I mean you with the face, not you with the hey… 
It is my last name
My name is Frank
I’m a fotographer
Apparently, there’s another of me out there who has caused me no end of pain - I get threatening letters from some of his customers who have had less than satisfactory results from their business dealings with him. His site ends in .biz while mine is .com - and people SWEAR I’m the one that they have used. No - my milieu is fashion, not weddings, anniversaries, bar mitsvahs or birthday parties.
Mine is a nickname I earned years ago that kind of stuck even tho it doesn’t apply anymore. But one time, back in my wild days, we were hotrailing meth. If you dont know what that means, its when you take a glass or metal straw, heat one end, and then snort a line. The idea is that some of the meth vaporizes when you snort it, so its like doing a line and smoking a hit at the same time. Don’t know if it really works, but thats the idea.
Anyway, we were hotrailing, and I heated the end of the tube, and I stuck the wrong damn end (the red hot end) up my nose. The burning sensation was intense, but I figured, hell its already up there, theres nothing I can do about now, and I didn’t want to look like a sissy, so I went ahead and did the line anyway. My nose swelled up and blistered and it was really gross. So yeah, thats it.
Clean answer: I’ve been involved with Toastmasters International since 1976 and my niece couldn’t say “Toastmasters”…abbreviated it to Toaster.
Not so clean answer: my girlfriend at that time then took that and ran with it, saying I warmed her buns…
What we need is a third person named You who?. Then we could go around posting consecutively in the same sequence like this:
Hey you!
You who?
You with the face
<chuckle chuckle> And yes, I’m a woman.
I’ve always read mangetout as man get out, never realizing until reading this thread that he was using French words. Learn sumthin new everyday.
My name is Fronk backwards.
Mine was my first car: '76 Chevy Monza with a 305 V8 engine. That car was a lot of fun to drive…too bad is was so damn rusty.
Back about 4 years ago, when I was getting my first AOL account, I was stuck for a screen name that wasn’t mindblowingly generic, but was still vague enough to last me for a while.
After racking my brains, I took the book I was reading at the time (a collection of early 19th century French ‘Salon’ Fairy Tales) and picked the first name I saw. it’s actually the name of female protagonists in a few of the stories- I assume it means ‘refined’ or something similar. I actually don’t remember where the 6 came from, but I think it was a safety measure, so that when I signed up for accounts in the future at Yahoo and message boards, I wouldn’t have to worry about another finette out there getting to it first- I have a bad memory and if I had to remember which number was which account, it would be trouble!
Also, I like the flow of it, and it’s kind of close to my last name.
I play a fair number of online team based war games. I have a lot of fun with them, but have always felt that some people take them a little too seriously. While many people had handles along the lines of SilentDeath or EliteKiller, I went with Hamster. Sexy was added for that extra bit of tongue in cheek.
For no particular reason, I started using it on message boards as well. On the up side, the name is rarely taken.
Cuz I justwannano lots of stuff.
A long time ago, (think ZX-81), there was a book my parents bought for me with the obvious title “Basic Computer Games”. Except they weren’t “Basic”, as in “simple”, which was what everyone thought-- No, this was a book full of code, for those who wanted to learn to program in this “BASIC.”
I figured it out.
In one of the examples, the user replied to the “WHAT IS YOUR NAME” prompt with “Darth.” That was just really cool to me. All you had to do was type “Darth”, and suddenly your 'puter thinks you are “Darth”…
Ten years later, I had a summer job canvassing for CoPIRG. Ten years after that, the dude is running for president.
Really, it was easy for me to come up with my nick. Having been banned due to my poor use of the “^” in my original screenname, it just sort of appeared in my brain while I was trying to find a name TubaDiva was cool with.
10 CLS
20 PRINT “MY NAME IS DARTH NADER”;
30 GOTO 20
10 CLS
20 PRINT “WHAT IS YOUR NAME”;
30 INPUT A$
40 PRINT "HI THERE, ";
50 PRINT A$
60 END
More like that, dantheman…
Oh, sure. Use Extended BASIC on me!
hey you don’t worry about it…he assumed I was a man. guess he didn’t read my location.
Answer 1:
I was an ESL teacher and at first I constantly corrected my confused students until I realized they were speaking British English. Na?
What did I do. I handled the situation like I always do - in true 80s teen angst film style:
I drove up into the hills, looked out over the lights in the valley, drank from a bottle (though I can’t remember bringing with me), kicked something arms flailing, and let the sound of the Footloose sound track nurse my open wounds.
Then I went back and said oops that’s right. Sorry for correcting you. I speak American English and we say an eraser not a rubber.
Since then and other instances where I was obviously American… “What I have to pay for Ketchup? What? This is McDonald’s!” and almost stealing grocery bags at the A&P… have helped me to appreciate that I’m different. Not bad. Just different.
And I don’t speak English; I speak American.
Answer 2:
Uh here’s a song that I misquoted it from
http://www.bestofparoles.com/lyrics.php?code=1244
Io parlo americano.
It’s true. I usually don’t bother checking the location if the gender seems perfectly obvious from the username. In this case, of course, it’s misleading.
Too bad the name fstopfitzgerald’s already taken, huh?
I’ve always considered that such a cool name!
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Its Sunday, and I see posters today, smee hasn’t seen yet…
I am a true 28 year old Viking that was born and raised in Akureyri, Iceland … which is just south of the Arctic Circle. I currently live in Dallas, Texas which feels like “Hell” at this moment hehe!