How did you decide on your current username and profile picture?

[Backroads]

2 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. 

Florida jokes make us cry. All the way to Disney. 😜 

I can't say I fault you.

[LDSGator]

1 minute ago, HaggisShuu said:

This is devastating news for me. I must admit, as a true Bri'ish citizen, with very bad teeth. My knowledge of what Americans are like come from the following sources:

The discovery Channel
The Tabernacle Choir
All the America fast food chains which are suddenly popping up in the UK
Florida man articles

Not likely a balanced view on things.

That’s cool. I get the British confused with the Irish. The Scots. The Welsh. Those from Jupiter.  

[LDSGator]

2 minutes ago, Backroads said:

I can't say I fault you.

Universal just opened Epic Universe down here. We can’t wait to go. 

[HaggisShuu]

22 minutes ago, LDSGator said:

That’s cool. I get the British confused with the Irish. The Scots. The Welsh. Those from Jupiter.  

Also probably the very tall quakers from the moon. 
 

If you want to figure out who the English man is. Get a Welshman, Scottish man and Irish man in a room with an English man, and the English one will be sat in the corner while the others point and laugh. 

[Traveler]

1 hour ago, HaggisShuu said:

My wife and I both want to visit USA at some point, but both for different reasons. I want to go to Salt Lake, she wants to go to Disney World. America is too big to see both in one trip! 

We got family in Utah who says it sucks, and the Salt lake is Gross. Which is not helping to sway the wife to my side. 

Salt Lake area along with most of Utah is high altitude desert which makes this a unique place.  There are similarities to Israel and the Holy Land – except Utah is roughly 1,525 meters elevated.  Bear Lake topography is much like the Sea of Galilee.   Utah has incredible mountains which lends to skiing, mountain biking, four wheeling, white water rafting, hiking and many other outdoor activities.  My brother has a land yacht, but that is an extreme sport activity. There are some profound paved cycling routes following rivers and other unique routes.  The desert mountains are far more scenic than Disneyland, much less expensive (like free) and void of annoying crowds (with the exceptions of Zions and Arches National Parks).  

As a member of the LDS faith, you may want to visit and do temple work in one of the Pioneer era temples.  I regret that you will not have an opportunity to attend a live session (they are a thing of the past).   I also regret that none of the old meeting houses of my ancestors have been preserved.

You ought to visit Brigham Young University – If you come in August, you can attend education week.  This is basically 2 weeks of experts (mostly professors) presenting lessons in LDS history, theology and other subjects of interest to LDS.

If you visit Utah, the only unique food is fry sauce that you can get with your patio fries and hamburgers (or fish and chips).  Visiting temple square is also a must.  If someone is into tourist traps and standing for hours in lines – Utah really sucks. 

 

The Traveler

[HaggisShuu]

11 minutes ago, Traveler said:

Salt Lake area along with most of Utah is high altitude desert which makes this a unique place.  There are similarities to Israel and the Holy Land – except Utah is roughly 1,525 meters elevated.  Bear Lake topography is much like the Sea of Galilee.   Utah has incredible mountains which lends to skiing, mountain biking, four wheeling, white water rafting, hiking and many other outdoor activities.  My brother has a land yacht, but that is an extreme sport activity. There are some profound paved cycling routes following rivers and other unique routes.  The desert mountains are far more scenic than Disneyland, much less expensive (like free) and void of annoying crowds (with the exceptions of Zions and Arches National Parks).  

As a member of the LDS faith, you may want to visit and do temple work in one of the Pioneer era temples.  I regret that you will not have an opportunity to attend a live session (they are a thing of the past).   I also regret that none of the old meeting houses of my ancestors have been preserved.

You ought to visit Brigham Young University – If you come in August, you can attend education week.  This is basically 2 weeks of experts (mostly professors) presenting lessons in LDS history, theology and other subjects of interest to LDS.

If you visit Utah, the only unique food is fry sauce that you can get with your patio fries and hamburgers (or fish and chips).  Visiting temple square is also a must.  If someone is into tourist traps and standing for hours in lines – Utah really sucks. 

