Screen name . . . where'd you get it?

[joanofarc0907]

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lol I suppose the confusion is understandable, and it should be something I just naturally explain by now. I go to Miami University, which is in Oxford, Ohio (near Cincinnati). The University of Miami is in Miami, Florida. As a bit of trivia, Miami University was a university when Florida still belonged to Spain.

well then I suppose it deserves the name. The only confort I find in the fact that you go to school in ohio, is that you are already a country boy coming from missouri. However...there is NOTHING TO DO IN OHIO!!! I went out to Bowling Green one spring break to visit my best friend and learned it is the most boring state ever. The end.

 

[Looque]

well then I suppose it deserves the name. The only confort I find in the fact that you go to school in ohio, is that you are already a country boy coming from missouri. However...there is NOTHING TO DO IN OHIO!!! I went out to Bowling Green one spring break to visit my best friend and learned it is the most boring state ever. The end.

From everything I've heard from countless individuals, Bowling Green is just a terrible place to be (and the campus is butt ugly). Oxford is about half an hour from Cincinnati, so aside from all of the college bars/clubs, city life is very near.

...but yes, I'm a country boy, and am admittedly pretty easily entertained.

 

[NY Musicologist]

I

"36-24-thirtay six, owwww, what a winning HAND!!" 😀

But only if she's 5'3"! (Sir Mix-A-Lot, Baby Got Back)

 

[joanofarc0907]

From everything I've heard from countless individuals, Bowling Green is just a terrible place to be (and the campus is butt ugly). Oxford is about half an hour from Cincinnati, so aside from all of the college bars/clubs, city life is very near.

...but yes, I'm a country boy, and am admittedly pretty easily entertained.

well yes bowling green is terrible. i'm very glad she will be graduating and moving back here to hopefully go to grad school in baltimore. that is a much nicer place to visit than BG, and not as far away.

 

[WildTumor]

I do cancer research.

 

[63768]

i use the your mom joke all the time. even when it's not funny.

 

[Looque]

well yes bowling green is terrible. i'm very glad she will be graduating and moving back here to hopefully go to grad school in baltimore. that is a much nicer place to visit than BG, and not as far away.

Yeah, I'd much rather be in Baltimore than Bowling Green. How did your friend wind up out there, anyway? That seems kind of random.

 

[Looque]

i use the your mom joke all the time. even when it's not funny.

Your mom's so fat, everytime she jumps, astronomers have to recalculate Hubble's constant.

 

[mintendo]

Your mom's so fat, everytime she jumps, astronomers have to recalculate Hubble's constant.

it's mine now

 

[defrunner]

Mine's stupid, because I got AOL a decade ago; since I hadn't anticipated how hard it would be to think up a screenname, I got frustrated and just went with 2 things:

def = I'm deaf
runner = I ran XC/track

Later on, when I got my own account, AOL wouldn't let me keep my screenname and I didn't want to confuse people when I emailed/IMed them, so I just added on 310. I was going to put my birthday, but since I'm November 10th, I didn't want to put 1110, so I just put in the 3 1's and then the 0.

Since then, I've used defrunner/defrunner310 interchangeably and even though I'm 23 now with a stupid, childish screenname, I'm too lazy to think of a better and more clever one. Besides, it's a hassle to let everyone know what my new screenname is on AIM.

However, since my fantasy football/baseball team names are almost always sisyphus, I was going to go with that on SDN, but some jerk already took it.

See, stupid, right?

Some of the screennames on here are really cool. For instance, I like that "baggage" thing and the Thai screenname (I'm fond of Thai women haha). That bean thing was great too hehe ("it's finger-licking good!")...

Someone should use "snakes on a plane" if it's not already taken because it's now supposedly interchangeable with "sh-- happens." I love that title and want to see the movie. "Motherf-- snakes on a motherf-- plane!"

 

[Severus]

Mine's pretty obvious for HP fans.

