Raphael Misson Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 And not buying any virtual rounds. (It may just be me, but I think virtual rounds are silly.) My Misson ID has reached the coveted 1000 posts and the cool skull icon, so in keeping with the ancient tradition that I just made up, Misson gets the double skull and that ID gets retired. Misson is a(n allegedly) French surname, so I chose a French given name that fits my motif. The noted Captain Misson had no given name recorded and since he was fictional, there isn't any given name to research and discover. (I, of course, am not Captain Misson as I've never been able to reconcile myself to such a lofty title that I in no way deserve.) And so on and so forth. Mission = Caraccioli = Misson = Raphael Misson Now that's all secret, so don't tell anyone. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
LadyBarbossa Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 :::Gasp::: :::pulls out pistols point them at Mission:::: DRINKS!!!! Deprivin' us pirates of our drinks.. ye should know better!! only one thousand? Why not go higher? Tis a strange man ye be... but... We likes ye nonetheless, mate. Tis up t' ye to tell. I'm sure we'll all learn of th' secret eventually. Tattoo an' Dr Pepper please. ~Lady B Tempt Fate! an' toss 't all t' Hell!" "I'm completely innocent of whatever crime I've committed." The one, the only,... the infamous!
Iron Bess Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 (shrug) Okay. Well, you may not realize it but your looking at the remains of what was once a very handsome woman!
Raphael Misson Posted July 30, 2008 Author Posted July 30, 2008 only one thousand? Why not go higher? For the skull. I asked someone to freeze my ID at the skull many years ago, but it's nigh impossible with the software, so I just switched user IDs the first time it happened. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but being a mod, that confused people who needed help the first time, so I then realized that I had to explain it. And once you start doing something stupid like that... The proper response is probably something like "Noted and understood." Or (shrug). Or nothing but “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Ransom Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 Happy to comply..... And I'm with Lady B...Where are the drinks! Raphael, shmaphael...Ya change yer name, ya pay the price! I'll have some French bubbly. ...schooners, islands, and maroons and buccaneers and buried gold... You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you. But if you're a good navigator, a least you'll know where you were when you died.......From The Ship Killer by Justin Scott. "Well, that's just maddeningly unhelpful."....Captain Jack Sparrow Found in the Ruins — Unique Jewelry Found in the Ruins — Personal Blog
William Brand Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 Raphael Mission. That will take some getting used to. Why not Marc or Marcus...?
Rumba Rue Posted July 30, 2008 Posted July 30, 2008 Hmmmm, first you start off with a mission, then you travel to another place and get your desserts with caraccioli, then you decide to continue on the mission until you find the angel Raphael and now you decide that you're an angel on a mission? Ooooh plaaaleeeseeeee! I need a drink.
Raphael Misson Posted July 30, 2008 Author Posted July 30, 2008 I chose Raphael with great deliberation. It has two meanings. (And that's all I'm gonna say. ) Marc Mission. Marc Mission? Marcus Mission? Marc Mission, CPA. Marc Mission, PhD. "Oh yeah, and who the Billy Shears are you?" "Who? Ah, who indeed am I?" "Jeremy…" "Hilary…" "Boob…?" "Phuddt!" "Who? " "Eminent physicist, polyglot cladicist, prize-winning botanist, hard-writing satirist, talented pianist. Good dentist, too! Ha-ha!" "Lousy poet." "Critic's voice — take your choice!" “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Silkie McDonough Posted July 31, 2008 Posted July 31, 2008 It's Mission ...I have come to expect these things from the man. I also have seen the man drink ...that having been said. SHARE!
Raphael Misson Posted August 1, 2008 Author Posted August 1, 2008 Doctor Marcus Raphael Mission III Author of Quick and EZ Amputation Using Every-Day Tools Found Shipboard (Amaze Your Friends! Practice on Your Enemies!) and Self-Administration of the Clyster in the Privacy of Your Own Hammock (What happens in the hammock, stays in the hammock. Unfortunately.) “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
michaelsbagley Posted August 1, 2008 Posted August 1, 2008 Ya know, Marcel would be a French version of the name Mark... But I'm glad you didn't choose that.. I had an old boss whose name was Marcel, and he was a whole lot of a jerk, so Raphael it is... Can we call you Raph for short?
