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[wwidsith]

Because I spent my formative years wandering half-drunk around as many foreign countries as I could get to, I have always loved books and poems about travel and what it means.  One of the reasons I fell so hugely in love with Old English when I first started learning it is that they kept alive this Germanic heroic tradition of deep metaphysical

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[cicipsychobunny]

In intermediate school (ages 11/12) my best friend and I (and still best friends to this day, even) had a habit of creating random alter egos to play out our vast amounts of pent-up brains/preteen hyperactivity/creativity. Our most lasting pair were CiCi the Psychobunny and Fred the Kamikaze Warpigeon. A few years later I found the wonders of the Internet and adopted CiCi as my online persona. CiCi's like Jessica Rabbit, only hyped up on caffeine and crushing her enemies with a gigantic mallet.

[wwidsith]

That is certainly an enduring image. I am so intrigued by the kamikaze warpigeon...

[cicipsychobunny]

Well, that's the occasional problem with non-streamed classes: the smart/overactive-imagination kids get bored and come up with the craziest stuff to kill time.

[wwidsith]

Tell me about it. At my school I formed a quasi-religious cult who worshipped a mythical substance called "The Milk That Never Betrays". If I ever remembered where that came from, I have repressed it

[commonpeople]

Mine comes from the Pulp song of the same name. It was my friend roguejournal who created it, so we could use it as a communal journal (me, her, plus some other people). But, because nobody else used it, I eventually changed the password and made it all my own. It's been... seven years now!

[wwidsith]

I assumed it would have something to do with Pulp. Actually, in a four-way argument last week, I was making the case for that song being the best song of the 90s.

[desayuno_ingles]

I once tried to argue with an ex why Flood was the best album of the 90s over Achtung Baby. It was kind of hard to do.

[rag_and_bone]

WB Yeats

[wwidsith]

One of my favourites. I had no idea that's where you named yourself from...that's really cool.

[muckefuck]

I don't know why we were talking about ersatzkaffee in a café in Germany, but one of the students in my programme insisted that the German word for it was "Muckefuck", which none of us--not even the waitress--had ever heard before. We thought she had munged an ordinary word like Malzkaffee ("malt coffee"--what I believe you might call "Caro" and your American readers would know as "Postum") and she was lucky to ever hear the end of the mockery.

Imagine my surprise to discover--years later--that she'd actually been in the right! Muckefuck is originally a Rhenish word, however, and although it's used in northern cities like Berlin, our programme was in the deep South where it's apparently unknown. Amused, I took it for an e-mail alias back when I was changing that on a whim every couple of months (a habit I must've picked up from my Usenet friends).

When my friend welcomerain invited me to get an account so I could read her Friends-locked entries, I never dreamed that six years later she'd be off LiveJournal completely and I'd have posted more

[wwidsith]

Wow! I thought there was something German going on, but I never realised it was an actual word. Fantastic...that explains the icon then..

[desayuno_ingles]

Oh, awesome! I always wondered about the provenance of your name.

My photo meme from a few posts ago shows what mine comes from:

When I was first learning Spanish, I was also suddenly obsessed with English breakfast tea. I wanted to practice speaking Spanish, but the only place I was really able to at the time were the bodegas (corner stores, in the parlance of NYC), so I would ask for "desayuno ingles, grande, con leche y asucer, por favor!"

[wwidsith]

oh I SEE it's a tea. To me, desayuno inglés suggests bacon & eggs....

[desayuno_ingles]

oh, right right, totally! and fried tomatoes and beans.