The story of cosine

[Perd Hapley]

What's your deal cosine?  Where do you live?  What do your parents do?  Where do you go to school?  Do you like Coke, Pepsi, quava juice, or water?  Do you prefer blondes, brunettes, redheads or bald girls?  Come on.  Spill.   

[cosine]

What's my deal? Not much, I guess. I have a rather boring life, as illustrated by the number of posts I have here at APS.

I live in New Berlin, WI, just a couple of miles west of Milwaukee.

My dad is an electrical engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom.

I'm not in school right now, I took a year off after high school to work and earn a bit of money before heading off to college. It's expensive, you know.

Coke is awful. Pepsi too. Never had quava juice. Yeah, I do drink the recommended 8 glasses of water a day.

Personality's more important than hair color.


That's it?

[Perd Hapley]

Oh.  My questions were meant to be a springboard for you to wax long-winded about your life story, formative experiences, goals, influences, interests, worldview, etc.  And for the love of Pete don't take that list so literally, either. 

But maybe keeping your mouth shut is part of what makes you such a cool guy.  That whole "better keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt" thing.  I keep trying to remember that bit of advice, but quite in vain. 

[cosine]

Oh.  My questions were meant to be a springboard for you to wax long-winded about your life story, formative experiences, goals, influences, interests, worldview, etc. 

You didn't ask about any of that.

And for the love of Pete don't take that list so literally, either.

Why?

But maybe keeping your mouth shut is part of what makes you such a cool guy.

Two compliments in as many days? [Gomer Pyle]Goollly![/Gomer Pyle] 

[Perd Hapley]

I guess I just don't understand people who aren't eager to talk about themselves.   

Two compliments in as many days?

Yeah, but consider the source.

[cosine]

I guess I just don't understand people who aren't eager to talk about themselves.   

You have to ask specific questions to get specific answers.

[Perd Hapley]

Why you!  Calm.  Calm. 

Did you go to public school?  Do you follow a particular religion?  How did you become interested in lead-throwing machines?

[cosine]

I did not go to public school. (Bonus material you didn't ask for : I was homeschooled both through grade school and high school.)

I'm a practicing Roman Catholic.

I became interested in firearms when I stumbled upon THR one summer day and spent all afternoon reading the site.

Anything else?

[Ron]

Anything else?

Do you get to go shooting much?

[cosine]

No, unfortunately.

[Monkeyleg]

Fistful, what's the purpose of this thread?

[cosine]

Fistful, what's the purpose of this thread?

I believe it's to try to find out more about cryptic me. 

[Twycross]

Fistful, what's the purpose of this thread?

He doesn't want to wait for everybody else's next three thousand posts to find out who's who around here. 

[MechAg94]

I guess I just don't understand people who aren't eager to talk about themselves.

I guess I would be a little suspicious of people who start asking a lot of personal questions about me for no apparent reason.  Especially someone I really don't know. 
Oh well, maybe you posted stuff in the past.


Why don't you just post that list of questions that gets circulated on email so everyone can reveal their inner most secrets that nobody really cares about. 

[cosine]

I guess I would be a little suspicious of people who start asking a lot of personal questions about me for no apparent reason.  Especially someone I really don't know. 
Oh well, maybe you posted stuff in the past.

In case you're wondering, everything I've posted here in this thread I've posted at one time or another here. There's really no new information about me here that you guys (if you have been paying attention) haven't seen before. 

[Perd Hapley]

Fistful, what's the purpose of this thread?

To talk about cosine.  What did you think?  I want to be more like him when I grow up. 

Boy, the homeschooled thing sure was a surprise to all of us.  NOT! 

[grampster]

You teenyboppers are amusing from time to time.

[BakerMikeRomeo]

*points at Grampster*

Oh yeah? You're old!
 
~GnSx

[brimic]

Cosine- I think he wants to date you.

[Monkeyleg]

"Cosine- I think he wants to date you"

Yeah, first Barbara, now Cosine. Next thing you know, Fistful will be going after Angus steers.

[cosine]

"Cosine- I think he wants to date you"

Yeah, first Barbara, now Cosine. Next thing you know, Fistful will be going after Angus steers.

Disturbing tendencies... 

[Preacherman]

If Fistful goes after Angus steers, at least we know what his fist will be full of! 

[MechAg94]

In case you're wondering, everything I've posted here in this thread I've posted at one time or another here. There's really no new information about me here that you guys (if you have been paying attention) haven't seen before.  smiley

I figured that.  I just thought it was a strange post. 
brimic, Monkeyleg, and Preacherman addressed it better than I did.