[GCFL-discuss] Eye Test

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

"A Siarlys by any other name would still be Siarlys." ;) (Ok so it was a
twist of Shakespear's quote)
--Lance

On 3/11/06, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:
>
>  Feel free to snarl... some of my best friends do also. No, I have never
> used my real name in this discussion group. I try to keep my life in two
> distinct categories, my real name, and this name. Under this name, I post
> articles to a blog nobody reads, published two books that almost nobody has
> read yet, and occasionally publish articles in *The Wittenburg Door*,
> probably the world's only religious humor magazine. (The March/April issue
> has my satirical remarks on neo-pagans, which you can find briefly mentioned
> at www.thedoormagazine.com, but the full article is not online. I could
> post it here, but I don't know if anyone wants to read it. I hear the next
> issue will have my article on the Communist Party of China warmly welcoming
> American missionaries who teach "the powers that be are ordained by God" and
> related verses on obedience to government. I reserve my legal name for
> paying bills, working, visiting friends, making reservations at Amtrak, etc.
> I'm afraid if my written stuff ever becomes well known, it could intrude on
> my privacy -- or some nonsense like that. Everyone knows that Lewis Carroll
> was really Charles Dodgson -- but nobody cared until people started reading
> Lewis Carroll's books. Dodgson always denied any connection.
>
> Why did I use Siarlys for the discussion group? I don't know, I think it
> was a toss-up, but once I started, I tried to be consistent. This email is
> based on the name Siarlys Jenkins. The last name comes from my mother's
> father's mother's family, the Welsh branch that I like to identify with,
> although I can claim five or ten other nationalities and ethnicities. Of
> course I don't know your last name, and I wouldn't know if Jeanene was your
> first name, middle name, or a made-up name, if you hadn't mentioned it. By
> any name, I am still the opinionated loud mouth who believes every point
> should be discussed to ten degrees of factual detail, that you love and
> hate.
>
> Siarlys
>
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