Just as a curiosity, what does the YSS stand for?
Its a strange story, so I'll tell it (I love to talk about myself)
...When my Grandfather's family came to this country our last-name was "VanYsseldyke," meaning in Dutch (as I understand it) "Keeper of the Dyke" pertaining to an Yssel river (is there one?). Anyhow, in the 1930's my great-great-grandfather changed our last-name to "Ysseldyke" (pronounced ICE-el-DYKE, or like my friends often say, I-sell-dyke) as the story goes, because it wouldn't fit on our new mailbox.
Jump ahead sixty-odd years and you find my friends and I at a party in the 6th grade (this would have been about 1999 or 2000), screwing around doing stupid stuff. Anyway, we were talking about the movie
Top Gun and I mentioned the fact that I always had liked ICEMAN. Anyway, it all lead to my friend breaking down the pronuciation of my last-name and giving me the title of "YSSMAN," and thus it has been since, connecting me to the
Top Gun character.
The name grew in popularity after the highschool basketball coach would use it every time he saw me, and it was occasionally used in the school newspaper to describe me by other people. With XBOX Live, it has always been used as my SN, and when Halo 2 first came out, the name caused a similar stir as well.
...Long story, eh?
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I find it funny that so many of you predicted how I looked. Pretty white kids with problems, thats how I see it. I think my voice throws most people off, it isn't all that deep, but it can be if I choose so. I like to do Arnold impressions, and my own version of "The Gator" from
Infected with Martin Sargent.