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Why did you choose your particular user name?
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
Jaywhat would never be wrong, would he?Ninny wrote:It's what Jaywhat calls me, so I suppose I must be one.
Alan Henness
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
Well, he was wrong about the flying penguins
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
What flying penguins would that be then?
- Emma Woolgatherer
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- Joined: February 27th, 2008, 12:17 pm
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
Perhaps this explains the colony in Benbecula, but Penguin kept very quiet about their aviation skills.
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
I've used that name on just about every forum I've been on. Occam's Razor is a philosophical principle that, stated simply, says "Don't muck up explanations with unnecessary complications." For example, I see the statement here about messages: ". . .may contain no more than 30000 characters." If I have my choice, I'd make it a maximum of 1,500 characters - about 250 words.
Occam
Occam
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
IIRC, the default is 60,000 characters!Occam wrote:". . .may contain no more than 30000 characters." If I have my choice, I'd make it a maximum of 1,500 characters - about 250 words.
Occam
Alan Henness
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
I don't know what IIRC means. As I write this post, a note to the upper left says, Message body:
Enter your message here, it may contain no more than 30000 characters.
Possibly new members are more restricted than those who've proved themselves.
Occam
Enter your message here, it may contain no more than 30000 characters.
Possibly new members are more restricted than those who've proved themselves.
Occam
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
IIRC = if I recall correctly
Tip: If you see any internet short form and can't work it out, enter it into google. The first hit will tell you.
I think if anybody ever did actually use up all 3,000 characters in one post, I will reduce it immediately.
Tip: If you see any internet short form and can't work it out, enter it into google. The first hit will tell you.
I think if anybody ever did actually use up all 3,000 characters in one post, I will reduce it immediately.
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
Sorry! I should have said the default on installation was 60,000, but Maria reduced it for everyone.Occam wrote:Possibly new members are more restricted than those who've proved themselves.
Alan Henness
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
60,000! Somebody stop me!
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
I believe if one cannot state his/her position in, say, 3,000 words, s/he hasn't thought it out clearly enough.
Occam
Occam
- Emma Woolgatherer
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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
This morning I decided that I was dissatisfied with my username Emma W. It was the W bit I didn't like. (Perhaps because it makes me think of George Dubya?) So I tried to find a word beginning with W that I liked the sound of and that didn't look like a real surname and that seemed appropriate for me. Woolgatherer seems to fit the bill. That is, I'm an idle daydreamer, of course; I don't literally gather wool. (Only moss.) And the length of the word seems apt as I ... er ... do go on a bit. Though I haven't reached 30,000 characters. Yet.
Anyway, thank you, Maria, for changing it for me.
Emma
Anyway, thank you, Maria, for changing it for me.
Emma
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
It's a great name, Emma.
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
I agree Zoe - it's a great name. Even better if you were Dundonian though Emma. The accent there is quite unique and someone saying "Emma" - can sometimes be mistaken for "I'm a" due to the pronunciation of "I's" as "Eh's" for some unknown reason.
Illustrated in this joke that was doing the rounds up here (but could never travel further than the Tay Road Bridge!):
Jimmy: "Did'ye hear that Tennants hiv stoaped sponsoring T-in-the-Park?
Sandy: "Naw I didnae - wha's daen it noo?"
Jimmy: "Miller's"
Sandy: "S'at right?"
Jimmy: "Aye - it's gonnae be called 'M-in-the-park'!" [I'm in the park]
Sorry!
Illustrated in this joke that was doing the rounds up here (but could never travel further than the Tay Road Bridge!):
Jimmy: "Did'ye hear that Tennants hiv stoaped sponsoring T-in-the-Park?
Sandy: "Naw I didnae - wha's daen it noo?"
Jimmy: "Miller's"
Sandy: "S'at right?"
Jimmy: "Aye - it's gonnae be called 'M-in-the-park'!" [I'm in the park]
Sorry!
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - M Ghandi
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
Beki wrote:I agree Zoe - it's a great name. Even better if you were Dundonian though Emma. The accent there is quite unique and someone saying "Emma" - can sometimes be mistaken for "I'm a" due to the pronunciation of "I's" as "Eh's" for some unknown reason.
Illustrated in this joke that was doing the rounds up here (but could never travel further than the Tay Road Bridge!):
Jimmy: "Did'ye hear that Tennants hiv stoaped sponsoring T-in-the-Park?
Sandy: "Naw I didnae - wha's daen it noo?"
Jimmy: "Miller's"
Sandy: "S'at right?"
Jimmy: "Aye - it's gonnae be called 'M-in-the-park'!" [I'm in the park]
Sorry!
Caught ya! Now take that and that and that......
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
I'm very new to the internet. Every site asks you for a user name and password, and I didn't want to use the same username & password on every site until I'd figured out a bit more about how it all works.
I have a rubbish memory,
So, I hit on a plan:
Some years ago I wrote a magical fantasy that never got published.
On each site I use the first name of a character from the story as user-name, and the same character's second name as password.
Pretty secure and unforgettable, unless the book actually gets published some day.
I have a rubbish memory,
So, I hit on a plan:
Some years ago I wrote a magical fantasy that never got published.
On each site I use the first name of a character from the story as user-name, and the same character's second name as password.
Pretty secure and unforgettable, unless the book actually gets published some day.
- snaggletooth
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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
I've used my name on a few forums and such in the past, it's the name of a song by Motorhead, (big fan of theirs and Lemmy is very anti-religion), the name of the icon I've "borrowed" from one of their albums and used for an avatar and also suits my "less than perfect" teeth. Seemed to fit which ever way I looked at it really!
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
My username comes from the name of the village that I live in.."Ban Suan Lalana".....Lalana meaning a
particular type of flower.It is a housing development here in Thailand and I've been living here in Thailand
now for almost 10 years(I'm now 35 y.o.),am happily married for 5 years and love my tropical lifestyle out
here.I always make sure I get back home(Ireland) for a couple of weeks a year,every year,and my family
and friends love to come out here and visit on holidays and stay in LALANA village,
Take Care All,
David.........
particular type of flower.It is a housing development here in Thailand and I've been living here in Thailand
now for almost 10 years(I'm now 35 y.o.),am happily married for 5 years and love my tropical lifestyle out
here.I always make sure I get back home(Ireland) for a couple of weeks a year,every year,and my family
and friends love to come out here and visit on holidays and stay in LALANA village,
Take Care All,
David.........
Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?
Well, my name's Cole Davis, so I guess I was in an imaginative mood.
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