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Re: What's up with your name?

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From: daia... DaIai Lama
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:00
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>>back up people when things get rough.  So what is your story?

Well I never did like names that were just a copy of a thousand others with a
number tagged on (like Yoda2156 for example) and whatever your email is on AOL
is also your screenname and posting name, and with the vast number of people,
most original names have been taken.  I probably went through a couple hundred
names before discovering that Dalai Lama (with a capital i instead of an L )
wasn't taken, an dthat on AOL it was indinsguishable from the reuglar spelling.
  Since I spent an awful lot of time in the chat rooms, it was good to have a
name that people wouldn't automatically write you off as a geek or politico or
sports fan.   It wasn't even my main name, but I discovered AGD while browsing
with it, posted and started looking for replies with the name, and here I am
trapped in AGD :-)

My characters:

Mazouku:  Warrior, its an African word (Swahili?) meaning invisible wind of
death.

Bovine_King :Warrior- my very first one, renamed from original of Menjanik.
Only took him 2 years and a couple months to make it to level 50, Moooooo!

Joe Hoof~VK,  Warrior. V & K Diablo character (both a parody and tribute to the
sage of Diablo players, Jarulf.)

Vatsyana -V&K Monk (Sanskrit?) meaning Author (from Kama Sutra)

Zsa Zsa -V& K Bard, she got all of her very nice items as hand me downs from
powerful characters, so she needed a silver spoon name.   Had a few bvery nice
runs with her, even killed some angry Diablo's but got boring quickly - so
haven't playeed her except those first games.

Baryshniklutz- V&K warrior,  anotherhnad me down character, this time a  "snob"
(character that only wears uniques) that got stated when my monk had so many
great warrior type items, but coulnd't really use them.   Getting the Helm and
Shield of guard was the last straw.  I had to use those items.  He evntually
ended up with Narsil and a slew of other nice items, but Vatsyana wanted the
Emporer's plate back, and Baryshniklutz just couldn't make it with the
Nightscape, so he's out of commission.

Scooby Doom (my Iron man warrior).  Used to be Ferrous Bueller, but I needed a
more light hearted name for as much bungling as I did down there.

That's my story :-)

Dalai Lama


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Subject: Re: What's up with your name?
Date: 1999/06/26
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