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    Member Member Ferret's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andres
    Back in the days of me being born, way back in 1978, some woman and her husband decided to call me Andres. It has sort of stuck now.


    yeah same here...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Elite Ferret


    yeah same here...
    Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!



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    Quote Originally Posted by Privateerkev
    Your parents named you Elite Ferret!?!
    well not exactly, it all started back in the year 1066, when William was busy invading England. My ancestors were a group of warrior ferrets under the command of Edward the Confessor, before he passed away. They decided to side with the Normans as they had more 'ferret friendly' policies than the Saxons or Danes.

    Then after the war was won my ancestors were rewarded by having a prosperous town in Bedfordshire, South East England, named after their race and being given the title 'of ferrets'. Over the years that title simply merged into a surname such as Smith or Wright, and newborn ferrets were given Christian names as well. My parents were the ones who relinquished control of Ferret Town (as featured in the BC hotseat game - ask phonics or Ramses) in favour of settling down to a quiet life in a country manor. They named me 'Elite' in memory of the brave elite ferrets who performed a crucial role in conquering England from the weasels Saxons.

    And that is where my name originates from

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    According to a friend of mine... Atheotes loosely means atheist in ancient greek... thats where i got it...

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    My real name --> Milan
    Italian town --> Milan
    Latin name for Italian town -> Mediolanum
    Pseudo-Latin for my name --> Mediolanicus
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    My first .org name was Decius Curtius, but I forgot teh password and created Caius Flaminius.

    Changed to Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and got it to Caius for people like Andres who is lazy.




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    Liar and Trickster Senior Member Andres's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Caius
    Changed to Garcilaso de la Vega el Inca, and got it to Caius for people like Andres who is lazy.
    C is even shorter...

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    (Count) Hasimir Fenring is a character from Dune. I always thought he was a great character despite that he didn't have an overwhelming role in the plot. He was basicly an agent of the emperor, not in the least place a talented assassin. Despite the fact that he was a loyal friend to the emperor, he eventually refused to carry out an order to kill somebody (either because of affection, honor or both- it isn't made very clear) wich cost the emperor dearly.

    The prequels written by KJA Anderson and Brian Herbert put him more in the spotlight, but made him look like a two dimensional sociopath

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    It's who I am.

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    I never retreat and I never surrender.

    Edit: The "198" is just my year of birth with the number 3 cut off the end.
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    It's the latin version of my name and my granddad once called me that when I just started learning Latin and entering the online world. Kept it eversince.

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    The summer between my junior and senior years of High School (1994 I think) I took classes at Cornell Univ. A bunch of my friends were exploring the wonders of the internet by signing up for free AOL accounts. Back then they expired after 10 or 15 hours of use, so we had to keep creating new accounts on a regular basis. The names got silly after a while. Two of the ones I came up with stuck with me after I left. The first was "Calsted" which was the result of slamming my left hand onto the keyboard and then adding an L. I used that handle for RPGs and chatrooms for several years.

    The other was "Plastic Cow." That was because someone had told me that the Biology Department at Cornell had removed part of the skin and ribcage of a live cow and replaced it with a plexiglass sheet so that students could watch the animal's digestion process. I have no idea whether it was true or not, but that's where I got the idea. Plastic Cow was my shooter/action handle for a while, but my freshman year of college I was playing some game that I can no longer remember and Plastic Cow was too long for the name field. I had a friend who played Quake as Tinman, so tin sprang to mind and thus: TinCow. I dropped Calsted completely several years ago, and have been exclusively TinCow ever since. Probably will be forever.


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    Well lets see i have always ben interested in chinese and japanses things. Such as bushido and samurai etc. Then i started studying WW2. I really liked Kamakazi pilots. I started to paly a game called battle field on a site- playbattlefield of which i am still a member and i created kamakazi on there. Since then it is my username on everything...if not kamakazi ,kamakazi339
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