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"a substitute expression for anything the name of which a speaker cannot momentarily think of"
I had a feeling it was something like that... a bit like oojamaflip, doojamaplonkit.

Suits me down to the ground I reckon

He who used to be called Gosho has gone all profound on us!

I thought I was always profound

Maybe we dont always notice it

So, an oojakapiv is a thingamajiggy?
When is the next incarnation due?

Well, I'm actually feeling quite comfortable with this one broe

Well, I have to admit that when I see your name I'm still thinking 'Gosho'.

Some of us get a wild hair to change our names we just open a new account. I wish I'd have used my favorite alias on an account I use more frequently, and I wish I'd named Miloso something else, as that's the name I like the least.

Someone else mentioned opening a new account, but that was never in mind - I like this one and everything that's attached to it. Abandoning it would be like losing everything in your My Documents folder when your PC crashes and you have to reinstall the OS

Opening a second account feels scary, naughty, occult, spooky . . . must try it some time. I'll save it up.

I've seen someone sign the wrong name and give the game away. Moral: never sign your posts.

~Recumbentman (oops)

I think every one of us with a secret ID has given the game away. I can think of a couple of notable instances

Do tell ...

I think GD might have done it... I know that Hoovooloo has.

By the way... I think it was in this thread that GD pointed out that a Google search returned only one hit for Oojakapiv. It now returns three, but the two new ones aren't my PS They're U195965 and A1022897

Curious; you're googled up in Dolt's Friends list. That means that you'll soon be googled at all your friends' sites, but not your own while you persist in all that Gosho stuff (who's he)

Who's Gosho!!!???

The nerve of the question....

About 48 posts back, Bugspray, you asked what fun things I had planned. I don't remember now. I think that was a work day.

Today is not a work day.

But I will be braving a storm this morning to drive to Denver for a poetry workshop, and then I'll have five and a half hours to kill.

The weather's meant to be nasty today. I was kinda hoping to visit the library and also, perhaps, my favorite bookstore.

Then I TA for an American Civilization course in the evening.

Then I get right back home, because I have work at 8 in the morning tomorrow.

That's what's fun today.

Cheers.

Hi, Recumbentman.

OH!!! GOSHO!!! .... I like the new name. Next to Gosho, it's the best.

"Who's Gosho" is not a question, though it may look like one.

It is a turning away from the things that have been, to face resolutely an unknown but (perhaps) sternly challenging future.

Blimey

I like 'Oojakapiv' - it fits everywhere it should, so I'm as confident as a I can be that there won't be any more changes

Fair enough, Gosho.

My only alter-ego is Number Twelve

Twice the value

Double the trouble!