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Old 04-28-06, 08:59 PM
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Its my name. But backwards. The avatar is my second favorite tom waits album.
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it's the name of an old ****z album.
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Old 04-28-06, 09:24 PM
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i copied ryan c.
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Old 04-28-06, 09:25 PM
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Originally Posted by crust & crumb
chimay: have you ever had an ale from The abbey of Saint Sixtus of Westvleteren?

just curious...
ii've had the pleasure to drink a lot of westvleteren on a handful of occasions (thanks to aeser). it completely destroys chimay...and me, for that matter.
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Old 04-28-06, 09:28 PM
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if i could afford to get drunk off of good beer, i'd drink it all the time. but every time i look at a 12 dollar bottle of chimay, i think about how that will buy me a case of pabst which will either last longer, get me more drunk, or get me and more people drunk.
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Old 04-28-06, 09:34 PM
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I'm just trying to envision the kind of dance such a name as "explody pup" would create. I'm sure it would be very interesting!
Beer gut + g-string + no tan + Twisted Sister = Failing career as a male exotic dancer

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Old 04-28-06, 09:51 PM
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absntr = absenter = my first website (absenter.org) = name of the last song on the last Jawbox album, "Absenter"
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Old 04-28-06, 09:57 PM
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gorn = gromentecent oxidation rendering neurons

It's a theortical power generation process done by dispelling the oxygen atoms from a system causing tachyons to collide into molecules and accelerate them to past the speed of light, converting them to either light energy or heat energy.
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Old 04-28-06, 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by sers
it completely destroys chimay
i was aiming for a bit more subtlety in my own approach, but, all intimations aside, yeah.
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Old 04-28-06, 10:10 PM
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ostro...it literally means sharp in Polish, but is also used like the english term "fixed"...
i roll ostro (fixed)...ostro kolo = fixed wheel.
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Old 04-28-06, 10:35 PM
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*yawn*, I'll tell you later.
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Old 04-28-06, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by crayonsemble
1995 while i was living in nashville tn i started a band with 4 friends called
the transcendental crayon ensemble. it morphed into a (at one point) 22 piece
avant garde/funk collective. we got to play gigs with sun ra, low, the dirty three,
and all sorts of other once great bands. after a while for those in the band
we got tired of having to say the whole name so we started (in the band only)
calling it the crayonsemble, or the crayon. that at that point became
my internet identity for everything i have ever done online,
there is the story.
Holy cow dude! You played with SUN RA !?!? That's some ****. Unbelievable.

En la calle = In the street. In spanish. That's where I am on my bike.

My current avatar is some spin art, because spin art kicks ass. I like to change avatars fairly often though. Last week I was a Glen Campbell album cover.
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Old 04-28-06, 11:01 PM
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I really like this poem "the sunflower sutra" by Allen Ginsberg. I threw an internet acronym infront of it because I am on the internet.
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Old 04-29-06, 12:14 AM
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my liver's favorite whiskey and my heart's true delight.
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Old 04-29-06, 12:16 AM
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Originally Posted by EnLaCalle
Holy cow dude! You played with SUN RA !?!? That's some ****. Unbelievable.

En la calle = In the street. In spanish. That's where I am on my bike.

My current avatar is some spin art, because spin art kicks ass. I like to change avatars fairly often though. Last week I was a Glen Campbell album cover.
sun ra. yeah.
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Old 04-29-06, 12:23 AM
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College nickname. No one has actually called me Spudmeister in near 20 years. I kinda miss it.
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Old 04-29-06, 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by humancongereel
and i have always read your name as "koymin", not "koy-man", and despite your explanation of your name and my own desire to envision bf's own Koyman as Koy-man, i will probably think of you as "koymin".
I would have (re)replied sooner, but I was doing what any resposible member of this forum should have been doing, that being imbibing alcohol.

That said, I also say: fair 'nuf. Hopefully, should we ever meet in real life (or elsewhere), we will have the presence of mind to call each other by our real names; mine being Jamie.
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Old 04-29-06, 01:52 AM
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It's too deep. You'd never understand.
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Originally Posted by Mike T.
It's too deep. You'd never understand.
lemme take a crack at it: you're really robin givens, and you're expressing some deeply held emotions that you've kept bottled up for a long long time?
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Old 04-29-06, 02:10 AM
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i live in the midwest.
and i yell a lot.
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Old 04-29-06, 03:00 AM
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I'm a pathologist. Boring I know.
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misspelt Norwegian slang for a fur-lined cap.

The first word means bear and the second word means the part of a lady bear you might be able to make a cap from with little effort.
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Old 04-29-06, 04:29 AM
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very popular nickname in high school - pretty much became my defacto name. A lot people still call me that at uni too.
Avatar is just a good pic of the real mr kotter.
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Old 04-29-06, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by gorn
gorn = gromentecent oxidation rendering neurons

It's a theortical power generation process done by dispelling the oxygen atoms from a system causing tachyons to collide into molecules and accelerate them to past the speed of light, converting them to either light energy or heat energy.
I thought the gorn was that lizard thing Captain Kirk fought.
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Old 04-29-06, 07:02 AM
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eyefloater ... I come from a photography background. A lot of my stuff is photo illustration and ends up looking pretty grimey. "Eye floaters" are clumps of cells floating in the vitreous fluid of the eyeball (they cast shadows on the retina and cause visual quirks). Basically it's just another random forums name that kind of reflects me in some way.

avatar ... One part personal interest in forensics, one part 16-year history of Crohn's disease (with well over a dozen surgeries, medical trials, hospitalizations, blah, blah, blah). I've got a fairly intimate relationship with my body at this point and a big interest in anatomy in general. The avatar image itself is actually a cropped plate from the famous Gray's Anatomy text.

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