What kind of music does your band play snook?

at the moment im on a solo project playing a rock/folk style of music and also play in an indie band that seems to be going off course because we can never get jam time together. My previous bands were punk rock and metal. The myspace for my personal project is one of the whole but I'm gonna re-record all the songs I have today hopefully because I really did a poor job on vocals for the songs, kinda blew my voice out trying to sing another song the day before most of the recordings.

Cool, I miss jamming and playing shows. I don't miss trying to gather everyone for practice. I played in a handful of bands in San Diego in the 90's. I played bass, mostly punk ala Misfits, Minor Threat etc but some metal and blues.

I am so bumping this. I know there are at least a handful of new dogs since the last post was made, and some of these stories are truly inspirational.
mine...not so much. for a long time I had the chronically nerdy hobby of making new e-mail accounts, just to see which words hadn't already been taken in their virgin form. it sort of spilled over into making accounts for message boards, and I ended up with din. I like it, it's a loud noise, it's short, it's easy to remember. it's stuck with me for a while, on fountain pen forums, shaving forums, climbing forums, and now knife forums.

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Cocking a snook involves spreading your fingers wide and putting your thumb to your nose, hand held vertically. Waggling the fingers is an optional intensifier.

The gesture is also called a Five Fingered Salute and - for reasons obscure to me - Queen Anne's Fan.

My name originates in a philosopher joke. That sounds like a contradiction in terms. Philosophers are not known for a lively sense of humor.

It happened this way. One day in the agora, Plato was discussing the whichness of why with his disciples. Somebody asked, “What is a man?” Plato replied “Man is a featherless biped.” That sounds silly, but it’s not the joke.

The joker was Diogenes. Personally I wouldn’t look to Diogenes for a sense of humor. He was a sour and embittered sort, even for a philosopher. But he was the original Cynic, so what can you expect? The next day Diogenes replied to Plato's definition by bringing a living plucked [censored] to the Academy. Diogenes threw the naked – and thoroughly irritated - bird in front of Plato and asked "Is this a man, then?"

Now you know why professors of philosophy don't make good stand-up comics. Plato amended his definition to “Man is a featherless biped with broad nails.”

If you tell this story in Latin, "featherless biped" is animal bipes implume .

okay, I laughed. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

As a young guy in Chicago, I played pool about 12-14 hours a day. I liked to play in different pool rooms, on both the North and South sides. I once entered a small room containing only three tables. The canvas awning over the window said, "Omar's Style Salon." I guess it was once a hair processing parlor. Anyway, it turns out I was the only white guy in the place...maybe the only white guy within five miles. Well, I sat on a stool and watched games in progress and trying to identifiy someone whose aquaintence I should make. As the only white guy, I naturally was an object of curiousity. I withstood the stares and glances of the other patrons. I was a little frightened, but knew I could not show fear, so I just stood my ground and focused on pool. Finally, a guy asked me to shoot some nine ball with him and the tension immediately eased.

Having survived this initial experience, I added "Omar's" to my list of places I would go from time-to-time. After a while, I became one of the guys and they called me White Willie, to distinguish me from other Willies I guess.

My screen name, Willieboy, is a derivative of White Willie.

I am really enjoying these stories, gents.

As for me, I've been trying to sniff out a Scrap Yard knife to buy sometime relatively soon, ergo Scrapper Hound.

When I was 19 or 20 (I'm 35 now) someone started calling me "Kevdog" and it stuck for a while. For the life of me I can't figure out why I didn't think of if when registering here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />



That's okay. I think I like Scrapper Hound better. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

great story, mr. bill. did you ever find out how many willies there were? I know that SOUNDS bad, but I don't mean it bad.

No story here, its my name and some numbers <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Din, there are innumerable Willies on the South Side.