If Skinner would let us change usernames again...

[NightWatcher]

I think I'd go with

El Pollo Loco

The Crazy Chicken sounds like a good handle.

Would you want a change?

[MiddleFingerMom]

1. There's a chain of fried chicken fastfood joints named that here in the SW.

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[NightWatcher]

2. I'd change my avatar to their logo

Assuming there was no copyright infringement.

[Chan790]

4. Interesting. There's a Peruvian chicken chain in DC with the same name.

DC for some reason has become the hotbed of Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken in the US. We don't have a large Peruvian community that I know of. Pollo a la Brasa restaurants (That's what Peruvian chicken restaurants are called. It means "grilled chicken" basically.) have been springing up all over the place.


The yellow stuff is a mayonnaise-based sweet sauce.
The green stuff is really hot pepper-based sauce.

I don't eat the chicken anymore (I lived on it in college) but they're more than happy to sell me rice and black beans, fried plantain and the green sauce on my salad.

You should see if you can find Peruvian chicken near you, I know that the doctors have you off most things to eat that don't suck...I can't see how this would be bad for you as it's not salted and it's lower-fat. You might want to avoid the fried sides and mayo though.

Also it tends to be cheap. Going rate based on ads seems to be about $6-7 for a half-chicken with two sides and a drink. There's at-least 2 maybe 3 meals there.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. This chain is headquartered in Costa Mesa.

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[Chan790]

8. Cool. This one is definitely unrelated.

They get mad if you ask them for Mexican things like tortilla or salsa. They do serve a lovely horchata though and some locations have beer.

There is no good Mexican food in DC. The DC reader's poll chose Chevy's last year in the Mexican category...that's like Mexican Olive Garden...there is no actual Mexican food on the menu, only "Mexican-inspired" food.

[OriginalGeek]

27. We had a bunch of El Pollo Locos but

they all changed their names to Pollo Tropical several years ago...

As far as I can tell the menu is nearly the same as when they were crazy though...

I love their rice and beans and plantains but I'm kind of leery about the meat...

[kayakjohnny]

3. Yes... mine was picked by someone else and I would love to change it.

But not sure if I would chose a jokey quirky name, or something profound.

Or a little of both.

Like, Edward R. Burrow, for example.

Just something that came to mind.

I got a million of 'em.

[mysuzuki2]

6. My username is just part ofmuch thought. my email address, chosen without

if I could change I think I'd go with Nomar Skiddmarx.

[UTUSN]

7. I would change mine to NightWatcher. n/t obviously

[cyberswede]

9. I often wish I'd chosen Pup Tentacle. nt

[pokerfan]

10. Heisenberg

[gratuitous]

12. Well, only if you're certain

Heh.

[Codeine]

15. Been seeing a lot of his blue shit around here lately. nt

[pokerfan]

17. ding ding

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

[Codeine]

20. That character was just too sad.

Still waiting for season 4 to hit Netflix after paying four bucks to watch the first episode from Amazon's streaming service.

[pokerfan]

22. Fourth season will blow you away

[nolabear]

11. Nah, I'm good.

[ohiosmith]

13. Been ohiosmith for going on fifty years. No need to change now.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. Absolutely. I thought I'd be hating on Bush for-ever ! I picked

my name at the time they caught Bush drinking in China.

I would definitely pick something timeless. hahaha

[lillypaddle]

37. Nooooooo

I LOVE your name, it always makes me smile. Don't change it, please.

[Codeine]

16. Slab Bulkhead.

Or maybe Crunch ButtSteak.

[Aristus]

18. Nope. I've been Aristus for nearly 11 years now.

If any of my old DU friends came back, I'd want them to know who I am ...

[panader0]

19. Our over 50's male dance revue names:

Doug Deeper
Wayne Sider
Oliver Yerbouti
Kirt Girth
Dip Stickler
Chubby Chorizo

Naw, I'll stay with what I got.

[Codeine]

21. Wayne Sider.

That's a bit of genius right there.

[OriginalGeek]

28. Pretty sure Oliver

is a Sheik.

[Duer 157099]

23. Nah

I will forever be the 157099th member of DU.

Although, I wonder why Skinner is DUer 100801. Did he really wait that long before joining?

[grantcart]

24. Clifforduu

Cliffordu stole my wife, my dog and my mother now calls him 'sonny'.


It would be the only way I could get back at him.


I would go to FR find some high volume poster and make a confession that was my real name all along.


It would take him 500 posts to straighten out.

[cliffordu]

25. You gonna give the old gal

something for Mother's day, or are you going to be the bad hubby again???

Oh, yeah, your daughter says howdy and thanks for the car.

[grantcart]

29. OK OK you send me the address where you guys are and I'll send a check.

[cliffordu]

33. Well, lessee.....

Mom's in Rehab again and Snuggles lost her ID at Sturgis, so make it out to me and I'll do the rest

Fulton County Corrections,

Fulton County, Oregon.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. No, then I'd lose my place on the wait list.

WHAT wait list, you ask? Oh no you don't...if I tell, everybody reading this will want to be on it. Let's just say I'm on it...and I'm waiting...and when my turn comes up, it will be suh-WEET.

[NewJeffCT]

30. If Walt Starr isn't available

I might flip the two Fs in NewJeffCT. Other than that, no.

[libodem]

31. Maybe something lovely

Like HawtTramp. Maybe, SexPositiveFeminist? My evil nemisis-es would think it's real funny.

[Bertha Venation]

32. Nope. Why tinker with perfection?

[bluesbassman]

34. Nah, I'm too old to take up the accordian.

Besides...

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

35. I'd change mine

To what, I dunno.

[bluedigger]

36. "what, I dunno" would be a good one!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

40. it would be

WHATIDUNNO in all caps.

[Sheepshank]

38. when I first got my name

I pictured a lusty, hedonistic banquet with roasted sheep, shanks being torn from the body, a room full of Norse Warriors, at a medieval castle.

Then a sailor told me it was a knot.

what to do, what to do

[HeiressofBickworth]

39. I'm simply not clever enough to come up with a second name.

Figuring out Heiress of Bickworth was hard enough. However, my notebook of genealogy information was open and there she was. My 14th great grandmother. No actual name is known but her status is.

[TuxedoKat]

41. Sounds like a good title

for an historical romance!