of me, urp.)

The new name is the one I use for online backgammon, comes from an excellent book by Farley Mowat, subsequently made into a movie. It also seems somewhat apppropos on a couple of levels, such as the terra alerts being like the little boy who cried wolf. Could alse be read as "never cry, wolf." No crying here, ready to fight for the truth, the mid-terms, impeachment and 2008!
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:55 PM
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59. I love that book and Farley Mowat is an amazing man.
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Red State Rebel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 01:01 PM
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46. Everyone thought I was a guy....
It's still not feminine, but it has real meaning :)
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dr.strangelove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 02:16 PM
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47. Mine was my initials - and I wanted something that was "more me"
This movie changed my life. I first saw it in the early 80s and have never been the same. It continues to be my favorite all time film. It says something about my dark sense of humor and my hatred for all things absurd.
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meow2u3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 02:23 PM
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48. No one could figure out what it meant
So I picked out my new name to reflect my deep center political views.
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Bat Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 02:36 PM
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49. Nobody recalled my original name...
But when Zomby started calling me Bat Boy, so did everyone else.

It only made sense.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 04:18 PM
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51. I wanted some demarcation between the last four years
and the next four years. Also, "dirk" is my real first name and I always thought it was awfully unimaginitive of me. "Terran" speaks to a number of things about me--science fictiony, futuristic and thus forward looking, internationalist, globalist, one-worlder, technocrat, optimist. And plus I want to take back the word "terra" from Bush. :)

Hope y'all like it and that no one gets "confused". Like all that many people at DU gve a flip about me anyway! ;)
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 05:00 PM
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53. Had a new name in the works already. Keeping post count was the proverbial
icing in the cake:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1969136#1969158
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 05:11 PM
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54. I really don't want to go into detail
But it had to do with a donkey, a crate of Viagra, and a future run for public office.
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Shananigans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 06:01 PM
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55. You too, eh?
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:42 PM
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58. I signed up during a rough time, and I didn't give much thought to...
my user name. My mom was dying, I was getting over cancer treatment, etc. I just logged onto DU with the first thing I could think of.

So, when Skinner offered the amnesty, I jumped at it! :toast:
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