How'd you come up with your DU username?

[Malebolgia]

I've been interested in this since I've been here. I've seen a lot of usernames and I have no idea what they mean, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

My username is named after the vampire Kraven from the movie Underworld.

Your turn. :D

[BoX o BooX]

1. My initials are BX

And I am a bookseller. So go figure.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. I'm Kathy and I (thank God) live in Cambridge, MA

I have never been so happy to be a Masshole! :D

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Tom Joad from Grapes of Wrath and Yossarian from Catch-22

I guess it's pretty obvious. :toast:

[Malebolgia]

6. Actually...

the middle name threw me off.

That's probably because I've never read Catch-22. :shrug:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

10. That's one you'd thank yourself for if you recified the miss.

:toast:

[RevolutionaryActs]

31. Never read Grapes of Wrath.. but I ADORE Catch-22! Yossarian is the man!

:7

[MADem]

4. I am a very angry Massachusetts Democrat n/t

[autorank]

5. autorank=famous shrink Otto Rank; use 'auto' for common touch

:tinfoilhat:

[yellowdogintexas]

7. just wanted something to show that although I am in Texas, I

am still a yellow dog Democrat.

it was either that or cavewoman

[Malebolgia]

8. What does "yellow dog Democrat" mean?

:shrug:

[BoX o BooX]

11. A yellow dog Democrat

Would sooner vote for a yellow dog running as a Democrat than for any other candidate.

[Malebolgia]

14. Ahhh.

Ok.

So then I'm a yellow dog Dem. :)

[yellowdogintexas]

18. You would vote for a yellow dog before you would vote for a

Republican!

Seriously.

Yellow dogs being the most common kind of mongrel

OLD expression. I even have a yellow dog Democrat hat

[Malebolgia]

21. Consider me a yellow-dog Dem then.

I've never voted for anyone other than a Democrat. :D

[bufffbison]

9. football

buffbison was given to me by my teammates in football....... cause i was the shortest guy on the team 5'3", but built like a bison and slammed opponents down to the ground like a buffbison..............ha so there ya go....... (yeah, im buff)

[qnr]

12. It's an OPSIG

Long story that I've told already, I'll not bore people again :)

QNR - I am approaching my point of no return

If you want to see what an OPSIG is, and some others:

http://groups.msn.com/ctoseadogs/34q34signals.msnw

[flamingyouth]

13. 1923 silent film starring Colleen Moore

[JimmyJazz]

75. I've been meaning to tell you this:

Joe Strummer played a few gigs with a band called Flaming Youth (later to be called The Vultures) under the moniker of Woody Mellor (he named himself that in honor of his hero, Woody Guthrie).

[flamingyouth]

86. Wow, I did not know this

Very cool bit of trivia. Thanks!:hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

88. And Phil Collins started off in a band called "Flaming Youth"

though not, I suspect, the same band. It would be a serious dent in Strummer's credibility if it was.

http://www.philcollins.co.uk/biog1.htm

[JimmyJazz]

90. No - it was not the same band!

Whew! For the record - behold Woody Mellor:

[WindRavenX]

15. I like ravens, and I'm a bag of wind

and X chromosomes ROCK! ;)

[kdmorris]

16. Completely un-original

I totally freeze every time I have to try to come up with a new user name while registering, so...

I just used my real initials and last name.

[Technowitch]

17. This is a long-standing nickname of mine

[warrens]

19. Warren Spahn was the coolest player ever

My childhood idol and still my idol.

[Seabiscuit]

23. Wasn't he the one with the unhittable knuckleball?

[warrens]

34. Screwball. Niekro was the knuckleball...

Spahn, who died this year, was a WWII hero, wounded in the Battle of the Bulge, then kept in the army an extra year because he got promoted. He got out in 46, and became the greatest left handed pitcher ever, even though the wound took away his fastball. Prior to that, he was Sandy Koufax fast. After, he threw at 90 MPH tops, but he got TRICKY.

He was the greatest pitcher ever and I adored him. When I was a child, he picked me up and took me on the field at an all-star game, and introduced me to Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays and Eddie Matthews. Um, that was a good day in a 6 year old's life.

