Lobstrosity!!! What does it mean??? [Archive]

garthoverman

June 2nd 2003, 07:34 PM

Today @ 12:15 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115379#post115379)
Dee Dee Warren:

I have to know what your name means.

NOTICE:
This post appears to have nothing to do with biology and as such is off-topic for this forum. Since it appears to be intended to get to know the personality of a particular poster, I'm moving it to the Admissions Forum.

....

.....oh, wait.....

...I'm not a moderator. :doh:

Yours,
Garth

(now I just hope DDW has a good sense of humor... :hi:)

Dee Dee Warren

June 2nd 2003, 07:37 PM

Garth despite viscious rumors to the contrary, I do. Which is why it is drivng me MAD not to know what Lobstrosity means. And I am still cracking up on Sher's comment on whether or not that was his real name.

And I did (bad girl :whip:) post it here cause Lob only frequents here. Once he answers I will move it.

Lobstrosity

June 2nd 2003, 07:41 PM

Where ever I go there are always a few people who recognize the reference. I guess it's somewhat obscure, but not insanely so. I know...I'll turn this into a challenge: first person to reveal the source of my nom de plume will get a pearl. You know you want one!

And just to come to your defense, lobsters are animals and animals are biological and hence my nickname has to do with biology. :teeth:

Piebald

June 2nd 2003, 07:44 PM

Stephen King :teeth:

Piebald

June 2nd 2003, 07:45 PM

Or, to be more specific, The Dark Tower

Lobstrosity

June 2nd 2003, 07:45 PM

Well that was a short challenge.

Piebald

June 2nd 2003, 07:47 PM

Pearl Me

Jimmy Higgins

June 2nd 2003, 07:49 PM

Piebald

June 2nd 2003, 07:52 PM

Whooosh

Dee Dee Warren

June 2nd 2003, 07:52 PM

Today @ 07:34 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115419#post115419)
garthoverman:

NOTICE:
This post appears to have nothing to do with biology and as such is off-topic for this forum. Since it appears to be intended to get to know the personality of a particular poster, I'm moving it to the Admissions Forum.

Hahahaha!!! You don't get the superspecial Mod Notice by using the tags....

Though I see you tried :no:

garthoverman

June 2nd 2003, 07:53 PM

Today @ 12:49 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115446#post115446)
Jimmy Higgins:

No one ever recognizes my name. :bawl:

Does it refer to the novel by Upton Sinclair? Or, IIRC, wasn't that title spelled "Jimmie Higgins"?

Yours,
Garth

Dee Dee Warren

June 2nd 2003, 07:54 PM

Today @ 07:41 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115427#post115427)
Lobstrosity:

Where ever I go there are always a few people who recognize the reference. I guess it's somewhat obscure, but not insanely so. I know...I'll turn this into a challenge: first person to reveal the source of my nom de plume will get a pearl. You know you want one!

Can I have a pearl for obsessing on your name? Boom is grateful, it distracted me from stalking him in chat... but now that I know...... (run Boom!!! run!!!!)

And just to come to your defense, lobsters are animals and animals are biological and hence my nickname has to do with biology. :teeth:

Good save. Yeah, that's the ticket.

garthoverman

June 2nd 2003, 07:55 PM

Today @ 12:52 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115455#post115455)
Dee Dee Warren:

Though I see you tried :no:

What was deceptive was the fact that the moderator [ notice ] tags created the red text and box when I previewed the post. Then when I posted it, it was gone and I had to edit the post really fast to put the NOTICE text back in.

:argh:

Yours,
Garth

Dee Dee Warren

June 2nd 2003, 07:57 PM

Sneaky little devils aren't we

Sher

June 2nd 2003, 07:59 PM

Today @ 07:55 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115459#post115459)
garthoverman:

What was deceptive was the fact that the moderator [ notice ] tags created the red text and box when I previewed the post. Then when I posted it, it was gone and I had to edit the post really fast to put the NOTICE text back in. :argh:

:teeth: :rofl:

And see ... I knew that wasn't your real name, Lob .... :teeth:

Cool ref though :thumb:

ahem ... keeping it on the up-'n-up: lobster n. Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having stalked eyes, long antennae, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which is modified into large pincers. ... ahem.

Jimmy Higgins

June 2nd 2003, 08:59 PM

Today @ 07:53 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115456#post115456)
garthoverman:
Does it refer to the novel by Upton Sinclair? Or, IIRC, wasn't that title spelled "Jimmie Higgins"?

Yours,
Garth Don't know, that not be him though. :read:

Sher

June 3rd 2003, 01:42 AM

Wasn't he some communist something or another?

Lobstrosity

June 3rd 2003, 03:05 AM

You just had to hijack "my" thread, didn't you Jimmy? Why don't you go get your own thread? :whack: Bad Jimmy!

Jimmy Higgins

June 3rd 2003, 08:34 AM

Today @ 01:42 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115772#post115772)
SherBear:

Wasn't he some communist something or another? If you mean some sort of real person... ahhhhh no. But you are kinda on the right track.

