{"id":3239,"date":"2005-04-02T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/02\/its-all-in-the-name\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T19:04:38","slug":"its-all-in-the-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/04\/02\/its-all-in-the-name\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all in the name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8433,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/groups\\\/flickr-irc&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260202205232\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/groups\\\/flickr-irc\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 10:11:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 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MUD person!<br \/>\n             <strong>cygnoir<\/strong> points points.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: not quite&#8230;<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: much as it shames me to say this &#8212; too many years in <a href=\"http:\/\/chat.yahoo.com\/\" title=\"Yahoo! Chat\">Yahoo! Crack<\/a><br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: when my work &#8216;puter wouldn&#8217;t let me install an IRC client<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: aaaah.<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: i used to hang out in the trivia rooms.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: I was in the Alaska rooms for <em>years<\/em><br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: as &#8216;HoneyIsBeeBarf&#8217; and also &#8216;cygnoir&#8217; and &#8216;halsted&#8217; too.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: I had quite a few names<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: started with djwudi<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: most of the others&#8230;well, things just went downhill<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: though I met my g\/f because I was using the name &#8216;pyropedonecrobestiality&#8217;<br \/>\n             <strong>cygnoir<\/strong> hehs.<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: whoa.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: she figured anyone with a name like that had to have some actual intelligence behind it<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: safe bet.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: it&#8217;s the short version of something <a href=\"http:\/\/roycebits.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"RoyceBits\">a friend of mine<\/a> came up with<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: so you have sex with dead, aflame, underaged animals.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: he and his g\/f at the time were in an abnormal psych class<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: er not you.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: and one boring day, they strung together every term they could think of, then had to figure out what it meant<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: but the theoretical you.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: I don&#8217;t remember the entire actual word, but it ended up being the fear of being forced to pretend to have sex with an underaged, flaming, dead animal in a small, crowded wading pool at 14,000 feet.<br \/>\n             <strong>cygnoir<\/strong> laughs.<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: then claustro and agora and hydro have to be in there.<br \/>\n    <strong>cygnoir<\/strong>: and acro<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: found it<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: Pseudocoitoxenohematomysonecropyrobestio-acroclaustro-ochlohydrophobia<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: The fear of being forced to pretend to have sex with the unfamiliar bloody infected corpse of a flaming animal at 15,000 feet in a small crowded wading pool.<br \/>\n     <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bringo\/\" title=\"Flickr: Photos from bringo\">bringo<\/a><\/strong>: oi veh<br \/>\n  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianb\/\" title=\"Flickr: Photos from julian~\">julian_the<\/a><\/strong>: &#8230;<br \/>\n             <strong>djwudi<\/strong> laughs<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: and <em>there&#8217;s<\/em> a conversation killer!<br \/>\n  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/cyberspace\/\" title=\"Flickr: Photos from wirehead\">wirehead_<\/a><\/strong>: My my.<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: and that&#8217;s responsible for getting me my girlfriend<br \/>\n     <strong>djwudi<\/strong>: i&#8217;m not quite sure what that says about us\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever it says about us, I&#8217;m glad it caught her eye. :)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a>Doctorin&#8217; 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