How did you come up with your online name?

I'm a biological male who hates gender roles, and I like the idea of having gender traits of both sexes.

 

Erwin Rommel was a brilliant German leader in both World Wars. Though working for the Nazi government in WWII he did not have a hand in the holocaust. He didn't round up Jews for extermination. He was strictly military. He overcame overwhelming odds by outsmarting the enemy. In North Africa he got the nickname wüstenfuchs or "Desert Fox".

 

Spent a good part of my adult life in Holland, even got married there, so...

 

I just used my first name and then the initials of my surname which has two words =) and then the year which I was born in. Nothing too complex.

 

G-one-G-oing

 

It's what I do

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Heh... most men do, whether they want to admit it or not.

 

I'm curious what your avatar represents though.

 

It's charts and graphs, not to any scale, just an ideal. Essentially, it's about the apocalypse, though more practical than the well known religious dogma. It's like, there's an event at some point in time, and so there is the timeline before and after the event, and the circumstances.

 

Mine is the name of our black Maine Coon cat, "Friday13". Someone brought him to work on Friday the 13th, and I brought him home to my BF. When he bailed (the worthless BF), both of his cats stayed and adopted my daughter. He's huge, and right now wearing a "lion cut"...shaved down to his undercoat (that feels like chinchilla fur) except for head, feet, and a "tuft" at the end of his skinny rat tail. He was about 3 weeks old when I got him and he's now 11.

 

I speak the TRUTH which right wing delusionals hate.

 

The internation Proletariet knows me by many names ,Lucky Phil ,filthy phil [liked the dirt of factory production ,grease is good for the skin ,ink is soy based and very eco friendly these days,blood ,sweat in real life time ,factory wage slave,FILTHY,Commie Phil ,Trouble ,the union leaders call me TROUBLE Trot,The most leftwing communist on the sydney waterfront.HIMAGAINN < RUUUNNNN!Blackbanned phil [why I had to swap trdes.

This is your Number ,1086 You get 14 rember your number and when the nice middle class pay clerk cames with envelope ,he is a Nice Middle class person tell him your number .nothing else or you are breaking the proletariet closed shop CODE,nice middle class not nice Manager is fair gamr of course and you tel that middle class idiot nicely to FOff ,or they hire someone to do it for you a buffr.

Sorry for rambling Overseers is forman ,HATERED LEVEL wage slaves like me ,say Comrade,Brothers and sisters ,and the rest of struggling and working not wanking government humanity ,want a Working class governemt ,see,wage slave think ,Philxx is because I have no Identity that the factory didn't give me.its friendlier then comrade or commisar ,or militant strike liking bigger then better.Hate the ALP that capitialist Party ,no we have a workers party independent of the Bourgeios drongo's=your and my government!

See even when In try POLITICS ,POLITICICAL PHIL <what symetry .illiteration slogans Lenin said to young proletariet Politicans work on the Illiteration .

Political ,Proletariet Phil I like it .

self labeling Phil ,

 

Principled Proletariet Phil ,now thats the rub!

Oh goody more meat ,a big fat head capitialist by the Name of Palmers United Australia Party has spewed forth in Australian political life sorry ,all ,have to go not so virtual World ,have a new Bourgeois reactionary political formation ,coming like vomit of a cess pit!

sorry ,the Billionaire Clive Palmer is takin mes on straight up ,him and rupert murdoch and the fairfaxs as capitial,to finance ,no sorry rup's and lady fairfax areb not that stupid ,pay attention ,Packer ,Palmer ain't the goanna ,nOOOO that means ,Sorry got to off to burst a billionaires bubble ,aint ROMNEY its PALMERS version of political looby group ,ha hahaahaahahhahhaROSL,thats ROLL ON SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE LAUGHING ,Palmer for PM not bjelke ,United Australia Party of menzies ,sorry ,Like a black hole of stupidity ,thye land of OZ in real time beacckkoonnss.........3rd time lucky.......

 

I just had a stroke reading that.

 

I dislike a lot of gender roles as well, since most of them seem quite silly. There are men who like to cook, men who like to stay home with the kids. Women wrestlers & construction workers. Why not just consider them personality traits, rather than gender-based traits. Makes a lot more sense.

