Welcome to Chez Lickinchunks

Alison from Musings of an Accident-Prone Chicagoan tipped me off to an excellent way to manufacture a secret identity. If we should ever disappear and you’d like to find us, just look out for Crusty, Goober and Stinky Lickinchunks.

The following is excerpted from a children’s book, Captain Underpants And the Perilous Plot Professor Poopypants, by Dave Pilkey, in which the evil Professor forces everyone to assume new names.

1. Use the third letter of your first name to determine your new first name:

a = snickle
b = doombah
c = goober
d = cheesey
e = crusty
f = greasy
g = dumbo
h = farcus
i = dorky
j = doofus
k = funky
l = boobie
m = sleezy
n = sloopy
o = fluffy
p = stinky
q = slimy
r = dorfus
s = snooty
t = tootsie
u = dipsy
v = sneezy
w = liver
x = skippy
y = dinky
z = zippy

2. Use the second letter of your last name to determine the first half of your new last name:
a = dippin
b = feather
c = batty
d = burger
e = chicken
f = barffy
g = lizard
h = waffle
i = farkle
j = monkey
k = flippin
l = fricken
m = bubble
n = rhino
o = dotty
p = hamster
q = buckle
r = gizzard
s = lickin
t = snickle
u = chuckle
v = pickle
w = hubble
x = dingle
y = gorilla
z = girdle

3. Use the third letter of your last name to determine the second half of your new last name:
a = butt
b = boob
c = face
d = nose
e = hump
f = breath
g = pan ts
h = shorts
i = lips
j = honker
k = head
l = tush
m = chunks
n = dunkin
o = brains
p = biscuits
q = toes
r = doodle
s = fanny
t = sniffer
u = sprinkles
v = frack
w = squirt
x = humperdinck
y = hiney
z = juice

NCAA challenge

I love basketball. I love college basketball. And I’m so pleased that it’s time for the greatest four weeks in college sports: March Madness! In order to share my love of the game with you, I’ve started Rockford’s NCAA Challenge: A Tournament Bracket. And I want you to play. So leave a comment here, and I’ll email you the group password. Prizes will be awarded to the top three bracketeers. (Nichole made me use that word.)

A whole new world

You may have noticed things looking a little different around here. I decided a while back to switch from Blogger to Word Press after a very frustrating and ultimately failed effort to redesign the site. Word Press has some great templates, many of which achieved the look I was trying to design on my own. Although Word Press does offer hosting on their site, I wanted to run the site from our domain. That would have been very, very difficult to do, because I don’t know a darn thing about “SQL” or “databases” or other scary, technical stuff. But thanks to Samuel from install4free, it was an entirely painless process.