A question about everybody's screen names or whatever you want to call them

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LIZ

Friday, May 28, 2004 1:08 PM

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Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
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Hey, there. I'm near certain that vera is actually Spanish for side. And I am certain that verdad is Spanish for "true" and/or truth. Slight difference, but thought it worth mentioning. (snip)

umm... yeah... it's been a few years since i've studied Spanish, but you are right. However, in my defense if you look up the meaning of the name "Vera" it does say that it means "truth." I just jumbled it. Thanks for the info though -- it reminds me that i really should go back and study Spanish again -- you never know when it might come in handy...

CYBERSNARK

Friday, May 28, 2004 3:00 PM

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Originally posted by SamuraiX47:
Firstly the Legend of the 47 Samurai or 47 Ronins, the japanese title is Chushingura. A true story of a young brash lord who was provoked into drawing his sword within the Shogun's castle, a ritual-suicide (seppuku) offense. All of the young lord's samurai were now disbanded to wander as lordless Ronin, but they signed a pact to get revenge against the slimy lord who provoked their young lord. After several years of biding their time, they finally met back up and killed the slimy lord. They were all caught and because they showed such strong loyalty to their dead lord they were allowed to commit seppuku. many movies and tv series have been produced telling of their exploits.

Including the last story in Tales of the Slayers, Vol. 3; "The Code of the Samurai," by Nancy Holder.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

ASTRIANA

Friday, May 28, 2004 4:51 PM

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Originally posted by Teela Brown:
Everybody's heard mine.

Actually, Teela, I don't think I ever have... could you tell us again?

Mine is a bit odd...

I was playing a computer game and needed to come up with a name. I started playing with the letters on the keyboard, and eventually came up with Astriana, after many iterations that just didn't quite seem to fit. So I've had this name for something like 8 years now. I've looked it up in naming references, I've Googled it, etc., but there doesn't seem to be any meaning associated with it. (I have found that I post on a lot of different websites, though

) I have also found it occasionally difficult to use as a login name, as there appear to be a few other folks using it as a role play or magickal name.

The nearest thing I can find to a meaning is that the root Astr- means "star" in the Romance languages, and the suffix -ana usually indicates a dimunutive, meaning that the word it's added to becomes "little ____". So, my best guess is that my name probably translates to "little star" in some other language - and being a singer, that's not a repellant concept...

~A~
El Jefe Magnifico's Mistress... of Communications and Harems...

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

TEELABROWN

Friday, May 28, 2004 5:44 PM

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TJACK's tagline...maybe...that thingy...
...just sliding down the razor blade of life.

Tom Lehrer fan, I presume?

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Originally posted by Teela Brown:
Everybody's heard mine.
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Actually, Teela, I don't think I ever have... could you tell us again?

Well, it all started...

Okay, I like Niven's Ringworld, and Teela Brown was my favorite character. So I use it a lot now.

To Okkay-- Animaniacs is one of my favorite shows! And they took it off the air...Man, all of my favorite shows, except for two, are off the air. Ugh.

And to Mistress of Useless Knwledge--That's one of my Unofficial Titles.

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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2 plus 2 make 4. If that is granted, all else follows"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard

ARCPLAYER

Friday, May 28, 2004 6:44 PM

The Majic the Gathering makers, Wizards of the Coast, made a similar less complicated game system they named ARC. It was a common rule framework that would alow Fans of different series to play against each other. They had 3 different games that were tweaked to be compatible. Xena:Warrior princess,
Hercules:the Legendary Journies, C23. C23 was based on a scifi, comic book, series.
I would drive from McChord AFB to Seatle 2 to 3 times a month to compete in ARC system tournaments.
The game was very fun. It didn't catch on. Lack of advertising hurt it in a very Firefly way. They didn't even tell the players when the Launch event for the Xena expansion was going to take place. Two
people attended because they were lucky enough to walk in off the street. AND I HAD THAT SATURDAY OFF!!
Sorry, I didn't realize that that still hurt me as much as it does. You see the Battle Cry expasion for X:WP had the card for one of my favorite Characters, Callisto.
Anyway, for over a year, I was one of the best ARC
players in Seattle.

You wanna go, little man?
Only if it's someplace with candle light.

HUMBLE

Friday, May 28, 2004 8:22 PM

Once upon a time, I read The Art of War, Mastering the Art of War, and Teachings of the Buddha. While thinking of a screen name for myself, I looked around and saw a little jade Buddha figurine. The word HUMBLE immediately popped into my head because when I think of Buddha, I think of humility.

'Nuff said.

HUMBLE.

NOXIOUS

Friday, May 28, 2004 9:21 PM

I tend to use 2 handles all over the internet, the one I’m using here came about due to the literal meaning of the word noxious (harmful to living things; injurious to health; harmful to the mind or morals.) Lets just say I was not in my happy place when I began using it, back in the ye olde BBS days. I still have friends that call me Nox, and more annoyingly, Noxy.

Latter I began to use Aleric B. Which goes back to The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, when Douglas Adams wrote the original radio scripts for the show, the character known as Arthur Dent was originally known as Aleric B, but Mr. Adams changed the name because he felt it was too weird.

I still use both, depending on my mood.

Most Probably,
Noxious?

PENGUINRTR

Friday, May 28, 2004 9:30 PM

I like penguins.

KINGOFTHEMUDDERS

Friday, May 28, 2004 9:41 PM

Well, when the old man died they put me, Prince of the Mudders, in charge. So the name changed.

LINDALE

Friday, May 28, 2004 10:53 PM

I'm a big LotR freak. I'm a music major. Lindale is Quenya (High Elven) for music (or, technically, singing. There's no word, at least as far as I know, for "music", so I just use that)

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