Which PF usernames stand out as the best?

[BobG]

I talked to the Zoobster a few weeks ago. We have the same birthday so I had to call him up and wish him a happy one. He's doing ok. He got a job herding nocturnally roving jellyfish and that keeps him real busy. He comes by and visits PF once in a while, he just doesn't post anymore. I miss him, too.

Herding nocturnally roving jellyfish? I've heard that term as a modification of the idiom "managing <blank> is like herding cats" for cases where the folks you're managing can sometimes get you stung.

So, is he a pimp or is he the supervisor on the night shift of a computer network?

And if he really does herd nocturnally roving jellyfish, does he get to wear a cowboy hat? And what does he ride?

 

[Math Is Hard]

And if he really does herd nocturnally roving jellyfish, does he get to wear a cowboy hat? And what does he ride?

I suppose he rides a bicycle when he's wrangling jellies (since he only goes after the ones that try to sneak onto land), and I believe he wears a glow-in-the-dark cowboy hat since he works at night. He rides around with a long net, scooping up the little purple suckers, and flinging them back into the ocean.

He's doing an excellent job. I haven't been stung in the middle of the night by a land-roving jellyfish in 6 months.

 

[Danger]

And what does he ride?

Wouldn't it be a seahorse?

 

[Moonbear]

And if he really does herd nocturnally roving jellyfish, does he get to wear a cowboy hat? And what does he ride?

No, of course he doesn't wear a cowboy hat, he wears a purple jellyboy hat. He rides on a network of multicolored strings. But I guess we couldn't expect someone who isn't versed in jellitivity to know that.

 

[SOS2008]

I love BobG's new avatar too! Danger started this, so maybe he can remind me of the names of these cartoon characters.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Awesome! Bob G looks so handsome!

Here's some reference for you SOS: http://www.lil-abner.com/

I believe your character is Moonbeam Mcswine..
http://www.lil-abner.com/images/moonbeam.GIF

 

[Danger]

I love BobG's new avatar too! Danger started this, so maybe he can remind me of the names of these cartoon characters.

Good grief, I've created a monster. Okay, MIH is Daisy Mae & BobG is Li'l Abner. I can think of a couple of appropriate users for some of the auxilliary characters, who can be found http://www.lil-abner.com/other.html , among other places.

 

[SOS2008]

Good grief, I've created a monster. Okay, MIH is Daisy Mae & BobG is Li'l Abner. I can think of a couple of appropriate users for some of the auxilliary characters, who can be found http://www.lil-abner.com/other.html , among other places.

I remember reading the Li'l Abner comics as a kid, but only remember some of these characters. Very interesting--Thanks!

 

[1123581321]

my screenname is odd, but fibonacci is kinda cool, however i would have to vote for chroot, just because you can't say it, unless you happen to be polish, they seem to like that thing where words have many few vowes in places where you need them.

Fibonacci

 

[JamesU]

I think it should be math is hard, because it's so true


vote math is hard!

 

[Math Is Hard]

I think it should be math is hard, because it's so true


vote math is hard!

yay! votes for yomomma right back!

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

How the hell has no one mentioned TheStatutoryApe? That's far and away the best username.

Thank you.
I like your's too, but I'd have to say selfAdjoint is my favorite.
I like Evo, it's simple but sexy.
Math Is Hard is cute... er I mean the name, though I understand the user is too. ;-p

 

[Evo]

I like Evo, it's simple but sexy.

Aww, thanks. I like your name too.

 

[JamesU]

Who has the best avatar?

 

[Smurf]

We've been over that before. Please don't get them started again.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

Who has the best avatar?

Yeah I think that would call for a separate thread.

 

[BobG]

I remember reading the Li'l Abner comics as a kid, but only remember some of these characters. Very interesting--Thanks!

Isn't Li'l Abner required reading in our education system? It should be. Li'l Abner and Peanuts are the two comic strips that have had the greatest impact on our culture.

"If I had my druthers..." - straight from the Li'l Abner comic strip.

