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BuffaloHawk
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Growing up in Buffalo I was always a huge Seahawks fan. I would always take road trips to see them when they played in the NorthEast. In the early 90's I decided to come out to Seattle to see them play at home. I spent over a week out here and fell in love with the Seattle area. I started researching Western Washington and decided to give it a shot. I moved out here February 1997 and have never wanted to leave.
Buffalo + Seahawks = BuffaloHawk
great idea
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nice topic Buff!
funny that it would be the football team of all things to entice your move (especially with the Bills coming off that awesome run of four Superbowl appearances).
most people see my username and probably assume I'm some arrogant jerk.
I actually concocted my username as direct respose to a post that I thought was ridiculous. the "great idea" was meant as a sarcastic reply to some hare-brained idea someone had.
so the truth is I'm not arrogant. just a jerk.
BuffaloHawk
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GI.. Imagine if we could change our username whenever we wanted to especially in some of the heated threads. That would be EPIC
My parents have a bar back in Buffalo and I would wear my Seahawks clothes when bartending sometimes. My poor father would get so irritated and tell me I was born in Buffalo and I am supposed to be a Bills fan.
Ballard Ninja
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I'm a ninja and I live in Ballard.
I didn't come up with mine. It was given to me a long time ago...but I like it.
phoo
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It's a mutation of foo, which is as anonymous as you can be from a linux perspective. I've had a number of people ask me if I am asian, heh.
Cheese
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I like Cheese.
Nothing more, nothing less
If you please.
BuffaloHawk
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Rudy when I see you post i sometimes get this earworm... Great Song
"Message to you Rudy" The Specials
Ha! Great song. One of those sunny-day-with-the-windows-rolled-down songs. :)
BuffaloHawk
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MTV used to play music videos back then
pandabur
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Love the Specials. The song Ghost Town rings in my head at the office at 4:55pm on a Friday...
Panda has been a rhyming nickname and the Bur part is from a friend saying Bur instead of Bear. Simple :)
erryn77
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Um, it is my name with a 77.
Nora Bell
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Ah, The Specials. Love that song.
Mine is just my cat's name. With 'Bell' added because the Disqus system already had a Nora registered.
Gilman Girl
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I live by Gilman Park.
HenryVIII
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His graces predecessor was Henry VII so the choice was obvious.
SEdholm
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For the boards: My first name is Steve, my last is Edholm.
For the articles (since I had it before I knew of myballard): Vikinglifeguard. I was a lifeguard for 7 years and I went to Western (lifeguarded up there too).
Gilman Girl
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I'm wondering about DDF? initials?
Also, sometimes its tuff to tell who is male, who is female.
RichY
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Mine is my name
BuffaloHawk
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G G .. I agree on the male / female
I asked you if different members where male or female
Alferd Packer
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My initials are A.P. I was a butcher for a few years after college and one of my co-workers altered my butcher's coat by expanding my initials. He had gone to the U of Colorado, where the student union had a cafeteria named "Alferd G. Packer Memorial Grill" whose slogan was "Have a friend for lunch."
FWIW, I'm male. Duh!
biophile87
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i *LOVE* the science behind all living things, from the simplest individual organisms to the most complex ecological systems, ultimately resulting in what you could call one Earthly organism. 1987 is the year I moved to the US, and thus started my life over.
I am female, but because I originate from a male-driven country and really was oppressed, I often resent being a girl. I often think and act like a male, which has confused fellow forumites.
<---- old picture, for a limited time only.
oldguybc
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I just got old...
BuffaloHawk
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bio Nice pic.. What country did you relocate from & did you originally intend on living in Seattle?
Elizabeth of York
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Look at my son! Down in the gutters chattering like a bloated ass with the commoners where he belongs! The filthy rat is all talk! A true royal need not explain their name to a simpleton commoner. If Henry sinks any lower it will be to the sewers after he is severed with my court Halifax Gibbet!
oldguybc
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Lizzie, always talking about beheading someone... is your real last name Borden?
biophile87
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BH, from Honduras. I really didn't know or care where I'd end up in the US, and lived in Texas briefly first (only two flights leaving Honduras back then: your choices were Houston or Miami), then to LA for a loooong time. Wound up in Seattle for grad school, and have often wished I had discovered it sooner. I truly love it here.
BuffaloHawk
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bio .. Thanks for sharing..Seattle is truly one of the most amazing places the lower 48's have to offer. I sometimes get down from the battleship gray skies but after seeing what happens in other parts (ex Joplin,MO) I count my blessings
SunriseSunset
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SunriseSunset = my two favorite times of each day.
h2o_girl
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Just for fun, really. I am a Scorpio which is a water sign, I used to live on a houseboat, my favorite places in the world are islands where you can see the water all the time, I used to wish I was a mermaid, and I love this painting in my avatar.
teigyr
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<<<female. Ages ago I needed to figure out an e-mail address name and I despise the seemingly random string of letters and numbers. This one wasn't taken. I don't mind at all that it isn't gender specific because generally I'm here as a person, not a gender.
