What's the Etymology of your PF Name?

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The discussion revolves around the curiosity and humor surrounding the usernames of forum members. Participants share their thoughts on the meanings and origins of various usernames, such as Hurkyl, Integral, Boulderhead, and others, often speculating on their significance or making light-hearted jokes about them. Some members explain their names, revealing personal stories or references, such as Hurkyl's connection to a role-playing game and Evo's name derived from his daughter's charm. The conversation also touches on the importance of names in online identity and the playful teasing that comes with it. Additionally, there are anecdotes about past experiences, humor about drunken antics, and a nostalgic reference to the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Overall, the thread fosters a light-hearted atmosphere where members bond over their unique usernames and share personal stories.
  • #61
Moonbear said:
:smile: I just know they were all looking at me really funny the next day and laughing and not telling me what was so funny.

who was? The bears? :biggrin:
 
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  • #62
Math Is Hard said:
who was? The bears? :biggrin:

I don't even know. I was sooo hungover. :smile:
 
  • #63
Moonbear said:
I don't even know. I was sooo hungover. :smile:
I remember the one time I got totally blitzed. I was out with a few friends and my best friend Cindy had recently broken up with my brother (her fiance) and she was in a rotten mood, so she kept challenging me to chugging contests. The problem was I was drinking scotch - neat, she was drinking beer. Not really a fair chugging contest. :devil:

I got really drunk, really fast. I ended up putting too much perfume on. Everyone said it was too much.

That's it. I am so boring that even having imbibed enough scotch to put a blue whale into a coma, the worst thing I've ever done is go too heavy on perfume. I remember every moment of that night.
 
  • #64
Yeah evo, that's pretty bad.

If it makes you feel any better the worst thing I've ever done was throw up, and I've never forgotten anything either.
 
  • #65
Evo said:
I remember the one time I got totally blitzed. I was out with a few friends and my best friend Cindy had recently broken up with my brother (her fiance) and she was in a rotten mood, so she kept challenging me to chugging contests. The problem was I was drinking scotch - neat, she was drinking beer. Not really a fair chugging contest. :devil:

I got really drunk, really fast. I ended up putting too much perfume on. Everyone said it was too much.

That's it. I am so boring that even having imbibed enough scotch to put a blue whale into a coma, the worst thing I've ever done is go too heavy on perfume. I remember every moment of that night.

Oh, don't feel too bad about that. In reality, I've never done anything bad while drunk. For me, there's just too fine of a line between complete coherence and passed out for me to really do anything stupid. I just lose the ability to thermoregulate while drunk, so I spend the night putting clothes on and taking them back off because I'm cold, I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm hot...
 
  • #66
franznietzsche said:
Yeah evo, that's pretty bad.

If it makes you feel any better the worst thing I've ever done was throw up, and I've never forgotten anything either.
Perhaps it's because we both like Kafka.

When I was 14, I had not read "The Castle", I think I had read everything else. I went once a week to an "artsy" theatre that played some off the wall movies and one week they were playing "The Castle". It was pretty interesting, the land surveyor comes to this village that has a hold on it by this mysterious, foreboding Castle. He is just about to go to the castle and discover what this dark secret is when (wait, I don't want to ruin this for anyone that doesn't know). franznietzsche, don't say anything. Let them all get ticked off like I did.
 
  • #67
Moonbear said:
Oh, don't feel too bad about that. In reality, I've never done anything bad while drunk. For me, there's just too fine of a line between complete coherence and passed out for me to really do anything stupid. I just lose the ability to thermoregulate while drunk, so I spend the night putting clothes on and taking them back off because I'm cold, I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm hot, I'm cold, I'm hot...
Oh, we'd be a great pair. I'll be wallowing in a cloud of perfume and you'll be getting dressed and undressed all night. :smile: I think the guys will find you more interesting. :biggrin:
 
  • #68
This thread has evolved into a Cafe (sans coffee)...

I thought it was all about ME ! :bugeye:
Aye was at the top of the list !
Eye had interest expressed to me ! :!) :!) :!)
I changed my mind, carry on. :biggrin:
 
  • #69
Evo said:
Perhaps it's because we both like Kafka.

When I was 14, I had not read "The Castle", I think I had read everything else. I went once a week to an "artsy" theatre that played some off the wall movies and one week they were playing "The Castle". It was pretty interesting, the land surveyor comes to this village that has a hold on it by this mysterious, foreboding Castle. He is just about to go to the castle and discover what this dark secret is when (wait, I don't want to ruin this for anyone that doesn't know). franznietzsche, don't say anything. Let them all get ticked off like I did.


I actually haven't read the The Castle either. I've read The Judgement, The Metamorphosis and Conversation with the Supplicant. Great stuff all of it. I have In the penal colony, and A Hunger Artist (its a one volume collection), but i haven't read them yet.
 