[Berserker]

33. Berserker

Frenzied Norse warrior: a member of a group of Norse warriors who fought with wild unrestrained aggression.

Viking blood courses through my veins I will never give up the fight to take my country back.

The Challenge of Thor
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am the God Thor,
I am the War God, I am the Thunderer!
Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress,
Reign I forever! Here amid icebergs rule I the nations;

This is my hammer, Miölner the mighty;
Giants and sorcerers Cannot withstand it!
These are the gauntlets Wherewith I wield it,
And hurl it afar off;

This is my girdle; Whenever I brace it,
Strength is redoubled! The light thou beholdest.
Stream through the heavens, in flashes of crimson,
Is but my red beard Blown by the night-wind,
Affrighting the nations!

Jove is my brother; Mine eyes are the lightning;
The wheels of my chariot Roll in the thunder,
The blows of my hammer Ring in the earthquake!

Force rules the world still, Has ruled it, shall rule it;
Meekness is weakness, Strength is triumphant,
Over the whole earth Still is it Thor's-Day!

Thou art a God too, O Galilean!
And thus singled-handed Unto the combat,
Gauntlet or Gospel, Here I defy thee!

Skol Vikings

[Seabiscuit]

20. I came up with it while posting on the Dean blog in the summer of 2003

after seeing the movie, "Seabiscuit". The way they challenged "War Admiral" reminded me of Dean's "Sleepless Summer Tour", during which he stopped in Texas and played his first anti-Bush ad right in Bush's back yard.

I saw a lot of parallels between Seabiscuit and Dean so I began posting there in August, 2003 as "Seabiscuit for Dean".

By the time I began posting here last year Dean had already dropped out of the primaries race, but I still like him better than Kerry or the others, so I've kept the "Seabiscuit" part while posting on DU.

[auntAgonist]

22. I'm a 'bit' of an antagonist ... :)

[proud patriot]

24. Abbie Hoffman

and the Movie "Rude Awakening"

the presidency had just been stolen
the Constitution had been undermined .

proud patriot seemed a fitting name .

[Rowdyboy]

25. A take-off on a really funny line from Designing Women....

Jeanne Smart "We run and we run and we don't fall down, 'cause we're the rowdygirls!"

[sans qualia]

26. I'm a zombie

I break functionalism. :D

[Rjnerd]

27. Old MIT in joke

If you wanted to refer to a generic clueful person, you used the name Random J. Nerd (or in some cases J. Random Nerd). When I founded my Junkyard Wars team (The NERDS), I adopted the nickname, for when I was speaking for the team on public discussion groups. After a couple of years of use, its become one of my standard "not really me" names. Its one I use when I am not trying to be really anonymous.

(when I want to hide further, things like news site registrations, I use the default d00d name [e-mail] They want an address, they get 545 Technology Sq, Cambridge, the old home of the MIT AI lab, where I first made contact with the internet as a high school student in 1972 - we called it the Arpanet back then, and tried hard to keep the "fun" parts of it a secret, lest Proxmire award the program a golden fleece...)

[RogueTrooper]

81. You were on scrapheap challenge as well?

I remember watching you on the telly :D

[Rjnerd]

101. In the US

Both shows were shown under the "Junkyard Wars" name. (they even carefully blurred out the big "Scrapheap Challenge" banners in the UK shows)

[Mabus]

28. On another forum

long, long ago in another dimension (where votes were counted and the Supreme Court had advocates of states' rights) there was an abortion debate that was going on. Along with some other posters I was called an antichrist. I kind of liked the idea of the name, but wanted something a little different.

I spent a couple of days looking at possible names but didn't really find a name I liked or could remember to spell. Then I remembered my parent's copy of the "Prophecies of Nostradamus" that I had upstairs. I remembered that he identified several antichrists. The third wasn't known at the time and the name could be gender neutral so I took it as my own. Most people don't know that Mabus is the third anti-christ so I don't have to explain it a lot.