"Sadie Hawkins Day" dances - straight from the Li'l Abner comic strip (in fact Sadie Hawkins is one of the Li'l Abner characters).

I'm sure there's a few other phrases that came from Li'l Abner.

Actually, Li'l Abner was in its heyday (yet another hick reference) a little before my time, too. It's peak popularity was in the 50's and earlier. It was pretty biting political commentary - it was the conservative answer to the liberal Pogo (another classic comic strip). By time you and I were reading it, Al Capp had lost a lot of interest in the whole idea and was just churning out gags because it was a job.

Errrgg. Now everyone knows where I find my "classic literature".

 

[Danger]

I always saw it as 'Zapperzed'. I kinda prefer it like that...

That sounds just a little too much like 'Zipperhead', one of our standard insults around here.
I've got to go along with Loser in that 'StatutoryApe' is one of the most clever ones. 'Evo' evokes a techno-sexiness that's hard to beat. I'd like to know where 'Moonbear' came up with hers, 'cause it sounds really cool but has no significance that's obvious. Same for 'SOS2008' and 'Ivan Seeking'. 'Integral', 'Derivitive', 'Chronxeh', fib, and 'Astronuc' are particulary appropriate for the site.
If I absolutely had to chose, I think that I'd have to vote for 'Brewnog', both for originality and because it seems to project his personality.

 

[marlon]

best name is Astronuc
ZapperZ is too widely used...i have encountered many Zapper's on the net

Danger and Evo have the best avatars

marlonB

i also like mooberrymarz, but that's just because she is so beautiful...just like Evo's youngest daughter with the tan...

 

[marlon]

Danger posted the greatest photo's ever...he should be in the movies...

marlon

 

[Danger]

Lets get on the rizzeal, my name expalins it all.

All except your spelling, that is...

Danger posted the greatest photo's ever...he should be in the movies...

You must have me mixed up with another Danger...

 

[BobG]

That sounds just a little too much like 'Zipperhead', one of our standard insults around here.
I've got to go along with Loser in that 'StatutoryApe' is one of the most clever ones. 'Evo' evokes a techno-sexiness that's hard to beat. I'd like to know where 'Moonbear' came up with hers, 'cause it sounds really cool but has no significance that's obvious. Same for 'SOS2008' and 'Ivan Seeking'. 'Integral', 'Derivitive', 'Chronxeh', fib, and 'Astronuc' are particulary appropriate for the site.
If I absolutely had to chose, I think that I'd have to vote for 'Brewnog', both for originality and because it seems to project his personality.

A guy I knew had the axle on his trailer break in Teslin, Yukon and some guy the locals called "Fred the Zipperhead" came to his aid. No wonder the guy turned out to be no help (after waiting for hours for "Fred the Zipperhead", someone else finally gave my friend a ride to Fred's cabin, where they found him sleeping).

But, then again, my friend so overloaded his pickup truck for his trip to Alaska that he broke an axle in Wyoming before he even made it to the Canadian border. He decided that maybe he had too much stuff, so put some in storage and bought a used trailer in Wyoming (the trailer that broke in Teslin) for the stuff he just couldn't do without. Yet a second trailer he bought in Teslin (he had to buy a weedwacker in order to see the trailer he was buying) and he finally arrived in Alaska with a full pickup truck and a full trailer - all stuff that had to be fit into a 10x12 room for an entire year and still leave room for furniture.

He and Fred the Zipperhead were made for each other. Kindred spirits, to be sure.

 

[Danger]

A guy I knew had the axle on his trailer break in Teslin, Yukon and some guy the locals called "Fred the Zipperhead" came to his aid. No wonder the guy turned out to be no help

The Yukon would not be my first choice of places to break down, and I'd put logs under the bloody thing and drag it before I'd let somebody named 'Zipperhead' work on it. (It's one thing if everybody calls him that, but if he answers to it you're in trouble.)
Incidentally, I'm not putting down the Yukon; it's beautiful up there. Facilities are somewhat few and far between, though.

