How's about a little break from politics?

[Bayard]

And fun!

Where does your screen name come from? I'll start. "Bayard" is French for bay horse. My guy.

[frogmarch]

1. Mine. :-)

[onethatcares]

2. i'm just one of those.

about a lot of things.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Essentially, it is a Totem animal name...

I took it on my self in a group I used to belong to, where we did traditional shit like that and drummed and told stories, etc.

Bit of a story behind it that doesn't need to be told here.

[csziggy]

4. Mine's from one of my horses

The mare, not the filly - the filly is Topaz. The dam's nickname is from the computer on Quantum Leap.

[ancianita]

5. Ancianita = little ol' lady. That's me. Thanks for the thread.

[First Speaker]

6. First Speaker--from Asimov's Foundation Trilogy...

...the head of the Second Foundation...

[qnr]

7. It's an aviation communications code, understood by people

no matter what their language is, it means "I am approaching my point of no return."

[LiberalEsto]

8. Esto is short for Estonian

My parents were Estonian immigrants. I was born in NYC but learned the language from birth and still speak it fairly fluently.
Very few Estonian-Americans of my generation are politically liberal, unfortunately.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

9. I was drunk and it seemed like a good idea at the time. nt

[Xipe Totec]

10. I like to make people jump out of their skin.

So far, so good.

[hopemountain]

11. a local name for a mountain

at the edge of our valley that can be viewed from 3 windows from my cabin.

[KamaAina]

12. kama'aina = local Hawai'i person

as opposed to malihini, visitor or foreigner.

The literal meaning is "child of the land".

[Tobin S.]

13. My dad gave it to me a long time ago.

[pinboy3niner]

14. Mine is from my Army service

It was my last radio callsign while serving as an Infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. It had a better ring to it than my previous callsign--'Itchy Click One-Six.'

[Kali]

23. oh I don't know...

Itchy Click One-Six is pretty damn awesome! especially for the lounge!

[a kennedy]

15. I am a kennedy......family name, first born daughter after three sons......

mother and father had me named the minute they got engaged......and they had to wait 7 years to get me. I wear it proudly.

[IronLionZion]

16. From Bob Marley

[malthaussen]

17. Bayard is also the name of a magical horse...

... in the chansons de geste, originally of the paladin Renaud de Montauban and his brothers, and also the title of the famous chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, Pierre Terrail, signeur de Bayard. He was a pretty badass dude.

As for Malthaussen, that's an old RPG name of mine derived from Thomas Malthus, the political economist.

-- Mal

[Bayard]

25. Wow!

Thanks, Mal. I am going to google further.

[geardaddy]

18. Mine's from a local MN band

The Gear Daddies

[ailsagirl]

19. Mine is a Scottish girl's name + girl

[lunatica]

20. Mine's pretty self explanatory

[Callmecrazy]

21. I just liked the ring of it...

[Skittles]

22. Skittles was a 25 pound solid black cat (yes, named after the candy)

I also now consider it also to be a poignant reference to Trayvon

[IrishEyes]

24. It comes from the song.

"When Irish Eyes are Smiling". I first heard it when my grandmother played it on the piano. My great grandparents all came to the United States from Ireland.

[PufPuf23]

26. PufPuf is the name of the Pacific Giant Salamander in Karuk and is also the

name of an immortal in stories of creation that lives in a creek near my home.

?zz=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_giant_salamander

Pacific giant salamanders (Dicamptodontidae) are a family of large salamanders.

The family includes only a single genus, Dicamptodon. The genus was formerly thought to contain two species, Cope's giant salamander (D. copei) on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, and the Pacific giant salamander (D. ensatus) which consisted of three geographic populations, an Idaho isolate, a group in northern California, and a group in Oregon and Washington.[1] In 1989, genetic studies showed D. copei to be a distinct species, and the D. ensatus populations to consist of three species: the Idaho giant salamander (D. aterrimus) in Idaho, and two highly divergent species with a narrow hybrid zone in California, the coastal giant salamander (D. tenebrosus) (ranging from northern California to Washington), and the California giant salamander (D. ensatus) (limited only from Santa Cruz County to Mendocino County in California).[2]

Specimens are up to 30 cm (12 in) long, and are found in the western United States and southwestern British Columbia. Except for their size, they are similar to the mole salamander family (Ambystomatidae), in which they were originally included.[3]

While most salamanders are silent, the Pacific giant salamander is one of several salamanders that have vocal abilities. When startled, these salamanders may respond with a croaky-sounding cry similar to that of a barking dog. Members of this family can either be terrestrial or aquatic as adults.

23 is from the 23 enigma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_enigma

The 23 enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

27. 'Cause I am.........

and always have been as far back as I can remember.