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Cyrus C.

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What's the story behind your username?

Mine is kind of obvious because it's my name.. so I'll do Cyrok215, my former username:

My first account was on Lego.com when I was 6 or something, I wanted to be Cy but it was already taken. So it gave me some options and one of them was Cy215, I chose that one. A bit later I tried registering for Runescape but it didn't work on macs at the time, about a year or 2 later I tried again, this time it did work but I couldn't remember my pass word. So I called myself Cyro215, Cyro being a nickname in real life. Now I tried making a youtube account, I forgot about it for a while and then when I got interested again, I couldn't remember the password. So I made Cyrok215 because For some reason people had started to call me Cyro Karat... So then I made Cyrok215 here and changed it to Cyrus C.

So what's the story behind YOUR username?
 
I'm a saltwater fish hobbyist. I am also a firecrafter and boyscout, so fire by friction is another one of my hobbies. Pez is spanish for fish (or so I'm told). Fuego=fire.

Get it?
 
For starters, I have always found potatoes to be the most smug of all the tubers in the world. The way they would always push themselves into my meals, be it as fries, mashed, fried, whatever. I started to think to myself long ago, "Hey, what's so great about potatoes? Back off man, give Cassava a chance to shine!" And so it went until one day I finally decided to tell these spuds what's what. I began to insult them. Every potato I saw I had to jibe. They would stare at me menacingly until I couldn't take that smug, self righteous attitude any more and I would let loose a quip, or as it is less commonly called, a quib. It was thus that my family began to call me "The Spud Quibber." I quickly became attached to this moniker and intended to use it for my online identity. Alas the internet was young and irc channels had a 7 character limit for user names; "Spud Quibber" I could not be. It was from there a logical leap to simply remove the vowels (and any duplicate characters) which allowed me to safely sail under this rather absurd restriction. And that is how I became spdqbr.
 
For starters, I have always found potatoes to be the most smug of all the tubers in the world. The way they would always push themselves into my meals, be it as fries, mashed, fried, whatever. I started to think to myself long ago, "Hey, what's so great about potatoes? Back off man, give Cassava a chance to shine!" And so it went until one day I finally decided to tell these spuds what's what. I began to insult them. Every potato I saw I had to jibe. They would stare at me menacingly until I couldn't take that smug, self righteous attitude any more and I would let loose a quip, or as it is less commonly called, a quib. It was thus that my family began to call me "The Spud Quibber." I quickly became attached to this moniker and intended to use it for my online identity. Alas the internet was young and irc channels had a 7 character limit for user names; "Spud Quibber" I could not be. It was from there a logical leap to simply remove the vowels (and any duplicate characters) which allowed me to safely sail under this rather absurd restriction. And that is how I became spdqbr.

That was grand.
 
For starters, I have always found potatoes to be the most smug of all the tubers in the world. The way they would always push themselves into my meals, be it as fries, mashed, fried, whatever. I started to think to myself long ago, "Hey, what's so great about potatoes? Back off man, give Cassava a chance to shine!" And so it went until one day I finally decided to tell these spuds what's what. I began to insult them. Every potato I saw I had to jibe. They would stare at me menacingly until I couldn't take that smug, self righteous attitude any more and I would let loose a quip, or as it is less commonly called, a quib. It was thus that my family began to call me "The Spud Quibber." I quickly became attached to this moniker and intended to use it for my online identity. Alas the internet was young and irc channels had a 7 character limit for user names; "Spud Quibber" I could not be. It was from there a logical leap to simply remove the vowels (and any duplicate characters) which allowed me to safely sail under this rather absurd restriction. And that is how I became spdqbr.

Aye, I remember the day you announced your newfound moniker to the cubing world. Finally it was the case that someone had the guts to stand up to this pesky tuber and show it who's boss.

Stinking spuds. They do deserve such quibs, don't they?

Chris
 
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