Your screen name: pronounce it and explain it

[Sensible Shoes]

My parents hated me. But they needed something to look good when at parent/teacher meetings. Rather difficult when your mother is a sociopathic Catholic and dad is Satan.

Somehow, I know there's some truth to that somewhere.

[Nitro Express]

Nobody could!Tell me you're not in there.....

The guy in the cougar T-Shirt knew how to shoot it. You lean into it and relax and let your body take the recoil. If you don't lean into it and tense up you are toast.

[conmee]

Brethren and Sistren,

The old timers who know me from back in 1996 (when 56kbps dial-up ruled) know the name and the backstory. Father Conmee is a character in Ulysses and A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man, two works by Mr. James Joyce. Pronounced "Con Me" but with an Irish accent, in the old days folks evidently read it as "Connie" or "Corinne" and thought I was a chick until Pojo started calling me Icon (sadly, I'm not a wildly successful Apple product, but I DID pre-date the original iMac). My close friend Von chose "Commie" as in "Red/Pinko/Socialist" which I feel is a term of endearment. And then there was the evolution of ICoke due to my life's detour into drugs and whores (ok, not so much a detour as a road parallel to my life's highway which is sort of like an access road that I occasional take).

I have three or four college degrees, some of which made great paper airplanes, along the lines of English Literature. Hence, the obscure Father Conmee reference, Ulysses being one of my favorite novels.

That is all.

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[Nitro Express]

My parents hated me. But they needed something to look good when at parent/teacher meetings. Rather difficult when your mother is a sociopathic Catholic and dad is Satan.

Nothing worse than a sociopathic Catholic. Satan would be more enjoyable to be around.

[FORD]

More questions? Why does Ford have the name of a Republican President?

It's got nothing to do with the clumsiest of BCE Presidents (and Warren Commission Whitewash chairs) or Henry's car company.

Initially I spelled it "F.O.R.D.", back when I jumped in on this VH internet clusterfuck at the time of the 1996 should-have-been reunion. The name was a tribute to the Van Halen manager who perpetuated the fraud. Spelled out in full, it was "Fuck Off Ray Danniels".

Danniels ceased to be a problem by the end of 1999, but by that time I already was using this name on a dozen or so different websites (including my own), so I didn't really feel like changing it. So I just dropped the dots and kept the name.

[Kristy]

That was a heartwarming story, FORD

[Nitro Express]

It's got nothing to do with the clumsiest of BCE Presidents (and Warren Commission Whitewash chairs) or Henry's car company.

Initially I spelled it "F.O.R.D.", back when I jumped in on this VH internet clusterfuck at the time of the 1996 should-have-been reunion. The name was a tribute to the Van Halen manager who perpetuated the fraud. Spelled out in full, it was "Fuck Off Ray Danniels".


Danniels ceased to be a problem by the end of 1999, but by that time I already was using this name on a dozen or so different websites (including my own), so I didn't really feel like changing it. So I just dropped the dots and kept the name.

I thought you might have liked Mustangs or was a big Litta Ford fan.

[Sensible Shoes]

It's got nothing to do with the clumsiest of BCE Presidents (and Warren Commission Whitewash chairs) or Henry's car company.

Initially I spelled it "F.O.R.D.", back when I jumped in on this VH internet clusterfuck at the time of the 1996 should-have-been reunion. The name was a tribute to the Van Halen manager who perpetuated the fraud. Spelled out in full, it was "Fuck Off Ray Danniels".

Danniels ceased to be a problem by the end of 1999, but by that time I already was using this name on a dozen or so different websites (including my own), so I didn't really feel like changing it. So I just dropped the dots and kept the name.

I love that!

[Sensible Shoes]

Nothing worse than a sociopathic Catholic. Satan would be more enjoyable to be around.

Yeah, the parents are the quintessential "opposites attract" story!
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[conmee]

You want heartwarming, Kristy?

FORD is one of my oldest online "friends" ever. Met him at the old Warner Brothers Van Halen discussion board around 1998, and in my first post (taking a cue from FORD), I bashed Danniels and VHIII, and was promptly banned! My very first online banning! A few years later I met Brownsound1 (one of our erstwhile webbies) and he mentioned VHForums. So I headed over there, noticed FORD kicking up dust, and make my first post with a reference to "sheep." My second banning! Worked things out with Brett, got unbanned, teamed up with Pojo, Brownsound1, FORD, Vinnie, JaneVH, RB&W, FullBug/SlawterhouseBug, Hain, and a few others as part of E.U.A.S., then headed over to DLR Army in Spring 2000, bribed Sarge, became a moderator then Webbie, and I've been mailing it in ever since.

That is all.

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[Kristy]

Since 2000 is a long time.

[Sensible Shoes]

Depends on how many years of your life "Since 2000" takes up. It's just a fart in a bucket for me.

[conmee]

Hey we're talking Internet-Based-Farts-In-Buckets... so 1998 is forever... 'course not everyone is old as we are Shoes. Not everyone is as old as our old shoes in fact.

That is all.

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[Kristy]

Speaking of old, what's the betting ChefCraig is Sanskrit for old? I mean, the dude was there when Robin Trower was born! That's fucking old.

[Little Texan]

Now see, this is good cause I was seeing something like "sunny sinus",, which made no damned sense.

I read it as Sinusitis, a sinus infection.