Acevedos?

mine is just the name of one of my alter-ego.

1337 speak for the powner

Haha, Dingleberry I just burst out laughing.

Mine dates back to grade 4 when I first really started playing around with the internet. My name is Chris Pan, and I've had an enormous number of nicknames, many of them plays off ChrisP (crispy) or off my last name. When I was in grade 4, those rice chips by Quaker had just come out, Crispy Minis, and people started calling me that, especially since I was one of the shorter kids. Hence ChrisPMinis. It's always been unique and I've never had to worry about having to use something else as a user when I sign up for something. It's caused much grief for people and it's funny to see someone try to spell it carelessly, especially without understanding the origin.

Tolkien is ok... but his descriptions were really too long for me. I never had the patience for such things, and the whole LOTR series I found to be incredibly dry on paper, especially given it's subject matter.

Chrisp, that is blasphemy! I want another mod to ban your butt for calling Tolkien dry! Next thing you say is Fleming's spending two pages covering Bond's breakfast in detail was too much for you as well. Details are what draw you into a world in it's entirety. To gloss over the details is to write comic book fluff.

I admire Alexander Hamilton, the visionary who created the system that runs the greatest nation in Earth's history, he is among many in a long line of brilliant Scotsman.

Haha, well I normally rely on a healthy imagination to immerse myself into another world, and detail often has the effect of constraining my vision, much in the same way that illustrations in comic books do... or when say, the movie adaptation completely changes the mental image you had for Severus Snape. I don't even think in that much detail in my normal life, doing so is like one of the symptoms of a psychopath.

A mythological Greek Warrior. though yes i spelled it wrong, on purpose. maybe lame, but i spell it Akilies, to incorporate kill into it.

I really like all the detail Tolkien puts in his books but that's just me.
Now Orson Card on the other hand has a really good way laying out all of the pieces and then helping you put them back together.

Btw 100th post ;)

@Chrisp - at least your name isn't Chris Peacock, like an old school friend of mine!

The stock character in the Commedia dell' Arte (Italian Medieval Vaudeville, for those needing this illumination) who chases young girls but because he is an elderly (about 60-ish) man in red pyjamas with a goatee and rather excentric habits, gets rejected all the time. Otherwise cunning, suspicious but easily fooled! That's Pantalone! Those who play with/against me: be forwarned!
Ciao, de Pantalone!

With more than 16,500 users signed up, this thread could go on for awhile. :)

Go Chrisp! I think the details should support the plot, and not be there for detail's sake like Tolkien does. I must admit that without the singing in LOTR it would have been bearable to read: e.g. when Boromir was killed the sentiment addressed in the film would have been sufficient. I always skipped those parts because they didn't advance the plot in any meaningful way. The films keep you tense, the novel lets that drain away.

LOTR: Liked the books ... never read a single poem/song.

OK, I will admit I tend to gloss over the poetry/songs every time I reread the Professor's trilogy... although I do go back and read them for reference when playing MePBM and I get a riddle that isn't in the known riddle references.

Does anybody get mental pictures of the other people on this site? I gues I think Chrispminis as Wilson from 'House'.

I am a pirate, my name is Jack. Hence, PirateJack.

i am a dj, my name is bent. hence, djbent ;P

Just you, Shrimpy (although I'm picturing Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump on a shimping boat named Jenny right now).

When I think of Chris, this is the image I have.

http://www.myclassiclyrics.com/artist_biographies/Bruce_Lee_Biography.jpg

VeggieTales silly song-Biscuit of Zazamarandabo
Look it up on youtube, a genteel piece of art from BigIdea.

Dakov is just a strambled version of Vodka ironically I have not been Russia yet

milestailsprower is the full name of tails from sonic the hedgehog. cool charachter in my opinion

my name is the college username i was assigned for my email addie when i started there.

It is based on my real name, but unique in internet land (well almost unique)