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the meaning behind your TB name?

#241
Mine is a theory of political science. I'm lazy, so I'll just copy/paste the definition.

Devil theory- n, a theory of history: political and social crises arise from the deliberate actions of evil or misguided leaders rather than as a natural result of conditions
 
#242
My handle has two meanings that are only slightly related

1 - An anchor hoy is a highly specialized type of ship from the days of sail

Not a pretty thing to look at, but perfectly suited for the work that it did day-in and day-out: retreiving lost anchors from the harbor bottom and/or transporting same between ships in the harbor and the workshops onshore that made and repaired them

Not what you'd call glamorous work, but was steady, and many a captain and crew made a decent living from it

2 - As a bass player, I am the harmonic anchor of any group I play with

I also happen to like Captain Beefhart music

Hoy Hoy :D
 
#250
PhantomRegiment said:
My alias is from my favorite DCI corps.
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I used to love those guys. But my favorites were a corps called the Bridgemen. They took things quite a bit less seriously than the Regiment.
rapturebass said:
im the bassist in a band called rapture...there ya go
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My first paying gig was with a gospel group called Redemption, back when they were the Redemption Singers. Your post made me think about them. That was the only band I ever worked with that had their own tour bus.
 
#253
acleex38

My college's e-mail naming convention was "first initial, middle initial, first four letters of last name." I'm Andrew C. Lee, and the system admins just stuck an 'x' on the end to complete the 6-digit ID. My bulletin-board friends started calling me by it, pronouncing it "A.C. Leaks" and it ended up sticking.

In my service fraternity, I'm the 38th member of our specific chapter.
 
#255
One night, I was playing with my multi effect board, and one of the parameters for a particular effect was Q, it was a wah or something. Anyway, it was the first time I had ever heard something like that, and I was like, "Man, those are some freaky sounds!" As I played with it more, I found out that the effect just made the frequencies sound weird, so all of a sudden, I put together in my mind, "Freaky Frequencies." The "k" obviously didn't fit the connection so smoothly, so I thought about it and remembered that a hard "q" is identical to a "k" in usage, so I started just saying the phrase randomly. I still think it's kind of neat.
 
#257
I got the "word" poomwah from a comedian, Doug Stanhope. He was talking about shooting a gun and his sound effect was "Clack Clack POOMWAH" My wife and I thought it was the most absurd word I'd ever heard to mimic a gunshot and it just kind of stuck with me
 
#259
Bard2dbone said:
Isn't that about the time the Bridgemen folded? I graduated in 1982. I think the Regiment are still around.
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I don't know - but I remember their name and was trying to remember some of the others. I wasn't as up on the whole DCI scene as many of the others in marching band were, but I was in the room many times huddled around the tv monitor watching DCI tapes.

Now if that doesn't scream "band geek" I don't know what does!

Although, I was the hybrid 'burnout, freak, underachiever, band geek' - I was a mutt. So I knew of, and quietly dug DCI - but remained just distant enough to not void my other memberships. Being able to cite more than two DCI groups would have jeopardized at least one of them, so...
 

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