[DBoon]

29. My favorite punk band from the 1980s

from San Pedro, CA, where I am from

[metisnation]

30. metisnation

search about the Metis halfbreed native American. I am a mix of european Ojibwe and Cree. The thing that people must understand about the indian vote is that we are seperate nations at one time or another were at war with each other. My tribe drove the Sioux out of the Northern parts of what we all know as the "United States of America".

:dem:

[Malebolgia]

32. Ojibwe?

I did a report on the Ojibwe native Americans way back when.

I'm a Norweigan/German/Chippewa mix. :hi:

Are you from Minnesota or its surrounding states?

[Kali]

37. Nice to "meet" someone claiming Native ancestry and

admitting warfare. Most play the peaceful environmentalist BS. Unfortunatly it seems to be a HUMAN thang, not just a EA problem, though we sure are good at it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

35. Mines from the quote...

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell :7

[notadmblnd]

36. I have a sister and she is blond

she is very superficial, pretentious, shallow and materialistic. My way of slamming her pretty little face into the wall of reality is to tell her that she has forgotten where she came from. Anyhooo, we were talking one day and as I began to tune her out, it occured to me that I was glad I was "not a dumb blond". Viola... a screen name was born.

[Malebolgia]

38. Well, I'm glad you're not a dumb blonde.

:)

I really can't stand them!

[GreatAuntK]

43. I try to be a great aunt.

I never had kids of my own, and I love my sister's grand-daughters. To my family, I'm also an "Auntagonist," as our friend above described herself. I just keep on telling them what happened each day even if they don't want to know. Funny, when I went to school in the 60's, I was taught that it was important to be a good citizen and keep up on current events. Now, many people seem to think their un-curiosity, not even wanting to know or talk about it, is a way of not being divisive, that it's a virtue.

I enjoyed reading about all of your names, but I have to say that Yossarian is one of my all-time favorite characters!

[frictionlessO]

39. Im new, but hopefully you'll see my name often. I wanted

several different meanings on mine when I thought it up 3 years ago. First it is sort of a way to say a touch free orgasm. Second the "o" can be seen as zero, as in nothing, nothing causeing friction (nirvana, utopia blah blah blah). In turn you can change the context again and say that "nothing causes friction" with the nothing being said as if it were something (i.e. "rubbing causes friction"), which is a favorite past time of many friends of mine... er, changing contexts not rub induced friction, though that may well be.

When I think of frictionless O, I envision some freaky oval shaped translucent, gelatinous, rainshower of being and not being at the same time...

yeah I was high when I thought it up, and Im high now. go figure..

[haydukelives]

40. When I first started

lurking a few month ago I couldn't think of anything. I'm an old man (50) that just started working on my first college degree (long story)so goingtoschool was born and I never liked it. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a new one, and it just hit me. Hayduke is a character in an Abby novel "The monkey wrench gang". I love the desert southwest and have spent much time there, so it was a natural.


HAYDUKE LIVES!

[GreatAuntK]

45. I never forgot that book!

I read it in the 70's. Didn't Hayduke go around fighting the destruction of the BLM in the desert, blowing up heavy equipment?

I spent 8 years in Utah, many extraordinary backpacking trips around the Escalante River, Calf Creek Falls, Moab, Lake Powell...

[haydukelives]

89. Yea , thats the guy

I don't agree with all he stands for, but I love Lake Powell, go there often. The red rock country has some of the most drop dead beautiful places on earth.

[Kire]

57. my name spelled backwards

later I found out that it means Kerry in Gaellic

it's also a language in Polynesia or somewhere, only 1000 people can speak it

[Forkboy]

78. Great books!

Glad I read them before the FBI was watching to see who checks them out from libraries :)

[LoZoccolo]

41. It means "the hoof" in Italian.

Hoof being a reference to the kick of the Democratic Party unofficial mascot.

[Turd Ferguson]

42. Old Satuday night live skit

Norm McDonald jeopardy character

[FuzzySlippers]

44. My feet are chronically freezing.

Therefore, my fuzzy slippers are the most important things in my life. I wanted to honor them in some way.

