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Not long after I joined AWAD in Nov. 2000, we had a thread about the meaning of our user names (monikers) - Now there's an old word I like and it's listed in the OED!
Anyway - since we have so many new members and strangers dropping in - I thought if might be fun to do it again for their benefit. (Welcome all, delighted to have you here)
In the old thread many guessed that wow was wise old woman but the secret is to turn it up side down !
So wot's yer moniker mean?
And, if you care to say, why did you choose it?
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My grandson, when he was younger, couldn't say the wonderful name a friend had given me when she heard my daughter was pregnant: Grandmeow. For most of my life, and according to a very old Dennis the Menace cartoon, "meow can mean ANYTHING, like 'aloha' and 'shalom'". It has been an integral and important part of my vocabulary since I've been a small child. Therefore....
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http://geocities.com/elbillaf/fallible_nick.htmlIt's the title of a book by L. Sprague DeCamp. My original net moniker (more than 20 years ago) was "zdim." (At net parties, people always called each other by their handles, btw, so there are people who still only know me as "zdim".) It's not Tolstoy, but I became enamored with the character. Soon I switched to the usual moniker. I've used others. On undernet, I'm TheFiend. On playsite I'm lemniscate. Usually this is because of some limitation on the name length. Many years ago, on the Bitnet Relays I sometimes went by OmarKhayyam, MarkTwain, or AnaisNin. But that wasn't too frequent. 99% of the time, regardless of the forum, I use the TFF name. I'm just accustomed to it now. k
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Helen (of troy)
(i'll leave it up to you to decide how many mili helens i have.)
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to decide how many mili helens i have
Interesting unit of measurement. Do you rate one millihelene for each ship your face has launched?
My first name's James, and it's a very common one. So, I chose Jheem because it looks Indic, but it isn't. When I first chose it, I was sure it didn't exist. Though I have noticed one other guy on the Web who's using it, and he is from the subcontinent. Th letter {jh} is rather rare in the Devanagri syllabary, so that's another plus.
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I just used a random letter generator and sorta liked what it threw out.
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how many millihelens
And does the sign change based on the direction the ships go?
The dictionary meaning of Faldage leads only peripherally to an understanding of why I use it.
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How about some posts from the Strangers and Newcomers?
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how many millihelens
And does the sign change based on the direction the ships go?
you mean from east to west? or launched and promptly to the bottom of the sea? i suspect on the latter, i would rate more than a few milihelens!
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Funny you should mentio that. There was a such an ill-fated ship during WW II. An LST built in St. Louis was launched and sank immediately. They raised her, fixed the hole in her hull, and sent her down the ways again, with the same result. This time it was an open sea cock. The third time someone had left the ramp unsecured. The fourth time a freak wave capsized her.
In fact, she sank so many times that she became known as the ship that faced a thousand launches.
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