Icon + Interest meme

[pne]

via kamara

Comment and I will give you 3 interests on your list, and 3 icons, for you to explain.

I was given: natural born speeseburger, toki pona, and ελληνικά; and , , and .

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Natural Born Speeseburger

This is a band some of my friends formed. I'm not entirely sure what the history of their name is.

Part of the joke of the last word, though, hinges on a German pun between "Cheeseburger" (cheeseburger) and "Spießbürger" (a square, someone who is very conventional -- I think).

toki pona

Toki Pona is a language created by sonjaaa (Sonja Elen Kisa).

It's got a very small vocabulary (118 words, I think), so you either have to string lots of words together or remain more ambiguous—I think the latter is part of the philosophy behind the language, namely to simplify your life. It's surely not a coincidence that "pona" means both "good" and "simple" (among other things).

ελληνικά

This says "Greek" (as in the language), in Greek.

I learned Greek, mostly during two years I spent in Greece and on Cyprus. I think this makes me one of comparatively few people with no Greek ancestry to have learned the language.

Ah :)

Back in 2002, there was this girl I sometimes saw on the bus on my way home from work, who I thought was kind of cute.

I didn't dare speak to her for quite a while, so I just called her "the bus girl" to myself.

I posted entries about my encounters with her to a special custom friends group (and, later, a dedicated shared journal: bus_girl), and used this icon when I did so.

Eventually, I talked to her. I'd still meet her occasionally for a while.

However, once I had got to know her a little, she wasn't as mysterious, so I didn't post so much about her any more. And I haven't seen her again since our office moved and I stopped taking that bus. (The last entry in bus_girl is from August 2004.)

The icon is still left over from then.

This userpic says "pne" in Braille.

I believe this is supposed to say "All your base are belong to us".

I don't remember where I got it, but I thought it funny—not least because quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur "anything said in Latin appears profound". So the combination of Engrish grammar and the gravitas of Latin tickles my funny bone.

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[arthur-sc-king.livejournal.com]

Me please.

[pne.livejournal.com]

• singing from the diaphragm


• footwork impecc-able


• amputation

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[arthur-sc-king.livejournal.com]

Well, I used to be on LJ under a different handle, but some hassles with my ex led to me nuking that account and creating a more "anonymous" one. In this account, my alter ego is King Arthur, so-called king of the Britons, from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/).

When they get to Camelot in the movie, the knights at Camelot sing an odd song (http://youtube.com/watch?v=D_6vYDCG0P8) that talks about things like "footwork impecc-able" (pronounced "im-peck-ay-ble") and "we sing from the diaphragm-a-lot" (to rhyme with "Camelot"). The "amputation" bit refers to King Arthur's epic battle against the Black Knight (http://youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno), in which Arthur removes said knight's limbs one by one.

As for the icons:

I started playing trombone in junior high school at age 10. When I got to high school, my band director suggested to my parents that I move up from the Yamaha student trombone I'd been playing to a professional model. The store in Vancouver that he talked to recommended the King 4B (http://www.kingwinds.com/content/detail.php?item=2104F), which I've now owned for 30 years. It's my primary instrument. I play a lot of different instruments — tuba, baritone/euphonium, a bit of trumpet, French horn, recorder, tin whistle, bass guitar, keyboards — but trombone is the main one. I also now have a King 2B (http://www.kingwinds.com/content/detail.php?item=2102), vintage about 1939, that I bought on eBay a few years back, but the 4B is my baby. It travelled with me all over the Arctic on one band trip or another. It was actually stolen from our house in a break-and-enter a few years ago, but fortunately I found it in a pawn shop three months later.

I lived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowknife%2C_Northwest_Territories) from 1971 to 2001. There is a huge herd of caribou (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barren-ground_Caribou) that passes by town twice a year, often hanging around the roads as in the picture above, snaffled from the local newspaper a while ago.

This is Mr. Creosote from the film Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/). In the film, Mr. Creosote enters a restaurant, orders everything on the menu, and makes room for it all by vomiting copiously (http://youtube.com/watch?v=BlK62rjQWLk). I won't describe the climax of the sketch; if you haven't seen it, just click on the link and let Youtube show you. It's amazing. Anyhow, I identify with Mr. Creosote because I'm a glutton, and hence weigh about 20-25 kg more than I should. I do not, however, indulge in bulimia (but I do like a nice after-dinner mint...).

Hope that all makes sense.