How did you come by your alias? by JOHNNYREB

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How did you come by your alias?

POSTED BY: JOHNNYREB
UPDATED: Friday, September 5, 2003 12:38
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Saturday, July 5, 2003 6:43 AM

It's none of my business to know what your real names are. That would defeat the purpose of an alias. [smile]

I'm just curious though, how did you come by your alias? There has to be a story there. I call myself JOHNNYREB because that was a euphemisim during the American Civil War for a rebel soldier. For instance, "Sir, there's a colomn of Johnny Rebs right up the road."

When I first started visiting this site, someone had written a blistering criticism of Firefly which slammed the "Confederate mythos." I took exception and decided to post. The name I chose for my self? Johnny Reb.

Viva Firefly

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 7:07 AM

HOTFORKAYLEE

Huh, I never really thought about it. I don't think my nick really means anything, or does it?

That is a good question though JohnnyReb. Mine is obvious and a few people here just use their name or a slight variation of it. There are some though that would have to be an interesting story.

Quote:
"You know, Vir, you have what the Earthers call a 'negative personality'."
"No I don't."
"There, you see?"

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 7:08 AM

EMBASSY

Mine is just a riff on my initials. MBC = Embassy.

Keep Flying

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 10:22 AM

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Mine is a play on, of course, Captain Tightpants as well as the song "Baggy Trousers" by Madness, which we in that states know as the old "Colgate Pump" toothpaste commercial.

"Even mums and dads agree what makes it good is MFP!"

History repeats the old conceits

http://topshelftvshow.com

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 10:35 AM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Well I use this just about everywhere, it’s my working with my bad memory; one alias, variations on a single password. My name is indeed Chris, and people have often called me a cynic, so quite a while ago when I was trying to come up with a name that wouldn’t be “such and such98724” I put the two together.

Then I have to explain to people that I’m not really a cynic, just someone with cynical tendencies at times, and it’s a whole mess. I’m used to it though, so I keep using it.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 11:00 AM

GAMBIT3

Ok, here's MY story...

A long time ago, in a city not so far away, I was a college student who discovered IRC, back in the days where then were only two networks (EFnet and Undernet), and they were still called "channels" instead of "rooms", and Private Messages instead of Instant Messages... and you had to have at least a primer in Unix to be able to chat on IRC. This was a tad bit before Mirc would burst into the scene... Netscape was a few months away, and we were all dazzled by Mosaic and it's grey backgrounds...

Well, into this setting I logged in to IRC, and after a while of messing around with nicknames, finally settled into using "Wedge." This, from the character "Wedge Antilles" from the Star Wars universe. Well, that lasted about 2 months before "other" Wedge's started showing up online... and so we'd have arguments about who could use the name.. most I'd win.. some I didn't... but I eventually got tired of going through that every time I got on IRC so I decided to abandon my beloved "Wedge" and search for another nickname.

At that time I was involved in real life with a girl who used the nickname of Rogue on IRC. Hence, following the storyline of the X-Men universe now, I started using Gambit.

As you can probably guess, the same arguments again popped up as to who was the rightful "owner" of that nickname. I decided to try and avoid the arguments and just use Gambit1 as my nickname. But even *that* sometimes caused conflicts. So, I thought about using Gambit2. But, with my brilliant and forward-thinking mind (or was it just the Force?), I foresaw that eventually the IRC world would get too crowded for even a Gambit, Gambit1, and Gambit2. I then proceeded to stave the inevitable by a bit longer and switched to Gambit3, and that's something I've been using ever since.

And that, boys and girls, is how my nickname came to be.

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Kaylee, will you marry me?

