07-20-2004, 05:44 AM
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#81 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Anchorage Alaska
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| "It's a sword! A sword! I am not a Dalmatian woman! I don't even have spots!
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07-20-2004, 05:56 AM
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#82 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Holland
Posts: 861
| I wanted an original name for an e-mail adress, so I browsed through my Attic Greek dictionary for some nice words.
Then I came at dunastor, meaning lord, or, when used in the New Testament, The Lord (but that's got nothing to do with it).
I thought that would be nice, and befitting my ego 
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07-20-2004, 06:00 AM
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#83 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: South of England
Posts: 158
| It does exactly what it ways on the tin. (Don't know if that TV commercial ever amde it to the US?)
It also gives me the shameless oportunity to mention www.thearmourer.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk  Quote: |
Originally Posted by fixxmyweapon ...anyone wanna fix my weapons? | If you don't mind postage costs to and from the UK 
Altrenatively http://www.thearmourer.pwp.blueyonde...k/Rewiring.htm has some tips that might be useful. | |
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07-20-2004, 06:51 AM
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#84 | | Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Scotland
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| Funnily enough it's my name. | |
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07-20-2004, 10:38 AM
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#85 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
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Originally Posted by Iwant2bafencer Speaking of the proper spelling of things. Joan, is there a specific reason behind the 'k' in place of a 'c' in Arc/Ark? | First of all, it would be "arc" not "ark" in french anyway. They have the word "arc" as used in "... de triomphe" but not "ark" as in Noah's contraption. Which has nothing to do with our warrior maiden anyway.
I read that it's almost certainly a corruption of Jeanne Tarc. Just a surname - she wasn't "of Arc"; no such place.
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07-20-2004, 10:39 AM
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#86 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
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Originally Posted by HilandDoug A few folks have thought it was "Hil & Doug" and asked who Hillary was. That REALLY p*ssed off the old girlfriend! | That's what I thought it was!
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Louweasel
"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from" [Eddie Izzard]
"she might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts"
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07-20-2004, 10:41 AM
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#87 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
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Originally Posted by labouche I got mine from my fencing coach and fencing captain because I used to have a really big mouth and I had no idea that "la" is feminine in frech. Grrr. Oh well. I'm not changing it now....I've had it for almost 5 years.
-la(le) bouche  | It's not really the "la" that's feminine, it's the "bouche". The feminine "la" is caused by the feminine "bouche", which you can't change. LeBouche would be wrong. So there's nothing you can do - you may be a man, but your mouth will always be a girly! To the French, anyway...
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Louweasel
"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from" [Eddie Izzard]
"she might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts"
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07-20-2004, 10:44 AM
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#88 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
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Originally Posted by MyraTrue You know... I'm trying to think? I figure I became Myra True when I was growing up- see, my parents gave me the kind of name you get tared and feathered for on the playground. They then shortened it (though not diminishing the mock-ability of it). I hated it. I didn't want to tell anyone that was my name. So I started plotting what I'd rather have, and I've been D'Myra ever since.
I finally asked to be called something else, but you can't just give up a name so easily. So blame it on Myra.  | I think your real name is pretty! And you could always shorten it - so it's like the flower but with an "i" before the last letter. Lots of people are called that and it's not weird!
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Louweasel
"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from" [Eddie Izzard]
"she might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts"
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07-20-2004, 10:46 AM
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#89 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK
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Originally Posted by CvilleFencer Cvillefencer because I live in Charlottesville (Cville to the locals) and I just happen to fence. When we first started our club I thought someone looking on the board might see the town name and say "hey, I live near there!" and drop me a line looking for a place to fence, so I thought I would put it in the name.
Not a very interesting screen name. If I had it to do over again I would have used my name like on all my other forum accounts or went with something fun like RighteousBadgerCatapult. | I've always thought of it as being like a civil fencer, as in a really polite, well mannered one...
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Louweasel
"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from" [Eddie Izzard]
"she might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts"
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07-20-2004, 10:50 AM
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#90 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by R. Exnicios same here, just not creative, plus it took me so long to be able to spell it that I figure I'd use it as much as possible. Now if I could just get people to come close to saying it correctly. 
Cheers | So tell us how to pronounce it! I can't recognise where it comes from to guess well at pronuncuiation, but I'll have a go. I normally think of it as "eks-NEE-thee-oss" as I studied Spanish and it doesn't sit well with he other langages I know, but of course it could be Latino Spanish "eks-NEE-see-oss". Or Italian - "eks-NEE-chee-oss".
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Louweasel
"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from" [Eddie Izzard]
"she might not look like much, kid, but she's got it where it counts"
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07-20-2004, 12:22 PM
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#91 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: MA
Posts: 7,471
| Mine is a school nickname related to...the size of my head... 
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07-20-2004, 03:13 PM
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#92 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Meadville, PA
Posts: 630
| Tomas = Tomas
N = Nonnenmacher
Having a last name that literally translates into "nun maker" has been a source of amusement/conversation for my entire life.
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07-20-2004, 03:52 PM
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#93 | | gother than thou
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA
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| In high school, while first trying to grasp the metric system, I jokingly claimed that it was the 'tool of the devil.' It was a running gag for a while, calling anything bad a 'tool of the devil.' I started using "TooLoftheDevii ' < I guess DeviL was taken> as my aim name, and as my login name all over the place. You can even visit my outdated website at http://TooLoftheDeviL.mirrorz.com | |
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07-20-2004, 03:56 PM
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#94 | | Just Joined
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07-20-2004, 04:29 PM
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#95 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
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| In '96 I was setting up an account on a free puzzles and games site called Riddler (back when they gave cash prizes to the lucky few including yours truly on two occasions, go me). The first 3-4 names I tried were taken and I started getting frustrated. I decided to do something without meaning but easy to remember. I figured QWERTY would already be taken so I went the other way and missed the P. I've used oiuyt for most internet nicks ever since.
Amazing how many people complain about how difficult it is to spell correctly. Pronounce, fine, I can understand that (BTW, it's pronounced "OIUYT!"), but spell? Give me a break. :)
-B :)
p.s. I actually pronounce it something similar to "Oy-yut"
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07-20-2004, 05:02 PM
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#96 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Oklahoma, USA
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| Rogue- One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome.
Unattached, like the elephant that wonders without a pack.
There are other definitions but they don't apply to me.
Also, I like Star Wars 
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07-20-2004, 06:21 PM
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#97 | | Scavenger
Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Pennsylvania
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs Mine is a school nickname related to...the size of my head...
Really. |
Nice sig . . . and my hat size is enormous too. 
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07-21-2004, 06:54 AM
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#98 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: New Zealand
Posts: 185
| Mine seems so weird compared to everyone elses, It's an anagram for "i love benny", from abba, (he was so cool in the 70's.) im usually called crazy_fencer in other forums but I thought I'd be surrounded by crazy fencers in this forum so i canned the idea. | |
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07-21-2004, 08:47 AM
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#99 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
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Originally Posted by ebonylevin It's an anagram for "i love benny", from abba, (he was so cool in the 70's.) | LOL 
*hum-de-dum-de-dum...lengthening message*
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07-21-2004, 09:17 AM
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#100 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Holland
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| So what about the smurfs?...
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