How did you choose your username?

Mojo · 10-05-2012, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

So ask Jansz or Urban or the lovely Vanilla to change it...

Ooh! Ooh! I knew this! Admittedly, at first glance, yes, I thought mojo punk, but when I took the time (what, a second? I can spare a second. Sometimes) to read it I saw it was quite cleverly referring to the Buckley song on "Grace".

I'll probably get Yac to change it some time. I just dont like changing usernames.

And I assure you that theres nothing clever about it

**Goofle** · 10-05-2012, 01:53 AM

Not really sure I remember how "Goofle" came about to be honest. I know the 11 is my favourite number, therefore I must have first used it on a site where numbers are required. Maybe "Google11" was taken, or was checking on urban dictionary for "Google", and miss spelt it, only to find out that I liked the explanation for "Goofle" quite a lot. Yeah, I think that's it.

Trollheart · 10-05-2012, 05:02 AM

Could you not have mentioned Pepe Kalle's name a bit more, FPK? You only used it eleven times here, twice in the same sentence at one point!

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Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle

I chose my usernames on these two masters of Congolese Music

Yes Franco and Pepe Kalle. I love congolese music so much because of Franco and Pepe Kalle.

How did really choose my username.

I am going to give another stor that led to me being FRANCO PEPE KALLE.

One of them was after getting into a major fight with some girls because they were mad at me because I was not playing enough good music for them. After that, I watched a video of Franco that I found myself laughing at so much. Franco had so much good humor.

Franco's very humerous behavoir made me smile too much and I laughed way too much. Franco's humerous behavoir drew me towards his music.

As for PEPE KALLE, it was this performance that I became addicted to PEPE KALLE.

This performance showed you that you only needed Pepe Kalle because he was the ONLY thing that people cared about. The rest are just accompanys for Pepe Kalle. Pepe Kalle was the man and he commanded the animations and he allows his female dancers to dance pretty good too. Also I heard Pepe Kalle's voice more than anyone else.

What I saw was Franco and Pepe Kalle knew how to be the masters and how they were able to command the stage and how they were the important folks. This was one of the many things that made me convinced that these two men are the masters of Congolese music. I find their music so influential to me.

That is one of the MANY factors that made Franco Pepe Kalle.

**Janszoon** · 10-05-2012, 05:36 AM

My username comes from a one man band I had going at the time I joined. The band was named after the famous Dutch mapmaker Willem Janszoon Blaeu who I had read about in the nonfiction book The Island of Lost Maps (a fantastic read by the way). I chose the name partly because I'm fascinated by maps, partly because I like the way the name looks, and partly because I thought it was hilarious to name my band "Johnson".

Trollheart · 10-05-2012, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

My username comes from a one man band I had going at the time I joined. The band was named after the famous Dutch mapmaker Willem Janszoon Blaeu who I had read about in the nonfiction book The Island of Lost Maps (a fantastic read by the way). I chose the name partly because I'm fascinated by maps, partly because I like the way the name looks, and partly because I thought it was hilarious to name my band "Johnson".

Excellent; that's another one I had wondered about.

Now, who's yer new avatar?

The Batlord · 10-05-2012, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

My username comes from a one man band I had going at the time I joined.

You mean like:

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Excellent; that's another one I had wondered about.

Now, who's yer new avatar?

I'm pretty sure that's a painting of Yanni.

Geekoid · 10-05-2012, 09:47 AM

Hey, Janszoon, I'm gonna have to check out The Island of Lost Maps. Does it actually have a lot to do with cartographers or explorers, or just the maps themselves as they relate to the characters? I actually love maps myself, so I recognized "Janszoon" right away when I first saw your username.

I actually chose my username because it's generally reflective of myself. I like the suffix -oid used as "like" or "resembling."

I find the word "geek" to be a very ambiguous term, since it's been used in various different ways over the years. A few definitions:

Geek
-a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual.
-An unfashionable or socially inept person
-A person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest
-eccentric: a person with an unusual or odd personality

As a kid, I was always considered an outsider freak because of my eccentricities and strange devotion to certain interests. You know, "eww, back off geek!" (if you don't recall, back in the 90s, everyone and their cat tried to avoid being thought of as a geek or a nerd). Pretty much everyone agreed that I was a person who was unfashionable, socially inept, eccentric and overly intellectual. Eventually people started to appreciate my geeky qualities, if only superficially.

So, when I joined this forum, I wanted to choose a name that described me well- indicate the kinds of geekoid posts I'd contribute. I think it does a pretty good job.

**Janszoon** · 10-05-2012, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Excellent; that's another one I had wondered about.

Now, who's yer new avatar?

Yanni.

Burning Down · 10-05-2012, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Yanni.

You have a strange obsession with Yanni, sir.

The Batlord · 10-05-2012, 10:05 AM

I've noticed that at least the last three of Janszoon's avatars have been ludicrous pictures of "people" with serious faces. A theme?

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Geekoid Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 171	Hey, Janszoon, I'm gonna have to check out The Island of Lost Maps. Does it actually have a lot to do with cartographers or explorers, or just the maps themselves as they relate to the characters? I actually love maps myself, so I recognized "Janszoon" right away when I first saw your username. I actually chose my username because it's generally reflective of myself. I like the suffix -oid used as "like" or "resembling." I find the word "geek" to be a very ambiguous term, since it's been used in various different ways over the years. A few definitions: Geek -a peculiar or otherwise dislikable person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual. -An unfashionable or socially inept person -A person with an eccentric devotion to a particular interest -eccentric: a person with an unusual or odd personality As a kid, I was always considered an outsider freak because of my eccentricities and strange devotion to certain interests. You know, "eww, back off geek!" (if you don't recall, back in the 90s, everyone and their cat tried to avoid being thought of as a geek or a nerd). Pretty much everyone agreed that I was a person who was unfashionable, socially inept, eccentric and overly intellectual. Eventually people started to appreciate my geeky qualities, if only superficially. So, when I joined this forum, I wanted to choose a name that described me well- indicate the kinds of geekoid posts I'd contribute. I think it does a pretty good job.