Same.

I only learned if you like one thing you necessarily have to hate something else later in life.

ROFLMFAO.

Aspects of RUP make it into my interpretation of agile.

Same here.

For example, I teach my dev teams UML (sketching as defined in Fowler's book) for whiteboarding and the rare BDUF, which RUP exposed me to.

Yep. My issue is, a lot of people see a dichotomy where you have "big design up front" or "no design at all". I like to talk about "sufficient design up front". I don't know if I coined the term or not, but that's my favored way of expressing that middle-ground, as I see it.

backlog rhabdomyolysis

I'm so going to steal that. :-)