Wow, impressive. I had thought it was Shotokan for some reason.
I think Sam Stone is a shodan at some style of karate.
Gonna tell us something about you?
Regards,
Shodan
Okay, here goes the stuff you might already know:
I look like Santa Claus, used to look like Jerry Garcia, but now I am fatter, and he is dead.
I’m a Christian, but it only matters to me and Christ. This is the only place I witness with words (well, Great Debates, and the Pit, to be precise).
I eat Kimche because I like it.
I can even tell you why you should read the Chronicles of Narnia in publication order. (This applies mostly to why you should do it when reading aloud to children over a long enough period to finish the entire set. For adults, I can only point out the almost endless supply of young children who have not yet heard an adult read the Chronicles of Narnia aloud, and encourage you to do something about that.)
I know way too much about nuclear weapons, non nuclear weapons, special operations, and the politics of armed rebellion.
I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
I am no where near conservative enough to be a liberal.
I have an excellent recipe for Peanut Butter Soup, following the Sierra Leonean tradition, as opposed to the Ghanaian tradition.
I take pictures. See my Sig
Tris
Oops, see my sig, right?
sheesh.
Well, if you’re paying really close attention, or compiling a dossier, you would know I am:
Gay (and knew it from age 7)
male
57
Formerly fat, lost 140 pounds, now struggling with maintenance
Work at a major metropolitan daily newspaper, but
not a reporter or editor
Japanese SO with a sweet family
Cursed with a writing style that is usually stiff and boring; can’t seem to get the hang of the free-wheeling, easy-going (not to mention frequently funny) writing style that seems to be most popular around here
possessed of a very dry sense of humor, now and then
Someday I may break down and post one of those vanity threads asking people “what’s wrong with my posts and why do I get so few responses?”, but this isn’t it 
Roddy
Honey, anybody with three 12-inch penises has just gotta be black. The legends are true.
You guys knew about my extra penises, right?
Things you know:
- I’m a guy
- I work in a lab in one of Boston’s biggest hospitals on the overnight shift
- I have a girlfriend
- I have an obsession with saving small animals, namely a fish named Samson
- I am not as funny as I think I am
Things you probably don’t know:
- I am afraid of five things
* opening mail (nothing to do with letterbombs)
* spiders (terrified)
* Paris Hilton
* umbrellas
* battery operated fly swatters
Female.
Married for a very long time to fellow-Doper/mostly lurker Typo Knig
Live in DC metro area (Virginia side)
Used to live in NC
Born/raised in PA
Not really related to Frank Zappa in any way but I refer to my kids as Dweezil and Moon Unit
Dweezil is autistic and benefits from a casein-free (dairy-free) diet
We have several guinea pigs
I have Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS)
You and me both. I swore an oath.
Not much, since I don’t post very often.
I’m a law student and a budding academic.
I’m a sometime amateur wrestler with a decided preference for the Greco-Roman style, and I referee more often than I compete. I also follow the pro show and have a fondness for Andre the Giant.
I wrote a bad philosophy paper my senior year in college that I posted here for critiques.
I’ve had girl problems in the past that I occasionally got dramatic about on here.
I’m a bearded teddy-bear type who, according to a “People who look like their names” thread, apparently looks like a Troy.
Well, since you took an interest. 
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I’m a 36 year old lawyer, male, white, straight, 6’2", 195 lbs, and single but engaged.
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In college I studied anthropology and psychology, had dreadlocks and tattoos, sang in a rock band, and planned on being a professional musician, which did not pan out exactly as planned. After I graduated I cut off the dreadlocks and moved to Prague with the guitarist of my band and worked in his tattoo studio, and as a bar back.
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Two years later I moved back to Texas and went to law school. I graduated Salutatorian and served for a one year term as a law clerk to a U.S. District Judge. I’ve been in private practice for three years and share an office with my dad, also a lawyer.
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I study the martial arts, particularly Kajukembo and MMA/Submission Grappling; I’ve also studied or dabbled in Muay Thai, Kali, and Jeet Kune Do.
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I’m sure there’s more, but I can’t think of anything.
What’s a “bar back”? And did you do the tattooing?
Since you are baring your soul…
Regards,
Shodan
A bar back is like a stevedor/longshoreman for a bar. It was a fairly big place and a lot of stuff needed to be loaded in and out daily; trash and empty bottles for the recycle bin need to be hauled out in the morning, 20-40 empty kegs needed to be traded out for 20-40 full kegs, the liquor shipment needed to be carried upstairs to the office, and so on. In addition to the loading in and out the bar back gets the bar ready for business, mops, washes glasses and plates, scrapes the wax off of the candle holders, cleans the bar and polishes the fittings…stuff like that. I took some pride in getting the bar looking nice, which kept the bartenders happy. I got paid just a little over $1 American an hour, but it was one of the better jobs I’ve had throughout the years.
Bar backing is often an entry level position into bartending or bouncing, but I left the bar (well, left the employ of the bar, har har) to work in the tattoo shop. I didn’t tattoo, though. My friend/guitarist had a graphic art degree and I couldn’t draw my way out of a paper bag. My friend trained me to be a body piercer, and I poked holes in people. I also worked some odd jobs like running a friend’s sound system at raves.
Let’s see…
- My real name is Lauren, and my username on here used to be LaurAnge
- I’m female
- I’m in a long-term relationship, currently long-distance
- I’m in my early twenties
- I’m a graduate student in Ancient History
- I can read Latin and Greek (usually my only contribution to GQ…)
- I’m from Montreal and I love it there
I’m not sure anything else about me is common knowledge, but I’d love to hear what else you guys remember (if anything)
You’re also the friend of a friend of mine.
:eek:
How many Shoshanas can there be in the world?
ahaha! that’s awesome. When I grow up, I’ll be a middle aged gay guy just so that you can be right.
So THAT’S what happened to you - I’ve missed you!!! 
I posted a thread and it’s still in my sig, so I thought people knew! Thanks, though
Ok, ok ok . Stuff you already know. And I can make cool bullets.
As Draelin said, if you really went through my posts you could fin d nearly everything about me.
[ul]
[li] I’m E. Indian, born there, raised States.[/li][li] Raised pretty strictly by a semi-psychotic mom.[/li][li] Can nitpick Star Wars to a fine point.[/li][li] Very open about sex.[/li][li] Have a flirtatious streak a mile wide.[/li][li] Skittish about marriage.[/li][li] Love Cafe Society.[/li][li] Am an avid reader.[/li][li] Despise excessive or unnecessary romance in movies.[/li][li] atheist.[/li][/ul]
Things you may or may not know:
[ul]
[li] I am stronly pro-choice in every and any circumstance.[/li][li] I consider myself atheis Hindu.[/li][li] Don’t particularly like to argue.[/li][li] Dancing is my soul.[/li][li] I love a snappy comeback.[/li][li] Not altogether quick on the uptake. looks sheepish[/li][li] I’m idealistic, romantic, and a dreamer - and over all this I’ve grown a thick skin of cynicism and skepticism to protect myself from the rest of it.[/li][/ul]
Isn’t yours to Gondor?