[Metatron]

46. From my driver's license

B-)

[ogradda]

53. me too!

ha that's great! :)

[ThoughtCriminal]

47. Some book I read

[Philostopher]

48. It's from a Frank Zappa song.

I started into an actual explanation, but then figured anybody who was a Zappa fan would get it, and anybody who wasn't ... wouldn't. It's from a fairly obscure Zappa schtick anyway, and upon Googling wasn't overmuch used by fascists.

That's a pretty good qualification, actually -- obscure Zappa reference that isn't inappropriate even if somebody doesn't know Zappa, and not widely used by brownshirts. It'll do.

[PartyPooper]

49. Because I am so social...I'm the 'life of the party'

didn't you know?

:eyes:

[New Earth]

51. i just used my real name

because the name i use on all other boards wouldn't fit, which is 'waking believing running', from the chorus of "Running" by 311, ,my favorite band.

[Piperay]

68. Another

Faye here, that's my real name too! :hi:

[Nag Champa]

50. I burn it every evening...

Its an incense.

My other choice was Mary Juana...but I am a man.

[azoth]

52. yum...one of my favorite olfactory experiences.

[rainbow4321]

54. CB handle from when I was little...

used to talk to my father on his car CB back in the late 70's as he drove back home from work each night..my handle was Rainbow.

[Habibi]

80. You didn't use to live in Syracuse, didja?

[rainbow4321]

95. Nope. In NJ n/t

[Cadence]

55. Because I like the way

Maya Angelou speaks when she's reciting a poem. She has a cadence to her speech that mesmerizes me and as I struggle to find my voice, I look to her as an example for what it's possible to achieve within oneself.

ca·dence ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kdns)
n. pl. ca·denc·es
1. Balanced, rhythmic flow, as of poetry or oratory.

[Malebolgia]

56. .

:kick:

[Spera]

58. my name (sort of)

... really the Latin plural form, since "Hope" was taken.

[fleabert]

59. fleabert

My dogs name is Flea, and she has a million nicknames, this is one of them.



I woke her up one night to take this picture, she is growling at me, for which I do not blame her! (It was probably 3am)

[dethl]

60. I came up with mine years ago

I looked through a walkthrough for a game "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening" and saw the final boss' name was Dethl. I liked that name and have used it since.

[Malebolgia]

61. Ah. That game was for Gameboy.

I have it. :)

Good game. :thumbsup:

[dethl]

62. Yup

On Edit: I have both the original and the DX (color) versions of the game and have beaten them thouroughly. I still like it how the boss my name is from can be defeated in 1 hit of a boomerang :P

:)

[Mojambo]

63. Boho Mojambo has always been my preferred internet alias

The Mojambo part came from an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer refers to Newman as Mojambo. I took to calling people Mojambo and somehow it stuck as my moniker.

[bloodyjack]

64. Serge Gainsbourg song

"Bloody Jack"

Le coeur de bloody Jack
Ne bat qu'un coup sur quatre
Mais sous ses baisers doux
Le tien bat comme un fou

Le coeur de bloody Jack
Ne bat qu'un coup sur quatre
Mais sous ses baisers doux
Le mien bat comme un fou

Dans le noir, je les écoute battre
Je compare nos deux battements
Et tandis que ton coeur en a quatre
Bloody jack en a un seulement

Coeur contre coeur, le coeur bat plus vite
Comme sous l'emprise de la peur
Et tandis qu'en toi le tien s'agite
C'est à peine si j'entends mon coeur

À côté du mien ton coeur me semble
Avoir plus d'angoisse et de ferveur
Les entendrai-je un jour battre ensemble
Bloody jack a-t-il vraiment un coeur

[jdots]

65. wanted to be ignored at all sites

the j stands for jelly roll the dots stands for stippling the wild masonite

[CornField]

66. Still debating on changing it before Monday. LOL!

I wanted something I hadn't used elsewhere and something rather non-descript. I looked out the window and saw the Iowa cornfields. :)

[Mist]

67. based on a childhood nickname

not very cool but it'll do.

