So? What can it do for me?
IDK. AskNott. Or SNFaulkner.
I took my name from the results of a CAT scan. My doctor was Nigel Molesworth, and he still has not learnt to spell. Neither have I.
Or if you work in SAP, which refers to servers as clients :smack:
Wasn’t sure if this was a new thread or not. Seems it is.
I’m a big guy, both in height and girth, and my name starts with a T. It’s kinda a faux rapper style name that my cousin calls me. (She usually just calls me “T,” but that was too short, and Tee was already taken.)
I concur.
Regards,
S.N. Faulkner
“And ioioio, by priests and people sungen.”
When I was in high school we had an intramural softball tournament. All the teams needed to come up with a team name, so we had all the ‘usual suspects’ (Giants, Yankees, etc.)…and one team (not mine) that named itself “The Suburban Plankton”.
A decade or so later, when I needed a screen name, that fact for some reason bubbled up top the front of my brain, and I went with it.
For some reason it makes me think of really, really orderly plankton. Lots and lots and lots of plankton, getting organized in little squares and cubes and… and then a stream hits and they have to realign again.
Laurie is my nickname (my full name is Laura). The B stands for my middle name.
It seemed to fit.
Silenus was a companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus. He was the old rustic god of the dance of the wine-press, his name being derived from the words seiô, “to move to and fro,” and lênos, “the wine-trough.” He was also the god of drunkenness who rode in the train of Dionysus seated on the back of a donkey.
Okay, that was funny.
I’d stumbled in more than once based on a search. Then I lurked a bit and occasionally thought about joining. One day there was a piece of ignorance just hanging there in a thread about tanks across multiple posts. That was the day I decided to join Since I use different names for everything on the internet that left the question wide open.
I was already thinking about tanks staring at a blank on the registration page. I’d started my career on the M60A3 in it’s last years in service. One of the little bits of slang from the period when both it and the Abrams were in service was calling Abrams crew jedi tankers. Those of us riding around on the older “dinosaurs” were dinoriders. I was also just waiting for my retirement orders at that point. Nothing like the Army to make you feel as ancient as a dinosaur in your mid 40s.
IIRC by the time I got done registering someone who knew what they were talking about like ExTank or Loach had come along. I don’t think I even posted in the thread that prompted finally registering.
It’s my profession.
Celtic Knot is the name of our acoustic Celtic folk band. We have tried to get S.N.Faulkner to be our drummer, but the negotiations have broken down.
I realize I have never answered the OP.
I stole the name Dr. Fidelius (charatan and mender of sore knees) from a Jack Vance novel years ago, used it as a Usenet username. It amused me.
When I became involved in Steampunk he became a Professor of Applied Paleontology at Miskatonic U, curator of the Anomalous Collection, and current holder of the Carl Denham chair for Cryptid Defense Strategies (with a grant from the SN Faulkner trust).
I’ve heard it defined as “intestinal fortitude”. 
Stolen from a sign on the back of a semi-truck, something about disconnecting the dummy gladhands before moving or somesuch. Pretty sure S.N. Faulkner was listed on the door as owner/operator.
I also read encyclopedias cover-to-cover when I was a kid. I didn’t read dictionaries cover-to-cover, but did read all the appendices in Webster’s Collegiate.
It took some Googling but I think I found the JFK speech you mention.
This thread might be of interest: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=862309