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#122672 02/13/04 09:17 PM
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My first name, Rachel, means "ewe" or "purity" depending on where you look. My middle name, Lynn, means a "cascade or waterfall" or "pretty" again depending on which names dictionary you look in. My last name means "Brilliant", "Landowner", or "the Crown of his Country."

Does that make me a pretty lamb who is a landowner? Or maybe I am a pure, brilliant waterfall...

This is another good site for looking up names:

http://www.ivillage.com/namefinder


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Does that make me a pretty lamb who is a landowner?

I dunno. You better talk to Faldage about that.


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ask Faldage

I guess that would mean you can pretty well pasture wherever you want to.


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I, Roger, a famous spearman, have always enjoyed my name auf Deutsch: Rutger.
and I am, of course, jolly.




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#122676 02/15/04 01:47 AM
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This root ger is also found in garlic 'spear-leek'.


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oh. thanks.






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oh. thanks.

I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as a dig at yer moniker, really. Is it because you dislike garlic? or because it disses your name?


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My real-life name is Dagny. Many well-read people ask me if I was named after the Ayn Rand character in Atlas Shrugged... but no. In fact, my parents & I didn't even learn of the book until I was in high school. Dagny is actually a traditional Norwegian name that translates literally to "New Day". My mom really wanted me to have a Norwegian name (both my parents are Norwegian, whether by birth or by heritage), so my dad made a list for her before I was born. As soon as my mom saw "Dagny" on the list, she knew that was the one. My middle name is Pernille, after my dad's sister.

I'm glad I'm a girl, though... I would have been Halvor had I been a boy, after my mom's father. I'm sure it was a fine name for Depression-era North Dakota, but I'm certain it would have been good for nothing but schoolyard poundings when I was growing up. I mean, "Dagny" was hard enough during the 80s Valley Girl thing. "Gag me with a spoon" morphed into "Dagny with a spoon", plus I had the redhead stigma. Ah, the crosses we bear.

As for Fiberbabe, I initially chose it based on my sewing background, plus the "Cyberbabe" wordplay thing. Naturally, given this crowd, many have opted to ignore that and ascribe a dietary context to it... So fine, I've decided to embrace that. Capfka embraced it too, and calls me Junior Wheatgerm. That finally explains his periodic "JW" references for the non-old-timers!


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oh. thanks.

I'm sorry. It wasn't meant as a dig at yer moniker, really. Is it because you dislike garlic? or because it disses your name?


ah, I missed this one a couple of days ago!
no, I was just kidding around. the emoticon supply is lacking here, and I should have added a wink or two...
"spear-leek" just doesn't quite have a ring to it though, does it?



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#122681 02/17/04 06:56 PM
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Dunno why I'm doing this since it's an old and not interesting story, but my online name(s) stem from my own. Shanks is a contraction of my middle name, and 'sunshine warrior' is a creative interpretation of the meanings of my first and last names (which come from Sanskrit and Malayalam respectively). So there... :-)


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