So he’s actually Chuck Norris?
I’m sorry, I cannot answer that question as I have been grievously injured by an eight-sided throwing-weapon. Like, if you took a stop sign, sharpened the edges into blades, and then threw it like a frisbee. Happened just after my ETA…
EastUmpqua.
ILMVI? You really shouldn’t be using acronyms without explaining them.
I’m always happy to see someone has gotten the joke.
I concur, but I recognize this one as the palindromic I Love Me Vol. I.
I’m pretty sure DG does as well. The joke, which comes from reducing their name down to an acronym, is that they frequently complain (to the point of derailing threads) about acronyms. What better way to dig on someone who complains about acronyms than by reducing their name to an acronym?
I don’t like lazy posters who think everybody understands their acronyms either. There’s no trail of context you have to check to affirm that.
There’s a difference between “not liking,” even “asking for clarification,” and derailing an entire thread by going on at length about the horror of using unfamiliar acronyms.
ETA: This might perhaps be better discussed in another (existing) thread, rather than here:
Yes, very annoying when they should be complaining about initialisms instead. /pedant
You don’t pronounce ILMVI as ilm-vee?
I sometimes get Octagon’s posts confused with those from cannonkuo, whom I know is in East Asia, and for whom English is not their first language. They both tend to ask clarification questions around specific historical events (and articles about them), though cannonkuo’s posts are nearly always about the Falklands War.
Ah, jeeze, I’m embarrassed - I never before now realized that username is a palindrome.
Same here.
It came as a surprise to me too, when he explained it to us at the San Francisco Dope Fest a few weeks ago.
It was kind of obvious and I just assumed everybody else noticed it, too. Guess not
The origins of usernames do come up around here but not all that frequently. One of the drawbacks when the average board member has been around for a long time.
Another one here who missed it…
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People always assume I like to paddle a boat. Turns out Mr and Mrs Aker named their son Kay.
Ah, yes, like B.J. Hunnicutt, named for his mother, Bea, and his father, Jay.
I think we’ve also met your brother Bay here.