Yes, my dear Wilson, I used to be SilkyThreat. I only changed because more than a few posters kept reading it as SilkyThroat, and well…I got enough hassles, ok?? 
[sub]I am astounded somebody noticed this![/sub]
Sylkyn is also shorter.
I’m still SilkyThreat on fathom, however.
Ooh, Ino! Ino! Ask me!
I’ll be damned! I wondered whatever happened to Silky Threat.
Which reminds me, there was a poster named throatshot (or a reasonable facsimile); she changed hers, too. And it’s a name I’d recognize, too. If I could remember it.
The bleak and prolonged Winter of Our Missed Content so befuddled l’il ol’ me that I could remember that had had a username but not for the life of me remember what precisely it was. I used to be McKenna, Mom’s maiden name, but now I’m an alley cat.
but always a lady archy always a lady to
hell with anything unrefined is my motto
boss sometimes i think
that our friend mehitabel
is a trifle too gay
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I’ve always wondered: which syllable gets the accent in “mehitabel”?
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I used to be algernon, but the Great and Powerful TubaDiva let me grow up to become Algernon. (thanks Jenny!)
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I have always pronounced it meh-HIT-a-bell.
ME-hit-a-bell?
meh-hih-ta-BELL?
me-hih-TA-bul?
Nope. I don’t buy it. Unless it’s one of those words that are pronounced completely differently than it’s spelled.
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To answer lel’s questions upthread, Berkut was Joey G.
A Monkey With a Gun was Beeblebrox.
No hamsters were harmed in the creation of this post. Some were overworked, however.
Boyo Jim had another name, too… yojimboguy? I’ll leave that proof as an exercise to the reader.
Sylkyn, I’ve always liked the way your new name looks on the screen - something about the two y’s, I think. I had always wondered if you had changed names or I’d just never noticed you. IIRC, you discussed it a couple of weeks ago in another thread, and it stuck in my mind.
I always read it as “the grim spectre o’ fred death.”
<chants on behalf of lno> Can the aria! Can the aria! Can the aria!</chant>
so there.
She’s now known as DeadlyAccurate, I believe…
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Now it’s my turn to have a :smack: moment… I didn’t even make that connection. I just remembered the name change.
No problem!
I think that’s correct… it was way too similar to yojimbo, who came up with the construct first.
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Where’s that dang raspberry smilie?
You’ve inspired me. I am jr8 no more.
That looks so weird - it’s like some stranger is writing my posts…
Heh. There was a show called Communications from a Cockroach last year that was the second musical made from the Archy canon (after “Shinbone Alley”, in the Fifties with Eartha Kitt as Mehitabel). They pronounced it Meh-HITT-a-belle, which is what I go with. In my brain it was originally Meh-HEE-ta-belle but I have punished the brain with alcohol and endless computer gaming, so that won’t happen again.
Adore Don Marquis, even though he had a life that would make Ernest Hemingway weep.
Yaaaaa. Meh-HITT-a-belle.
Hmmm. Does this mean that I can’t “punish” my brain with alcohol (since I don’t need to re-program the pronunciation)?
I didn’t know that about Don Marquis. I’ve never researched his life at all. Just been a fan of the archy canon.
Well this certainly has been informative!
I was merely “Ellen” for quite some time, and upgraded with a Cherry addition. But I never imagined there’d be much confusion.
-Ellen. (real name: Mary Smith)
What we need is a Helen Wade. How come no one’s picked Helen Wade? If I wanted an answer to something, I know I can always go to Helen Wade.
From reading The Wit and Wisdom of Apricot Syrup, I see that appletreats has changed his name to cheddarsnax.
We’ve inspired you, Gyrate? Cool… of course, you know that any future vanity searches that you do COULD be tainted by posts about those sexy stripper types and how they gyrate down a pole.
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I’m remembered! Yes, the two of you are right.
I’m glad this thread came about. I was just thinking of FireUnderpantsBoob the other day and wondering what became of her.
Mmmmm… strippers…
I’m still Michael Ellis.