Posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:36 AM PDT by Windflier
I've always wondered about the origins and meanings (if any) behind others Freeper handles. Its a quiet Sunday morning, so I thought it would be an interesting topic to start the day.
What's the story behind your handle?
What a fun thread. I also lurked for a year or so and then finally bit the bullet. It was during the Clinton era...will it never end... and it was one sleazy issue after another. So, “whatnext?” was said in exasperation.
I also attended the “March for Justice,” which I believe would take credit as “the first internet inspired protest.”
Here and I thought your handle came from the bubble bath product in the ‘70s and ‘80s... “Sargon, take me away !”
when I was very young my brother gave me a book by Andrew J. Offutt, ‘Demon in the mirror War of the wizards..’ Tiana Highrider was the main character. A female Pirate with a checkered past trying to get ahead in life with what is thrown in into it.
Gorgeous ride, but being a Harley guy myself, I’m biased ;-)
The author described two of the Chinese characters that are spoken as "Wu" and "Li" which (as the Chinese characters he was referring to - there is more than one character pronounced "wu" as well as more than one pronounced "li") - in Chinese meant matter, and energy, and the interchange of matter and energy. He said that understanding in Chinese literature was very old. I just thought that was fascinating and when adopting a handle for FreeRepublic I chose Wuli.
From page 5 of Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukov:
The Chinese language does not use an alphabet like western languages. Each word in Chinese is depicted by a character, which is a line drawing. (Sometimes two or more characters are combined to form different meanings). This is why it is difficult to translate Chinese into English. Good translations require a translator who is both a poet and a linguist.
For example, [one Chinese character pronounced as "Wu" can mean either "matter" or "energy." [one pronounced as] "Li" is a richly poetic word. It means "universal order" or "universal law." It also means "organic patterns." The grain in a panel of wood is Li. The organic pattern on the surface of a leaf is also Li, and so is the texture of a rose petal. In short, Wu Li, the Chinese word for physics, means "patterns of organic energy" ("matter/energy" [Wu] + "universal order/organic patterns" [Li]). This is remarkable since it reflects a world view which the founders of western science (Galileo and Newton) simply did not comprehend, but toward which virtually every physical theory of import in the twentieth century is pointing!
Wish I had a pet for an excuse for my “typing” errors.
I've seen your handle and wondered about that. Pretty sure I clicked on your home page once to see if your handle predated his election. Good on you for outlasting him.
It felt like I was the only conservative living in San Francisco back in 1998 when I signed up. In fact, the SF Gray Line bus tours would drive by my house to show the tourists where the conservative lives. I have since moved from SF, which continues to be, per Lee Rodgers, “the world’s largest open-air insane asylum”.
Let's see how clever you are.
>> You can see one of their markers between MD eastern shore and southern DE.
I too live in Maryland, where I occasionally see bumper stickers which cry out, “It takes guts to be a Democrat in Garrett County.” Out this way you can see the terminal M-D marker at the boundary point of PA, MD, and WV. I assume there’s also one at the boundary point of PA, MD, and DE but I’ve not seen it.
I was born in Ohio and my ancestry is Irish and French.
Actually LOL;-)
Rannug. Sounds kinda like a cave man. Pretty normal usually.
Five us us Cav boys and our s/o had a kinda reunion, partying, drinking, telling war stories, crying. Some embellishments were going on. After listening to the tales a while, my d/w nick named me Gunnar. Rannug developed naturally from Gunnar.
You can change your forum handle anytime. Just freepmail JimRob and tell him what you want. Don't forget to ask him to preserve your original 'born on' date and your posting history.
I didn't do that the first couple of times, and lost 1998-2001 history. Oh, well... :)
"Mr. Jeeves" is from P.G. Wodehouse, and more precisely from Stephen Fry's portrayal of the character in the early 90's BBC TV show "Jeeves and Wooster." He is the man with all the answers.
You can change your forum handle anytime. Just freepmail JimRob and tell him what you want. Don't forget to ask him to preserve your original 'born on' date and your posting history.
Yep, William Howard Taft. If you think FR gets slow now and then these days you should have seen it before we had electricity. Every time somebody wanted to post Jim had to shuffle a bunch of Hollerith cards around and pull a lever. And the steam lines between here and Fresno were always breaking.
I'd change it but BilltheDrill is already on hundreds of "ignore this jackass" lists and I wouldn't want to inconvenience them.
Two of my three Corvettes!
I think I got it from a Campbell’s Soup commercial. I’m a he BTW.
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