 

[SOS2008]

That sounds just a little too much like 'Zipperhead', one of our standard insults around here.
I've got to go along with Loser in that 'StatutoryApe' is one of the most clever ones. 'Evo' evokes a techno-sexiness that's hard to beat. I'd like to know where 'Moonbear' came up with hers, 'cause it sounds really cool but has no significance that's obvious. Same for 'SOS2008' and 'Ivan Seeking'. 'Integral', 'Derivitive', 'Chronxeh', fib, and 'Astronuc' are particulary appropriate for the site.
If I absolutely had to chose, I think that I'd have to vote for 'Brewnog', both for originality and because it seems to project his personality.

StatutoryApe is great--I LOL when I first saw it. loseyourname is hip, but long, so we need to get a shortened version like we do for MIH. I thought Evo was for Evo Devo - from the term for Evolutionary Development - http://www.ucevodevo.org/about/

Danger is, well what else could he be!? Moonbear has the best avatars IMO. I typed in my name on the fly, which of course will be out-of-date at some point--that's why I've mentioned maybe I should change it now. PF Addict, or maybe Burnout (in a BTU kind of way) OR a symbol for the member formally known as SOS.

 

[Danger]

Danger is, well what else could he be!?

Thanks, I think...

Moonbear has the best avatars IMO.

I keep meaning to ask where she got that. The liquor store associated with the bar that I used to work at had that poster up behind the checkout, and I've always wanted a copy.

I typed in my name on the fly, which of course will be out-of-date at some point--that's why I've mentioned maybe I should change it now.

If you just change it to SOS2?, you'll be good for 1,000 years. That kind of shelf-life ain't bad, all things considered.

 

[SOS2008]

Isn't Li'l Abner required reading in our education system? It should be. Li'l Abner and Peanuts are the two comic strips that have had the greatest impact on our culture. ...Errrgg. Now everyone knows where I find my "classic literature".

Excellent information!

This photo courtesy of Danger (sorry 'bout the distortion from enlarging the thumbnail), but this is being in the slime with swine:

http://img227.echo.cx/img227/3015/pigswim3ak.jpg

And some additional swine sayings for my signature collection:

"Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty but the pig enjoys it." - courtesy of MIH's momma

"You can't make sausages without breaking pigs." - courtesy of brenog

The signatures from Danger can't be posted.

 

[Danger]

The signatures from Danger can't be posted.

You know, that actually makes them seem far more clever than they really are...

I never noticed before, but isn't you're second (appropriatley brown) signature by Jim Bakker?

 

[Moonbear]

I keep meaning to ask where she got that. The liquor store associated with the bar that I used to work at had that poster up behind the checkout, and I've always wanted a copy.

Someone posted it up on another site I visited and I swiped it to crop down to an avatar size photo. I've had a variety of avatars here, but I think I'm going to stick with this one. It feels right for me.

I was really disappointed recently to discover there is a such thing as an actual moonbear. At least it's a cute bear: a little black or dark brown bear with a white crescent-shaped collar. But that has nothing to do with where my name came from. There's a thread around somewhere about where people's usernames came from. Apparently I was too slow to respond, so they created a whole legend to explain it. Evo is short for Evil.

 

[Danger]

Someone posted it up on another site I visited and I swiped it to crop down to an avatar size photo. I've had a variety of avatars here, but I think I'm going to stick with this one. It feels right for me.

No question about that; it's perfect.

There's a thread around somewhere about where people's usernames came from. Apparently I was too slow to respond, so they created a whole legend to explain it. Evo is short for Evil.

If you could narrow that down a bit, I'd love to read it. I got the Evo thing from the Photo thread where she was explaining things to Marlon. The part I'm confused about is: did she name her daughter 'The Evo Child' as short for 'The Evil Child' and then usurped the name for herself, or did she refer to herself as evil first, and then pass it down to the next generation?

 

[Moonbear]

Here's the thread it was in:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=55214