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Article #114825Re: What's up with your name?
From: The Real Jay
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:00
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> >One day, on AHSC there was a guy.... > I meant on AGSC (alt.games.starcraft) -- "Never argue with a moron, they'll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience." -Anonymous The Real Jay wrote in message <7l0brf$iam$1...@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>... >My name is James. When on b.net ((starcraft)) people didn't want to waste >time by writing it out so they wrote J. My freind started using it and >eventually I came to be called Jay (When I said J they assumed it to be >short for Jay). One day, on AHSC there was a guy, also by the name of Jay, >trying to be an imposter of me. I found out very soon becuase he posted >newbie stuff and made stupid comments towards Ng elders. I asked him to >please change his name a his trying to be an imposter wasn't very >comfortable for me. He cursed me out. So instead of taking offense I just >changed my name to The Real Jay. Once I announced the name change he never >posted again. Weird. (Absolutely true story. You can probably look up some >of the posts on deja.com, but our argument was through email) >-- >"Never argue with a moron, they'll drag you down to their level, and >beat you with experience." >-Anonymous > >Erthbender wrote in message ><19990624194326...@ng-fi1.aol.com>... >> >> 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: "The Real Jay" <tekm...@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: What's up with your name? Date: 1999/06/25 Message-ID: <7l0cio$koq$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> X-Deja-AN: 493831894 References: <19990624194326.01113.00004981@ng-fi1.aol.com> <7l0brf$iam$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: ab...@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net 930330008 21274 12.78.196.5 (25 Jun 1999 17:00:08 GMT) Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jun 1999 17:00:08 GMT Newsgroups: alt.games.diablo MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit