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Article #114819Re: What's up with your name?
From: Rich G.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00
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Didn't Homer Simpson have a Jazz name? I'm thinking it was "Bleeding Gums Lemon-Lime Simpson" or something like that. Or maybe that was his Blues name. Hmm.... might be time to get that CD out. -- Rich G. (You'll have to remove TOOTH from my addy to reply to this) http://www.dodgenet.com/~jeremy23/index.html My web site was hacked. Want to read about it? http://www.dodgenet.com/~jeremy23/hacked.html R-Dog <Reservo...@hotmail.EATSPAM.com> wrote in message news:3773752F.17283D80@hotmail.EATSPAM.com... > R-Dog is my post name and it's short for Reservoir Dog which is the name of my > fantasy baseball team, the Reservoir Dogs. That name is from the Quentin > Tarantino movie by that name. > > Cuchoolan is a Celtic mythical figure. It's usually spelled Cuchulain, but B.net > wouldn't let me have that. The Cuchoolan spelling is from Frank McCourt's book, > Angela's Ashes. The "ch" is a gutteral "h" sound, so it's pronounced Coo - HOO- > lan. > > Sun_Ra is the name of a deceased improvisational jazz musician. He is known for > his long nonsensical monologues and coined the phrase, "Space is the place." > > That's all I have on B.net, but future characters will all be jazz music names. > > Erthbender wrote: > > > Serveral months ago there was a post about the names people give there > > characters and the reasons behind them. We have many new faces now, so I will > > ask and explain my own. > > > > I used to play DnD and I subscribed to TSR's magazine Dragon. A few years > > ago an editorial was written; the subject; developing a detachment from your > > character. The writer was one who really went into the develpoment, detailing > > everything. The DM he ran across was one who loved to throw the largest of > > challenges to his players. They off course ran headlong into each other. BAM! > > Character Death. This upset the writer but he plugged on and a few quick rolls > > came up with ELF2. Bam! Death of ELF2. This went on and on. Massive challenge > > followed by relentless determination. ELF3, ELF4, ELF5 etc, etc. What he > > ended up learning was, care about what you are doing, but remember it is just a > > game and not to get too worked up over. > > > > So as a reminder to myself I named my character Dayna after a thief character > > I had in a failed story, and 7 as a lucky number. But if she bites it, she is > > but one of a potential many. There is always another. > > > > My posting name, Erthbender, comes from a Marvel Superheros RPG character I > > had. He laid low in the group, but rushed out to retrieve fallen allies and > > back up people when things get rough. So what is your story? > > > > Erthbender > > Dayna7 on B net > > drop 2Dground from the address to reply >
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From: "Rich G." <jere...@toothdodgenet.com> Subject: Re: What's up with your name? Date: 1999/06/25 Message-ID: <dKKc3.89071$_m4.744396@news2.giganews.com> X-Deja-AN: 493749836 References: <19990624194326.01113.00004981@ng-fi1.aol.com> <3773752F.17283D80@hotmail.EATSPAM.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: ab...@GigaNews.Com X-Trace: sv1-qc2cDLBeUcghf+fGBSHKkP8WsTX7WerQMD2f4rxGSwOlr/+6NVhAE+Maw4k4QCbyGZYyBsCYsgWSyA8!wKhfMCkX Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:37:29 CDT Newsgroups: alt.games.diablo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit