Pay Em no mind, Siggy. I didn't catch on myself until a couple weeks ago. Fnord even has his own iconic portrait, suitable for framing.

Shit, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw his name. In fact I thought he was someone I knew until the Nigger Tourettes kicked in.

Mine is forever tied to everyone's favorite shitdigger.  My original Cruel handle appeared to be just a jumble of letters but actually had a meaning that in retrospect I am glad I changed and if possible would scrub totally from the annals of the intarwebz as it does have some professional attachment to it.

Horse took to calling me Scotty as this was a close approximation of the jumble of letters and it stuck.

My preferred nom de anon most everywhere else online I made up myself and I feel is quite clever even though it often takes years for people to realize it actually says something as well.

Emmeran wrote:

Cross topic:  Was there ever any point in trying to have any sort of Net anonymity?

I believe you could have and still can get away with it.  I just don't think it is a thought process that people engage in anymore because they have been conditioned that they have to have an online presence and "brand" they have to maintain.  Which is a fucking dangerous thing.

There should be a law that anything that is said prior to your 21st birthday online cannot be accessed after your 21st birthday by anyone.  I am pretty sure that Google can write an algorithm for that one.  If they could come up with that I would not mind letting my sons go hog wild on the net.  Until then I am going to raise them to hide behind anonymous handles the way I came up online and to only let very select info out there just to keep themselves less apt to be that kid not getting into school or getting a job because of a cursory Google search of their internet history.

Last edited by Scotty (2014-07-17 08:50:25)

Dmtdust wrote:

Jesus nobody digs very deep around here....  I take it none of you nut-jobs ever hear of Robert Anton Wilson?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord

Dusty's home!!!

Hey Dusty good to see you, did you bring beer?


*(oh and did you happen to notice that you posted an original link hat?  As in you repeated the link that started the thread.)

Last edited by Emmeran (2014-07-17 14:17:40)

I have a vague primal memory that "fnord" was a programming command. It might be as ancient as programmable calculators.