Comments about other ILXor's display/user names

"moonship journey to baja" sounds like an unreleased early Orb track with possible Propellerheads tinges and every time I see one of his/her posts it makes me want to listen to "Ultraworld"

Sometimes when I'm biking to work, a GARDA truck drives by, and I always think of Local Garda and wonder if his name is referring to the armored car service

Is there a thread where people unpack their user names? If not, there should be.

It's a reference to the Irish Police (xp)

*starts hummin' "tom tom durn around", with oirish accent*

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.)

This is either from Bow Wow Wow's "WORK no no ma daddy don'"

or the bit in "Remember (walking in the sand)" before the chorus and the seaguls.

― b0dylanguage,

I misread as Bob Dylan Language.

a thread where people unpack their user names

I recognize "john" as homosexual slang, but I wonder what the "D" means in "J0hn D"?

It's the code letter for mounting goats.

Maybe! As for "ken c", I've figured it's a bastardization of "can see", as in: "I ken c clearly now, the brain is gone".

Thanks, Aimless! Very helpful indeed.

Kate's name is a reference to Peter Kember specifically, right?

sylvia plathter cathter makes me chuckle heartily

OH MY GOD that's fucking brilliant

Is there a thread where people unpack their user names? If not, there should be.

There's this one as well.
How did your online name come into being and when?

OMG plathter cathter FTW.

platheter catheter

& also this:
ILX cosmology: the origins of your user name

keep reading "★feminist parties i have attended (amateurist)" as "★feminist panties i have attended (amateurist)"

"Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis" tends to get stuck in my head for days btw, you have been wise to retain it

but nothing will ever unseat "i like to fart and i am crazy"

I recognize "john" as homosexual slang, but I wonder what the "D" means in "J0hn D"?

― Tuomas,

throw some d's on that john

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2IGeCzMA1JU/ThOJ4JQtAmI/AAAAAAAAKj4/h8dvZQD9Q9c/s640/bigdcards.jpg

tbh

it was originally a misreading of that one beech boys song

Help Me JohnDa?

nothing funny about Mormons except when they're essing my d.

― Matt P

Paul Johnson asks: Do homosexuals like John Major (Tom D.)

google bringing up nothing, is this something Johnson asked in a personal conversation with Tom D?

there should be an option for display names to have hyperlinked citations, personal communication with poster, June 17th 2006 etc

It was on the cover of an old copy of the Spectator, from 1996, I think. It won out over Peregrine Worsthorne Says Ulster Will Fight.

what was johnson's conclusion?

self-clowning ovens of the Spectator

Everyone I know is involved in exams. With ten grandchildren, I know what it is like: horrible. I find the questions they are asked totally beyond me. I was well educated by the Jesuits at Stonyhurst, and at Oxford under A.J.P. Taylor. Ever since, I have been desperately trying to add to my knowledge. That is why I write books. I recently completed my 50th. In the last five years I have done short biographies of Churchill, Socrates, Darwin, Napoleon and Eisenhower, two of them bestsellers. But when I pick up a history exam paper I am baffled. As Denis Thatcher used to say, something wrong somewhere?

(xp) I don't know, I didn't read the article! I'm guessing it was journalism like this that helped Johnson earn the nickname of Loonybins from Private Eye.

found it on the spectator's website! http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/6th-january-1996/18/and-another-thing

naturally, it is batshit.

The other week I overheard three men whom I know to be homosexuals discussing him. One said, `Well, in the words of Rab about Eden, he's the best prime minister we've got.' Then they realised I was listening to them, said, `He's not one of us', and shut up.

So why do the queers like Major? I put this question to my friend Carla Powell, who is not only extraordinarily wise in the doings of British politicians, but brings to the analysis of their behaviour the perspec- tive of a close student of her countryman Niccolo Machiavelli. 'Oh,' said she, `zat is an easy one. Ee make dem tink he ees on zair side. Ee does that to everyone.'

enjoying the added T Herman Zweibel effect via the formatting and errant hyphens

Excellent detective work.

main effect it's had on me is i've got 'ground control to john major, tom' stuck in my head on a loop

Major don’t see eye to eye on a
Number of things, he’ll take a guy like me
And put him in the army
Cause the Queers' own army makes a man of you

The internet deleted Me & Jon

Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.)

This is either from Bow Wow Wow's "WORK no no ma daddy don'"

or the bit in "Remember (walking in the sand)" before the chorus and the seaguls.

― Mark G, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:58 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, just noticed this. So, five years too late, here's the explanation. Once upon a time a not very good Italian footballer called Enrico Annoni played for Celtic, now, so the story goes, he was brought on as a substitute in a game where Celtic were not faring particularly well and, as he entered the fray, a punter in the crowd was heard to disconsolately exclaim, "Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw". Which translates from Glaswegian to "Oh no, not Annoni on now as well". Probably apocryphal btw.

I don't know anything about this poster of yore, but I've always loved the display name Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman. The Philips make me think of a classroom reel-to-reel film projector that the teacher forgot to shut off after the movie was over.

I wonder if it's an obscure On the Hour reference. I remember a sketch that had a minimalist classical opera about war written by Michael O'ny'o'ny'o'nyman, or something like that. I'm going to do some research! I'm bloody well going to do it.

I've done it. The sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7PWWMzB-0

The piece of music is "War Goes Bang". The entire internet gives the composer's name as Michael Philip Philip Philip Philip Annoyman, but I think it's supposed to be O'Noiman or something like that. That's the problem with the oral tradition.

War. Bang. War. Bang. War. Bang. Dum-dum, dum-dum, dum-dum-dum-dum. Donkeys get in the way.

Wow! Cool find! Thanks.