SS, I always think of Fiddler on the Roof when I see your user name :)
H8, you might be interested in Amazon's gold box deal of the day. No...it isn't food or another wife :)
Area Man
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The Onion. hmm. been a while...time for a fun read
miss julie
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Simply my name.
pennygirl
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My female pup is named Miss MoneyPenny, aka Pennygirl.
Teigyr...I am highly tempted by that Gold Box Deal :-)
HenryVIII
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And just what is Amazon's golden box deal of the day?
crownhiller
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<----Unimaginatively chosen ;o) Though I remember our real estate agent always saying - "but this is Loyal Heights" - so I guess it wasn't terribly accurate of me ;o)
HenryVIII
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In light of these new details the KING thinks pennybitch would have been more apropos than pennygirl.
teigyr
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Am thinking the pustules must be acting up. This goes a bit beyond the gout, I daresay :)
pennygirl
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Glad to see you're nearly back to fighting weight H8 :-)
Nearly.
BuffaloHawk
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H8...Why do you have to be so hurtful?
HenryVIII
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THE KING showed restraint. His Highness could have said CHEAPBITCH and did not.
pennygirl
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Now that's fighting weight! Welcome back 'real' H8 :-)
Cougar Bob
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Cougar Bob was inspired by the real life Cougar Bill who lived on the Oregon coast up the Nehalem River.
Many noted the irony of converting the former homestead - named for "Cougar Bill" and "Cougar Marie," who made their living shooting the big cats and didn't cotton to trespassers - into a public park. Said Nehalem Mayor Shirley Kalkhoven: "Cougar Bill would meet you at the property with a shotgun."
BuffaloHawk
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kewl story Bob.. I thought you where a WSU alumni or fan
boatgeek
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<--- Because I am. From the office window, I can see about 10 commercial boats, three big ships, and the golf-ball-on-a-plate that's at Todd Shipyard (excuse me, Vigor Seattle) for a few months. The photo was one a co-worker shot through the office window. Surprisingly, you see seagulls taking on starfish pretty often out on the waterfront.
BuffaloHawk
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I never realized seagulls ate starfish. I always thought the pic in your avatar was a slug. I am learning some interesting things from this thread today.
Blue skies & great conversation make me a Happy Panda
DDF
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Yep GG - My initials are DDF (I know, not very interesting), and I'm ALL WOMAN.
northbeachbabe
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I was born and raised down here a block from the beach, decades ago. Actually, born in the Ballard Building upstairs when it was a tiny maternity hospital.
boatgeek
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Until our office moved down here, I didn't know gulls ate starfish either. It's a sort of horrifying process that I won't subject you to unless you ask.
And if you haven't guessed by now, [cue Austin Powers accent] I'm a MAN!
pennygirl
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boatgeek...
See, if the seagulls had any sense, all they'd do would be to pick a couple of the legs off and toss the starfish back. That way it would be able to grow a couple more and provide more food for the seagull community :-)
SmartsyArtsy
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Years ago a friend wrote a bio for me to put on Match.com. The opening went like this:
She's a smartsy and artsy gal whose hair color changes from week to week.
So among friends in the know, I got the nickname Smartsyartsy!
Dweezil
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My name was a spur of the moment, "quick enter something that's fun". And nothing is more grin worthy than Mr. Zappa naming his child Dweezil. Obviously I am male, but if I were female, I'd have gone with Moon Unit for sure.
PlantLover
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I love plants - the science for vocation and gardening and hiking for avocation. And I like to eat them. I am planning to consume an artichoke tonight.
Dweezil, I see your namesake is playing warm up for Return to Forever Sept. 24. I already have tickets.
BooRadley
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Mine was purely random. Alcohol was a factor.
pennygirl
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"Mine was purely random. Alcohol was a factor."
And there was me thinking it was all about Arthur.
NorthBeachNative
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representing my neighborhood of 30+ years
Alonzo Neighbor
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I'm a girl who lives on Alonzo Ave and have been a forum member for about 18 months. The name was chosen on the fly and doesn't reflect much about who I really am.
Buzzp47
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During pilot training my grandfather buzzed some cattle that ran into a barn killing some of them, which led to a call to the base commander earning my gramps the nickname Buzz. The P-47 is the plane he flew in WWII. My grandpa passed in early 2009 and I was really missing him when I created this profile.
cdpenne
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Mine is a pen name. That makes it kind of a pun name. Otherwise it's just my innitials and part of my last name.
BooRadley
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Nah Penny, my name's Jim.
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