Quiet Sound on 7/2/2002 at 15:17

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I used to work a sound mixer board, I was the 'sound man' in other words. I rarely have anything to say, I'm quiet most of the time. A few people started calling me the 'quiet sound man,' and I just droped the last word, although I did not adopt the name until some time after I left my position running the sound system.

Not long after the start of 2000 I started posting at a forum for a game by the name of Utopia ((http://games.swirve.com/utopia)) and had gotten tired of the various names I'd been using since I first got on the internet in '98 (IIRC) cause none of them felt right. I couldn't think of anything that I liked, and my mind started wandering to back when I still worked sound systems and I recalled that a few people had called me the 'quiet sound man.' As soon as the memory struck me I decided the name would be perfect if I droped the last word, and I've been using it ever since.

Ziusudra on 27/2/2002 at 11:52

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<center>[lost account of the antediluvian rulers, and how human noise vexed the chief god Enlil so much that he persuaded the divine assembly to vote the destruction of man by the deluge] ..

That day Nintur wept over her creatures and holy Inanna was full of grief over their people; but Enki took counsel with his own heart. An, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursaga had the gods of heaven and earth swear by the names of An and Enlil.

At that time, Ziusudra was king and lustration priest. He fashioned, being a seer, the god of giddiness and stood in awe beside it, wording his wishes humbly.

As he stood there regularly day after day something that was not a dream was appearing: conversation a swearing of oaths by heaven and earth, a touching of throats and the gods bringing their thwarts up to Kiur.

And as Ziusudra stood there beside it, he went on hearing:

"Step up to the wall to my left and listen! Let me speak a word to you at the wall and may you grasp what I say, may you heed my advice! By our hand a flood will sweep over the cities of the half-bushel baskets, and the country; the decision, that mankind is to be destroyed has been made".

A verdict, a command of the assembly cannot be revoked, an order of An and Enlil is not known ever to have been countermanded, their kingship, their term, has been uprooted they must bethink themselves of that. Now... What I have to say to you...


[lost account of Enki's advice to build a boat and load it with pairs of living things, and Ziusudra's compliance]

All the evil winds, all stormy winds gathered into one and with them, then, the flood was sweeping over the cities of the half-bushel baskets for seven days and seven nights. After the flood had swept over the country, after the evil wind had tossed the big boat about on the great waters, the sun came out spreading light over heaven and earth.

Ziusudra then drilled an opening in the big boat.
And the gallant Utu sent his light into the interior of the big boat. Ziusudra, being king, stepped up before Utu kissing the ground before him. The king was butchering oxen, was being lavish with the sheep Barley cakes, crescents together with......he was crumbling for him juniper, the pure plant of the mountains, he filled on the fire and with a ...clasped to the breast he...

[lost account of Enlil's wrath at finding survivor's and his mollification by Enki]

You here have sworn by the life's breath of heaven the life's breath of earth that he verily is allied with yourself; you there, An and Enlil, have sworn by the life's breath of heaven, the life's breath of earth. that he is allied with all of you. He will disembark the small animals that come up from the earth!

Ziusudra, being king, stepped up before An and Enlil kissing the ground. And An and Enlil after honoring him were granting him life like a god's, were making lasting breath of life, like a god's, descend into him. That day they made Ziusudra, preserver, as king, of the name of the small animals and the seed of mankind, live toward the east over the mountains in mount Dilmun.

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Many names I have had, many have been forgotten...
And still the goddess sleeps.

shadowthief on 26/6/2002 at 17:21

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Well at first I was going to go with my usual name "dark" but it just seemed to dual (I had used it for a while) So after a long time thinking I came up with "Shadow" but to me it sounded to much like a dogs name. So I just added Thief to the end since that was the main reason I joined and my favorite game at the time. Hence the name Shadowthief, sounds much, much cooler than Shadow. Now where ever I go I always sign up as Shadowthief. In a few places I've even had people say "Hey cool name"

Plethora on 26/6/2002 at 17:57

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I was reading a dictionary one day the in the bathroom (all the magazines were taken:o ) and I thought I'd find a cool name for a heavy metal band (I play the guitar and was looking to form a band, back in 1992) and I found this word: PLETHORA. It means plentyful or fullness or abundancy or something like that......

I ended up playing for a band that already had a name, then I grew up, got married, got a job and suddenly it's bye-bye dreams of becoming a rock star.

Anyhow, I adopted that name as my user name and.......THE END.

The Kurgan on 26/6/2002 at 21:39

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"I am in disguise!"