Schechter on 18/5/2000 at 18:25
Hmmmm... well at the time, I had been watching the forums for a while, then I saw something that I really wanted to reply to... Ooops; I had to register. My online name is usually some variant of my Hebrew name (Solomon, Shlomo, Shelomo), but I've gotten used to it being taken (I really had no idea how big or little the forums were) and I didn't want to risk it since the thought I wanted to say was slipping by the minute. So I decided to think of something else, and Schechter was the first thing that came to mind.
For those who don't know, a Schechter is a kosher butcher (kind of an slurred together form of 'Schocheter'), but there have also been a couple of important 20th century teachers and Talmud researchers with that name as well.
coch on 18/5/2000 at 18:52
My nickname in real life if cochon, but most of my friends use the short coch (pronounce like "kosh").
cochon is the french translation of "pig" ...
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Know that thou must enter by the Gates
in the lawful manner, as is put down
in the Covenant, else thou are surely lost.
-The "Necronomicon"
Grundbegriff on 18/5/2000 at 21:31
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Originally posted by Slortar:
If you're looking for literary value in any mainstream fantasy novel, you're barking up the wrong tree. The only fantasy novel I've seen with any depth in it since Tolkien was....You'll find some literary depth and skillful writing (as well as some deliberate but nevertheless annoying overwriting) in Stephen R. Donaldson's two trilogies,
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (1970s-1980s, Del Ray, numerous printings). There's a reason he's often called the second Tolkein, though in fact he's a very different, very late-20th-century kind of writer.
Cheers,
G.
[This message has been edited by Grundbegriff (edited May 18, 2000).]
Darkblade on 18/5/2000 at 22:15
Darkblade is my name. I picked this name to be a theif in the game of D&D I hope most of you know what game that is I am a 7th level theif and I pride myself on my thefing skills in D&D as well as theif. Not a funny story but it works. Just to let people know in the D&D game I have died 5 times. and much much more in theif. but I do pride myself on being a very good theif in sticky places hehehehehehehehe
Nightvision on 20/5/2000 at 20:34
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Fantasy fans don't want something interesting, not in the sense that more mainstream fans want. They want characters that are easy to identify with
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This fantasy fan tends to like the odd plot twist now and then. characters are all well and good, but if they spend the entire novel watching TV the book probably wouldn't sell.
just thought i'd pot this back to the top...
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'There is no law for those who make the law and no law for the incorrigably lawless. All the laws and rules are for those people stupid enough to think like Cockbill Street people.'
A proud member of:
MBOP
BBTZOE
SPCB
SPCLD
and RSPNPN (one-man militant faction and freelance dissident)
Morrgan on 21/5/2000 at 10:00
Morrgan is the name of a cat in some comic. Or maybe it was a dog... Can't quite remember anymore, it has been some time since I last read it, but for some reason the name came up when I was trying to think of a username.
Sonance on 21/5/2000 at 14:12
Back in the early 90s, I used to write a lot of music, largely electronica stuff. Of course, I needed a name to release this music under, so I simply looked up "sound" in a thesaurus. The entry that caught my eye was, surprise surprise, "sonance", which is an archaic English word meaning "sound" or "noise". Naturally, I used it as an online handle whenever I could, so I guess it's stuck.
It can have some humorous side-effects though, particularly on IRC. Normally I'll use my real name (Mark), but if I happend to pop onto a busy IRC channel with the name Sonance, some desperate types automatically assume I'm female and hilarious chat-up antics ensue.
[This message has been edited by Sonance (edited May 21, 2000).]
samF on 21/5/2000 at 17:15
it's a german company that makes these cute little dolls in yellow dresses...and nobody would've have talked to me if i'd called myself Pikachu..."pika, pika!" "Nooooooooooo Pikachu! put the voltaire down!"
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..look, i dont need any more pheasants, bugger off!
The Gnat on 22/5/2000 at 04:04
I used to play Dungeons and Dragons a lot and one of my all time favotite player characters that I rolled up was a Gnome Thief/Fighter I called "The Gnat." He was an independent cuss, a real bothersome individual like - well - gnats are! Chaotic neutral in nature who eventually had many different factions after his hide. It was great fun! Yes, he still is "alive" but in hiding.
kotti on 23/5/2000 at 19:24
Aragorn...I think most of us have read LotR.
And as for my name: it comes from a name of one of my cute little (damn big actually) furry tiger I had when I was something like 5 years old.
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DARK is not the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
