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[milhouse]

I would wear a ball cap to cover mine but I look dumb in hats and I can't find a hat that has something on it that I would actually care about.

  The offical Achewood cap maybe?

[chuanoplast]

Hats are awesome and I await the day they start selling large floppy hats with dead animals, ribbons, and wax fruit lavishly piled around the brim.

[Ben-San]

Why did I have the impression you were of Chinese descent?

I dunno, really. I can think of three possible reasons.

1: The vaguely Japaneseish screen name, as smets suggests; this is actually short for "Ben-San Arizona" and has less to do with Japan and more to do with having been really, really into cult sci-fi films when I first hit the Internet.
2: I have for whatever reason a pronounced epicanthic fold and generally more-beige-than-pink skin tone, which are both kind of enhanced by the "missing person last known photo" shenanigans I performed on the one picture of me I've posted here.
3: The Chinese and the Ashkenazic Jews both have serious multigenerational parental issues that derive from being patriarchal poor-as-shit rural cultures with extraordinarily rigid structures of law and tradition which simultaneously venerate advanced education while not traditionally having the time or money to pursue it as much as they think they should, which are then massively disrupted by a sweepingly transformative social event that attempted to destroy their society as it had previously existed (The Great Leap Forward and the Holocaust respectively).

[AugustWest]

I dunno, really. I can think of three possible reasons.

1: The vaguely Japaneseish screen name, as smets suggests; this is actually short for "Ben-San Arizona" and has less to do with Japan and more to do with having been really, really into cult sci-fi films when I first hit the Internet.
2: I have for whatever reason a pronounced epicanthic fold and generally more-beige-than-pink skin tone, which are both kind of enhanced by the "missing person last known photo" shenanigans I performed on the one picture of me I've posted here.
3: The Chinese and the Ashkenazic Jews both have serious multigenerational parental issues that derive from being patriarchal poor-as-shit rural cultures with extraordinarily rigid structures of law and tradition which simultaneously venerate advanced education while not traditionally having the time or money to pursue it as much as they think they should, which are then massively disrupted by a sweepingly transformative social event that attempted to destroy their society as it had previously existed (The Great Leap Forward and the Holocaust respectively).

IT'S ALL CHING CHONG WING WONG

[wombat]

this is actually short for "Ben-San Arizona" and has less to do with Japan and more to do with having been really, really into cult sci-fi films when I first hit the Internet.

And this is the ching chong wing wongiest part. What??

[linnea]

Hats are awesome and I await the day they start selling large floppy hats with dead animals, ribbons, and wax fruit lavishly piled around the brim.

Quoted and CAN'D for sweet, sweet truth.

[jaydub]

As an aside, I just had to google what "IIRC" meant.

The internet is generating abbreviations faster than I can learn them, I must be getting old.

This one is actually pretty long in the tooth.  We were using it back in USENET days during the early '90s at least.

[jay-ell]

This one is actually pretty long in the tooth.  We were using it back in USENET days during the early '90s at least.

Yeah, I used this one as far back as Yahoo Chat during my freshman year of college. 

IIRC, that is. 

Sorry.  Couldn't resist. 

I did have to look up QFT in Urban Dictionary a couple of months ago, so don't feel bad. 

[CortJstr]

Yeah, I used this one as far back as Yahoo Chat during my freshman year of college. 

IIRC, that is. 

Sorry.  Couldn't resist. 

I did have to look up QFT in Urban Dictionary a couple of months ago, so don't feel bad. 

When I saw people using GGG here I spent a few minutes wondering what German Goo Girls had to do with the current topic.

[Ben-San]

And this is the ching chong wing wongiest part. What??

The basic form: The film Dark Star was more or less John Carpenter's student project reworked into a feature-length film. One recurring soundtrack element is a space country-western/trucker song named "Benson, Arizona". The town of Benson, AZ, as a result, plays host to annual Dark Star fan meetups. I've never been there (I'm not enough of a fan of the film to travel to Arizona over it), but when I was trying to think of something that sounded like a name and also conveyed being a gigantic dork over cult sci-fi films "Ben-San Arizona" came to mind.

Nowadays I mostly use "Ben-San" and people assume it's because I'm a dork over Japanese culture. Which is admittedly also true but not the point of origin.

[wombat]

That looks like a good movie. I'd never heard of it.

Being a dork about Japanese language, I wonder if it would be OK to use Ben-San as a screen name in Japanese when you never refer to yourself with the prefix -san.  But I guess you can do whatever you want with screen names. No one would think twice about Mr. Ben as a screen name even though you'd never introduce yourself as Mr. Ben.

[Golfhaus]

I think I'd have just gone with "Benson" and used a picture of Robert Guillaume as an avatar.

And it took me about a month to figure out what FTW was.

[littlefallsmets]

Me too and... even then... "Fuck Tiger Woods!"?

What'd Tiger Woods ever do to you?

[CortJstr]

Me too and... even then... "Fuck Tiger Woods!"?

What'd Tiger Woods ever do to you?

For a while I could only think of Fuck The World. But for that I blame Taz.

[theinevitable]

I... I still read it as Fuck The World. As in "this is so awesome that it's like a middle finger to the whole world."