Nickname Meme

[icarus]

Gacked from epicyclical and loup_noir:

If you call me Icarus, you read slash, and probably Harry Potter fanfiction.

If you call me Maril, you know me from religious discussions on high-falutin' Tolkien sites and are a friend (or worthy opponent).

If you all me Marileangorifurnimaluim, you've read a post of mine from the high-falutin' Tolkien sites and don't know there's a shorter, friendlier version of that name.

If you call me Z, you're Mark, but I don't see how you could be because he disappeared into the wilderness with a Buddhist mala, a ton of outdoor gear and a plan. Last seen inhabiting a toilet.

If you call me by my full Buddhist name, you know me from a certain book but have never met me. In all likelihood you either hate me with an unreasoning passion thinly overlaid with the usual Buddhist platitudes, or are impressed. Depending on your politics and who your spiritual teacher is.

If you call me by my real name in a tight, awkward way, you're my mother and a number of other Buddhists who've decided I don't deserve a Buddhist name even though that's all you've used for the last 20 years. I deliberately use my Buddhist name with you. *smirk*

If you call me by my shortened Buddhist name, you knew me from India or a retreat somewhere.

If you know me from a variety of made-up names, I've signed an online petition. I don't believe the claims that my name won't be sold (and based on the name, I know who sold it).

If you know me as Amber, you're from Safeway.

If you call me Mamma Kitty, Pumpkin, et al, and have trouble remembering my real name, you're wildernessguru. Hi Sweet Pea, I don't know your name either.

If you call me dink, you're dad.

If you call me "Hello Dinkbird" you're a spammer.

If you call me by my real name, you're worried that it takes me a minute to respond.

Comments

[icarusinwax.livejournal.com]

Marileangorifurnimaluim
im too tired to translate, what does it mean? sindarin or quenya?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I totally invented it. I was just being flip about Tolkien's long-winded names. Everyone has decided that since it's untranslatable it must be some long-lost dialect of the Entwives.

Marileangorifurnimaluim ;)

[icarusinwax.livejournal.com]

lol, *tuts*

cazzo am reading Cassandra claire fiction in finnish.
1) i never thought id read anything by her again because she writes het, but its in finnish and i need to brush up
2) the finnish language is SUCH a pain in the arse.
3) snape is called professori Kalkaros
*sniggers*

[sarka.livejournal.com]

Marileangorifurnimaluim

How on earth can you remember all that?

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I learned to pronounce it!

Icarus

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

I dub thee the great "Icky"

Now isn't that a nice name - btw - I need to talk to you sometime - bout the Bush thingy - mommy has jumped onto bandwagon in trying to inform people (Americans) too, and she needs good sources. I figured you're probably one of the best people to ask.

*hugs*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh? What can I do to help?

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Actually, I picked the name Icarus for a few reasons. One, it was to remind myself not to let my ego get too inflated if people like my stories. Two, I was a member of all these conservative Lord Of The Rings sites and I learned of slash because someone was complaining about it. So I deliberately picked the name "Ick" when I started writing it, laughing over how they'd react if they knew. ;)

As for sources, gosh I'll try to dig them up. A lot of the articles I read are from waaaay back when the ENRON scandal first broke, with Dick Cheney's involvement in it.

He had a lot of private meetings with Kenneth Lay, the head of ENRON, during the drafting of the Bush Administration energy policy that Cheney's refused to turn over the records concerning -- citing national security. Scrutiny of our energy policy turned up certain provisions regarding our energy policy with regards to India that could only benefit ENRON. This came out during the investigation of the ENRON scandal a couple years ago.

Dick Cheney was high up in Haliburton, an oil company that was recently kicked out of Iraq because it was overcharging the US Gov't for oil (we haven't been able to get the pipelines working, so we're actually shipping oil TO Iraq). This was on Yahoo news. Haliburton is also under investigation for dealings with "rogue nations" like Iran. They got around our laws by having "offices" in non-US territories. This was in a 60 Minutes report -- 60 Minutes visited these Haliburton "offices" only to find there were no employees.

Early in the Bush Administration (I think it was the Washington Post) news reports covered how this Vice President is taking the most active role of any VP in our history. Senators noted that they needed to contact Cheney to reach the president. This is very unusual. There's been little coverage of this otherwise, and it's one of those things that are known, but aren't official so there's no real proof. Sort of like Hillary Clinton's involvement in the day-to-day politics of the White House during her husband's tenure. Everyone knew she did this, you either liked it or you didn't, but there was nothing you could do about it.

As for specifics on oil-friendly policies during the Bush administration, wildernessguru has a friend who has a massive collection of links. I'll get those to you sometime this weekend.

As far as the economic situation and the effect of the WTO Trade agreements, the trade agreement that worries me most is the Government Services Act or GPA. This says that a state can't pass a law that's prejudiced against another country... which means we couldn't, say, Boycott South Africa like we did in the 1980's. It also means that states can't protect their own interests -- they have to prove that work sent overseas has been unfairly slanted towards that other country:

1) Parties to the agreement must give the products, services and suppliers of other parties treatment no less favorable than that accorded to domestic products, services and suppliers;
2) Parties must not treat locally-established suppliers less favorably than other suppliers on the basis of foreign affiliation or ownership; and
3) Parties must not discriminate against locally-established suppliers on the basis of the country of production of the good or service being supplied.

I'll start collecting links. Which of these issues is she most interested in (where should I start)?

Icarus

[nataliadarimini.livejournal.com]

*pokes you and calls you "Bob"*
*flees*

[nykohl.livejournal.com]

Do you mean Safeway like the grocery store Safeway? Completely irrelevant little tidbit of information, my mother's the deli manager at a Safeway in BC.

I like the sound of...Spuk. Spuk is good.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they have their little "tracking cards" where you get special deals? I refuse to have people track my info, so I give them fake names.

Icarus

[wildernessguru.livejournal.com]

What do you mean? Your name is Mamma Kitty.