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Old 06-May-2008, 01:34 AM
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Smile A Couple of Tools For Sticks, BertL and Others To Use in Other Forums.

Okay, I'm sure that any way *I* would use one of the two pictures below would get me in trouble here.

But when I saw them I couldn't help but think of you guys who put on capes and fly around the internet fighting malicious dipsticks who only feel good tearing down others.

BertL, no offense, but mentally I pronounce your name so in rhymes with "turtle".

Sticks, I didn't know you did this as well. Good on you.
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Old 07-May-2008, 01:25 PM
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Thanks. It's always good to find a couple more pictures to use in case of people saying something that should get those pictures as a response. I actually have a collection of "Internet awesome pictures" on my computer. It's already about 100MB!

EDIT: Oh, yeah, I found out recently that about half of the people I hang around with on the internets a lot tend to think of my name rhyming with "turtle". Someone actually made a brickfilm trailer starring me making fun of that ambiguousness. (Ambiguousity?)
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Old 07-May-2008, 01:52 PM
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...tend to think of my name rhyming with "turtle".

I always thought of it as two disctinct syllables: "bert" and "ell." At least I did until now.
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Old 07-May-2008, 02:16 PM
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...tend to think of my name rhyming with "turtle".

I always thought of it as two disctinct syllables: "bert" and "ell." At least I did until now.
That's how I intended it to be. Bert is my first name, L is the first letter of my last name. Bert L.

I can live with the idea of rhyming with turtle though. That's kind of nice.
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Old 07-May-2008, 07:42 PM
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BertL, the Turtle
Through hallways he would hurtle,
He loved the scent of Myrtle,
We wonder if he's furtile,
BertL the Turtle,
Hooray!
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Old 07-May-2008, 07:56 PM
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...tend to think of my name rhyming with "turtle".

I always thought of it as two disctinct syllables: "bert" and "ell." At least I did until now.
Me too. Now I cant get Bertle out of my head. Sorry BertL
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It definitely rhymes with turtle. That's how I've been pronouncing it for the last 4 years.
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I've just been calling you "Bert." You're the only one we have, after all.
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Always thought Humphrey had the monopoly on turtles. So as with Jay I voiced it mentally as "Bert...L". ravens_cry's little poem has changed that now.

How many Ernies do we have?
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