Magnate
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Queens, NY
Posts: 2,857
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Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Queens, NY
Posts: 2,857
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My screenname's derivation is fairly simple--
--inasmuch as Glenn is my real first name. (A lot of you know my last name as well--I'm one of those people who hides in plain sight on the Internet .)
The "taj" part takes a bit of explaining, though. It started when I was studying for my Bar Mitzvah (the Jewish "manhood" ceremony, which mostly involves eating and the parents of the boy in question doing everything they can to impress friends/relatives with ostentation). I had a hard time explaining to people how/why an agnostic was going to have such a ceremony, and I began telling people that I was still Jewish, at least in the abstract. Taj became an acronym for "the abstract Jew" and I have used it rather tongue-in-cheek for several decades.
(There are several other stories surrounding the designation--some of them might even be faintly interesting--but that's the basics.)
Last edited by glenntaj; 03-25-2008 at 04:32 PM.
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