 

The Traveler

You make a far better pitch! 
I would like to see temple square and do some temple work, and if we time it right, a session of general conference. But I don't want to overdo it on the Church front. I've seen youtube videos and the mountains constantly in the background make it look like a fairytale land. I'd like to spend as much time soaking up that outdoor scenery as possible as there is very little like it in the UK. 
 

We have the Peak district (a national park famous for mountains) and the lake district (famous for lakes, which is ironically home to Englands tallest mountain - not the peak district) where you can look over and see mountains as part of your back garden view. These are very nice places of course, but don't look much like Utah. 

[zil2]

Salt Lake and neighboring valleys are also home to at least 7 of the people on this board, you know, in case you wanted to attempt to meet any virtual person in real life.

You could plan for 2027, when the Salt Lake Temple open house is scheduled...    (At least, I think it's 2027. I highly recommend against trying to come during the Olympics - I fully expect the Lord to burn Salt Lake City to the ground during that event (presumably He'll preserve the temple, though)... )

[Ironhold]

About 20 years ago I was trying to join a Transformers fan forum. 

It was a very large, very popular forum at the time, and had also been around for a while. Cue me discovering the hard way that most of the usernames I'd been using on other forums were already taken. 

In a fit of frustration, I picked a character from some fan fiction I'd been writing at the time. 

It worked. 

Some of the users there were also on a few other forums I was going to at the time, so I kept the same username across each forum. 

As far as the picture goes, it was one of several dozen pre-prepared images on one forum I went to a long, long time ago that we could use as our avatars. It was so long ago that I don't even remember the forum I got it from, and said forum likely doesn't exist anymore anyway. 

[MrShorty]

I took my username from an old Marty Robbins western ballad of the same name. I felt a particular kinship, I guess, with the titular character, as I, too, would be "judged to be about 5 foot three, but without the soft Texas drawl."

[mrmarklin]

My user name is reflective of my main hobby. Model trains. It is the brand name of the trains I run and collect. 

[Backroads]

14 hours ago, Ironhold said:

About 20 years ago I was trying to join a Transformers fan forum. 

It was a very large, very popular forum at the time, and had also been around for a while. Cue me discovering the hard way that most of the usernames I'd been using on other forums were already taken. 

In a fit of frustration, I picked a character from some fan fiction I'd been writing at the time. 

It worked. 

I love everything about this story. 

[mikbone]

Concatenation of my last name and profession.  A nickname that stuck during my first year of residency internship.

The image of Lurch is a nod to my personality.

[NeuroTypical]

28 minutes ago, mikbone said:

Concatenation of my last name and profession.

Dr. Miklebergenstein, bone bender?

[SilentOne]

I tend to be more of a listener than a talker. And I have also lurked on most boards for a significant period of time before joining them, including both this one and the one for which I originally used this name.

The picture I made, using a couple creative commons images as templates, to go along with the name.

And what I've heard about the Florida Man stories is that we hear so much about Florida men because their freedom of information laws make it particularly easy to find the weird crimes if someone's looking for something to write about.

[mordorbund]

Brøderbund is the software company that created the Carmen Sandiego games. And Mordor is, well, Mordor.

I downloaded gimp and learned just enough to make a matching avatar. I haven’t used it since. When the forum software changed and we had to upload our avatars again I had to first download it from the Wayback Machine.

As long as we’re talking about old times, who wants to discuss the chat feature?

[zil2]

2 hours ago, mordorbund said:

chat

Wait, is this English chat, or French (aka Gaul) le chat?

[mordorbund]

9 hours ago, zil2 said:

Wait, is this English chat, or French (aka Gaul) le chat?

<gallic shrug>

[Carborendum]

10 hours ago, zil2 said:

Wait, is this English chat, or French (aka Gaul) le chat?

1 hour ago, mordorbund said:

<gallic shrug>

Edited May 9 by Carborendum