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#143812 - 03/02/07 08:11 PM
The meanings of our "pen names"
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I'm just wondering if y'all care to explain some of your interesting pen names, why you chose them or what they mean. Mine of course is self-explanatory, but some of you have very unusual pen names, as if of another language or something. Tartugas...outis...and the like.
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It were better for him that a millstone were hanged around his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Luke 17:2
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#143814 - 03/02/07 08:16 PM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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nobby nobbs is a character from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobby_Nobbs
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#143815 - 03/02/07 08:34 PM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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Loc: Maryland USA
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Brokenhearted, "outis" comes from the Odyssey. It's what Odysseus claimed as his name when he fooled the Cyclops, Polyphemus. My favorite translation of the Odyssey renders it as "Noman" and my sig for the first few years I was here was "Cyclops, do you ask me my name? Well, I will tell you, and you shall give me the stranger's due, as you promised. Noman is my name; Noman is what mother and father call me and all my friends." -- The Odyssey, translated by W.H.D. Rouse A few months after I wrote to the police about the last perp I changed to the sig line I have now. That's what Odysseus said back at home, just before he cast off the rags that disguised him as a beggar. I had no avatar until a couple weeks ago, which I felt was ok, for an "outis." This new avatar fits with "outis" nicely as well. I took the picture in the woods behind my house. Thanks, Joe
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#143841 - 03/02/07 10:32 PM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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Registered: 11/10/06
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Loc: midwest
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... in greek mythology, selene is a full moon goddess ... part of a triple goddess aspect with artemis (waxing crescent moon) and hecate (waning moon) ... selene was the daughter of hyperion and theia and one of the deities of light during the dynasty of the titans ...
hugs,
selene
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#143888 - 03/03/07 06:13 AM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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BH, What a totally cool thread!  I wish I had something profound to add, but, well, Trish is just my name  ROCK ON..........Trish
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#143898 - 03/03/07 07:54 AM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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Registered: 05/28/06
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Very cool thread!
Beccy is the name I always used to use in games as a child. I was always 'Beccy'.....seems funny now I think about!
peace
beccy
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#143899 - 03/03/07 07:58 AM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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Registered: 10/03/06
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Life can be "sweet" and life can be "sour." There are moments it can be both at the same time and I'm often perplexed by the irony of it all.
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#143902 - 03/03/07 08:34 AM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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Initials. Sorry, I'm not very original. :-)
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#143909 - 03/03/07 09:13 AM
Re: The meanings of our "pen names"
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as a kid i was attached to my brother yeah like his shadow thats what they called me shadowkid
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