Postby Bobtheduck » Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:17 am
Long-ish story.
There are 2 interwoven threads here.
1. My friend's Biological father's name Is (was?) Robert, but they called him Bob. My friend named one character on every RPG Bob. It's a habit I picked up. Eventually, Bob became my default name when I wanted a hypothetical man (the girl's name would be Mary, and the third name would be Frank, though that came later)
2. My dad is an old fashioned guy. Helps that he's 78 (now). IN any case, when I was a teenager, I was at the doctor's office one day, and let the door shut in some old lady's face. My dad was FURIOUS. I'm a man, and should be opening the door for my elders and such... It has such a strong impact on me, I opened the door for nearly EVERYONE for the next almost 10 years. One of those years, I was in a summer program, and I was mad at everyone. I opened the door for someone, still angry, and they said thank you. I couldn't let it go without letting them know I wasn't doing it for nice reasons, but because I was programmed. I said "That's like saying thank you to a duck for quacking." She said "Thank you, duck, for quacking." Later on, a girl who later became my girlfriend (for about 3 months) said thank you to me when I held the door open for her and her campers (she was a counselor, I was program team) and I said "Hi. My name's Bob. I'm a duck." She said "So you're no longer Luke the man, but you're Bob the duck?" It kind of stuck. She called me Bob from then on.
I've gone through various names online, but I've always hated number extensions. Funny enough, I do have an email address with numbers, but it's just the year I made the name. Before that, I had gone by:
Mamochan - Because I was a huge Sailormoon fan who didn't understand the rules about name extensions
Fyrebrand - because I played a dragon on a text game
Pikachu - because... I was a dork
Leota (yeah, I sort of crossplayed on a text game, heh... Think this is called Quincying?) - because I grew up listening to Teddy Ruxpin. Another DIKU MUD character.
Yuffie (ditto) - Actually, I think this character was shared with a friend, and he mostly played her, not me.
Entrex B - after a Character I had made, Entrex Brocti
Einon - From Dragonheart. I still remember my password: whatoldcode heh... That was before I understood proper password security. I'd never make such a simple password now. Funny enough, I NEVER played evil alignment, even though Einon was the villain.
likebutteronrye (no clue what that was about...)
arigatou gozaimasu - because I didn't want a common name, and something Japanse seemed good. This was before the term Weeaboo existed, but I was in love with a Japan that didn't exist back then, though. I know much better about the real Japan, now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evcNPfZlrZs Watch this movie なう。 It's legal, free... And it's more than its premise. It's not saying Fast Food is good food. Just watch it.
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