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 11:55 AM

HIMBERRY

oookay,
i don't want to bore you all with linguistic stuff, so i try behave and don't start to blether :o)
searching for an aol-name and starting to study german and english at the university of münster happened at the same time. i guess everyone knows the situation when you just have to come up with a nickname as quick as possible to continue installing some software,
and so i thought of what i learned that day: morphemes. nice little units, those morphemes, and as every other student of literature i certainly do have a favourite kind of morphemes: "unikale morpheme" - and well, to cut it short, the german "him" in "himbeere" is that special kind of bound morpheme, but "himbeere" was already taken. "himberry" was not, so i picked that one, totally impressed by myself for mixing my german bound morpheme with an english wordending ;-D
and that's it now, i am himberry everywhere.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 12:26 PM

CALHOUN

I'm an avid Sci Fi fan and read lots of books. Well one of my favourite characters is Captain MacKensie Calhoun of the starship Excalibur. No long story to bore you with.. I just stole it!

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 1:21 PM

SIRENKAIN

Mine comes from a a fan fic that I was working on for (and I can feel my geekness when I say this) Battle Star Galactica. I wanted Sheba to have a sister that stayed on the Pegasus named Siren. Kain being her farher was added to her name. I then dropped that idea but always kept a Siren Kain in whatever I was working on. Then I further decided to make her my online alter ego. Mainly because it is original, making any Siren Kain you run across in cyberspace me.

Morbid and creep-ifying I got no problem with.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 2:58 PM

TALRIUS

How did I choose the name Talrius? Well, at the time I got my internet subscription I was writing a fantasy short story for an english class, so I just took my protagonist's name. Not much of a real story there.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 4:05 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

I was thinking along the lines of fitting in with the story line of the show. I noticed that there was already at least one Browncoat or variation thereof and I didn't want a numeralized alias. Then I reckoned that all Browncoats were, by default, veterans. I gave it a shot.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 7:05 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

This is the ONLY place I use this alias! (I normally post to MGH neurowebforum. You'd NEVER guess who I am there!

) Anyway, Firefly reminded me of CJ Cheryh's "Downbelow Station" series bc if their common gritty realism and political crosscurrents. The most intriguing character to me is Signy Mallory so I stole the name.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 7:28 PM

HOTHERSALE

Like you, I got sick of competing for aliases on every message board I wanted to post to.

Hothersale is my father's bizarre middle name (silly Brit), and it is ALWAYS available, so I stick to it for that reason.

Ha! I just did a Google search for Hothersale, and I got FOUR whole results -- three of which relate to my use of the alias!

CW

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Live life with Blue Sun!

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 7:35 PM

LJSQUARED

My initials L.J.L.J = LJSquared

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 8:20 PM

MANIACNUMBERONE

he he he he he he he he he .....my name explains itself.

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 9:09 PM

CALHOUN

Hey there Veteran,

I couldnt work out how to repond to the message you sent me from the other thread.. The one about Calhoun.. So I tracked you down here.

MacKensie Calhoun is the Captain of the Starship Excalibur in the Star Trek book series "New Frontier"

He is a much different captain than we are normally used to in the Trek universe. He is a Xenexian warrior and regularly gets into violent confrontations preferring swift hard justice to political musings..

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Saturday, July 5, 2003 9:15 PM

SERGEANTX

Mine is not an alias. It's my actual name.

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 12:18 AM

BRTICK

I bought mine offa gypsey. they say it's cursed.

Keep Flying!

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 2:00 AM

TWOBLUE

In my case, River would say
"Two by two,
eyes of blue"

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 2:22 AM

JOSH294

Many years ago, in 1997 to be precise, I first got access to the internet. At the time, I was 8 years old, and when setting up my first email address, I pondered long and hard for something i could remember. Pretty much the only thing I could remember at that age was my birthday (29 April) so I just added it to the end of my real name, and Josh294 was born. It's almost the only online alias I've ever used, since I've never bothered to change it.
Wow, that was boring.

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 4:09 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

like many who have written here, it was a way to not have an internet alias like name567@whatever dot-com. it also comes in handy as a badge name when I go to sci-fi conventions.

