A goldsmith works with gold; a wordsmith works with words. Makes perfect sense.
Wordsmith: One of the elite few who knows that George Herbert Walker Bush was a Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog.
My humble apologies to Pluto re: Roman/Greek Pluto. All I can put up as a defense is that it’s been more than thirty years and, memory being what it is… well, you know… 
My first job as a trainer came with the University of Manitoba Men’s Volleyball Team. The U of M Athletic Teams are known as the Bisons. The VB program has referred to itself as 'zoons from time immemorial, why I don’t know. I even have a t-shirt that says this.
Z
“Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
- John F. Kennedy
I still want to hear from Stoidela…
Well, I’m a Chinese 1 student, and our teacher assigned us Chinese names by first name and last initial-- John A in my case. Yue- Ha
is the Chinese equivalent to John, and Ai\ is the initial. That’s in the Romanized system of pinyin, which uses tone marks that English keyboards aren’t adapted to, which is what the odd punctuation is in there for. I later found out that “ai” is the Chinese word for love, so I’m John Love… It sounds like a lounge singer. David Allor, who sits next to me, became Ai\ Da\ We/i – literally, Big Guard Love. So things could be worse.
–John
Thorstein Veblen.
He was a reclusive, cynical crackpot in the Gilded Age. Oh, he was also an off the wall genius.
In the days of the robber barons and Victorian haute excess, he lived in aloof Nordic isolation and developed the Theory of Conspicuous Consumption.
I’ve always liked that. There is always the quiet observer who will–ka-CHING!–point out the hard truth that somehow eludes others.
I just admire the guy.
Because “Hot_N_horny696969” was already taken.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Not enough spaces for my name when I get high scores on video games, so I shortened it.
Let’s See What’s Out There Engage.
Captain Picard’s last line in the first episode of Star Trek The Next Generation (a 2 parter called “Encounter At Farpoint”.
To me it says, go down the unknown path and do it now, don’t put it off for some other time.
In this world, you must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
My names comes from the movie “Yellow Submarine” remember, they were saving Pepper Land from the blue meanies. And of course Pepper Land comes from Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, so I have a double Beatles reference there
“The bitch, oh the bitch, the bitch is back…I’m a bitch cuz I’m better then you, it’s the way that I move
The things that I do…” Elton John
“People try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend…” The Moody Blues
“To start, press any key. Where’s the any key?” Homer Simpson.
In high school I was a serious Slavophile.
Anything to do with The Soviet Union I was interested in. This was considered very odd by my peers here in Huntsville Alabama.
Two of my favorite Poets were V. Mayakovsky and Osip Mandelstam. When I started on line at AOL I could not get Mayakovsky to fit. Amazingly someone had taken it.
So I chose OsipMand. I was quite tired and did not really consider al my options when I logged on here. I think back I could have found a much more interesting name. I dunno something like “Bakcbone flute” or “cloud in trousers.”
of course Osip is quite easy to remember for my less than a pot of coffee days.
There’s not a single grey hair on my soul,
nor senile tenderness either.
I’ve shaken the world with my voice’s power:
There I go handsome,
Twenty-two years old
-Mayakovsky-
Rufus T. Firefly was Groucho’s character in Duck Soup, perhaps the best of all the Marx Brothers movies. I’ve been a big fan of theirs since high school.
Homepage: www.galacticgovernment.gov
Occupation: Galactic Emperor
Location: Trantor
Interests: Palace intrigue, hereditary successors
–Profile by UncleBeer
Why Mr. Cynical?
Aw, beats me. I think Bi-Polar Bear would have been 1. Un-original 2. Misleading :o)