Opinion of the previous poster's username?

[minionofmidas]

I see the r at the end, but I can't identify the beginning, and of course arabic has no x. Could you post a scientific transcription for me?

[minionofmidas]

Sounds like a story about a Communist in Kansas

The Sunflower is a Green Party symbol, especially for the Green Party in its early days.

[minionofmidas]

Fairly old.

[minionofmidas]

I don't know either of those people.

Yes - it's a perfectly obscure literary reference.

Eh. There might be a minuscule chance Afleitch or ChrisOB knows the text it references, I suppose.

Note that I changed my gender and age to hers at their first meeting, too! (Pedophile disclaimer: He's 10 at the time.) And picked the appropriate avatar shape!

[minionofmidas]

What does Franzl mean?

Franzl is kind of a nickname that I use in Germany, obviously makes little sense to people in the U.S.

My actual name is Franz-Josef. I use "Joe" while in the U.S., like now, because I don't like explaining my life history to everyone, and because nobody here can pronounce it anyway

Franzl is just the nickname for Franz-Josef.

You're pretty young for a Franz-Josef.

(Besides, why Joe and not Frank, say?)

[minionofmidas]

Another DIRTY LIAR.

Platypi don't even come from China.

[minionofmidas]

and because nobody here can pronounce it anyway

Like me. No Anglophone has ever been able to pronounce my name right.

In what language is it?
Gaelic or Basque?

The question you want to ask is "Breton or French?"

[minionofmidas]

What does Franzl mean?

Franzl is kind of a nickname that I use in Germany, obviously makes little sense to people in the U.S.

My actual name is Franz-Josef. I use "Joe" while in the U.S., like now, because I don't like explaining my life history to everyone, and because nobody here can pronounce it anyway

Franzl is just the nickname for Franz-Josef.

You're pretty young for a Franz-Josef.

(Besides, why Joe and not Frank, say?)

That name caused me quite a bit of teasing as a little kid

The reason my parents called me that is probably because my dad has the same given name...guess that means they couldn't think of anything else

As to the Frank or Joe part....when my parents divorced and my mother and I went to the U.S. when I was 5 years old, my grandpa gave me the choice of Frank or Joe, and I chose Joe, and it's stuck by me ever since. He still uses it, just like everyone else....and I have a strange habit of calling my American grandpa "Opa". I doubt he'd respond to anything else now

Thanks.

[minionofmidas]

A lie. He consumes.

[minionofmidas]

Why, so they are.

[minionofmidas]

Still don't get it.

Well, duh. It's not as if it's supposed to be understood by anybody. Unless you happen to know the short story it's based on.

(skip me)

[minionofmidas]

Your two usernames actually remind me mostly of each other.

[minionofmidas]

Mary Martin the 40s-60s actress?  Paul McGrath the actor from roughly the same timeframe?

No.

These are characters from a short story by Thomas Healy.