I’m not Guizot, but I when I signed up, I lived in a dingbat Who really cares?
When I was in high school, I took an AP Psychology class and had the absolute coolest teacher in the world, one Mr. Stauderman. He was hilarious and had a litany of silly puns he would use over and over (“bear with me, but keep your clothes on!” (a play on bear/bare)). More than that, he was fun, like the crazy uncle every kid should have. He made learning a great amd enjoyable experience, and by the end of the class, every single student loved him. At the end of the year, I asked him to write a recommendation letter to help me get into college, and in it he said that I was one of the best students he had ever had and that no matter what I chose to do in life, I would do it well. I loved that guy.
One day during the class, someone drew a horse on a piece of paper, wrote “Stauderhorse” on the top and gave it to Mr. Stauderman. He hung it up on the wall for the rest of the year, and I remembered it when I signed up here. Voila.
Mine’s a fairly simple explanation: It’s a snarky comment made by Mike Nelson in either MST3K or Rifftrax, commenting on a vacuous actor in a quiet moment, “This face intentionally left blank.” A play on written comments on pages purposely left blank in books.
Sycorax - name of the witch who was the mother of Caliban in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” I wasn’t much of a fan of Shakespeare, but while listening to a book tape, a major female character named her horse Sycorax. I liked it, checked online and found its origin.
Someday I will own a really excellent cabinet of curiosities. For now, though, I content myself with pretending to be one.
T-cups (or “Teacups” I guess) was a nickname I got in college
Long story short: I can ride any rollercoaster, but circle rides a la the Teacups will make throw up…guys who lived on my floor thought that was funny, decided to call me T-cups
I had never had a nickname before, and since it wasn’t really a mean one…and the fact I loved it…I have used it ever since
oh yeah, the “Sir” cuz I’m a guy
mine’s a typo…:smack:
Should be Procrustes.
Some stupid lawyer said I was acting like Procrustes in a brief when I tried to make facts conform to my argument instead of my argument conform to the facts. The good news is I won, all the was to the SCOTUS. So, it’s a badge of honor, except the typo :smack:
Faithfool, don’t. I get confused when people change names.
Hello Jim???
I am a guy. I run the transportation director in a large K-12 district in the Chicago 'burbs.
One day a several years ago, a high school girl, who recognized me while I was walking through the school, yelled when she saw me during passing period: “hey!! there’s the bus guy!! hey,** Mr Bus Guy**, it’s me Jayme!!!, you rock Mr Bus Guy!!!”
It stuck.
Sorry
I never expected to hang around and post much when I joined. I think I have never been so wrong before or since. 
Keep it…it now gives me a smile!
I’m sure everyone recognizes my name as the heroine of Phoebe Caulfield’s stories…old Hazle Weatherfield…that kills me.
well, when I was trying to come up with a name the first thing I set my eyes on was a can of tuna. for some reason, I decided jellyfish are cooler than tuna fish. then “rhombus” seemed like a good addition, but I couldn’t figure out the adjectival form, so i went with trapezoidal.
it kinda made sense in my head when it happened.
I wanted to be lavenderviolet but that user name is taken so I went with my other favorite colors. My bedroom is painted lavender and our living room is blue so it fits.
I mentally add “Dilly dilly” every time I see your name.
Me too.
Yup a lot of cats.
Half of them, like me, seem to be named Cathy/Kathy, and the other half just love cats.
My user name has been CAT=^…^= for about 12 years. That is when I started chatting with the old PowWow program.
I found the cat symbol on an old ascii art program. I use it when I can, but not all programs allow the symbols, so then I am usually just CAT or CATinWI, or itsme_cat. It is hard to keep track of what I am where, sometimes.
56 is my favorite number.
I am considering changing it to -4 or -23 but I have no idea how to go about doing that.
And 56 has has been my favorite number for 23 years. So I suppose Iwill just stick with it for awhile longer.
Fascinating. I had to go look up the reference because my user name only means two colors to me.
Some people have figured it out already. My name is a reference to the way Drusilla says “Spike” in her terrible, terrible “British” accent on Buffy. I think I originally read it in a TWOP recap.
I’m thinking of changing it, though, primarily because there’s another Doper (spoke-) whose name is similar enough that I am occasionally puzzled when I see a post by him (?). For a second, I think it’s my post, and am confused because I know I didn’t write it. You’d think I’d be used to it by now, but it still happens.
I do, too.
Well, NOW I do.
And now, we all will. You’re welcome.