 

[Aurora013]

Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty (my favorite fairy tale growing up).

I'm a pre-med, so sleeping for 100 years sounds good to me!

 

[MiesVanDerMom]

Mine's pretty obvious for HP fans.

but not to me. 😕

 

[Looque]

but not to me. 😕

Nor to me

 

[FujiApple]

An apple a day keeps the doctor away...

But, no, actually, I just really really like apples. I'm talking three a day. Yummm 😀

 

[Looque]

An apple a day keeps the doctor away...

But, no, actually, I just really really like apples. I'm talking three a day. Yummm 😀

You'll be the scurge of the medical community!

 

[TauPathology]

I do research on Frontotemporal Dimensia and Alzheimer's Disease, hence the name.

 

[Looque]

I do research on Frontotemporal Dimensia and Alzheimer's Disease, hence the name.

That'd be some fun and interesting research.

 

[Puddintame]

The combination of a classic snotty kid's response to an adult's question...

Q: "What's your name?
A: "Puddintame. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same."

...and a total lack of inspiration.

 

[Severus]

but not to me. 😕

You don't read Harry Potter?


I took my name from the delightfully vile potions master, Professor Severus Snape.

 

[obrn]

You don't read Harry Potter?


I took my name from the delightfully vile potions master, Professor Severus Snape.

Well now that I know you meant Harry Potter by HP, it does make much more sense!

I bet that no one can figure out where my name came from...

 

[Looque]

Well now that I know you meant Harry Potter by HP, it does make much more sense!

I bet that no one can figure out where my name came from...

Auburn University?

 

[MollyMalone]

Well now that I know you meant Harry Potter by HP, it does make much more sense!

I bet that no one can figure out where my name came from...

obstetrics nurse? naw, too obvious. 🙂

 

[obrn]

Auburn University?

I'm a nurse, and I work in OB...I know, I'm about as creative as a rock...

 

[PsychEpathic]

My screen name is my first name. Creative, huh?

 

[johnny pollen]

my name's johnny. and i used to be a florist. a friend of mine called me johnny pollen once, and it stuck. (just like pollen does.)

 

[Schaden Freud]

Schadenfreude in German means "gleeful sympathies," Sigmund Freud is pretty cool, and Schaden Freud is completely meaningless.

 

[beaverfetus]

because they're plain delicious

 

[Looque]

Schadenfreude in German means "gleeful sympathies," Sigmund Freud is pretty cool, and Schaden Freud is completely meaningless.

Isn't the more commonly understood meaning of schadenfreude something along the lines of "taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others?" Gleeful sympathies seems to be a far less callous take on it.

 

[Schaden Freud]

No, I think that's a callous definition- makes it seem almost sociopathic. "Gleeful sympathies" is a literal translation and I think gives a more nuanced and realistic sense of the word's meaning.

Isn't the more commonly understood meaning of schadenfreude something along the lines of "taking pleasure in the misfortunes of others?" Gleeful sympathies seems to be a far less callous take on it.

 

[Looque]

No, I think that's a callous definition- makes it seem almost sociopathic. "Gleeful sympathies" is a literal translation and I think gives a more nuanced and realistic sense of the word's meaning.

I agree, the definition that I offered is almost sociopathic, and certainly callous. That has always been my understanding of it, though, given the contexts in which I've seen it used. For that reason, I've always found it peculiar that someone on these forums would have it as a screen name.

Oh well, I'm no German scholar by any means, so I'll yield. I could've very well gained a poor understanding of the term early on.

 

[Schaden Freud]

👍

I agree, the definition that I offered is almost sociopathic, and certainly callous. That has always been my understanding of it, though, given the contexts in which I've seen it used. For that reason, I've always found it peculiar that someone on these forums would have it as a screen name.

Oh well, I'm no German scholar by any means, so I'll yield. I could've very well gained a poor understanding of the term early on.

