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Who are You?

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 10:58am.

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Submitted by Rick on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 11:24am.

...might be a good place for this. There is a field called "Mission Statement" that might be appropriate. I can also make new fields, if you'd like.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -C.P. Snow

I meant to mention something

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 08/09/2007 - 11:31am.

I meant to mention something along that line. Most of us, myself included, don't hardly have anything in our profile.

Profile Pics?

Submitted by Rafael on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 7:35pm.

Too drained to described myself at the moment... I like dark beer and cooking with friends...

BUT!

I emailed Rick some weeks ago about enabling user pics...they would show up next to our names when we post... they could be yo'face, G, or they could be Mickey Mouse's rotting corpse or a pretty flower or whatever... hopefully not too distracting, somewhere between small and medium sized... sometimes animated... I think they would add a little more individuality, give a little more information about ourselves, add a little flair to our pseudonymous conversation.

Anyhoo, Rob said something along the lines of "okay, sounds good!" and then... nothing...

Obviously I'm all for it... what do you folks think?

We used to have them...

Submitted by Rick on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 8:35am.

...even on comments, but they became too distracting. I think we could have them back just on profiles, though.

She holds her nose and gasps her breath, then jumps feet first

Submitted by TheeInfamousCrazydee on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 3:39pm.

I'm a new kid on this blog, but I've been around Oly and Pugetropolis since forever. Some know me here. Most don't. I am not what you would expect. She did what?

Now that damned song is stuck in my head....

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 3:41pm.

Who are you? doo doo doo doo

"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers

Who am I?

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 3:50pm.

Socially liberal, fiscally conservative. I believe in freedom of speech, yet think that dignity needs to enter into the picture at all times (unless being purposefully ridiculous, which has its time and place.

Music is my passion, jazz, blues, classic R&B. Just purchased J. Geils Band's "Full House" as they combined blues, R&B and rock at a furious pace. Probably going to go see Manhattan Transfer at Jazz Alley in September.

Love golf, although at times the course is out to get me - most of the time. Fishing is fun also.

Home owner, married, love my job as it provides me lots of freedom to work the hours I have to, and I play when I don't have to work.

I've spent most of my adult life in marketing of services and products, thus I have a tendency to be assertive. It's a survival technique.

"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers

I am an

Submitted by Guglielmo on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 3:57pm.

economist and flâneur.

Flâneur

Submitted by Sarah on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 4:18pm.

I came across that word first through Ruby Re-usable, G. can you tell us about it?

G? You're calling him G? Are

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 6:06pm.

G? You're calling him G? Are you trying to build up your street cred in anticipation of the rising gang presence? ;-)

It's a fair call, but Society's to blame. ~ Right! We'll be charging them too!

Street cred

Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 5:51am.

Yep. Why I've taken to calling Olympia "O-town" also. Merwyn in your case, would you be M? H? or MH?

In my life here in O-town

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 6:52am.

In my life here in O-town I've had many handles from Piper to Rummy and it's various titles. Everything from a Prince to a Reverend. Before the days of being temporarily banned from the Olympian I've gotten myself kicked off of BBS's (Because they didn't like the way I played in Barren Realms Elite.) I don't live a thug life but once in the early 90s I walked into Capitol theater and watched ten minutes of The Brothers McMullen without paying. When I was 15 I stole purple underwear from Yard Birds; joke was on me because they were a size too small.

Maybe I should come up with a tag to get some street cred. (suddenly I'm not in a joking mood because I'm remembering Isaac Swift who died while tagging Capitol Theater a week before Mothers Day 1995. I saw him ten minutes before he climbed the tower and got electrocuted. His tag was 911.)

It's a fair call, but Society's to blame. ~ Right! We'll be charging them too!

Please

Submitted by Norm on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 4:46pm.

You can just stick to "Norm" for me. Although I was called "Cookie" in the military. It's far more simple than it sounds btw.

G. on F. for S.

Submitted by Guglielmo on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 3:38pm.

I believe it originally described a somewhat detatched, "gentleman observer" who strolled the streets of Paris. Baudelaire popularized and intelectualized the flaneur, as someone who is both part of and apart from events on the street...a "botanist of the sidewalk," in his words. There are many more profound and complicated post-modern interpretations of the word...but I just like sidewalks and the people on them.

Would that make me "A"?

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 6:15pm.

"There is only one race, the human race" - The Neville Brothers

A

Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 8:10am.

And you can be on the A-list.

I am Sam. Sam I am. Would

Submitted by OperaGirl on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 7:10pm.

I am Sam. Sam I am. Would you like green eggs and ham?

My absolute favorite book.

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 12:54am.

My absolute favorite book. Ever.

And the greatest ending to any book.

It's a fair call, but Society's to blame. ~ Right! We'll be charging them too!

You can pretty much count on

Submitted by OperaGirl on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 3:51pm.

You can pretty much count on hearing it nightly at our house around 8pm!

I much prefer One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish but sadly I lost our copy of it. Maybe even more sad is that I pretty much have it all memorized so I haven't bothered to replace it!

Once upon a time I had a

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 3:57pm.

Once upon a time I had a stepson, and I bought Green Eggs and Ham when he was three. He had me reading it all the time, and then when his Head Start teacher came over to visit he wanted her to read it, but then he stopped her because she was reading it wrong.

I'd always tone it so that the poor guy was getting increasingly fed up with having the food shoved in his face - She toned it so that he was trying to explain his feelings so that Sam-I-Am would understand.

About half a year ago I was sitting in one of the comfy chairs at B&B one Sunday morning, and a mom was on the opposite couch reading it to her little girl who must've been barely two and a half. I couldn't hear the mom, because she was reading softly, and I was minding my own business anyways. Suddenly the little girl exclaimed "He liked them!"...I miss having kids around. Even my cousins' kids have grown.

It's a fair call, but Society's to blame. ~ Right! We'll be charging them too!

I have the "foot book" at

Submitted by Norm on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 4:39pm.

I have the "foot book" at home. It was my favorite growing up and my Mom took it to a signing and has Dr. Seuss' autograph inside the cover.

Did I Ever Tell You How

Submitted by Meta Hogan on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 10:30pm.

Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are, by a long shot. Distant second: I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla-Sollew (sp?).

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