 

Actually, mine is one I was given when I was in the Marines years ago.

I was in Jungle Warfare School in Panama, and we were doing a long range jungle patrol. However, it seemed like every 20 minutes they were calling us on the radio, giving us a new location to go through. This had the effect of having us zig-zag and double back for over 2 hours. And my entire squad was getting frustrated.

One of them asked me why these changes were happening, and I told them I had no idea, they were not telling me anything, just a new destination.

"Ahhh, so you are a Mushroom then Corporal. They are keeping you in the dark and feeding you bull(*)(*)(*)(*)!"

And after that, the name stuck, I became known as "Corporal Mushroom". I had a copy of that framed and put on my wall a few years later when I was moved to a desk job, and in the early 1990's when BBS were popular (before the Internet killed them), I called mine "The Mushroom Garden". So online I have used this nickname for over 20 years now.

 

4th Battalion, 22nd Regiment, Canadian Infantry.

 

Oops, I got distracted & forgot to say where my online name here, originated.
Charly, is my middle name. One of them, anyway.

 

It's my name. Most of my friends call me "McCork"

 

I'm solar powered so Forever Sunshine just seemed to fit.

 

John "Sixteen String Jack" Rann (1750 &#8211; November 30, 1774) was an English criminal and highwayman during the mid-18th century. He was a prominent and colourful local figure renowned for his wit and charm. He would later come to be known as "Sixteen String Jack" for the 16 various coloured strings he wore on the knees of his silk breeches among other eccentric costumes.



Born near Bath in Somerset, England, he served as a postillion to a local woman and during his teenage years worked as coachman in London. He soon became accustomed to living beyond his means, such as wearing expensive costumes for which to attend balls and galas of the city's social circles, and was constantly in debt as a result.

He began pick-pocketing with some success, eventually stealing watches and other valuables along Hounslow Road. However, he soon became a highwayman and, although he was arrested several times on charges of highway robbery, six of his cases were dismissed due to lack of evidence as witnesses were unable to identify Rann.


Some pubs are named after Sixteen String Jack

During one trial at Bow Street, while wearing an unusually large number of flowers in his coat and his irons decorated with blue ribbons, Rann reportedly addressed the presiding magistrate, the famous Sir John Fielding: "I know no more of the matter than you do or half as much" when he was asked if he had anything to say in his defence.

He was finally apprehended after robbing the chaplain of Princess Amelia near Brentford in 1774 and held in custody at the notorious Newgate Gaol, where he supposedly entertained seven women at a farewell dinner before his execution on November 30. Shortly before he was to be hanged at Tyburn, appearing in a specially made pea-green suit adorned by a large nosegay, he enjoyed cheerful banter with both the hangman and the crowd, then danced a jig, before being publicly executed at the age of 24.

Tyburn, which was then a village on the outskirts of London, but which has now been swallowed by London with the site now being occupied by Marble Arch, was the site of a novel form of gallows known as the Triple Tree, comprising a horizontal wooden triangle supported by three legs (an arrangement known as a "three-legged mare" or "three-legged stool"). Several felons could thus be hanged at once, and so the gallows were used for mass executions such as on 23 June 1649 when 24 prisoners &#8211; 23 men and one woman &#8211; were hanged simultaneously, having been conveyed there in eight carts. The Triple Tree was erected in 1571 but hangings took place at Tyburn since 1196 and ended in November 1783.


The first hanging at Tyburn was that of William Fitz Osbern, the populist leader of the poor of London, who was cornered in the church of St Mary le Bow. He was dragged naked behind a horse to Tyburn, where he was hanged in 1196. The Tyburn gallows were last used on 3 November 1783, when John Austin, a highwayman, was hanged. The Triple Tree was situated near where Marble Arch is today and also near to the two Edgware Road tube stations, in one of which six people were killed during the 7/7 attacks.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rann

 

Mine comes from my dj moniker. My full names initials are DJJJ (two middle names) so DJ^3 = DJ Cubed.

 

those that didn't make it home

 

I came up with mine from the Roman senator Gaius Cassius Longinus, who was the Senator who convinced the others to kill Caesar. He was also a philosopher and was known for hating dictators.

 

We should utilize colonial time punishment where they would be on public display!

 

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