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My username is the feminine version of "vert", a heraldric term referring to the color green. I'm in a medieval re-enactment society that uses heraldry, that's where I got it. 76 is the anniversary year of my country; a little patriotism is involved as well.
 
PookaMacP said:
Pooka MacPhellimey is a character from the funniest book ever written - Flann O'Brien's 'At-Swim-Two-Birds', hence PookaMacP.

Flann O'Brien, by the way, was a genius.

My friend just lent me The Third Policeman. Haven't started it yet, and I'd never even heard of him before a few weeks ago.
 
You can probably guess my influence. :wink: I actually first made it up just for here, as my usual U2-related user name, Melon, was already taken here by, um, melon. :) I do use this one on other non-U2 music boards now, 'cos Melon doesn't quite pack the same punch in a non-U2 setting.
 
UberBeaver said:


My friend just lent me The Third Policeman. Haven't started it yet, and I'd never even heard of him before a few weeks ago.

The Third Policeman is a superb book too, if a little (ok, a lot) off the wall. Very funny, but At-Swim-Two-Birds is just genius. His columns from the Irish Times when he wrote under the name Myles na gCopaleen are collected in 'The Best of Myles' too which is a great read. He also wrote some works in Irish, one of which, 'An Beal Bocht', is translated as 'The Poor Mouth', a brilliant satire on the Irish Gaelic revival in the early twentieth century.

Hope you enjoy the book!
 
Dalton because if you screw with me, my old mentor with the gravely voice, my woman, my good car, or my bar - I will rip your throat out with my bare hand.

If you mess with anything else, I will resort to my zen like calm and peacefully escort you off the board while the ladies check out my ass in their faded blue confines...
 
Dalton said:
Dalton because if you screw with me, my old mentor with the gravely voice, my woman, my good car, or my bar - I will rip your throat out with my bare hand.

If you mess with anything else, I will resort to my zen like calm and peacefully escort you off the board while the ladies check out my ass in their faded blue confines...

Allriiighty then. :yikes:

I thought it could have something to do with the Dalton Bros.
 
daafish said:


What's going on mijo?


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I KNEW you'd come back! :love:
 
:lol: seen that one many times.

"you mean being called a cocksucker ain't personal?"
"no, it's just two words put together to elicit a prescribed response"
"uh huh,...well...what if someone calls my mama a whore?!?"
"is she?"

so..yea...I've seen it couple times.
 
I thought my name was pretty self-explanatory (given the FC should come first but that's just a technicality! ;) ) until someone thought, it was after "Bayer" as in the drug company! :eyebrow:
 
I was actually surprised when I got my username. Great song, my favourite, or one of, here is a sample -

Zooropa... Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
Zooropa... Uncertainty... can be a guiding light
Zooropa... I hear voices, ridiculous voices
Zooropa... In the slipstream
Zooropa... Let's go, let's go... overground
Zooropa... Take your head out of the mud baby

strange enough that overground is my name on every other forum but I couldn't get it here.
 
I joined Interference right around the time "Atomic Bomb" was released, so I had those songs on the brain.

Plus, I like deciphering lyrics. Plus, to me, U2's music is like a lyrical drug. Plus, I frequently consume large volumes of dangerous drugs.

Hence the name.
 
My screen name is the town in Ireland where my dad's family came from. Hello to all the Conway's and O'Malley's from Westport and Newport, Ireland.

I travelled there in 1991. It is a beautiful place on the West coast.
 
It is my "unique name" from when I was a student at Michigan. Just stuck with me. Its the first initial of my first name attached to my last.
 
I'm (partially) of Icelandic decent and there's this thing about the Icelandic: They really don't do well with foreign names. The first time I spent my summer there it took my cousins 2 hours to bastardise my middle name to Silja. It also so happens that it was my great-grandmothers nickname and she was one of the wise women so I don't complain. Oddly enough it’s usually not taken anywhere so chances are that if you run into a Silja on a board somewhere that it’s me.
 
My username comes from Bono's pet name for Edge circa the LoveTown tour. There are a few recordings from that tour where Bono refers to Edge as Reggie The Dawg, and its something thats stuck in my mind ever since. On some soundboard bootlegs you can often hear Bono calling Edge, 'Reg/Reggie' off-microphone. I was gutted when Bono started calling Edge FunkyDawg lol, he will always be Reggie to me!
 
Hmm, the story of my username started before I joined interference...sometime in my first year of college. I wanted to sign up for a yahoo email account and didn't want to use my real name. Because I had grown up in Indonesia on the island of Sulawesi, I decided to go for the rather unoriginal "sulawesigirl". When I joined interference back in the dark ages, I tried registering that name but for some reason got an error, so I added a random number which happened to be "4" to see if I could make it work and...voila. sulawesigirl4 was born. But I generally go by "sula". :)

In an odd twist of fate, after going by the moniker of sula for some 8 or 9 years, I met and am still with my boyfriend whose nickname is Sul (short for Suliman). :huh:
 
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