QotD: My Vox Name
How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something?
Submitted by LeendaDLL.
Well, my real name in the real life, the meat world, is Samuel. I got the nickname "Mule" from my friends playing on different pronunciations of it: Sam-mule. It's oddly fitting as I'm stubborn and enjoy long silent walks with a heavy pack on my back. I also am a highly psychic mutant that wasn't part of Hari Seldon't plan. (Or was I?)
I started a Typepad blog at www.TheMewl.com, figuring that with all the blogs out there, my voice would be no louder than a mewl. When it came to the Vox page Six Apart invited me to try, I decided to call this place "Burrito" which means little burro, or little donkey. And being a city boy I never really thought if there was a difference between a mule and a donkey, but there is. That's not why I changed the name from "Burrito" to "Mewlito" though. I'm Polish and didn't want people to think my Vox page is going to be some latino voice here. And "-ito" is the suffix in Spanish that diminutizes the word it attaches to.
So I consider TheMewl.com to be the bigger brother to Mewlito. And it shouldn't be to tough for you movie fans to figure out the fine print of "Demented and strange, but social". If I said any more than John Hughes, it would be telling you.
I really shoulda called this page Toronto Skunk. I could explain that in three sentences at most - "Did you see Strange Brew? You know the end scene when the McKenzies send their crazy drunken Canadian dog to Oktoberfest to drink all the tainted Elsinore Brewery brand beer? The cop walks in and says, "Toronto skunk, my jurisdiction" and I think that is the funniest line in all movie history!"
The funniest line in all teevee history is when Blackadder says something like "Get me my codpiece! Get me 'The Black Russian'!"
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