Why am I BuckarooBanzai? Why are you BLANK?

[Foster]

Originally I went by pfosterbilly. I thought the silent "p" was well suited to the forum here.

A Fosterbilly is anyone of the fellas who grew up in the small and very rural area of Fosterxxxxx. A Hillbilly (without the hills) from Fosterxxxx

It wasnt long before I started receiving questions meant for the Professor. lol Little did I know he went by not only pf, but billy-you-know-who also.

Hip was kind enough to change it to foster for me

With my love for gardening, plants, lost or stray animals, and fungi, I felt it suited me better anyway.

foster

1. to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage: to foster new ideas.
2. to bring up, raise, or rear, as a foster child.
3. to care for or cherish.
4. to feed or nourish.

[Freaky]

That's neat-o Foster!!!!!!

[Hippie3]

The master trained in ancient Japanese arts from the age of 12, including karate ninjitsu and kung fu.

ahem.
kung fu is
chinese.

[BuckarooBanzai]

Foster - THAT is why I started this thread.

Lets folks share a little more than they might otherwise be comfortable/able to share without danger of giving anything away.

Great post, man...

[Foster]

thanks BB, Great Thread! Its cool to be able to get inside the heads of topiates and find out a little more about their motives and motivation. Its strange I'm so used to being called by my topia handle, I'd probably answer to it if I heard someone call it out in a crowd. lol.

Who's Next??

[rambi]

Originally Posted by camMyco

Great thread Buckaroo!
I was hoping to hear Rambutan confrim what think her name is in reference to, It would certinaly suite her. I degress...

I missed your post Ramb. From what I know of you a Rambutan is deffinatly all you!

thanks cam.
when i was thinking of a nym for here...
i heard it in my head and it was settled.
besides, feels kinda sexy to be an exotic fruit.
ramb

[TastyBeverage]

I was trying to come up with something funny to show off my quirky sense of humor. I had recently seen the clip form Pulp Fiction where Samuel L. Jackson is talking about tasty burgers washed down with a tasty beverage. As i was pondering my handle during the registration process, the song I like Cold Beverages by G Love and Special Sauce started playing on my random shuffle and brought that scene to mind so it seemed appropriate.

[lucysd]

wow cool reason behing your name

hehe i picked my name

cause

.... duh i guess you all already know


makes me wish i picked a cooler name

but all in all, its like when you go to those forums and you see ppl with names like weed, jus weed, and your like jeez that perons been here a while, cuase i bet everybody wants that screename

i was soooo surprised that lucysd wasnt already taken

[mysticwonder]

Always being a great wonderer of the mystery in life I found this to suit me very well. As mysticism means the pursuit of achieving communion, identity with, or conscious awareness of ultimate reality, the Other, divinity, spiritualtruth, or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight. Also one of my favorite quotes is this:

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. : Albert Einstein


Thus mysticwonder was born on topia .

[real_psily]

Mine came from some sort of trouble when we went to the new forum style. I used to use Got Psily, but I screwed up my password and stuff so it was easier to use the new Real Psily. Both are plays off the milk commercials, but with a more thoughtful twist (I hope/claim) I'm a pretty silly fuck when it comes down to it. How silly? Real Psily. I used to go to shows and make my own T's with stuff like "Psily state of Mind" on them and other shit. Yea I know not that deep, but some people who have had psily do not get psily. Maybe the difference between listening and hearing.

[grok]

Grok -
A made up word by the sci-fi author R.A. Heinlein that made it into Websters dictionary.

It's got two meanings - to drink - and to 'understand something in it's full completeness' ... to become one with it and to know it inside & out.

Why grok though? - well, that book really struck a chord with me when I read it in my teens. That language plays a big part in shaping our perception of reality.

In a nutshell - The main character of the story (Stranger in a Strange Land) Michael Valentine Smith was raised by Martians. The Martian language .. well, it's so involved and evolved, that when thinking in this language, not only is your relation to the universe shaped differently, you can also shape the universe.

More so, it made me think about why we think the way we do, what it's all about, basically it really helped in opening up my mind

Anyways, I thought I'd add the definition from Wiki as well (which is from the book itself):

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthly assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

Still a big R.A.H. fan to this day

[BuckarooBanzai]

Nice...

Good to meet ya, grok.