I use this username just about everywhere anymore…fine and dandy, except for one thing. See, I met someone recently (playing Words With Friends, of all places). Devastatingly smart girl, beautiful, intriguing…we’re ridiculously compatible.
The other day she sends me a text:
<sigh…>
She probably though you were trying to pull the wool over her eyes.
Sometimes I think we need a new tagline.
The Straight Dope
Where We Can Never Let Go of Anything.
(ever)
Sorry about all the sheep puns that are going to come from everyone else next.
, she apologized sheepishly. 
I’m squirming sympathetically in embarrassment and laughing at the same time. Not sure what that says about me.
Send her to the original thread – she’ll understand pretty quickly.
I resisted the temptation to try and ram a pun in here somewhere.
Dammit!
Holy crap - you’re in TvTropes.
That you’re excited about the shear awkwardness of it?
Huh. That was unexpected.
I’m still not signing off on the sitcom, though.
Ed Zotti is Cecil?!? :eek:
I think ewe were asking for it by not changing your usernames, Hal.
With all the Internet scams around today, you should be careful–you might get fleeced.
I dunno, changing your username sounds like something you’d only need to do if you were on the lamb.
Or trying to convince people you weren’t.
Wait 'till she finds out how you kill flies.
So, what you are saying is that anything we type in this thread is likely to be read by this “Devastatingly smart girl, beautiful, intriguing” woman. Hrmm. Anything we type…
The possibilities are endless.
Hal, the upside of all this is you can tell her you have the softest hands around from all that lanolin. Of course, being the dyed in the wool man that you are, you probably have lanolin over your entire body by now so it’s not just your hands that are perpetually soft …
Aww, c’mon … I only did it once. For 20 minutes. In…
… Rio, natch.
Hal, out of mild curiosity, was the body of your colleague ever found?
No, no! It wasn’t his colleague, it was his “mischievous college”!
A “mischievous college”?