How'd this Distro get it's name?

Other reasons I like #!....

It's a lot like bread!!!

Good on it's own if you've got nothin' else, or you can't be bothered with food.

It can have pretty much anything and everything put on top of it (or underneath it, or even in the middle of it), and it still seems to work alright.

There's no limits as to how many ingredients you can have on here, it's as filling or as trim as you like it.

If you'd prefer to toast it, or cut the crusts off, or alter it in any way you see fit, you're free to do so.

It goes with pretty much anything else you've got. If you want to recover your shizzle from a busted AMD 64bit NetBook with no CD drive, it's totally doable!! If you'd want to shrink down your Windows partition to make room for another OS, that's easily done as well. If you're testing new hardware before you commit to an install, no problem!!

I also like it's feel. I know, that sounds stupid, and what I am about to type is goin' to sound even worse, but....

It does what it does, without the excess. But it also manages to look good while doin' it. Sure, if you wanted to mess around and put Wobbly Windows on there, you probably could. But I'd sacrifice that for Conky any day!! (And have done).

Alright, I'm goin' to try and get to my point from a different angle....

PC, Personal Computer.

Personal, something that belongs to you, and is yours to do with as you please.

So, am I so wrong to speculate that a person's computer is somewhat a reflection of their lifestyle? Or maybe a glimpse into their personality?

I like that it gets the job done before anything else. If it can add a little glamor to the event, it will do so. But it gets things done. Simply and efficiently. If you don't like how things are done, you can change them manually, and pretty simply. 

But it goes deeper than this. Again, it's the FEEL, the black and white, the trim lines and lack of clutter. There's just something about it. It's alluring. Mystic and bare at the same time.

Alright, now I'm pretty sure you all think I'm crazy, I'm goin' to stop typing.

I don't think there was a single question in this post. Usually that would bother me, but I don't care this time. Why? Because I'm only stating why and how much I enjoy this little bit of software. It's different to all the other Distros that I've tried...... It's, well, it seems like what I'd be if I myself were a distro.

(I knew I should of stopped typing!! ).

Aha!! I see this now. Thanks for the info Dubois. ^_^

You guys were goin' to rename #! at one point, weren't you? Because you were sticking with Debian stable releases.

To be honest, I'm glad you guys stuck with this name.

Now knowin' what the name means, gives me that little sense of danger when I use my machine. : D

o0o!!!

Thanks Pvsage. That was a really interesting read. ^_^

So glad I joined this forum, you guys are awesome.

Why did Philip choose Muppet names do you think? Is he just a fan.... Or is there something more sinister goin' on there. **Shifty eyes**

This is a pretty juicy conspiracy theory we've got right here!!

Juicy and weird enough to be interesting, with someone important enough to threaten our whole way of life.... And it even brings in memories of our childhoods and could possibly tarnish them if this happens to be true.

I guess like most things in life, there's no way to prove or disprove. We could always ask The Master himself. But who'd admit to this sort of thing?

Can I please suggest we hold an intervention and confront him outright? This place is private enough for that, right????

.......It's even more creepy if they look alike. o _ o

Only downside about the nickname '#!' is that most social networking (etc) sites take anything prefixed with a hash as a tag.