Misson Posted August 2, 2008 Posted August 2, 2008 Yes, but it's pronounced Rāf as in Ralph. (Hmm. Extremely obscure, I'll be shocked if most people get that.) Rafe Mission. Very piratey. Actually, I never personally liked Marc. The c has the potential to be soft as in Marcel. This is to take nothing away from any reader who might be actually named 'Marc', it's just my own take. Had I been given that name, I probably wouldn't like Mark. I have been reading Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely and his studies have found that once we mentally take possession of something we irrationally prefer it. "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde "If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted is really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright
Raphael Misson Posted August 2, 2008 Author Posted August 2, 2008 Weird. I couldn't see my post until I replied - it never showed a second page. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Capt. Sterling Posted August 3, 2008 Posted August 3, 2008 Yes, but it's pronounced Rāf as in Ralph. (Hmm. Extremely obscure, I'll be shocked if most people get that.) As in the English actor Ralph Finnes from the English Patient "I being shot through the left cheek, the bullet striking away great part of my upper jaw, and several teeth which dropt down the deck where I fell... I was forced to write what I would say to prevent the loss of blood, and because of the pain I suffered by speaking."~ Woodes Rogers Crewe of the Archangel http://jcsterlingcptarchang.wix.com/creweofthearchangel# http://creweofthearchangel.wordpress.com/
Raphael Misson Posted August 3, 2008 Author Posted August 3, 2008 The very one. I like him, but that was just silly. (Although you gotta' admit...Rafe sound better than Ralf.) “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Red Cat Jenny Posted August 3, 2008 Posted August 3, 2008 My head hurts....Ill call ye whatever ye want Just pour man! ye are an oddly interestin sort...one of many I'll have t' look up at PIP Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help.... Her reputation was her livelihood. I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice! My inner voice sometimes has an accent! My wont? A delicious rip in time...
Raphael Misson Posted August 3, 2008 Author Posted August 3, 2008 I suspect that I read more interesting than I appear. However, you can't miss me - I wear a large Patrick Hand original planter's hat at times. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Merrydeath Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 now is he a pour man, or a poor man?? either way, a mojito for me and my friend, the parrot Flogging Molly. Damn the crackers, bring her rum. Interesting that you change names and all.. I would but I rather enjoy the Merry Death persona. Pirate Lass with sass, brass, a cutlass, an a nice *ss. Capt of the FOOLS GOLD PIRATES BLAST BREAST CANCER! GET A MAMMOGRAM AND SAVE YOUR TREASURED CHEST: http://www.myspace.c...iratesthinkpink http://www.myspace.c...oolsgoldpirates CAPT OF THE ONLY PYRITE SHIP AFLOAT: THE FOOL'S GOLD- look for us and Captain Merrydeath on facebook!
Raphael Misson Posted August 7, 2008 Author Posted August 7, 2008 If someone would freeze my Mission ID at, say, 1000 posts, I'd go back to using that. Note that my persona doesn't change, only my user ID. Funny story (I think I've told this before) - the first forum I got involved on was practically unregulated and it was like being in a anarchical demilitarized zone. So I created several IDs to guard myself. It was basically a way to back myself up..as well as play around. (I created a user that talked like a kid -all run-on sentences- and a really annoying one that spoke nothing but Old English.) Somewhere in the middle of that, I was invited to an "invitation only" forum based on my posts in the wild forum. It was pretty tightly regulated by the person who started it and they were all amazed when I explained all my different user IDs. They had had no idea I was posting as more than one person. (I have a bit of a creative streak...) I eventually left those forums and joined another one where I did the same thing - mainly because I had so much fun with it on the last forum. My favorite user ID there was named stupid. I created him so I could be...stupid. (And I was, too.) I haven't really done that in the last two or three forums, except this weird serial user ID thing I've been doing here. “We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” –Carlos Casteneda "Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." — Voltaire
Duchess Posted August 7, 2008 Posted August 7, 2008 I had a second id on this forum. Mostly because there were somethings I wanted to say that I didn't feel should be said from a moderator. It was great fun until another user decided I was his ex-wife! So that id has been dormant for quite some time.
Black Anne Posted August 10, 2008 Posted August 10, 2008 Well, then.. Re-welcome? Like the new name! Black Anne Roberts From the great white north..looking for warmer climes
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