A rose by any other name
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skylarkingHow did you pick your username?
I have decided that my username is the crappest username I could have had. Not as crap as if I'd called myself Mrs_Monaghan or I_luv_Dommie or Eleanor_and_Dom_4EVA perhaps, but crap none the less.
I'm called Eleanor and I was born in 1976! Wow! What a piece of genius that was :)
So I'm trying to think of another one, but it's tricky. The username by dad uses online is Tom Fairfax because that's his favourite historical figure. I don't have a favourite historical figure. I don't think I could name you a historical figure. Except Eleanor of Aquitaine who was the mother of King Richard the Lion Heart and Prince John, which is where my name comes from, but that just leads you right back to the 'my name is Eleanor' scenario.
I need a moment of inspiration, but I haven't had one yet, so I thought I could pinch other people's ideas - so, how did you come up with your username.
My ex-step mum Bobbie was involved in a group that used to like to pretend they were a Native American tribe (don't ask) .
My dad thinks part of the reason they divorced was that he couldn't help taking the Mickey. Apparently, they came up with their 'Indian' name by combining a colour, a verb and an animal. So my dad came up with Puce Farting Slug.
Maybe my username should be Orange Floundering Platypus
Or Turquoise Giggling Squid
Maroon Gargling Elk
Sapphire Poking Badger. I quite like that one :)
In my creative writing class tonight we were split into pairs and given a headline and the names of two people and asked to create some sort of story around those three things. Me and the girl I was with got Volcano Doom as our headline and Adolf Hitler and Marilyn Monroe as our character.
We decided our story would be the Adolf Hitler and Marilyn weren't really dead. They had both faked their deaths.
They had been lovers and Marylyn had been sent to Hollywood to infiltrate the powerful groups in society, but her relationship with President Kennedy had made the CIA too suspicious so she had to fake her own death to avoid them and has been working as a Marylyn Monroe tribute act ever since.
One day she receives a note from her lover (Adolf Hitler that is) who's been hiding in a mountain in Canada, to say his plan is almost complete and asking her to come to him.
His plan is that he's developed a machine that will set off all the volcano's in the world simultaneously, destroying life as we know it on the planet while Adolf and his cronies hide out in the bunkers they've constructed in the moutons.
We hadn't gotten any further than that, it took a long time to hone so we hadn't decided on an ending, and our homework is to write the story.
Oh. Fuck.
So between now and next Monday I have to write the story of Adolf Hitler and Marylyn Monroe's plan to destroy the world.
Should be interesting. Or completely stupid. One of the two, maybe both.
I have decided that my username is the crappest username I could have had. Not as crap as if I'd called myself Mrs_Monaghan or I_luv_Dommie or Eleanor_and_Dom_4EVA perhaps, but crap none the less.
I'm called Eleanor and I was born in 1976! Wow! What a piece of genius that was :)
So I'm trying to think of another one, but it's tricky. The username by dad uses online is Tom Fairfax because that's his favourite historical figure. I don't have a favourite historical figure. I don't think I could name you a historical figure. Except Eleanor of Aquitaine who was the mother of King Richard the Lion Heart and Prince John, which is where my name comes from, but that just leads you right back to the 'my name is Eleanor' scenario.
I need a moment of inspiration, but I haven't had one yet, so I thought I could pinch other people's ideas - so, how did you come up with your username.
My ex-step mum Bobbie was involved in a group that used to like to pretend they were a Native American tribe (don't ask) .
My dad thinks part of the reason they divorced was that he couldn't help taking the Mickey. Apparently, they came up with their 'Indian' name by combining a colour, a verb and an animal. So my dad came up with Puce Farting Slug.
Maybe my username should be Orange Floundering Platypus
Or Turquoise Giggling Squid
Maroon Gargling Elk
Sapphire Poking Badger. I quite like that one :)
In my creative writing class tonight we were split into pairs and given a headline and the names of two people and asked to create some sort of story around those three things. Me and the girl I was with got Volcano Doom as our headline and Adolf Hitler and Marilyn Monroe as our character.
We decided our story would be the Adolf Hitler and Marilyn weren't really dead. They had both faked their deaths.
They had been lovers and Marylyn had been sent to Hollywood to infiltrate the powerful groups in society, but her relationship with President Kennedy had made the CIA too suspicious so she had to fake her own death to avoid them and has been working as a Marylyn Monroe tribute act ever since.
One day she receives a note from her lover (Adolf Hitler that is) who's been hiding in a mountain in Canada, to say his plan is almost complete and asking her to come to him.
His plan is that he's developed a machine that will set off all the volcano's in the world simultaneously, destroying life as we know it on the planet while Adolf and his cronies hide out in the bunkers they've constructed in the moutons.
We hadn't gotten any further than that, it took a long time to hone so we hadn't decided on an ending, and our homework is to write the story.
Oh. Fuck.
So between now and next Monday I have to write the story of Adolf Hitler and Marylyn Monroe's plan to destroy the world.
Should be interesting. Or completely stupid. One of the two, maybe both.
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Date: 2004-10-05 04:02 pm (UTC)My favourite U2 song is Mysterious Ways (and I'm a bellydancer, so it's kind of appropriate, as that's the song they had the bellydancer accompany on their Zoo tour).
Name is Alison, Ali for short.
(Sneaking in a pun on alleyways as well there).
MysteriousAliWays. Shortened for LJ, as it wouldn't all fit into the 15-character limit.