[radfringe]

69. back in 2000 after the (s)election

bush* refered to people who were upset as members of the "radical Fringe"

so, I guess he was talking about me...

RAD - for Radical
Fringe - for Fringe

[Lady Effingbroke]

70. I'm a lady. I'm effing broke.

.

[laheina]

74. And yet...

it sounds so properly english. :) It's cute!

[malmapus]

71. Just came up with it when I played RPG games

Carried it over to computer games always play a character named Malmapus, I dunno why just happened like that

[SarahB]

72. I wanted a variation of my name.

My name is Sarah and my dad used to call me SarahBelle when I was little, so viola- SarahBelle.

[laheina]

73. Laheina

La heina is a spanish slang word for woman, as used in Sublime's song "Santeria."

[kitchen girl]

76. I love to cook...

so I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. And "Kitchen Girl" is one of my favorite fiddle tunes. I've been playing it a lot lately. It's not the greatest username, but I'm stuck with it. :shrug:

[Orsino]

77. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Tried out for Orsino in college, but because I'd written songs for the show, the director gave me Feste. I strongly identify with the Count/Duke, however, in having gotten love so very, very right the second time around.

[Forkboy]

79. Forkboy is a song from the band Lard

which is Jello Biafra with Ministry,two of my favorites.

[Amaya]

82. Lets see...

My name is actually Amye and I wanted an actual name for my user-name. I thought Amye was too plain. And at the time there were a few Amy's on here, anyway, I wanted to stand out.. at little. Bottom line is that I thought Amaya was a nice name and it kinda looked like my name.
Kinda dumb, oh well.

[Dora]

83. Dora was one of two namesakes

My dad named me after my aunt Dora and her sister. So, my true name is a hybrid of the two.

[anonymousdemocrat]

84. It's kind of simple

Figure it out!

:D

[Fear Itself]

85. From FDR's 1st Inaugural speech

President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends: This is a day of national consecration, and I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our nation impels.

This is pre-eminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper.
**************
So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear. . .is fear itself. . . nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
***************
In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that support to leadership in these critical days. In such a spirit on my part and on yours we face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels: taxes have risen, our ability to pay has fallen, government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income, the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade, the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side, farmers find no markets for their produce, the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone.

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.

Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our forefathers conquered because they believed and were not afraid, we have still much to be thankful for. Nature still offers her bounty and human efforts have multiplied it. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.

Primarily, this is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted their failures and abdicated. Practices of the unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion, rejected by the hearts and minds of men.

True, they have tried, but their efforts have been cast in the pattern of an outworn tradition. Faced by failure of credit, they have proposed only the lending of more money.

Stripped of the lure of profit by which to induce our people to follow their false leadership, they have resorted to exhortations, pleading tearfully for restored conditions. They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.

They have no vision, and when there is no vision the people perish.

The money changers have fled their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money, it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow-men.

Recognition of the falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be values only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit, and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in business which too often has given to a sacred trust the likeness of callous and selfish wrongdoing.

Small wonder that confidence languishes, for it thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This nation asks for action, and action now.

Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.

It can be accompanied in part by direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our national resources.

Hand in hand with this, we must frankly recognize the over-balance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land.

The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities.

It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss, through foreclosure, of our small homes and our farms.

It can be helped by insistence that the Federal, State, and local governments act forthwith on the demand that their cost be drastically reduced.

It can be helped by the unifying of relief activities which today are often scattered, uneconomical and unequal. It can be helped by national planning for and supervision of all forms of transportation and of communications and other utilities which have a definitely public character.

There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act, and act quickly.

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there must be a strict supervision of all banking and credits and investments; there must be an end to speculation with other people's money, and there must be provision for an adequate but sound currency.

These are the lines of attack. I shall presently urge upon a new Congress in special session detailed measures for their fulfillment, and I shall seek the immediate assistance of the several States.

Through this program of action we address ourselves to putting our own national house in order and making income balance outgo.

Our international trade relations, though vastly important, are, to point in time and necessity, secondary to the establishment of a sound national economy.

