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Funny :-)

Mine is because I have a high tolerance for Pepsi... I'm a pepsiholic. I'm one of the few people in the world that can taste the Pepsi difference. I swirl it in a glass, smell the bouquet, examine the color, the body etc. It's a talent :-)

 

On a sunny, regular, seemingly mundane day years ago, history was made. A young, ill-tempered male finally decided to register a username so that he could post freely at the "Investment Banking" forum at vault.com.

When he came to the page that asked, "What username would you like to post under?" he noticed that the good-humored creators of Vault had already filled a suggested username into the field - "mrs zala." The young man decided not to erase the suggestion and enter his own screenname, and he moved on, unaware of the notoriety, pain, and suffering that would swirl around that very phrase ("mrs zala") over the next few years. Not to mention the gender confusion it would create...

 

A) I'm hung like a donkey

B) My name is Brian Samual Davidson

C) I close like Rivera

D) I'm a wiseass

---answer---- A and D

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There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

 

I got my name from observing and partaking in the reality that is IBD. It's not a Lifetime movie of the week and you're supposed to suck it up. Hence, "No Tears" allowed in IB. Blood and sweat, sure, but no tears.

 

i was thinking way too long about making a name and i asked myself why the hell am i taking time to think about this, then it popped in my head...as for the numbers, no clue.

 

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