Channain wasn't just plucked out of the ether, though. like many others who have written here, she's a character from a story i started writing as a teenager. a woman of two worlds who doesn't really belong in either and often has to forgive the insensitivities of men. besides, a girl's gotta do something in the most useless high school history class ever known, right?

currently Channain is kicking butt, swapping vehicles, and keeping the faith in the Browncoat Chronicles by Sarahetc. evolution is a funny thing, don't you think?

the yin/yang avatar is a little more personal. aside from the silver pendant I wear constantly, it represents my extremely Gemini nature and involves a lot of faith theology that would probably make this posting a lot longer than it needs to be right now.

I found the way, by the sound of your voice--so many things to say.
These are only words. Now I've only words. Once there was a choice.
David Sylvian

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 11:53 AM

TRAGICSTORY

I got mine from Ranma 1/2 the manga (NOT THE ANIME) When Mousse falls into the hot springs in Jusenko the Chinese tour says "spring of drowned duck have TRAGIC STORY of duck what drowned there 1300 years ago." And of course Mousse being Mousse falls in on the first step. Intresting side note: All the other characters fall into a spring that has a TRAGIC LEGEND, not a Tragic Story.

My other aliases are/were:
Rabid Blade (retired)
That one I made up cuz it sounded cool.
Relucant Genocide (Quake III)
This one I made up after reading up on the Nuremburg trials. Since it seemed to be the Nazi'd defense and it struck me as so unbelievable that it was funny.

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"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 2:19 PM

DUNDEE

Simple, my 8 inch dive knife i use well camping has become more infamous with every boy scout toop i have volinteered with that its got to the poin where people just know me as the guy with the knife.
Anybody who has ever seen crocodile dundee can follow my line of thought

Dear diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy,
Today we where kidnapped my hill folk never to be seen again, it was the best day ever.

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 2:20 PM

SARAHETC

Sarah Et Cetera.

Me and mine, reified.

I post over at the Fox board as something entirely different. Them that care have probably figured it out already. It's not hard. I won't thrust the story on anybody, but if you're curious, whatever.

Only other nick I've used for any length of time (cos let's face it, who hasn't gone online as "OldSkoolSCSIport" for half an hour?) was "Slyn" and that was on dalnet back in the day. And that was just a quick and dirty conjunction of first and middle names before I got married.

Sarah, et cetera.

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 2:22 PM

SUCCATASH

I chose mine many many years ago because it is fun to say. Also, I've never had a problem with someone else wanting this name.

Furthermore, my name is not a vegetable because that is spelled with an O: succotash.

I use this name almost everywhere I go. I leave a light in my window for traveling Browncoats in need of supper.

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 2:49 PM

MAGUINAN

My name, like the names of most cyborgs, is an acronym. In this case it's:

Mechanical Artificial Guardian Used for Intensive Nullification and Accurate Negotiation

Don't say I didn't warn you...

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 4:15 PM

LOTV

Well.. hmmm... How did I get this name...

LOTV: I wanted something new, mysterious, and otherwise ignorable. I was in a musical mood and chose the initials of a song by my favorite band, and thus LOTV gained the aquired effect.

Its always fun watching someone try and guess what it stands for...

LOTV: Ima-who-whata-whoichy-whoda-whazza--huh?

Garapagosu Last Update: 6/24/03

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 4:52 PM

GINOBIFFARONI

Weird Story,

I somehow got tagged as Biff while I was in the army.

Later on I was playing in a over 30 hockey tournament ( I was 26 at the time ) the roster was being passed around, and my father told me to use a fake name. I wrote Biff... then couldn't come up with a good last name. So Gino Biffaroni.

It was cool until I assisted on the first goal and the announcer goes " assited by number seventeen GGGinoooo BBBifffffffaroni "

Everyone in the building including my own team looked around and went " WHO "

Ever since, I'm Gino B.

