I think it looks like an eye peering through a hole, but that's just me.

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OMG I thought you were a black guy who liked Whodini! LOL. Whodini also had a Back in Black album. LOL

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Is official am off the market. Am engaged to Dave

ms_evelyng is my hotmail add. When I created my screen name I used my alternative email add instead of EvENyc I didn't think it was appropriate since I was moving to PA. Oh and yes my name is Evelyn G is for Garcia
my avatar at the moment is in commemoration of Halloween. I usually have the love, live, laugh bc am very bubbly, caring, and love to laugh.

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Is official am off the market. Am engaged to Dave

Lolly is my childhood family nickname. My parents, brother, uncle, aunt & cousins call me Lolly. (Also sometimes Lollipop.) Everyone else calls me by my real name, which also starts with L.

My avatar is my cat, Boo. We rescued her from an empty lot on 20th Street shortly before I started to post here. (Since then, we also adopted Radley, so lately I've been thinking I might replace my currently avatar with another photo of Boo + Radley.)

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Huh... and here I thought it was supposed to be an Abraham Lincoln beard.... or perhaps the pernicious results of Dubya getting the gingivitis of your screen name...

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"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." -- Robert Wilensky, 1996

Dean is just my first name and, oddly enough, it's what a lot of people call me. I like coffee and I think of it as a symbol for casual conversation.

My screen name works on multiple levels.

The first level is related to my .sig, which you will note contains the phrase "Exile on Market Street." I chose this handle way back when I was still at Penn but not yet in its public relations office. Usenet was da bomb back then, and I was as promiscuous a poster on newsgroups as I was here.

When I found out that I was going to get hired into the PR office, I chose this handle -- which is also a reference to one of the Rolling Stones' greatest albums -- because the office, which had been in Logan Hall until they found the roof above it seriously deteriorated, was located in the Science Center on Market Street. While a mere two blocks from the heart of campus, psychologically, it may as well have been in New Jersey, hence the handle.

But "Exile on Market Street" doesn't make a handy 10- to 15-character screen name (and was thus unusable for AIM), so I used "MarketStEl" as a sort of anagram based on it. Which brings us to the other level: It's also a reference to one of my abiding interests, namely, trolleys, trains and subways (okay, els in this case).

I created my avatar on a Japanese web site that lets you build illustrations of yourself from a palette of tools. It's not quite as accurate as it used to be -- I no longer sport a mustache -- but it's still a good likeness.

But enough about me.

I never commented on this before, but:

Your libertarian politics I can handle.

This is much more difficult to swallow. Recall where I was born and raised.

"Get Fuzzy" often invites that sort of thing. I have on my fridge door the daily strip in which Satchel, the lovable but slightly addlebrained mutt, explains how he got injured at the hands of Stank Lloyd Wrong, the feline "architect" Bucky hired to "expand his closet" (ineptly, of course).

"I implied that a building in Malaysia was taller than the Sears Tower in Chicago," he said.

"He hit you for that?"

"Oh, no, no...he BIT me for that. He bonked me on the head when I challenged Gropius' assertion that architecture is the sign of authentic democracy."

That strip is effin' brilliant, I tell ya.

--Sandy, 49 as of today

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My screen name used to be Winston O'Boogie, which was a pseudonym John Lennon used occasionally when playing on albums by his friends, since he didn't want to steal the spotlight from them. The Beatles are my favorite band, and I love all sorts of useless pop culture trivia (as the former Quizzo team can attest to), so I went with that. But no one "got" it and the full name looks silly so I shortened it to only the first name.

My avatar changes frequently. For the last two months of the Phillies season, it was the cover of Tug McGraw's book Ya Gotta Believe. I'll probably go back to Winston Churchill or my Simpsons avatar soon.

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"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." — Woody Allen

(Avatar stolen from this nifty project.)

Mine is my name (no, I'm not very original). My avatar is the ship Serenity from the movie of the same name and the all-too-short-lived TV series "Firefly."

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