What’s in a name?

Across the excess baggage
I found myself
mirrored in your image,
yet this reflection
is but a vague figure
of what I am,
more so, on what you
really are.
I put meaning on
your construed form
yet what I really
have is nothing
but what I really hope for,
and I have nothing
then.

Title: Noel X
Date: April 14, 1994, 3 am; written "somewhere in Luzon", on the road going to Cagayan.

Track: She Talks To Angels by the Black Crowes (Acoustic)

Ok, it's ironic that whenever our system, that means the system we use at work to look up and review customers' account, goes down, we at the Cyberesponse team have to take in calls. And for what?

To apologize. "I'm so sorry Mr. Jones, our system is currently having its regular system maintenance so I can't possibly pull up your account."

So there goes, we take calls to say sorry. Because we can't possible do anything without the customer's account. Ok that's a lie. I mean, if it's troubleshooting, sometimes we don't need their account in front of us. But seriously, when our system is down, then we can't do much with customers' question sent through e-mail just the same. So we take calls at least to free up more phone lines for customers.

So anyway, for three days now, as soon as 12.15 noon comes around, we go Inbound, receiving calls. While surfing the world wide web. (Side note: Did you know that the World Wide Web is the only phrase that has an abbreviation - www - that has more syllables and harder to say than the word abbreviated?)

And so I was entertained to know these:

My Elvish name is Elladan Minyatur.

Hobbit name is Fredegar Frumblefoot of Bywater

You can find out yours by going to http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/

And then, there's my Smurf name. It's Evil Smurf, would you believe that?

 
The fun didn't stop there. I have a Mafia name. It's Bugs, The Brain Brasco. Not bad. At least it sounds like my ultimate idol, Johnny Depp's character in one of his films, Donnie Brasco.

I also have a superhero name. The Awesome Defender!! Nice. I'd like to think that's true. I'm awesome! He he! No really, we had a team meeting which was preceded by a group dynamics. We were to write the positive image of each other and one wrote I'm the group's defender!

Anyway, since everybody in the team were asking for theirs, I was so busy researching theirs that even my two supervisors pitched in and researched theirs and some of the teammates'. Then one teammate pitched in and gave us our porn name.

Mine was Nikki Jiggler!

Although if we follow the game that went around a few years back, it would be different. Here's how the game is played. Your porn's first name would be the name of your first pet. The last name would be the name of the street where you were born or grew up.

So what's my original porn name?

ELVIS QUIJOTE.

Any mental image there? A mustachioed 30something, well endowed, sweats a lot during a sex scene. And oh, it's the 80s porn, so right up the alley of Randy West and films like Debby Does Dallas and the like.

Not a nice picture there. Did it turn you on? Nah!

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