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Gurn Blanston

#20
March 23, 2015, 04:10:49 PM
Quote from: Sammy on March 19, 2015, 11:07:52 AM
My avatar remains the same.  My username was Bulldog; changed it to Sammy when I adopted my silky terrier and named him Sammy.  Then I got a second terrier named Betty Lou.  Being a guy, I didn't change my username.  Why all the dog stuff?  DOGS ARE GREAT!

That wasn't your first user name though... :)

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Gurn Blanston

#21
March 23, 2015, 04:17:23 PM
When I first registered in 2003, I was Gurn Blanston. This was my avatar then:



At some point (in 2008??) we were hacked, and Rob encouraged changing our user names. I changed mine to Gurnatron 5500, because people here used to call me that because I was a question answering automaton. I went back to Gurn in 2011 or so, changed to my current avatar ~2008 also.

That's it. 2 names, 2 avatars. Singularly unadventurous, I must say. 0:)

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Sergeant Rock

#22
March 23, 2015, 04:22:34 PM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 23, 2015, 04:17:23 PM
That's it. 2 names, 2 avatars. Singularly unadventurous, I must say. 0:)

Way more adventurous than me, though. Sergeant Rock I am, Sergeant Rock I will always be.

Sarge
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"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
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Gurn Blanston

#23
March 23, 2015, 04:50:31 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 23, 2015, 04:22:34 PM
Way more adventurous than me, though. Sergeant Rock I am, Sergeant Rock I will always be.

Sarge

Yes, and thank god for it, too!   :)

The name change was a knee-jerk reaction to being given an order, I was a born Corporal. The avatars was on me though... :)

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San Antone

#24
March 23, 2015, 04:50:36 PM
My avatar has changed often, usually a work of abstract art.  I joined as Franco, but quit one day for some reason.  I came back after reading an article about San Antonio having a stretch of highway with an 85 mph speed limit, which appealed to my anarchist streak.  At that time my avatar was a photograph of the speed limit sign on an interstate.

sanantonio I'll be.  My current avatar is of Paul Cezanne, which I chose because of an uncanny resemblance to myself I never knew existed.

mc ukrneal

#25
March 23, 2015, 05:01:50 PM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 23, 2015, 04:17:23 PM
When I first registered in 2003, I was Gurn Blanston. This was my avatar then:



At some point (in 2008??) we were hacked, and Rob encouraged changing our user names. I changed mine to Gurnatron 5500, because people here used to call me that because I was a question answering automaton. I went back to Gurn in 2011 or so, changed to my current avatar ~2008 also.

That's it. 2 names, 2 avatars. Singularly unadventurous, I must say. 0:)

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You had the best name ever during that time. And you gave it all away!!!!! :)

I used to be ukrneal, but when we were hacked, GMG lawyers advised a name change. So I just added mc to ukrneal. I don't really consider it a change, but an evolution.
Be kind to your fellow posters!!

springrite

#26
March 23, 2015, 05:12:24 PM
Quote from: Sammy on March 19, 2015, 11:07:52 AM
My avatar remains the same.  My username was Bulldog; changed it to Sammy when I adopted my silky terrier and named him Sammy.  Then I got a second terrier named Betty Lou.  Being a guy, I didn't change my username.  Why all the dog stuff?  DOGS ARE GREAT!

I would have preferred Betty Lou.  ;)
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Gurn Blanston

#27
March 23, 2015, 05:30:34 PM
The one I liked best though was Archaic Torso of Walter Bruno...  :D

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Archaic Torso of Apollo

#28
March 23, 2015, 05:31:00 PM
I've been through several name changes since first joining GMG back in 2004:

Brian Havergal
Walter Bruno
Otto Skadelig
Spitvalve
Contents under Pressure
Velimir

and now Archaic Torso of Apollo. My current name is the title of a Rilke poem; Otto Skadelig is a fictional composer mentioned in A Clockwork Orange; Spitvalve because I used to play the trombone; Velimir is a tribute to the Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, who actually invented the name and may have been the only person to possess it.
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Archaic Torso of Apollo

#29
March 23, 2015, 05:32:01 PM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 23, 2015, 05:30:34 PM
The one I liked best though was Archaic Torso of Walter Bruno...  :D

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LOL - thanks for providing me with my next name  ;)
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Drasko

#30
March 24, 2015, 12:00:47 PM
Quote from: Archaic Torso of Apollo on March 23, 2015, 05:31:00 PM
Velimir is a tribute to the Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, who actually invented the name and may have been the only person to possess it.

