Why your name?

[tamtam]

Tamtam is a nickname I used to have. I still kinda do.

[nealtse]

Neal was my father's middle name and my middle name is my Chinese name "Tse-Wai" romanized. NealTse is my art moniker.

[tangycat]

Tamtam! From Samurai Shodown or unrelated?

[FedEx]

Why FedEx?

because wherever I'm headed next, I'm guaranteed to get there by 5pm tomorrow.

I also like the corporate name, logo, commercials, etc. FedEx is one of those companies that I hope survives into the 22nd century, along with Coca-Cola. (btw, I drink about 4 ltrs of Diet Coke per day, so I need Coke to stick around too)

[FedEx]

for palavore:
Unfortunately, FedEx does not deliver packages out to the open savanna. There are no postal addresses out in the bush, no street signs, no paved roads, no city plumbing, no electricity grid. Plus, I doubt FedEx has an insurance policy to cover their employees from elephant/buffalo/lion wild animal attacks.

If an urgent FedEx delivery were required to reach the bush, it would need to either be delivered to a shanty town that has some half decent postal office (don't count on the package making it) or be delivered to a central office in a city like Nairobi, and moved by courier to the airport to be put on a charter flight headed to a dirt airstrip in the bush.

DHL actually runs an ad all over Kenya and Tanzania with a promotion that they'll deliver anywhere. The ad features a sweeping photo of a DHL van driving across the open grass savanna, as a lion looks on. Nice ad but it's misleading. DHL and FedEx are the last vehicles you'll ever see out there.

[palavore]

May 17, 2010 16:47:52 GMT -5 FedEx said:

FedEx is one of those companies that I hope survives into the 22nd century, along with Coca-Cola.

Somehow, I was expecting more cheers for the elephants...

Since you drink so much diet soda, really stick with it. Going off artificial sweeteners will mess up your sugar tolerance. You'll overload your system without your brain ever telling you to stop.

[conorsoccr23]

its my aim sn i made in 5th grade

[buffyuna]

Mines is a combo of female characters I was obsessed with in like 2004. Buffy the vampire slayer and Yuna from Final Fantasy *runs in shame*

[Papa Alpha]

When picking code names at work, we decided to go with the phonetic alphabet of the first two letters of our names. Mine was Papa Alpha, and I liked it.

[akiross]

My name is taken from the character from 2001 animated sci-fi film, "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within", of the biologist Dr Aki Ross. She seems to me like the first photo-realistic, animated Eurasian woman to exist. Unfortunately the film was a bit of a flop.

[The Eskimo Kid]

Well... People often mistake me as being Kalaallit (an Eskimo from Greenland), I'm actually half Icelandic/half Hong Kong Chinese, but at school my nickname is Eskimo Kid. Plus, Eskimos generally rock!

[Deleted]

well, na-chri-ma represents the first letters of my forename: Nadine followed by my (very christian) baptismal names: Chr...... - Ma.......