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Zed is a combination. Partly Canadiana - up here it's the name of the last letter of the alphabet. Partly the nickname of an imaginary character, rather than an imaginary friend, from stories I dreamed up as a child. I use the middle and last names as passwords for various things. I'll won't forget them and noone else will ever guess them.
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cemant splice
Sorry, I meant cement splice. Now where'd I put my gutta percha? It ain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
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what's cemant? A mere typo, or...?
A moribund formica farm. Cet Nam?
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Mine's almost too obvious--My name's Joann, and my kids were
telling"yo-mama" jokes and one of them had to say Jo-mama,
and so--
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Yo Ma-Ma, isn't he that cellist left his strad in the cab that once a year or so ago?
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I'm trying to prevent people from realizing that my true identity is David Bowie.
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I knew it! I've been on to you for weeks.
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I adopted mine after returning to the US after 18 years in Brazil. Some Portuguese syntax had crept into my (spoken) English.
But now I'm wondering: maybe I am anastrophic as opposed to catastrophic?
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maybe I am anastrophic as opposed to catastrophic?Ohhhhh, ain't gonna touch that one ! 
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They're carriers of letters in the Harry Potter books, she added helpfully.
Don't you mean:
"They're carriers of letters in the Harry Potter books," she added post-haste.
In Vermont, natives are called Woodchucks and people from away are called Flatlanders. Course, I no longer live in Vermont, but the handle has stuck.
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I hesitate to explain my e-name because it is much too clever.
No one likes a smart-ass, nor do I.
No matter; I hereby purge my self-satisfied ego and hereby confess and render my sin incarnate...
Amemeba (that's me}
Ameba: A basic individual entity of biological life.
Meme: A basic unit of cultural input contributing towards the whole.
See? I recognize that the two are one in the same...aren't I clever? :)
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Love it. That's awfully clever, really. I'd worked out the ameba part but hadn't come to your glorious conclusion, since I was mentally pronouncing it with four syllables. Now let's go outside and discuss your expression one in the same. It works; it's very southern and to the point, but for the moment it ain't right.
welcome back
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So right you really are, AnnaStrophic. I can't explain it; I just know what it means. Maybe it's Edgar Poe's fault... Like a circle that ever returneth to the self-same spot,
And more of madness, and horror, the soul of the plot.But wait! We have here a classic example of a meme in action. First comes nuance then comes meaning. Be kind to idioms. Idioms are people too. 
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I always thought it was "one and the same" - usually elided to "one an' the same"
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"one and the same" - usually elidedYup. We Southerners do a lotta elidin.
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I always, here in Florida where only a few of us are really southerners, had heard "one and the same"--a friend some years ago said she read "one in the same" in a british novel, and after consideration, thought it made sense and might show a slight philosophic divergence between US and English english. I just thought it didn't make as much sense.
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...makes sense philosophically in the same fashion that the what's the difference between a duck riddle makes sense philosophically.
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In two me's or not into me?
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What in Samemeba you talkin' about?
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Samemeba is right next to Tarnation.
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"What in Samemeba you talkin' about?" - Jackie
Don't tease, music, the phrase is most commonly and correctly offered as ...
Who in Samemeba are you talking about?
Of course when saying this saying it is not necessary to Capitalize.
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Musick--you got it right!
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All I'll say is that it's Tolkein. Anyone ready to figure it out?
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>gonoldothrond
I tend to want to read this as goldenrod, which prolly isn't what you had in mind...
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All I'll say is that it's Tolkein.
I thought it was special kind of flattened thread from Pangæa ... Er, doesn't thrond mean eyrie in Sindarin? Not sure about the other bit ...
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Seeing as nobody has guessed it yet, I've decided to give you all another hint: if you do some searching, you'll find that I actually TOLD you what my moniker means in an earlier post! Any takers?
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123877 from a leftenant of the hallway to the bathroom...
formerly known as etaoin...
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My given name is Connie. When I lived in Mexico, most people had difficulty pronouncing my name correctly so I chose to be known as Consuelo. I like the meaning behind it (consolation) and it is actually a very nice blend of my given name and my middle name. Ole!
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G-thrond: It is an Elvish word (i.e. J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings language) meaning 'commander of the halls of knowledge'. Danged if I didn't miss it the first time!
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oh sure, spill the beans, Jackie... I was at least trying to give people a chance...
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Oh--sorry! Nobody seemed to be taking up his challenge, and I thought you were talking about your own name! The numbers, I mean.
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heh. zok. the numbers are the thread number, though I forgot the category...
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I mize well say right now, 'most any reference to Lord of the Rings is going to go right over my head, in case that's where 'zok' came from. I read it when I was in college, and was sufficiently unimpressed that I have had no desire to re-read it or see the movies. A nice enough little story, but.
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As another non-LOR fan, my guess is zok = [it]s ok
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and the prize goes to nancy!
formerly known as etaoin...
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zok = [it]s ok
ooops, I thought that was what Pinky (and the Brain) the mouse said when he got hit on the head. Or is that Nok?
Either way it's as far from LOR as fiction can get!
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and the prize goes to nancy!Ooh, ooh, I love (sur)prizes [clapping-hands -gleefully emoticon] When can I expect it? 
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ooops, I thought that was what Pinky (and the Brain) the mouse said when he got hit on the head.
That's either "zonk" or "narf".
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