Hey! Its Me.
This kind of fun can never be had as a civilian.
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Hi guys,
This is fun. I have ancestors who had a farm and a tavern on the road from Lexington to Concord. And one of the first skirmishs after the British opened fire at Lexington Green was at this sightas they were marching to Concord to grab the colonials munition stockpile there. Three sons were members of the Lincoln detachment of the Minutemen. And since this happened in 1775 ergo my screen name.
Lex
I am not witty and don't think of cute pithy sayings. Hence, it is my maiden name. My grandfather fled the Armenian holocaust in 1915 and eventually made his way to the US. We thought that all the other family in Armenia had been killed by the turks. I grew up thinking that there will only eight of us in the world. Then, with the advent of the internet, my brother was doing some sluthing in the early '90s and discovered a whole slew of us out in California and elsewhere. So, we're comparing family stories and becomeing reaquainted.
Because........GOODNESS WINS!!!! Sometimes people misinterpret "good" for "nice"......when I say GOODNESS I do NOT mean NICENESS......make sense? (Yes, I've been chastised before for not (supposedly) living up to my moniker....LOL.)
I hope you can all figure mine out...
Ummm...need you ask?
American Made 1776 ....It just seemed appropriate, as all my ancestors were here at that time and some way before that time, and it was the time my nationality was established. I am an American!
My name is Richard and buddies have called me "The King" and "The Lion hearted".
Thought "TheLion" worked well at the time.
Nothing exciting, just the model number of my favorite handgun: Smith & Wesson 6906. Compact 9 mm with a bobbed hammer that is easy to carry yet still packs some punch (with Hydra-Shocks in it!).
Okay I am a geek and I know it...
"SynTyr"
Syn = in Norse mythology goddess of watchfulness and truth.
Tyr = is the god of single combat and heroic glory in Norse mythology.
I origninally put it TyrSyn but SynTyr flows better...
I chose it because I figured I needed a bit of variety in my screen-names (my usual s/n is "Myuu" or some variant there-of).
It means "maybe" in Japanese, and I adore the Japanese language. I'm teaching it to myself in a slow but steady fashion. (Believe you me, the particles are a pain to figure out!) Plus it sounds really awesome, lol. And in that, if nothing else, I am a typical teen xP
~Moshi-chan
Wow...guess I'm missing out on creativity LOL
-Becky in Texas
One might think from the number 58 behind my name that I was either born in '58 or that I am 58 years old. If one thought that, one would be wrong.
My real name is graybeard58 as was my father's graybeard57 and his before him going back 58 generations from me. Accordingly, I named my son graybeard59 my grandson is graybeard60. If you will click my screen name you will see my handsome new great grand son - graybeard61.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
He's an Outlaw. From another world. Or maybe another dimension. He came through the Drifter's Nexus.
What does all that mean? Well, once upon a time there was a card game called "Magic: the Gathering". Actually, there still is such a game. However, when it was new, back in 1994, it created a series of copycat games. Most of them were, to be kind, garbage.
In 1995, a company called FPG, Inc, which published Fantasy Art Cards, pooled their artist resource talent and put out a game that had what no game had up until that time: phenomenal artwork. And the game wasn't bad either. And it didn't take itself too seriously. (One of the cards was called "Floyd, the Flying Pig". Another was "Gn'Omish Gnomes" -- you had to see the artwork on that latter one.)
So there was this cool card with this cool name in the second expansion: Tanniker Smith. I thought there had to be some kind of story behind it, but I couldn't find any. It sort of science-fictionish in an E.E. "Doc" Smith kind of way, I guess. (In fact, if you Google it now, you'll get four pages of links, most of which take you back to F.R.)
Below is some of the artwork. Sadly, I don't have a digital image of Tanniker. Maybe sometime I'll dig out those cards and scan him in.
For more on the game, go to one of the best fan sites that I know of: http://www.io.com/~cjburke/guardians/
TS
Great idea for a Canteen thread StarCMC!
My title.
I went here and started talking to people like Doug from Upland.
9/11 changed everything.
Since then, I've had letters to the editor published here in Canada....and I've received hate mail in response. Just because I defended, in words, the US. All I know is... when I first got nNternet access, I lurked at FR for a while, then decided to join up. And then in a move of "in your face" I made my screen name something to remind Canadians how they should be grateful, instead of getting mad at the U.S. Because the US would be at Canada's aide immediately.
Okay, I'm sorry, I am so tired, working at a newspaper. I meantwhat I said, though.