I favor as a practical policy the putting of first things first. I shall spare no effort to restore world trade by international economic readjustment, but the emergency at home cannot wait on that accomplishment.

The basic thought that guides these specific means of national recovery is not narrowly nationalistic.

It is the insistence, as a first consideration, upon the interdependence of the various elements in and parts of the United States. . . a recognition of the old and permanently important manifestation of the American spirit of the pioneer.

It is the way to recovery. It is the immediate way. It is the strongest assurance that the recovery will endure.

In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor. . .the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others. . .the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors.

If I read the temper of our people correctly, we now realize, as we have never realized before, our interdependence on each other: that we cannot merely take, but we must give as well, that if we are to go forward we must move as a trained and loyal army willing to sacrifice for the good of Bøê Coêine, becaus =Dêithout such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.

We are, I know, ready and willing to submit our lives and property to such discipline because it makes possibly a leadership which aims at a larger good.

This I propose to offer, pledging that the larger purposes will hind upon us all as a sacred obligation with a unity of duty hitherto evoked only in time of armed strife.

With this pledge taken, I assume unhesitatingly the leadership of this great army of our people, dedicated to a disciplined attack upon our common problems.

Action in this image and to this end is feasible under the form of government which we have inherited from our ancestors.

Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

That is why our constitutional system has proved itself the most superbly enduring political mechanism the modern world has produced. It has met every stress of vast expansion of territory, of foreign wars, of bitter internal strife, of world relations.

It is to be hoped that the normal balance of executive and legislative authority may be wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But it may be that an unprecedented demand and need for undelayed action may call for temporary departure from that normal balance of public procedure.

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.

But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me.

I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis. . .broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.

For the trust reposed in me I will return the courage and the devotion that befit the time. I can do no less.

We face the arduous days that lie before us in the warm courage of national unity, with the clear consciousness of seeking old and precious moral values, with the clean satisfaction that comes from the stern performance of duty by old and young alike.

We aim at the assurance of a rounded and permanent national life.

We do not distrust the future of essential democracy. The people of the United States have not failed. In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action.

They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I will take it.

In this dedication of a nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us! May He guide me in the days to come!

[CBGLuthier]

87. I think mine is pretty obvious

:-)

[Der Blaue Engel]

91. Marlene Dietrich movie (The Blue Angel)

Love Marlene, and loved her role in this von Sternberg film as "Lola Lola," in which she sang the famous "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" ("Falling in Love Again") wearing a top hat (and I have a thing about top hats).

Plus, my last name is Blue, and I wanted to use some variant of Blue, being a democrat and all. :)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020697/

[RevCheesehead]

92. I think mine is obvious.

Yes, I am a pastor, and yes, a Packers fan in Wisconsin.

[UncleSepp]

93. My name is Jen and I'm an aunt

to a wonderful 18-year-old young man. Also, I got to be Aunt Jen to all the kids growing up with him on the block, who are now a fine bunch of young men and women. Of all the things in life, my nieces and nephews make me the most proud :-)

[Sabriel]

94. Sabriel, the Abhorsen

Sabriel is a character in Garth Nix's trilogy who banishes the Dead. She sort of cleans up all the unsavory beings wandering around.

[TahitiNut]

96. What DU username?

:smoke:

[Dan-W]

97. It's been my license plate for 30 years. n/t

[The Straight Story]

98. The David Lynch Disney movie, with a dual meaning

I try to give the straight story as best I can on things. I was looking around trying to figure out a screen name after lurking here for 2 years. I had the dvd handy and thought 'wow, one of my favorite movies and it describes what I want to do'.

My avatar is also from the movie.

[no name no slogan]

99. After a lot of drinking and a lot of crack-smokin'

no, but seriously, I remember hearing it in a techno song lyric in the late 80s/early 90s when I was in college. However, I'm not overly fond of it, so I'm thinking about changing it: probably to Anus Presley or Pee-Pee The Sailor (any Butthole Surver fans left out there?)

[MrScorpio]

100. Because "The Babe Master" seemed a little over the top

So i decided to take the suave approach