Names

[Milo Farnsworth]

I'm just curious. Knowing most escorts, if not all, don't use their real name how did you come up with your escort name? Dogs name as a child and mother's maiden name??

[+ OliverSaks]

An homage.

[+ Keith30309]

An homage.

Very cool

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks

I learned something

[+ Seaninsf]

Is there a personal connection, @OliverSaks, or was your homage based strictly on admiration? Just curious

[Guest]

Dogs name as a child

 

Just like Indiana Jones!!

[Guest]

I'm just curious. Knowing most escorts, if not all, don't use their real name how did you come up with your escort name? Dogs name as a child and mother's maiden name??

For me it started as a lame pun on "feeling the inferno", and I never got around to changing it.

[+ Just966]

Very cool

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Sacks

I learned something

His books are very interesting.

[FrancisCA]

My homophobic uncle's name...it was kind of a stab to him and I thought it was funny but also people can remember that when when they come to San FRANCISco.

[+ newatthis]

Along the same lines: how did you come up with your monicker on this forum (if it's not your real name?). I think mine is obvious (old-timers here might recall that, after a particularly detailed post about Montreal ten years ago or so, Lucky -- remember him? -- opined that it was time for me to change it).

[+ keroscenefire]

My moniker is from an incident when I burned down the backyard shed at age 13 or so...about the time I got my first e-mail account on yahoo. Used it ever since.

[+ keroscenefire]

An homage.

 

Good choice! Oliver Sacks is an amazing doctor and writer. I think my favorite is Anthropologist on Mars, particularly the title essay which is such an empathetic and compelling portrait of what it's like to be autistic by profiling the world-renowned animal sciences professor Temple Grandin. But all of his essays are so interesting, writing about strange medical conditions not simply to gawk but to provide actual solutions and empathy towards the people who have them.

[+ OliverSaks]

Sadly no personal connection...

 

Admiration, as someone who studied neuroscience as my undergrad degree

 

Also a huge crush on him, all the way from his bodybuilding days until the last years of his life

 

Is there a personal connection, @OliverSaks, or was your homage based strictly on admiration? Just curious

[+ keroscenefire]

Sadly no personal connection...

 

Admiration, as someone who studied neuroscience as my undergrad degree

 

Also a huge crush on him, all the way from his bodybuilding days until the last years of his life

 

Damn..I just looked up his pics as a young man. He was a straight up hottie.

[+ OliverSaks]

California weight lifting champion ?? (iirc)

 

Damn..I just looked up his pics as a young man. He was a straight up hottie.