" If wishes were Horses, then we'd all be eatting Steak "

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 5:22 PM

LERXST

Saw it in an album liner note and just thought it was a cool name.

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TRILLIAN: Arthur! You're safe!
ARTHUR: Am I? Oh, good.

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Sunday, July 6, 2003 6:58 PM

SERGEANTX

Quote:
Mechanical Artificial Guardian Used for Intensive Nullification and Accurate Negotiation

could you provide us with some example of your work?

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

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Monday, July 7, 2003 6:32 AM

MERLINDREA

Hi,

I am also using my alias almost everywhere I go. I came up with it when I entered the fabulous world of MUDs (Multi User Dungeons), when I was a student and all MUDs where text-based then. Wonderful thing to do, if you have about 20 hours per week time to play them. But I digress...

Well, the MUD was a fantasy based one, so I tried to remember some famous wizards, which led me to Merlin, and voila, there I had a female version. Although I am sure my fellow players weren't too happy to have to type that long name all the time :-). So they came up with Merl as the short form.

The weird thing is I don't like Merlin himself too much, ever since I read Mark Twain's "A Yankee..."

Merl

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Monday, July 7, 2003 6:37 AM

JOHNNYREB

Quote:
Originally posted by Himberry:

...i certainly do have a favourite kind of morphemes: "unikale morpheme"

I know what a morpheme is. I remember learing about them in my History of the English language class--It's the smallest unit of any given language that conveys an idea or has meaning, such as {un-} or {-less}, if I'm not mistaken. But what is a "unikale morpheme," and why, pray tell, is it your favorite?

Viva Firefly

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Monday, July 7, 2003 6:47 AM

SERENITYVALLEY

I was in a band called Serenity. We actually found Serenity Valley and were gonna stay there over night. And then Firefly came along and there was a Serenity Valley also, so it was suiting.

My email addy is much more interesting though. It is no1getzs0da which comes from the Two Guys and a Girl quote:

"Sharon, the second he sees that tattoo, he's never letting me near anyone he cares about again. I wanted to be the best man at his wedding, you know? I wanted to be Uncle Berg to his kids, you know. He'd say "No Soda!" and I'd give them soda! But now no one gets soda!" --Ryan Reynolds as Berg.

"I Jonathan Donnely take you Sharon Carter to be my lawful wedded bride. To hold and to have. Whether we have money or not. Whether you're feeling not well or well. Until one of us is dead." --Nathan Fillion (Two Guys and a Girl)

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Monday, July 7, 2003 7:21 AM

JAVIDRHO

My alias comes from a science fiction novel I am currently writing. Javid Rho is a digital life form, so it works well as an alias for my digital self. The blue fellow in my avatar icon is the "real" Javid Rho (a version of my story is being illustrated by my brother and that image is from one of the online chapters).

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Monday, July 7, 2003 12:03 PM

MAGUINAN

Quote:
Originally posted by SergeantX:
Quote:
Mechanical Artificial Guardian Used for Intensive Nullification and Accurate Negotiation

could you provide us with some example of your work?

SergeantX

"..and here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest." -- Nanci Griffith

Unfortunately, I can't. One of the "quirks" of "Intensive Nullification" is that almost no evidence is left behind...not even ash.

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Monday, July 7, 2003 12:55 PM

CHAMPAGNESUPERNOVA

I used to post at Oasis (British music group) forums a while back. And I'd go by this name 'cause it was a title of one of their songs that I like a lot. Anyhow, I decided to use the same name at this board since it sounds kinda spacey.

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Monday, July 7, 2003 2:10 PM

PANIC

I came by my online persona via several converging threads of thinking. First off, I've always loved that "Don't Panic" line from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Second, when I was first playing Counter-Strike (the first online game I played to any extent), I used a spray tag that said "Don't Panic," which I picked up somewhere along the way. I thought it was clever to be named "Panic" and spray "Don't Panic" everywhere. It was also entertaining to see the words Camper was killed by Panic whenever I killed some guy named camper, etc. Finally, I work in an hospital emergency department, where remaining calm in the face of an emergency is a definite asset. I've always enjoyed contrasts so I dug the irony. Plus its short and easy to type.

