What made you choose your username?

Well, I'm Russian
Not really a James Bond fan, at least not pre-Daniel Craig

 

I was making a joke, Brotha Ajax.
My humor tends to be ironic and often includes wordplay. My nickname in life and username are the same. Just making an ironic allusion to that fact.

But when one must explain a joke.....sigh...

 

Lol Effie, you are the sharpest knife in the drawer.

 

I thought you chose "Effie" as your user name because you received bad grades in schools

 

Oops. My bad.

 

Wanted to represent the State I'm from & my favorite to do there

 

A brutha from NYC, and my old number

 

My nickname, given by a buddy a long time ago.

 

first name and birth year

 

was the number four part of your nickname?

 

I’m still getting used to people born in the ‘00’s being adults …..signed a ‘96 baby lol

 

1966 to 1996 is the same difference as 1996 to 2026

 

#oldheadstatus . You’ll soon be the same when kids born in the 2010’s become adults lol

 

I welcome it

 

Hahaha, ummm… nope. Lol. The ‘4’ is because that’s one of my favorite numbers.

 

what do you like about 4?

 

I’m a sucker for internal order, structures and systems. The number 4 seems so basic and fundamental, like walls in a room, elements, sides to a pyramid, table legs, etc. and my high school buddies even called ourselves ‘The Four Horsemen’ lol. Four and eight are my two favorite numbers. Eight as a multiple of four, etc. I know it all sounds totally flaky.

 

okay that's actually cool thanks for explaining

 

You’re welcome. I know it sounds a little bonkers, but since I was little I have always loved things like Rubik’s Cube, the pyramid puzzle, etc, and anything that had its own internal logic or structure that was the key to understanding it. I always fixated on trying to understand things like that and the number four always seemed to be sort of foundational in understanding larger concepts/structures, building with legos, and things like that. Clearly I spent way too much time pondering minutiae lol.

 

Well unlike many on the internet, I actually use my real name. Just don't reveal my surname for obvious reasons!