
02-26-2002, 07:56 PM
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here and there
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Western NY
Posts: 3,601
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my original screen name was just based on the first past of my free e-mail address (before the @ sign)... but I was happy to be able to change it to this one...
I am still a kid at heart and for the longest time have used cartoon charters for the names my computers, accounts, domains, etc....
MilkToast seemed a good one for this board... the character is the small roach from Bloom County that was always causing trouble of some kind... the original Milquetoast is from an old cartoon stip that long pre-dates the Milquetoast in Bloom-County...
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Milque·toast
Pronunciation: 'milk-"tOst
Function: noun
Etymology: Caspar Milquetoast, comic strip character created by H. T. Webster died 1952 American cartoonist
Date: 1935
: a timid, meek, or unassertive person
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though the description of the type of person only applies when I am introduced to a new group... once I get comfortable with the folks around I am the least bit unassertive
I'll have to see if I can dig up the clipping of the cartoon that made me suck a fan of the little bugger...
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