:smack:
*SDMB
HAL GET OFF MY KEYBOARD!
She said you guys were friendly, but goat friendly?
That’s something new entirely.
Thanks everyone!
I’m assuming I can pick harmless, since I do this already?
Heh…yes, you may. And ask her for a tip on finding the subliminals we occasionally throw in here. 
There’s that rogue T again…
I must say that all of this is very new to me, and I really appreciate all of the welcome received.
Yepmas is:
a.) A Veteran (U.S. Army)
b.) A “seeking employment” Computer Programmer
c.) A Pool Fanatic
d.) A Bad Poet
e.) A connoisseur of PORN
f.) An L.A. Lakers Fan
g.) All of the above
perhaps I’m just confused? Or maybe, just maybe, I’m all of the above, but I’d take confused if I were someone else trying to make a guess. ;j 
:smack: :dubious: :rolleyes: 
:eek: :o
I’m sorry for that last post, I think my cat walked across my keyboard or something.
Harmless will be sorry she ever introduced me to the dope if I embarass her here with some crazy comments, but then, I warned her not to introduce me to her friends. She knows I don’t usually play well with others. :smack:
That’s ok, hon.
I’m just glad that I can finally prove that I am the sane one of the house. 
Oh, I don’t know about that. So far he seems relatively normal.
Well he did marry harmless. That can’t be an entirely sane action. :eek: 
Only joking harmless. I’m gonna sound stupid now but where does Yepmas come from? The name, not the doper.
Have you ever checked out my homepage?
That’s a real big clue.
Ahhhhh, taking a page from Hal’s book are we?
Nice Willie, BTW :eek:
Not Sir Blah?
Hal? Care to 'splain that one?
If Hal won’t answer, I’ll step in.
Sir Blah was his old screen name before he advanced to the elite SDMB.
Ah!
Makes sense.
That’s funny because the first thing Yepmas asked when we pulled up this thread this morning was, “He just went ahead and used his real name?”
All I could do was shrug.
I think I remember an “explain your name” thread at some point where Hal explained it.
Like my Willie, huh?
I would say you should check out my pussy page, but that got my server swamped the last time t-keela did it.
Oh, hell no. I did not just spend an hour on this, just to have you think you’ll give the story away! You wanted to hear the story from me, and now damnit, you’re gonna here it!
So you kids gather 'round now…Uncle Hal is gonna tell a story.
Once upon a time, there was a politician, an altar boy and a prosti…oh…wait…wrong story. <ahem>
Oh yeah…once upon a time (that time being about 1987), there was a young man named Paul. Paul was your typical lad in his late teens, except for one thing. He was unbelievably cool. I mean, like, damn, he was really cool. Strutting around like he owned the damn place kinda cool. And, like many folks that cool, he was also a bit of an ass. But that’s another story. Anyway…
One day, Paul made a purchase that would inevitable doom him. He bought an IBM 8088. But not just any IMB 8088, a cursed, eeeeeevil IBM 8088. For once he used it for a few weeks, he was no longer incredibly cool. No, he was turning into…a geek.
Then one day, Paul bought So You Wanna Be A Hero?, the latest graphic/text adventure by Sierra. And to begin the game, you needed to name your character. He thought long and hard on this. “Well,” he thought, “knowing me, it’s gotta be an oddball name. I’m not going to go with some stereotypical Tolkeinesque name. Now, I use the word ‘blah’ an awful lot. I use it for everything, really. Perhaps I shall name my character ‘Blah’. But wait, that’s not regal enough. No, I shall name him Sir Blah. Yes, now there an idiotic, yet regal sounding name.”
And so it was that the same name was used for all adventure games in which he needed to name his character.
Then, the day came where a friend introduced Paul to a computer peripheral that would allow him to communicate, via his phone line, with other computer users. “Madness!”, he exclaimed. But he was intrigued. So Paul purchased one of these modems, and set out to discover new virtual lands.
And oh, the places he (sorta) traveled! The Syndicate! The Eagle’s Roost! TANSTAAFL! Yes, he was soon spending all his time at these sites, and many, many others.
But when he first went on to his very first site, it wanted something from him. It’s wanted to know what he should be called in these new lands. “Ah,” thought Paul, “I need to choose a handle”. And so he sat down and thought. He knew he needed a handle that would be both regal and silly, while remaining unique. “Oh yeah,” he realized, “Sir Blah. Duh. :smack:”. And so it came that from that day forward, Paul was known throughout the virtual lands as Sir Blah.
Years passed, and one day a multi-node BBS that Sir Blah frequented announced they would soon offer access to the newly deregulated Internet. “Zounds!,” exclaimed Sir Blah, as he occasionally did when he felt like exclaiming something really idiotic, “I’ve heard of this Internet! It’s supposed to be sort of multi-node BBS, but with nearly unlimited nodes! And people from all over the world shall use it!”
And so it came to pass that the day of the dial-up BBS died, giving way to the ISP and the internet.
Then, while surfing this internet one day, Sir Blah came across The Straight Dope. “Huh…neat site,” he thought. He read through all available articles there, but he hungered for more knowledge. “Ah hah!”, he exclaimed, “they have a message board. I shall register myself there and gain even further knowledge”. And register he did.
He soon must’ve discovered sluggy.com or something, because he stopped reading the message board almost as soon as he started.
More years passed, and Sir Blah found himself back at the SDMB. He spent many hours lurking and thoroughly enjoying what he read. “That’s it”, he declared, “I must join in on these conversations! I shall now register and I shall…hey, what the hell?? Whaddayamean ‘The username Sir Blah is already taken’? Like fun it is, there’s no way…oh, wait, that’s right. I already registered a couple of years ago. Duh. Well, ok then, I’ll just sign in”.
Old password #1: password incorrect
Old password #2: password incorrect
Old password #3: password incorrect
Old password #4: password incorrect
Sir Blah was frustrated. When he had signed up, he had only used four different passwords, yet none of these were correct.
“Fine”, he exclaimed, "if they will no longer let me use ‘Sir Blah’, then so be it! I shall renounce that name from this site! I shall cast it off, and from here on, I shall be known as Sir NotBlah!!
Then I realized how fricking stupid that was, and decided to go with Hal Briston instead. See? Simple as that.
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I’m sorry…did you say something?
Care to guess what my character’s name was in So You Wanna Be A Hero?
You only get one try.
How can I possibly post after that breathtaking monologue of sheer genius?
Well, I will find a way, somehow.
Welcome to the boards, Yepmas, and may no more than 10% of your posts contain at least one spelling error/grammar mistake/syntax flub.
Hal, I must say that how you went from Sir Blah, to Hal Briston is one of the coolest things I’ve ever heard.
So much history behind the name, you should write a novel! Oh wait, you just did.
Sselmrah?
And thanks for the props, Yepmas. Yeah, you’ll fit in here just fine.
Chadwick P. Merryweather, III
no?