Handles, handles, handles...

[Fast_Eddie]

Perhaps they're in their wrong mind.

[yaablett]

i've only posted once before (and noone has answered yet - guess i'm not as popular as i thought i was) so you've probly never heard of me. anyway, my handle is in honour of the greatest australian rules footballer that ever lived, gary ablett. one particularly over-the-top commentator would scream yyyaaaaablllettt!!!! whenever he went near the ball, and since someone else stole ablett as an email address, i use yaablett, hence the handle here.

[Makeo]

haha yaablett, I say your nickname and thought surely thats not what I think it is.

[yaablett]

it's my sad obsession......

[wheathin]

I forget really, maybe an old high school buddy... mostly it just sounds like my real name: ethan.

[TCO]

Whenever I see rah, I think "Robert Anson Heinlein".

According to Sten sure, my handle indicates a secret organization. Not true of course.

[Winston]

Quite simply, IMO the greatest statesman in the 20th century. Came rather naturally to an ardent history buff and anglophile like myself...

Breaks my heart to learn that in a recent study, 30 percent of Danish 1st year high school students never heard of Ol' Winnie.

So, GP, you actually want us to believe you're not one of the Grey Panthers ?

Winston

[Sten Sture]

HAHAHA! I didn't catch that, now I may have to change my handle to Sten Sure complete with appropriate graphics! I don't know much svenska but I think sture may be a derivative of styre which either means government (folkstyre=democracy) or handlebar (as in steering a bicycle) either one is fine with me. So Sten Sture could mean governments by a bunch of rocks, or flipping and doing a header on your mountain bike, scapping the hell out of your handlebars and backside. Thanks for the enlightenment!

[TCO]

Gramps, have you been drinking? Or was that last post just indicative of your normal thought process? Please don't tell me both.

[Sten Sture]

It might be the soy and bean sprout shake with a beta carotene chaser I'm drinking, or maybe the candy I bought from that hippie had some extra ingredients in it...

[TCO]

Maybe just Alzheimer's. well i've got a year before my brain goes too.

[Ecce Homo]

Ha ha ha! GP called Sten Sture "Sten sure" which means Sten the Sulking in Swedish!

(Both Sten and Sture are Swedish names. Sten means Stone. I do not know what Sture means, and it is not a very common name. It is most known for naming a street in Stockholm where Sten Sture rallied his troops - that part of Stockholm was built six centuries later.)

[Carolus Rex]

When I started this thread I would never have guessed that it would turn into an English-Swedish dictionary

Sten Sture,

The first time I saw your handle I thought you were Swedish for Sure. My country's history in general is not common knowledge, not to mention Sten Sture. So (if you don't mind me asking) what is your connection to Sweden? Is your grandmother from here?

BTW, I've failed miserably in fixing the weather during her stay

Carolus

[Sten Sture]

GP: you watch your ass, as soon as I find my glasses and my teeth, I'm gonna teach you a lesson from the old days with this cane... ssswwaack.

C-rex after this post, since it is getting pretty long, would you care to start a Handles2? This has been one of my favorite threads. Thanks to everyone who posted here!

My grandparents on my father's side were both from central Sweden: Ludvika and Grangesberg. He heroically emmigrated to the US in 1915 to avoid WW1. (at that time neutrallity was not assured) He returned to Sweden in 1929 and met my grandmother, bringing her back to Chicago with him. Since his death 10 years ago, she has been spending summers in the 'old' country. I have only been to Sweden once for a couple of months in 1996, but can't wait to get back.

I am a medival history buff, mainly Fall of Rome/Rise of Christianity and the Viking era. My knowledge of Swedish history comes from a 1909 book that I bought at an antique store for $5! (Kalmar was the big news)

My swedish consists of about five words, but my lack of knowledge doesn't effect my enthusiasm: I attended the Swedish women's World Cup soccer match on Saturday and yelled myself hoarse. (to no avail)

[Carolus Rex]

Now, that's what I call enthusiasm! At least they won last night.

Did you also check out the men's World Cup in 1994? Sweden finished third! Man, that summer was just unbelievable...

Interesting piece of history. I'm not sure, but I think about one million Swedes emmigrated to escape poverty and religious repression. That's quite a few for a country with only ca 9 million inhabitants (today!).

The handle interest doesn't seem to be that great after all. BTW, isn't "the rule" a hundred posts before the sequel?

Carolus

[This message has been edited by Carolus Rex (edited June 24, 1999).]