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dyak · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 630

I honestly can't remember why i chose this name. It's not even close to my real name in sound or spelling. It has even less to do with yaks.

Cheers.

molihua · Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 59 Location: purgatory

Mine is my "chinese name".
The teacher who named me, took the first sound of my family name..Moore (sounds like)
Then the beautiful white flower thing...Molihua
SO my chinese friends that speak zero English..call me Mo-li (moore -lee)
My young ss call me Molihua, and most of my usernames have become Molihua, cause I like the name.
I lucked out though, I've heard other Ft's Chinese names..english translation, EggPlant? Shocked

Deconstructor · Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 775 Location: Montreal

I use Deconstructor because I spent many years studying the philosophy of Derrida's deconstruction. I spent great deal of my time deconstructing my own life only to realize that it is like an onion: you keep on peeling it just to realize that the center is not the center, that there is no center, no origin, no truth only the eternal play of pealing. Amor Fati.

nomadder · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

It's a cross between nomad and no matter-a tribute to my love of freedom and a laissez-faire attitude towards life.

thedude72 · Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Canada

My username is a tribute to The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) in the Big Lebowski. Funny movie if you haven't seen it.

spidey · Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 2:08 am Post subject:

Some people also call me Peter Parker.

Need I say more? Very Happy

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alfred_utton · Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 26 Location: Costa Rica

when I chose my email address, I saw no reason to use a name other than the one on my birthcertificate. choosing another one felt like assuming a different identity, like I had something to hide. since my email address features my name, choosing a different user name seemed pretty rediculous. my name is posted with my email, so there's little point in using another.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Alfred, your post is made all the more rich by your posts in other threads...

Nice to see you are back. Made a decision on where you are off to next?

Newfoundland · Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 75 Location: Shanghai

Just tryin' to represent.

osakajojo · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 229

My name is Joseph, though my friends and family call me Jo Jo.
I lived in Osaka for a few years.
Osaka Jo is a famous castle in Osaka that is a great place to have a hanami party. (cherry blossom viewing with picnic and drinking.)
Also there is Osaka Jo Hall where I saw radiohead!

KiteBiker

Stuck in the beautiful no-where-ness of Salalah, Oman, I was a stone's throw away from the Gulf's version of the Wild West [Yemen], the Rub-Al-Khali [place of emptiness], and the deep blue sea [Indian Ocean].

There was literally nothing to do. Couldn't speak the language. Geography restricted travel.

So there was this beautiful Marin FSM bicycle for sale at an outrageous price. I knew noone would buy it. I waited until they couldn't wait to get rid of it. It had presta valves. Noone could put air in the tires. An ingeneous Pakistani bike mechanic somehow got it going. It became my main mode of transportation. I was known as the crazy European who travels like an Indian everywhere.

Later, one of my colleagues told me in unflattering terms to go fly a kite. So I did. On a trip to Dubai, I bought a 4.9 meter Flexifoil Blade power kite, a Revolution kite, and a gorgeous Flexifoil Stranger stunt kite. I was the only individual within a 1,000 km radius doing anything like this. The winds of the ocean were always perfect. I would bake in the sun and fly my kites on those abandoned beaches of Salalah. I experienced some of my most peaceful moments doing this.

Hence, the name KiteBiker ... because BikeKiter is harder to pronounce.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

What a lovely story.

guangho · Joined: 16 Oct 2004 Posts: 476 Location: in transit

several lifetimes (which means 4 years ago), I was guarding...i mean teaching the world-weary lads at P.S. 153 in Washington Heights. When one mentioned, in his off-hand way, that he has a firearm he would be interested in trying out on me, I took him to the principal who referred me to the assistant principal with the words "he is young and gungho." That and when I registered I was in Guangzhou, China. (Am now in Korea.)

KiteBiker · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: gung ho!

This is from the Wikipedia concerning Gung-ho ...

Gung-ho is a phrase borrowed from Chinese, frequently used in English as an adjective meaning enthusiastic. The original Mandarin phrase is gōngh� (工合), a standard abbreviation for gōngy� h�zu�sh� (工業合作社), meaning industrial worker's cooperative. (It is true that gōng means work and h� means together, but gōngh� by itself is not a standard Chinese term and serves only as an abbreviation for the longer phrase: an English-language analogy would be "IndCoop".)

The phrase entered the American vernacular when it was picked up by then-Major Evans F. Carlson, USMC. According to Carlson, it was used as a slogan by the WW2-era Chinese Communist Party's 8th Route Army, led by Zhu De. However, Carlson's purpose was inspirational, not necessarily historical, and this claim may be inaccurate.

Carlson traveled with the 8th, and later used gung ho during his (unconventional) command of the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. From there it spread throughout the Marine Corps (hence the association between the two) and into American society as a whole. It is now often used in the ironic sense of excessively enthusiastic, overzealous.

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Buraimi · Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Canada

but they'd already been taken. I remember driving through Buraimi on shopping trips to Dubai and always liked the place because I could buy mangoes by the box and see men with falcons on their arms in the market. There was a sign right beside the main road that said "Blook Factory" (a concrete block factory), which was fun to see and meant we were almost home. The name recalls good memories.