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[Barkingshins_imp]

My user name dates back to my days as a student at Washburn High School in Minneapolis in the early 90's. A few friends and I had an econ class together and one week the teacher had the whole class break into groups with the assignment being that each group was to create a fictional company that sold ball-point pens. I think the purpose was to show the relationships between expenses, revenue, profits, etc. In any case, my friends and I had formed one of the groups and we were so disgusted by the lazy names other groups were coming up with for their "companies" (Washburn Pens, Minneapolis Pen Co., et al) that we started dreaming up silly names that we thought were much more interesting. Some 23 years later, I've forgotten all but two of the many ridiculous names we came up with: "Das ist Mein Pen" and "Barkingshins". Shortly after high school, the Internet started to become a big deal and, for lack of anything more interesting, I've been using Barkingshins as a user name ever since.