Maybe he was the only one in Russia but it's pretty common name in Serbia and Croatia.


On topic: I never changed the screen name, it's the same from day one. It's actually my real life nickname (minus the diacritic on s ... I could add that now). Avatars did change, a lot at one period, but not recently.

Bogey

#31
March 24, 2015, 12:04:56 PM
Quote from: Sammy on March 19, 2015, 11:07:52 AM
My avatar remains the same.  My username was Bulldog; changed it to Sammy when I adopted my silky terrier and named him Sammy.  Then I got a second terrier named Betty Lou.  Being a guy, I didn't change my username.  Why all the dog stuff?  DOGS ARE GREAT!

I remember a dog with its head out the window heading to the beach.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

#32
March 24, 2015, 12:05:21 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on March 19, 2015, 10:58:42 AM
Great series!  I just started reading the novels, and enjoy them as well.

Yes.  great stuff!
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Lisztianwagner

#33
March 24, 2015, 12:31:09 PM
I have never changed my user name (it has always been Lisztianwagner), but I occasionally changed my avatar: I remember the very first one was Richard Wagner tsken from the standard pictures in the forum gallery, once Liszt, then I sometimes had Karajan's image. About the Santa avatars: Santa Karajan and a double-faced Liszt-Wagner.
"You cannot expect the Form before the Idea, for they will come into being together." - Arnold Schönberg

Gurn Blanston

#34
March 24, 2015, 01:35:49 PM
Quote from: Draško on March 24, 2015, 12:00:47 PM
Maybe he was the only one in Russia but it's pretty common name in Serbia and Croatia.


On topic: I never changed the screen name, it's the same from day one. It's actually my real life nickname (minus the diacritic on s ... I could add that now). Avatars did change, a lot at one period, but not recently.

Always liked your avatar. :)

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prémont

#35
March 25, 2015, 10:17:09 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 23, 2015, 04:17:23 PM
At some point (in 2008??) we were hacked, and Rob encouraged changing our user names

I joined the old forum 2005 and have kept my username all the time except for a few months, when we were hacked, but this change caused rather much confusion. My avatar however I have changed 4 or 5 times, and will do again
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Gurn Blanston

#36
March 25, 2015, 10:40:13 AM
Quote from: (: premont :) on March 25, 2015, 10:17:09 AM
I joined the old forum 2005 and have kept my username all the time except for a few months, when we were hacked, but this change caused rather much confusion. My avatar however I have changed 4 or 5 times, and will do again

Didn't you add the (:  : )  things in response to the hack? I remember a couple of people did that, at least for a while.

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prémont

#37
March 25, 2015, 11:39:16 AM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 25, 2015, 10:40:13 AM
Didn't you add the (:  : )  things in response to the hack? I remember a couple of people did that, at least for a while.

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Oh, yes  -  you are right. I could add these without disguising myself, and even add an emoticon x 2 at the same time. :)
Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Drasko

#38
March 25, 2015, 12:18:36 PM
Quote from: Gurn Blanston on March 24, 2015, 01:35:49 PM
Always liked your avatar. :)

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The Arlecchino mask? Thanks, I'm quite fond of it myself, It's not likely going to change anytime soon.

Gurn Blanston

#39
March 25, 2015, 04:15:51 PM
Quote from: Draško on March 25, 2015, 12:18:36 PM
The Arlecchino mask? Thanks, I'm quite fond of it myself, It's not likely going to change anytime soon.

I've always liked the symbolism. The original Opus 111 Vivaldi/Biondi disks had a few masks that were excellent, so very Venetian!   :)

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