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I know, this isn't an original topic. I've seen it from time to time on POTD over the years, much less on other forums... but for my short visit here I was hoping to learn more about a lot of you. I've always found these topics fascinating, because sometimes you can learn something you didn't know about another poster. So it could be cool. I don't know.

I guess I should do myself, first:

USERNAME: One of my older screen names was PeskySaurus, in reference to the old DOS adventure game Quest for Glory II: Trial by Fire. In the nearly 6 years I used that screen name, I've only had 3 people on the internet immediately know what it was referencing (one was here on POTD.) At some point in the future, I don't know if I got banned or lost my password or what, but I came back here as ManSaurus because I didn't know what else to put in place of Pesky. Upon returning close to a decade later to let everyone know about the horrible tragedy that happened to me and my wife (I don't even remember making the topic, most of October is a blur), I wanted to make my screen name recognizable for those who knew me as ManSaurus, so I went for the German equivalent. But man in German is just "(der) Mann", so that would be boring just to add another "n", and I went for "men" in German which is "(die) Mnner". So, I'm kind of... "MenSaurus" now.

SIGNATURE: My late wife's family (including herself) are from Germany. I speak a pretty good amount of German, enough that I could have fulfilling conversations with her Grandmother (who speaks practically 0% English). Rammstein has been my favorite band since 1997, so it kind of went hand in hand with our relationship and her family, since the majority of their songs are in German. The lyrics from the chorus that are in my signature translate to:

"(Up and down bounces the horse rider)*, and no angel climbs down.
My heart doesn't beat anymore, AND ONLY THE RAIN CRIES ON THE GRAVE."

*(It's technically "hop hop goes the rider", but that's a better cultural translation over literal, because it comes from a famous German children's song. Hoppe hoppe is slang.)

My wife and I always loved this song when she was still on this Earth, and now hearing that woman sing those lyrics with that distant sad voice just brings me to tears every time I play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCSJ05Cg1mw

OK, now I want to know about your guys' USERNAME and SIGNATURE! If you want to tell me.
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Hoppe hoppe Reiter, und kein Engel steigt herab
mein Herz schlagt nicht mehr weiter, NUR DER REGEN WEINT AM GRAB