devi42 ([info]devi42) wrote,
@ 2008-07-08 22:48:00
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A coworker was looking at a fitness company’s website. When she clicked on the “team” link on their “About Us” page she noticed that all of the employees had American Gladiator-type names ( Thunder, Blast, Storm, etc). It was promptly decided that we should have secret code names as well.

“Pudge!” I exclaimed. “I’ll be Pudge.”

She shook her head in a “what are we going to so with you” gesture.

I later recounted the story to my boyfriend only to get the same reaction.
They both thought I was putting myself down but I just really liked the idea of being called Pudge; it sounded cute and round and soft and fun.



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[info]_lepeka_
2008-07-09 03:08 am UTC (link)
Fluffernutter? I love that word. I think it's some sort of american food but I have no idea what.

So are the gladiator names their given names or just a quirky nickname they got after watching Dodgeball too many times?

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[info]gomergirl1
2008-07-09 03:17 am UTC (link)
it's white bread with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. yummy. you can add nutella too!

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[info]devi42
2008-07-09 10:13 am UTC (link)
I was hoping quirky, self-adopted but maybe those are their real names and they had no choice but to find each other and unite.

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[info]gomergirl1
2008-07-09 03:18 am UTC (link)
can i be jaded? i like that.

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[info]devi42
2008-07-09 10:14 am UTC (link)
But how can you be jaded with the happy kiss of squee for an icon? :p

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[info]gomergirl1
2008-07-09 07:59 pm UTC (link)
the doctor will be my kryptonite!

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[info]devi42
2008-07-09 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Hope not. I have mighty hope that 2.0 will be less emo (kryptonite smacks of emo)

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[info]gosarago
2008-07-09 03:30 am UTC (link)
pudge IS cute. and fun. and all the above.

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[info]devi42
2008-07-09 10:14 am UTC (link)
*grin* I thought so.

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[info]maxthedork
2008-07-09 01:45 pm UTC (link)
I would've taken a name like Earthquake. And for the rest of eternity, everywhere I went in the office I'd go "Boom-bada-boom-bada-boom!"

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[info]devi42
2008-07-09 02:11 pm UTC (link)
Would you stomp? Stomping would, I think, be a must.

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[info]maxthedork
2008-07-09 03:07 pm UTC (link)
But of course. Also, frequent references to cheese. With a thick tongue. "Daaahh I like cheese!" Boom bada boom bada boom...

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[info]gomergirl1
2008-07-09 07:58 pm UTC (link)
and big clunky platform over-the-knee boots! cool!

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[info]jenniflower23
2008-07-09 05:32 pm UTC (link)
some friends of mine and I actually gave ourselves names like this in college...

I was Boom Boom :)

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[info]devi42
2008-07-09 06:36 pm UTC (link)
I'm not sure I would have trusted any of my college friends to come up with a name for me.

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[info]jenniflower23
2008-07-09 07:33 pm UTC (link)
we all came up with our own names...

I was inspired by the song "Boom Boom Boom, (let's go back to my room). In fact, I just had a fit of nostalgia and had to go look up the video on utube.

In my defense, it was 1988

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[info]gomergirl1
2008-07-09 08:04 pm UTC (link)
love your icon!

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[info]gomergirl1
2008-07-09 08:02 pm UTC (link)
i like pudge. i see a suit of bubble wrap and your power (i know i'm morphing to super-heros... sorry) would be bouncing... really high and up to the top of buildings. and you can repel projectiles and attacks.

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[info]gnomeprincess
2008-07-10 10:55 am UTC (link)
I kinda want to be Hippo

Or something like that.


I think Hippo's (in cartoon form anyhow) are freaking CUTE. I'd LOVE to be the hippo on Madagascar! hehe.

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[info]devi42
2008-07-10 12:34 pm UTC (link)
I got the cutest Hippo soap stone carving. As soon as I saw it, I had to have it.

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