What about Lurker #1 through Lurker #whatever?

Signed, Mainly Lurker #57

Met History wrote:

> COD     [log in to unmask]                Dan Becker
> "Gee, the details are lost under the accumulated weight of several billion
> posts to BP.  I started out somehow as a lower case god, an assumed term in
> response to who knows what, that then mysteriously morphed into Cod (or COD)
> at the hands of the mysterious and inscrutable at times Shaman."
>
> ][<en       [log in to unmask]                   Ken Follet
>
> ONEcat  [log in to unmask]              Heidi Harendza
> Ken gave it to me after I whined that I wanted a nickname. On the same day I
> think I posted regarding getting the smell of cat urine out of a floor to the
> woman from Eastern Europe who had the stone house and 7 cats. I dealt with
> one small apartment and ONE cat.  Ta Dah.  A nickname is born. Not as cool as
> your's and COD's, but hell, cat urine works for me.
>
> Sharpshooter    [log in to unmask]              Met History
> [Mary Krugman's version:]  "Well, for starters, we know that it is because of
> your quick wit and biting comment!  ;-)   However, the original source of
> this handle is Ken's post of 5/8/99, which followed some fairly critical
> comments by you on windows, barf index (Syndey Harbour), and a direct
> response to a Gray derived Haiku."
>
> Mary Julep      [log in to unmask]                   Mary Delaney Krugman
> "Sometime last summer during the heat wave, I posted some comment about
> sitting on the front porch of my old house, watching the neighbors go by and
> feeling the slight breaths of air coming down off the hill. I mentioned that
> the only thing I was missing was a Mint Julep .... then realized that I
> didn't even know what was IN a mint julep. Only that it was in a frosty
> silver cup. That provoked a rash of MJ recipes. Some day I will have to
> actually try them! Maybe a Mint Julep drink-off will be the next BP outing at
> the Krugman Wildlife Preserve. Any recipe that doesn't pass muster will be
> fed to the woodchuck under the porch."
>
> Humor Czar      [log in to unmask]                 Ralph Walter
>
> david           [log in to unmask]             David West
> "It is a long story.  But since it is Christmas Eve, and nothing much is
> stirring in the office, here goes.  About 13-14 years ago I decided that my
> signature needed to be reinvented.  The cursive script left over from my high
> school days just didn't fit the image I wanted to portray.  One of the people
> I worked with had a great signature with flowing loops and flourishes.  But
> the letters D, G and the surname West really didn't lend themselves to such
> fancy frippery.
>
> "After much doodling and study of lettering styles, I adopted an all
> lowercase signature, with an upwards loop on the ascender of the d, and a
> downwards loop (naturally) on the descender of the g, and a bit of a flourish
> on the cross of the t.
>
> "To go with this, I started writing my name with lower case letters.  And
> really liked the shape and symmetry of david.
>
> "I've stuck with it, and progressively introduced it to more and more of my
> life.  Now I am at the stage where not only do some of my friends remember to
> write my name that way, but I sign all my business correspondence at work
> that way, and some clients even write back to me in that format.  Next
> challenge is business cards ... and then credit and ID cards .... and the
> ultimate dream is to have my passport lettered in lowercase.
>
> "I have trouble recognising my name when it is written with capitals, and if
> I try to write it that way, it feels wrong.  If I have to do it, I will use
> all caps, but my preference is for the lowercase variety."
>
> END