I Italianised a piece or graffiti that I saw in Boston.

Well, there is this rather popular German kids book by Ottfried Preußler called Räuber Hotzenplotz. Which roughly translates as Hotzenplotz the Robber. Now the counterpart of Hotzenplotz is this fat and stupid, if somewhat benevolent police officer Dimpfelmoser. I've always liked the name Dimpfelmoser cause to me it sums up the German mentality quite nicely. Dimpf being a mix of Dumpf (dumb) and Simple, where as mosern is German for whining, complaining.
So there you are
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Mandroid2.0 wrote: Someone (either Choppy or DrAwkward) said something akin to, "holy shit, it's the Mandroids!" I believe that one of them has a photo capturing this Mandroid moment.

HOLY CRAP I WAS THERE FOR THAT

I had no idea that was the moment the Mandroids were named. I assumed it had already been an ongoing thing.

burun wrote: burun = a japanese onomotopoetic word used in manga, indicating the sounds that breasts make when a bra is unhooked/removed.

Learn something new every day....

My given name is Joe, and some pals thought it would be funny to start calling me "Joey the Lemur" in reference to the MST3K episode. It stuck as a real-life nickname a good 2 1/2 years before my presence on the internet, so it was natural to start using it as an internet handle. 68 is the number worn by Jaromir Jagr, who was my favorite hockey player around the first time I registered for something and had to add a number to "lemur" because it was taken. Even though I don't call myself a Jagr fan now (especially since he's a goddamn NY Ranger now), I still use "lemur68" for about everything, for the sake of consistency and because I like how it rolls off the tongue. Perhaps in indie circles I should instead tell people it's referring to the Jawbox song "68."

So now for you to made read with, Italo Calvino's "Making Do" from Numbers in the Dark:

There was a town where everything was forbidden.

Now, since the only thing that wasn't forbidden was the game tip-cat, the town's subjects used to assemble on meadows and spend the day there playing tip-cat.

And as the laws forbidding things had been introduced one at a time and always with good reason, no one found any cause for complaint or had any trouble getting used to them.

Years passed. One day the constables saw that there was no longer any reason why everything should be forbidden and they sent messengers to inform their subjects that they could do whatever they wanted.

The messengers went to those places where the subjects were wont to assemble.

'Hear ye, hear ye,' they announced, 'nothing is forbidden any more.'

The people went on playing tip-cat.

'Understand?' the messengers insisted. 'You are free to do whatever you want.'

'Good,' replied the subjects. 'We're playing tip-cat.'

The messengers busily reminded them of the many wonderful and useful occupations they had once engaged in and could now engage in once again. But the subjects wouldn't listen and just went on playing, stroke after stroke, without even stopping for a breather.

Seeing that their efforts were in vain, the messengers went to tell the constables.

'Easy," the constables said. 'Let's forbid the game of tipcat.'

That was when the people rebelled and killed the lot of them.

Then without wasting any time, they got back to playing tip-cat.

H-GM wrote:It used to be Tar Baby, but Walter chastised me for having such an uncouth/un-PC username, so I changed it to a truncated "Homosexual-GangsterMan" lest to raise Walter's ire again.

That was brilliant. Salut!

In any case, language is fucked up. People typically do not own language. Language usually owns them. I'm pressing buttons to communicate. False face, not real! The end

I made a tape when I got my first 4-track in college. I needed a name for my musical project that sounded cooler than "Shaun Westphal". I opened the dictionary, closed my eyes, and started flipping and pointing. I stopped on "peripatetic". I thought it was a cool word* and have used it for all my "solo" musical projects ever since.

per·i·pa·tet·ic /ˌpɛrəpəˈtɛtɪk/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[per-uh-puh-tet-ik] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective 1. walking or traveling about; itinerant.
2. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.
3. (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Aristotelian school of philosophy.
–noun 4. a person who walks or travels about.
5. (initial capital letter) a member of the Aristotelian school.


*I was mainly just happy that I didn't stop on "ball" or "car".

My username is an Achewoodreference.

I love Achewood, and it appears that I am far from alone in this respect.

I'm close to an asshole.

stole this one from the ex.

previous one was stolen from the jesus lizard.

the one before that i made up.