  • #70
Evo said:
Oh, we'd be a great pair. I'll be wallowing in a cloud of perfume and you'll be getting dressed and undressed all night. :smile: I think the guys will find you more interesting. :biggrin:


Yeah, because around her we won't be choking on the fumes.
 
  • #71
Posts 58 & 59 were on topic. We're just hijacking, I mean keeping the thread going until more members share their stories.

BTW, Boulderhead, where is YOUR story? or did I miss it. :blushing:
 
  • #72
He still hasn't posted it yet, the bum.
 
  • #73
franznietzsche said:
I actually haven't read the The Castle either. I've read The Judgement, The Metamorphosis and Conversation with the Supplicant. Great stuff all of it. I have In the penal colony, and A Hunger Artist (its a one volume collection), but i haven't read them yet.
Oh, I am so glad I didn't tell you the end of The Castle. In the Penal Colony was the first story I read. I still can't use a rotiserrie without thinking of that story.
 
  • #74
penal colony. is it too Bevis and Butthead if I laugh at that? I'm not here, just woke up to use the bathroom, going back to bed now
 
  • #75
I read The Metamorphosis first, for 11th grade english and immediately after read The Stranger by Camus(for the same class). I need to start reading Dostoevsky, just because of all the references to him in Nietzsche and the influence on Kafka.
 
  • #76
Evo said:
Oh, we'd be a great pair. I'll be wallowing in a cloud of perfume and you'll be getting dressed and undressed all night. :smile: I think the guys will find you more interesting. :biggrin:

Only one guy has ever borne witness to this behavior of mine. He said it made for a very LONG night. He didn't mind that I was taking my clothes off, but then I kept wanting to put them back on a few minutes later. :smile:
 
  • #77
Moonbear said:
Only one guy has ever borne witness to this behavior of mine. He said it made for a very LONG night. He didn't mind that I was taking my clothes off, but then I kept wanting to put them back on a few minutes later. :smile:


Moonbear, you're such a disappointer. Teasing himlike that, its just not nice. Tsk tsk.
 
  • #78
franznietzsche said:
Moonbear, you're such a disappointer. Teasing himlike that, its just not nice. Tsk tsk.

Um, it wasn't teasing, it was foreplay. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :biggrin:
 
  • #79
franznietzsche said:
I read The Metamorphosis first, for 11th grade english and immediately after read The Stranger by Camus(for the same class). I need to start reading Dostoevsky, just because of all the references to him in Nietzsche and the influence on Kafka.
I also enjoy Dostoevsky.
 
  • #80
Moonbear said:
Um, it wasn't teasing, it was foreplay. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :biggrin:


Foreplay implies you had...relations...withhim afterwards. Is this one of your dirty stories tribdog keeps alluding to?
 
  • #81
Evo said:
I also enjoy Dostoevsky.


Is it too much to hope that there is a younger version of you around my age somewhere?
 
  • #82
This thread is swinging wildly between erudite and titillating!
 
  • #83
Math Is Hard said:
This thread is swinging wildly between erudite and titillating!


but those are the two best parts of life!

Really the only parts worth themselves for their own sake.
 
  • #84
franznietzsche said:
Foreplay implies you had...relations...withhim afterwards. Is this one of your dirty stories tribdog keeps alluding to?

:blushing: Yeah, no point in throwing me into the volcano. I can't satisfy that virginity requirement the volcano gods have. Sorry to disappoint.
 
  • #85
Math Is Hard said:
This thread is swinging wildly between erudite and titillating!

Yeah, pretty funny.
 
  • #86
Moonbear said:
:blushing: Yeah, no point in throwing me into the volcano. I can't satisfy that virginity requirement the volcano gods have. Sorry to disappoint.


Damn, i guess we'll just have to keep ya...dang it... :wink:


But we can still throw Saint in!
 
  • #87
Moonbear said:
:blushing: Yeah, no point in throwing me into the volcano. I can't satisfy that virginity requirement the volcano gods have. Sorry to disappoint.
We found an open minded volcano god, he'll take whatever he can get. :approve:
 
  • #88
Evo said:
We found an open minded volcano god, he'll take whatever he can get. :approve:

:smile:

Well, I'll let the erudite discussion take over. I'm heading to bed (to sleep that is).
 
  • #89
franznietzsche said:
Is it too much to hope that there is a younger version of you around my age somewhere?
Yes, I'm afraid it is. :frown: I was a bookworm, a weird bookworm. :wink:
 
  • #90
Evo said:
Yes, I'm afraid it is. :frown: I was a bookworm, a weird bookworm. :wink:


Damn, you got me all hopeful that maybe there were girls out there with interesting things to say that did not involve 'The OC' and the Americaninvention of yoga... I'm so disenchanted right now.
 

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