 

[PsychEpathic]

because they're plain delicious

That was funny in a "that's disgusting" kind of way.

 

[Schaden Freud]

I make it a point to pick some up whenever I'm in Chinatown. Gotta get em fresh!

because they're plain delicious

 

[potato51]

Dan Quayle has nightmares about me.

 

[greytmedic]

I was a medic in the army, I am now a paramedic which are referred to as medic. I have a greyhound and am involved with greyhound adoption, and greyhound people love to use "greyt" as some kind of wierd pun, so the two got combined.

 

[PRIMER]

I have always been a primer, because I get things started. Things just can't start without me 🙂

 

[WestTexasRambler]

I ramble in West Texas.

 

[Looque]

👍

To appease my curiosity, I just popped "schadenfreude" into dictionary.com:

n.
Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.

Is this only true for its use in English, and it carries a different meaning when in use in casual German?

 

[MinnyGophers]

Minny--> Minnesota
Gophers --> U of M -TC mascot.

 

[DrZaius]

Planet of the Apes

 

[ChymeChancellor]

Chyme... The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

Chancellor... Any of various officials of high rank.

 

[dbhvt]

To appease my curiosity, I just popped "schadenfreude" into dictionary.com:

n.
Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.

Is this only true for its use in English, and it carries a different meaning when in use in casual German?

Schaden is pretty clearly hurt, or something bad anyways, and fruede is pretty clearly joy, or something along those lines. I'm not sure where SF is getting this gleeful sympathies thing, but schadenfruede means the same thing in German that it does in english.

 

[Pkboi24]

I like to PK.

 

[Schaden Freud]

Schaden is pretty clearly hurt, or something bad anyways, and fruede is pretty clearly joy, or something along those lines. I'm not sure where SF is getting this gleeful sympathies thing, but schadenfruede means the same thing in German that it does in english.

Well, in German, when you hear some terrible story and want to say "too bad!", you say "Schade!"

Schaden are therefore sympathies- expressed in commiseration.

Freud- means joy or glee. It can be used in words like Freudenmaedchen ("joy girl" or prostitute)...

In combination, Schadenfreude is clearly a paradox- sympathies, yet joyful. This is where I think the American interpretation strays from the true meaning, by interpreting it as "pleasure at others' misfortune." In reality, I think, schadenfreude includes simultaneously both sympathy and pleasure, leaving the border between the two rather ambiguous...

 

[windzilla]

Damn, Ya'll think bout it alot!

mine is a language paradox, wind is colloquial british for gas or farts, and zilla is japanese for monster

thus fartmonster or gasmonster.

this is also simple yet joyful, though the poetry is lost in the interpretation*

In combination, Schadenfreude is clearly a paradox- sympathies, yet joyful. This is where I think the American interpretation strays from

Cheers

*just like the 2000 yr old mans poem "beans beans"

 

[Schaden Freud]

😀 😀 Windzilla, you are my hero.

Damn, Ya'll think bout it alot!

mine is a language paradox, wind is colloquial british for gas or farts, and zilla is japanese for monster

thus fartmonster or gasmonster.

this is also simple yet joyful, though the poetry is lost in the interpretation*





Cheers

*just like the 2000 yr old mans poem "beans beans"

 

[windzilla]

😀 😀 Windzilla, you are my hero.

Hey! I went to UMass Amherst too, class of 2001 (now im back, UMass med 2010!) my BCMP was the same as yours as well!


To a fellow alumnus, I wish you great success this cycle.


somebody crack a window

~Zilla

 

[Looque]

somebody crack a window

~Zilla

That's a great sign-out

 

[Schaden Freud]

Thank you, fellow Minuteman! 🙂

Hey! I went to UMass Amherst too, class of 2001 (now im back, UMass med 2010!) my BCMP was the same as yours as well!


To a fellow alumnus, I wish you great success this cycle.


somebody crack a window

~Zilla