I’ve always been a big Rush fan. The name is taken from the lyrics of a song on 1984’s “Grace Under Faulkner” album. The avatar is self explanatory if you know the song title (Red Lenses.)
I thought it’s a snow pea.
I’m a boring ass white girl who went through a phase as a Spanish minor. That phase happened to be right before I joined the SDMB… so my username sounds much more exotic than I actually am. And the 67 is because I was born June 7, not because I was born in 1967.
(BTW, it means “serenade” in Spanish)
…If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven’s scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines.
Absolutely nothing. It was the first word I saw, when I looked up from my computer, when I signed up, all those years ago. It was on the nail polish remover bottle.
I’m easy like that.
FWIW, having taken French in high school, I’ve always read your user name as “Mange Tout.”
I think that’s called a “line-of-sight name.”
My username is close to my real name. I sometimes think it was a mistake to choose this username for me - makes it a bit too easy to track me down. Which can be a bad thing, but I guess it also means I should watch my behaviour.
I sometimes think of changing my username to something less trackable, but I think people are used to me having this name here.
Nice try at misdirection, Faulkner.
Contrary to most people’s guesses my name is not related to a certain Mayor from the Simpsons.
There was a long forgotten movie in the 80s called Paternity with Burt Reynolds about a guy who wants to raise a baby himself (clearly it was Science Fiction). In the movie the name Quimby was a suggested baby name. It struck me as funny long ago in High School and in College when the Internet came to be I started using it and variations of it as an Internet name.
Mine is the marshmallow in Lucky Charms.
The one shaped like S N Faulkner?
actually if you had a 7-12 year old female relative youd know sloe moe is from a thing called “monster high”…………
The first 7 letters of my last name and then my first initial. Because that’s how the user names were determined when I went to college (if it was available - for some people it wasn’t, and their predecessors probably got a lot of those people’s email). Which I finished in 2004 and never checked that email again. Why I was still using it in 2008, I don’t know; I must have still been using it for online names because I’m not very imaginative. I eventually picked some more unique ones, but never really stuck to any of them and would change it whenever I entered a new hobby so I have lots of other names that I use as well. I’ve posted on three different boards for the same hobby all with different names just because the general sites the second two are hosted on I had registered at a different point in my life and I didn’t feel like creating a new user to use the name that I started out using in that hobby.
My name is based on a character that I came up with way back in the 1970s, “Gytalf the Utmost”. He is a “warrior mage” equally proficient in the arcane and martial arts. I always pictured him looking a bit like Barry Gibb, with “handsome rock-star” good looks. I just added “2000” to the name for kicks.
Oh yes, that was a thing back then. Oh my gawd, we’re all old…
Better than the alternative
I was born a small bungalow in a quaint neighborhood in 1960.
Today, I am a fixer-upper.
Good roof and shingles.
Windows need replacement.
All mechanicals original and working order.
Exterior is brick but needs some tuck pointing.
Front yard, moderately rolling with a large water feature…
No reasonable offer refused.
That sounds lovely. Mature trees?
You don’t want to be young?
Almost 20 years ago, in a fit of insanity, I decided to sign up for this board. I tried several usernames which were all taken. Next to my keyboard at that time was the book* Ten Ever loving Blue-eyed Years With Pogo* by Walt Kelly, foreword by S N Faulkner. I started going through the character names from that book, without success, until I read that before Pogo hit it big, he used to have a human pal named Bumbazine.
Unfortunately, Pogo fans had a hard time accepting a human in Pogo’s group, and he was dropped from the cast. He later went on to run a bagel shop in New Jersey.