Aka my longest and most embarrassing brain fart :eek::
Last Sunday, I met up with my doper friends The Butterfly’s Ghost and mkl12 I got to know at our German Dopefest[sup]*[/sup] in April, and we had a really nice day again in Cologne. One time, the subject of our usernames came up, and I told the story how I chose mine I already told here in this thread from 2012:
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First, I have to clear up that my handle means “Einstein’s dog” in German. I had been lurking for some years before one night, I was drunk and thus courageous enough to finally sign up, but hadn’t thought of a user name before. So I did a little brainstorming and somehow remembered that when I was young, I had always wanted a dog and liked to call it Einstein (which then I had found rather quaint, but not anymore). Anyway, my drunken mind decided to turn it around and make it Einstein’s dog rather than a dog called Einstein, and German, because well, I am German.
I’ve sometimes regretted to not have put enough (sober) thought in deciding on my handle, but I’m comfortable enough with it to spare myself from the trouble of changing it.
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They both immediately told me that they had always thought that EinsteinsHund was an allusion to Schrödinger’s cat, and in an instant, I for the very first time recognized the allusion, and I was perplexed, surprised and embarrassed all together, but too stunned to admit my long, long brain fart. So I tried (unsuccessfully, as you’ll see later) to cover it and carried on with the conversation as if I had known the connection for a long time. I really never, ever made the connection before, and it was really totally unintentional, my choosing of the name was really just like I told in the old thread above.
When I got home that night, I thought about all that and had me a good laugh at my own expense, but at the same time felt for the first time that my handle is kinda cool. So the next day, I admitted all this to **mkl12 **and The Butterfly’s Ghost, and they both urged me to share all this on the board. But my initial embarrassement hadn’t gone unnoticed, The Butterfly’s Ghost told me that she literally could see the light bulb appearing over my head at the moment of that revelation and that my facial expression very much gave away my confusion :D. I’m not so good in covering my feelings after all, it seems, so damn it, I can just as well admit what a colossal dolt I’ve been for the last six years to the whole board ;).
[sup]*[/sup]If you want to hear more examples of how I make an ass of myself, please join us on our next Dopefest in Bonn on 1 August 2015 ;).