How did you come up with your online name?

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    yiostheoy Well-Known Member

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    Figures.

    I started with my own initials too.

    Then I invented a more unique Greek moniker instead.

    You can find my moniker in the Greek New Testament, in Greek of course.

    You won't find it reading some watered down version of the English Bibles however.
     
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    ... sorry never heard of it.
     
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    @Frank Apisa just uses his own name.

    At 80 years old all of his enemies are already dead.
     
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    Learn something new every day.

    I love archery and it has been one of my major hobbies.

    Did not know that about the wood though.

    Obviously my hunting bow is carbon composite.
     
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    Curse you.
     
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    Easy to remember that way.

    Memory issues creeping up on ya'?
     
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    Diablo is the Spanish version of the Greek Diabolos.

    We all know who he is/was/will be.
     
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    ... poor kitty !!
     
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    Your avatar is much more interesting than your moniker.

    He/she looks like the pet of Nanook Of The North.
     
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    Beautiful avatar and interesting unique moniker.

    Does it represent your personality?

    Do you come out at midnight and stalk Los Angeles drinking people's blood, like Michael Jackson ?!

    :D
     
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    ... sounds Mandarin.

    Now you just need to get an avatar ... maybe a wok.
     
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    I suspect they taught you this song in boot camp too:

    G/I beans and G/I gravy,
    Gee I wish I'd joined the Navy,
    4 square meals served every day,
    And the fleet then sails away,
    Left o' right o' lay-eft.
     
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    It is the rationalistic justification of consumerism based on capitalistic models of production and allocation.
     
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    ... has nothing to do with motorcycles, don't worry about it.
     
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    That's ok. She is much more interesting than I am.
     
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    Cute dog !!!
     
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    Wow, you figured it out.
     
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    I read Greek.

    And it was just Easter.

    Every Easter I read the Greek New Testament. In Greek.
     
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    That's good. That's really good. I wish I did that.
     
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    You probably can't because you only know Spanish.
     
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    Yeah, I'm great at Spanish. Could I read the Greek New Testament in Spanish? I mean, at Easter, obviously.
     
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    Not sure that would do you much good.

    The Spanish translations are probably Catholic so they come from the Latin translation of St. Gerome.
     
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    Is that bad then? This Saint Gerome got it wrong?
     
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    Have you ever taken a foreign language class in school ?
     
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    Yes.
     

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