Jimmy Higgins

June 3rd 2003, 08:35 AM

Today @ 03:05 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115814#post115814)
Lobstrosity:

You just had to hijack "my" thread, didn't you Jimmy? Why don't you go get your own thread? :whack: Bad Jimmy! I see your smilie and I raise it to poke. :poke:

Solly

June 3rd 2003, 08:41 AM

"Jimmy Higgins"
The Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958
By Aileen S. Kraditor

This study fills a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on the Communist Party by examining the mental world of the wholly committed rank-and-file Party member. "Jimmy Higgins" was an imaginary composite considered the ideal for members to emulate; the attitudes and beliefs held by Jimmy Higgins-type members have not been adequately studied until now. As Kraditor demonstrates these members differed in important ways from the Party leaders and cadre, and also from the vast majority of members who belonged to the Party for only a few years. Basing her analysis on a detailed textual examination of thousands of pages of Party publications and on her own experience as a long-term Party member, Kraditor reconstructs the "second reality" in which the devout rank-and-file member lived.

Sher

June 3rd 2003, 08:54 AM

Hey! I was halfway right :cheers:

John Boy

June 3rd 2003, 09:24 AM

Hey, no fair!

I PM'ed Lobstrostity last week and asked if his name was from the critters that attacked Roland, the Gunslinger, in the beginning of Book Two of the "Dark Tower" series. Don't I get a Perl?

:teeth:

Take care. :smile:

Oh, and "Jimmy Higgins"? Isn't he that computer-animated boy-genius from Nickelodeon Studios who saves the world from aliens and has his own Saturday morning show? The one with the hair that looks like a Dairy Queen soft serve run amok?

:thumb:

Jimmy Higgins

June 3rd 2003, 10:02 AM

Today @ 08:41 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115957#post115957)
Solly:

"Jimmy Higgins"
The Mental World of the American Rank-And-File Communist, 1930-1958
By Aileen S. Kraditor

This study fills a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on the Communist Party by examining the mental world of the wholly committed rank-and-file Party member. "Jimmy Higgins" was an imaginary composite considered the ideal for members to emulate; the attitudes and beliefs held by Jimmy Higgins-type members have not been adequately studied until now. As Kraditor demonstrates these members differed in important ways from the Party leaders and cadre, and also from the vast majority of members who belonged to the Party for only a few years. Basing her analysis on a detailed textual examination of thousands of pages of Party publications and on her own experience as a long-term Party member, Kraditor reconstructs the "second reality" in which the devout rank-and-file member lived.
Almost there. I always perfer the original. Can we now figure out who created him? It certainly wasn't the communists.

Solly

June 3rd 2003, 10:23 AM

I was reminded of the old union movement name for all the unsung, rank-and-file heroes, those ordinary folks who sacrificed and struggled for their cause but got few of the accolades. The "Jimmy Higgins" of labor, as they were once known,
http://www.consciouschoice.com/choicebooks/choicebooks1501.html

The unions?

Roy

June 3rd 2003, 11:44 AM

Today @ 12:57 AM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115462#post115462)
Dee Dee Warren:

Sneaky little devils aren't we

Hacker Notice:Not as sneaky as me...

Roy

garthoverman

June 3rd 2003, 11:49 AM

Today @ 02:24 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=115994#post115994)
John Boy:

Hey, no fair!

I PM'ed Lobstrostity last week and asked if his name was from the critters that attacked Roland, the Gunslinger, in the beginning of Book Two of the "Dark Tower" series. Don't I get a Perl?

:teeth:

Sure, sure.... we've all heard THAT one before... :ahem:

:wink:

Oh, and "Jimmy Higgins"? Isn't he that computer-animated boy-genius from Nickelodeon Studios who saves the world from aliens and has his own Saturday morning show? The one with the hair that looks like a Dairy Queen soft serve run amok?

You're thinking "Jimmy Neutron," and there used to be a poster over on CARM by that name, however I don't think he ever posted on their EVO forum. He has since shed that username and goes by "theghostinthemachine."

Yours,
Garth (thinking to himself that he spends wayyyyyyy too much time surfing discussion boards like these if he can recall random Christian posters and their username histories...)

Solly

June 3rd 2003, 11:52 AM

Today @ 04:44 PM post located here (http://www.theologyweb.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=116078#post116078)
rthearle:

Hacker Patrol Notice:

Hacker Notice:Not as sneaky as me...
we're on to you; book him, Dano.

Mr MacGuffin

January 10th 2010, 02:20 PM

we are talking the dark tower here, right?

Mr MacGuffin

January 10th 2010, 02:23 PM

i posted that without reading the rest of the thread

Dee Dee Warren

January 10th 2010, 02:23 PM

:grave:

Dee Dee Warren

January 10th 2010, 02:23 PM

i posted that without reading the rest of the thread

Digging up an old totally odd thread makes you a TWeb hero.

:bow:

wattsr1

January 10th 2010, 03:47 PM

Digging up an old totally odd thread makes you a TWeb hero.

:bow:

Well Lobrosity is either into cars:-

"Coolant sensor problem solved. I don't know why no one else suggested this, Lobrosity is absolutely right... "

and/or gaming:-

"Well I targetted DarkCorsair and it was even said previously that I targetted DarkCorsair. I forgot who said it originally amended his first post saying me and St. Cuthbert targetted DarkCorsair NOT Lobrosity. "

Google returned no more hits for "What does Lobrosity mean".

So the mystery remains, which is a bit of a bummer.

Regards, Roland