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. That under control I think I now have.
Could Anna be the same sage one who uttered these famous words: "Do, or do not. There is no try." And, of course: "When nine hundred years you reach, look this good you will not."
My handle is of course, an homage to The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy. It has the added bonus of including a real name, so that my ego and my id now have a name each, a situation we are both very pleased with.
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When my kids where younger, and we went on long car rides to see great grandparents, for entertainment we played "licence plates" a game common to US. The object is to find as many different states as possible (zipping by on the highways)
Since I was driving, and this was a lonely stretch of high way, we too, where zipping–Interstate 91 going north in Vermont was famous for not enforcing the speed limit–and I would find my speed increasing and increasing, until I maxed out my engine (a slant 6 with 3 forward gears, no overdrive) at 85 mph.
I offered bonus points for vanity plates. One very slow trip–no one but native Vermonters on the road we made up our choices for vanity plates. Of troy was a natural– it give my name, and doesn't.
I like to say I have the face that sank a 1000 ship–but the truth is,
I have blonde hair, that falls in waves, about half way down my back, blue eyes, fair skin– I keep my nails long, and polished...
and if I dieted from now to the end of my life, I might get to be zaftig...
And I would still have the pug nose, and the "rosy cheeks"–that are not quite of as res as W. C. Fields nose, but getting there–
you know what they say, on the internet, no one knows you're a dog!
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Faldage because it starts with an F. You could look it up.
The full version is Faldage of Fong, Conceptual Detective and Free Lance Fool. It derives from the early Ruby episode when she was Ruby Tuesday, a galactic gumshoe from New Fez, Europa and was hired by Colonel Abullah Abdullah from the star cluster Saudi Asteroidea to track down the missing planet Cleo. The full story is on the CD Tired of the Green Menace? available from ZBS Media. Be careful, their stuff is addicting.
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A creative use of jaundice, Helen!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Jazzoctopus - what can I say? capricious piffle
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wow. It didn't take long for someone to turn it upside down but then there was a pause before the second meaning was tipped : wise old woman -- although I was enchanted by some of the flattering guesses made before you all got to know me better!  To quote Max Q : "..my ego and my id now have a name each.." As an aside to this ... who is the oldest among us? In case you're shy : anyone over sixty? over seventy?  If you admit to one of those we could get down to brass tacks : month, day, year. Aloha, wow
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If you admit to one of those we could get down to brass tacks : month, day, year.
Or do you prefer to stick to name rank and serial number?
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we could get down to brass tacks : month, day, year. I was quite pleased with the symmetry of my birthday this year - I turned 33 on the 22nd of the 11th. My father remarried on my eight birthday, which makes me the only person I know (hobbits excluded) who has to buy presents on his birthday.  
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i just like trying to get my tongue around alliterated latin without a slip up.
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i just like trying to get my tongue around alliterated latin without a slip up.So, if you felt like trying assonantal Arabic, you might go for Allahu akhbar?
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