How did you come up with your username?

[lawbreaker]

Name is self explanatory............ LAWBREAKER






............... Also somewhat of an "Enforcer"............

[DCXCV]

actually i think that's pretty cool.

i guess i AM a dork....

Well, you know, the first step is admitting you have a problem.

[Buckethead]

Obsessed? Me? Never...

Well, you know, the first step is admitting you have a problem.

Well, there are 10 kinds of people in this world according to binary, but there are 11 according to the Romans.

[Statler]

Waldorf and I were posting on the other board and someone said we were sounding like the grumpy muppets in the balcony.  I was 'lawyer' at the time.   He got Waldorf because he said I was taller.  Statler stuck.



slightl disturbing Statler pic.   mmmmmmmmmmmmm billet.

[toaster]

back in highschool all my friends called me by my last name (struhall) and that got morphed into strudle, then completed into toaster strudle.  and since i wouldnt feel right having a "full" two name nickname i dropped the strudle so now im just toaster.  ive used this name since forever and didnt know about the roaming toaster on the old forum until after i was registered.

i honestly have met people and hang out with people on a regular basis and they still dont know my real name.  people will say my real first name and people are like "who the hell are you talking about?"

[DucMouse the Mighty]

i honestly have met people and hang out with people on a regular basis and they still dont know my real name.  people will say my real first name and people are like "who the hell are you talking about?"

thats how some people refer to me...

as DM or Mousey

[NuTTs]

A riding buddy (who got me into bikes initially) used to tell me that when I put my helmet on I'd turn into a "nutter" and that I was "nuts" I just added a t to the "nuts"

[triangleforge]

I needed a logo stamp for my work as a hobby blacksmith about the time i got more or less good enough to start selling some of my work. Rather than buy something fancy & custom, I made one out of my initials "BD." And because triangles are easier to make than rounded letters in a tiny little space like the business end of a steel stamp, my logo became three equilateral triangles (two for the B and a bigger one for the D) and I became 3 Triangle Forge. Triangleforge just was easier as a screen name.

[OwnyTony]

WTF!?!?!?

Wheres my PM?

[TiNi]

i like ducati's &  i like martini's

thats how some people refer to me...

as DM or Mousey

i've had people i've met call me 'tini too 

[SacDuc]

Wheres my PM?

The anatomy of a joke:

Step 1: the set up is generally serious or believable, often to the point of being mundane or naive. This is why comedy duos have "straight men." I stated that I my screen name was SacDuc because I lived in Sacramento and rode a ducati.

Step 2: The twist. A joke will often take an unexpected turn of events. Surprise at this turn of events is often labeled "humor" particularly if the surprise elicits laughter. I said that the "Sac" portion of my name was due to a cartoonishly large scrotum. Boy we sure weren't expecting that.   This joke isn't funny simply because it is so obvious. I was reaching for what one might call "low hanging fruit" (pun intended!   ). To sweeten the joke a bit I added a contrasting "tiny tiny penis" image hoping that the juxtapostion of the imagery, the self deprication as well as the general humor of penis and bathroom jokes would be enough to make the post funny.

Step3 : The reaction. I failed. My post was not funny. But Ramses, who is very funny himself, picked up on what I was trying to do and took it in a new direction. He twisted the joke further by making the imagery of the of the huge scrotum and tiny penis even more absurd by suggesting that the tiny penis  is located along side of teh scrotum. The anatomical inaccuracy of this (which he cunningly "proved" to be the case by using my own words) is what elevates this image from stupid/obvious to absurd. Absurdity can be an element to humor, but the joke hadn't yet matured.

Step 4: Give and Take. The rolls were now reversed. I was now the "straight man." So I set up  Ramses by telling him that I had already sent him photographs of my deformed genitals.

The Punch Line: Ramses knocked it out of the park. He played the punch line in complete dead pan. It was still abundantly obvious that this was all a routine, but the delivery was perfect. He of course received no PM. But he kept up the routine perfectly. One of the funniest things I've read on this board in a while.

The reaction: And Ramses caught himself a Rube too. "Now I'm curious"  she says.   All rubes will tell you (once they are let in on the joke) that they were just playing along, just keeping up the dead pan straight faced humor. But we know they are all lying because having more than one straightman just isn't funny. Having a lot of fall guys is very funny. But not as funny as having just one rube.

In short, no PM for you and thank you for playing this weeks games of "Who Understands Internet Humor." Ramses has won the grand prize. Please accept these parting gits.


sac

[NAKID]

The explanation further makes the joke funny, because now it points out that it appears this guy is the only one who didn't get it...

[Grampa]

anywho..... sacs penis is beyond huge

[herm]

anywho..... sacs penis is beyond huge

please dont tell us how you know that...

[herm]

anyway, back on topic.
i was assigned this screen name. wasnt everyone?