All bleeding eventually stops.

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Monday, July 7, 2003 2:55 PM

GOONIE

Let's see - my email address is the name of my favorite Dr. Suess book (Marvink.mooney) which happens to be a scathing rebuke of my Hero Richard Nixon. (It is also fun to watch everyone become confused and think that i am a male named Marvin,) Goonie, which i post by, is the name of my favorite movie (when i saw it as a preteen it was teh first time i had ever seen a movie where the geeks got to be heros with shiny make overs or a popular guy falling in love with them) as well as my license plate.

Freudian study of my response; I am reverting to my juvenile self and need prozac. lol

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Monday, July 7, 2003 2:55 PM

SERENITYVALLEY

Quote:
First off, I've always loved that "Don't Panic" line from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Oh, I LOVE the Guide. Actually, I'm reading So Long and Thanks For All The Fish right now. Did you see the TV series?

"I Johnny Donnely take you Sharon Carter to be my lawful wedded bride. To hold and to have. Whether we have money or not. Whether you're feeling not well or well. Until one of us is dead." --Nathan Fillion (Two Guys and a Girl)

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Monday, July 7, 2003 3:00 PM

NIGHTTRAIN

I got mine from my favorite CD. Oscar Peterson trio if any of you are into jazz. Great album.

Signature?? I DONT HAVE TIME TO THINK OF A SIGNATURE!

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Monday, July 7, 2003 3:26 PM

HARDWARE

Quote:
Originally posted by Lerxst:
Saw it in an album liner note and just thought it was a cool name.

Lerxst is the nickname of Alex Lifeson, guitarist for Rush.

And my nick is an old pre-internet nickname for me. As someone who gets along better with the hardware than the people.

Doesn't matter what sort of hardware, anything will do. Cars, computers, guns, houses, if you can take it apart I have always been able to fix it and put it back together.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Monday, July 7, 2003 5:23 PM

VAMPBUNNY

I have been reading a series of books by Susan Sizemore. Can't remember the series name but it is about Vampires and in the third or fourth book. They refere to someone that a Vampire takes as a Companion as a Bunny. Among Vampires that is a slur. A not nice thing to say. You don't say it front of the humans. Like a Boy toy or Girl toy depending on the bunny.

Since ailias are getting harder to come by and I wanted something new any way. I thought I would give this a shot and so Vampbunny was born.

Keep Flying. See you in the world

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Monday, July 7, 2003 9:38 PM

MANIACNUMBERONE

Quote:
Originally posted by GinoBiffaroni:
Weird Story,

I somehow got tagged as Biff while I was in the army.

Later on I was playing in a over 30 hockey tournament ( I was 26 at the time ) the roster was being passed around, and my father told me to use a fake name. I wrote Biff... then couldn't come up with a good last name. So Gino Biffaroni.

It was cool until I assisted on the first goal and the announcer goes " assited by number seventeen GGGinoooo BBBifffffffaroni "

Everyone in the building including my own team looked around and went " WHO "

Ever since, I'm Gino B.

" If wishes were Horses, then we'd all be eatting Steak "

...so, is it said "biff" like just plain old biff, or "beef"?

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Monday, July 7, 2003 9:38 PM

DRAKON

I just have a thing for dragons. It works as a metaphor for how I feel about the rest of the world, sometimes useful, mostly confusing, dangerous and alien. Also way too volitile for my tastes. But Dragon was taken, and so I mispelt it.

Then I found out, afterwards, that Drakon is both Greek and Russian for the flying lizzards of yore. As well as the name of a 5th century BC Archon of Athens, one of the first guys to write down the laws of Athens.

While he gets a bad rap, because most of his punishments were death, he did bring about two important changes. The first is the concept of "involuntary manslaughter" which was punishable by banishment, rather than death. And second, he severely limited the power of the judges to decree whatever they wanted, giving less wealthy folks a fighting chance in the event of a legal dispute with a richer person.

"My kind of stupid"

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Monday, July 7, 2003 10:09 PM

PANIC

Quote:
Oh, I LOVE the Guide. Actually, I'm reading So Long and Thanks For All The Fish right now. Did you see the TV series?

Nope I missed the series and the radio show. I did however read all the books in the trilogy.

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Monday, July 7, 2003 10:26 PM

STRAYCAT

Quote:
Originally posted by SignyM:
This is the ONLY place I use this alias! (I normally post to MGH neurowebforum. You'd NEVER guess who I am there! ) Anyway, Firefly reminded me of CJ Cheryh's "Downbelow Station" series bc if their common gritty realism and political crosscurrents. The most intriguing character to me is Signy Mallory so I stole the name.

Wish I'd read this message before my last post (on the Heinlein thread, where I mentioned Downbelow in a Firefly context. Glad I'm not the first to spot that link. Wouldn't you love to see Gina Torres play Bet Yeager?

Anyways - I have two main internet nicks - one is also a Downbelow-based nick (but not here)

Straycat comes from a swing band the Stray Cats - probably best known for the 'Stray Cat Strut' - have danced to that song more times than I can remember, with more people than I can remember - hence the name.

Stray

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Also, I can kill you with my brain.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2003 12:42 AM

KOFFEE

My maiden name is Kaufman. Back in junior high, my first name (Tracie) is quite common, so my best friend started calling me "Koffee" as a take off of Kaufman as to differentiate me from all the other Tracy's we knew.

It used to be just a thing between her and I, but with the whole internet thing now, I decided it would be a good alias to share with the rest of the world.

Actually, I just had the knickname put on the bowling ball I just got.

I can't wait till league starts back up.
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“It's a real burn, being right so often.”

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Wednesday, July 9, 2003 1:57 AM

JAVIDRHO

I want to know how the new guy, AnusBob, came up with his name. Now, that's got to be a story worth telling

He writes like he is, perhaps, Asian, and new to the English language. Perhaps it is a translational issue, (dong ma?) If so, someone should be nice and explain it to him. Either that, or he just has a good (and weird) sense or humor (I can appreciate that!)

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Wednesday, July 9, 2003 2:17 AM

JAVIDRHO

Quote:
Originally posted by Koffee:
My maiden name is Kaufman. Back in junior high, my first name (Tracie) is quite common, so my best friend started calling me "Koffee" as a take off of Kaufman as to differentiate me from all the other Tracy's we knew.

KOFFEE was the first name I noticed when I started reading this site way back when. I used to have the alias CUPAJOE and JAVAJOE, because used to drink a LOT of coffee (I'm originally from Seattle, the home of Starbucks) and my first name is Joe, which is another term for that potent brown nectar. When I moved to California, my favorite coffee house was called Koffee Haus, so that's why your name caught my attention.
Now I'm on the East coast and I get to work at 6am, so I'm back on the stuff again just to stay awake. My wife says it makes me jumpy and irritable

so maybe I'll hold off for now...

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Wednesday, July 9, 2003 3:38 AM

CULTTVGIRL

Hi! I'm CultTVGirl and I'm a newbie here!

I came up with the alias CultTVGirl just over a year ago, when I started my own website dedicated to cult tv shows (CultTVKingdom). I now use this alias on several forums and have my own web-log using this name (CultTVGirl's Kingdom)!

Come visit me at: http://culttvgirl.blogspot.com

Book: “A duel?”
Wash: “With swords?”
Simon: “The Captain's a good fighter, he must know how to handle a sword?”
Zoe: “I think he knows which end to hold.”

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