| 24 NOV 2009 at 1:52am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Just kidding!
Ivinia is a place, not a person, from my Dungeons and Dragons days. http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoom.cfg?product_id=5101A
Have to laugh though... I did a google image search on Ivinia and the first image is me with bobo on my shoulder. :
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 4:38am |
MarkGuild Master
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Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Ivinia (24 NOV 2009 1:52am)
Have to laugh though... I did a google image search on Ivinia and the first image is me with bobo on my shoulder.
You are in elite company.
And, I have no imagination.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 6:20am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Well, just like Mark, I use my own real name.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 6:48am |
Lucien21Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Lucien = Lucien a character from my favourite comic series (Sandman - Neil Gaiman). He works for Morpheous Lord of dreams and in the dream world Lucien is, first and foremost, the librarian of the castle. His library ecompasses every book that has ever been dreamed, from The Bestselling Romantic Thriller I Used to Dream About on the Bus That Would Sell A Million Copies and Mean I'd Never Have to Work Again to classic authors's imagined works, such as Christopher Marlowe's The Merrie Comedie of the Redemption of Dr. Faustus, or The Emperor Over the Sea by C.S. Lewis. It's travel section contains such gems as My Year on the Dread Plateau of Leng and Ancient Kadath for 20 Dollars a Day. There is even an annex that contains every book actually written, although, of course, it is (relative to the rest of the library) quite small.
21= My age :-X
Dear Diary, My teenage angst bullsh*t now has a bodycount.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 7:12am |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Location: US, Texas
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The origin of my user name is a basic distrust of Internet Anonimity.
Cheers, Terry
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:06am |
| Deleted User | Heh...- you asked for it! [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif] [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif] [smiley=evil.gif]
The name The Traveller could be traced back to a manifold origin.
(1) Books:
a.)
The Traveller is a 2005 novel by John Twelve Hawks, which is set in the new future and lays out a world where the real power lies not with people or governments, but in the hands of a secret organisation who call themselves “the Brethen” but who their enemies refer to as “the Tabula”.
The Tabula are a centuries old secret society who believe in the importance of control and stability, making them in essense advocates of a kind of extreme Utilitarianism.
Influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham the Tabula wish to enforce a Virtual Panopticon: a society where all individuals become so accustomed to being watched and monitored that they act at all times as if they were being observed and are as such completely controllable.
[highlight]The Travellers [/highlight]are individuals with a special gift, often but not always inherited, which allows them to detach from their bodies and journey through elemental barriers (water, fire etc) to other realms. They do this by detaching their “light” (internal energy seemingly analogous to the soul but found by the Tabula to be empirically measurable) from their body.
Travellers’ experiences and gifts (they can view the world around them with greater speed and clarity than normal people) can lend them great charisma, wisdom and vision. Many Travellers become religious prophets, or opponents of the Tabula, and the random element they add to societies makes them enemies of the Tabula who have hunted them almost to extinction.
b.) The Compleat Traveller in Black are a series of short stories, written in a fantasy vein, by . John Brunner
The series deals with a nameless protagonist, (The Traveller in black.) who bears staff of curdled light,. travelling through a landscape in which order and chaos are in conflict.
With this, and the powers invested in him by the genii of Order, he is enabled to counter Chaos, although he chooses to do so in answer to the spoken wishes of the people around him even if not always to their immediate benefit, since some of them are vain or selfish.
(2) Poems
a) A Poem by Oliver Goldsmith; the poem goes on for a few pages, so I’ll only paste the first stanza:
The Traveller.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheld, or wandering Po;
Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor
Against the houseless stranger shuts the door;
Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies,
A weary waste expanding to the skies:
Wheree'er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
~~~~~~~
Contnd. next post.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:09am |
| Deleted User | b). A poem by Walter de la Mare called “The Listeners”
I’ve always enjoyed Walter De La mare’s poetry, and I’d always wondered who The Listeners are in this poem. In many ways I myself am a traveler, simply looking, questioning, observing. I see, I wonder, but many of my questions are often left unanswered.
The Listeners
by Walter De La Mare
'Is there anybody there?' said [highlight]the Traveller,[/highlight]
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest's ferny floor:
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above [highlight]the Traveller's [/highlight]head
And he smote upon the door again a second time;
'Is there anybody there?' he said.
But no one descended to the Traveller;
No head from the leaf-fringed sill
Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
Where he stood perplexed and still.
But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwelt in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.
And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
Their stillness answering his cry,
While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
'Neath the starred and leafy sky;
For he suddenly smote on the door, even
Louder, and lifted his head:-
'Tell them I came, and no one answered,
That I kept my word,' he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners,
Though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
From the one man left awake:
Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.
~~~~~~
Now, for a long, long time, and probably still, T.S. Elliot had been one of my favourite poets, if not my most favourite, and he wrote the following tribute to Walter de la Mare’s ”whispered incantations which allows free passage to the phantoms of the mind”.. I’ve snipped the poem to only include the part alluding to The Traveller:
To Walter de la Mare — by T.S. Eliot
{..snip…}
When the nocturnal traveller can arouse
No sleeper by his call; or when by chance
An empty face peers from an empty house;
By whom, and by what means, was this designed?
The whispered incantation which allows
Free passage to the phantoms of the mind?
By you; by those deceptive cadences
Wherewith the common measure is refined;
By conscious art practised with natural ease;
By the delicate, invisible web you wove -
The inexplicable mystery of sound.
~~~~~
I am sure we can find many, many more cultural references to “The Traveller” but I’m also rather sure you wouldn’t want me to continue…
So here I, the lonely traveler through landscapes real and fictional, through the landscapes of the mind and soul, shall leave you to reflect upon this journey of life we are all embarked upon.
[smiley=wave.gif]
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 11:40am |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Location: AU
Status : Offline | Arthur Dent - ultimate traveller, un-prepared, no papers, no luggage....
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 12:46pm |
colpetSchattenjger
Posts : 1630
Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | Colpet was the name assigned to my E-mail address when I first got my computer. It is in reference to Colborne Street Pet Hospital. When I first got online in 2000, I joined GB. I thought username meant what you use for your e-mail, so I used that. I kept it and use it on all my gaming forums.
I also participate in a few fantasy book forums. By that time, I was aware that you could choose anything for your user name. In those forums I use elvet, another play on my profession. I use the same avatar for both.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 12:59pm |
MaraPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 JUL 2007
Status : Offline | My cat's name is Mara.
She's big, black, and has a bad temper.
Mara
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 2:51pm |
AlienBZJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By colpet (24 NOV 2009 12:46pm)
Colpet was the name assigned to my E-mail address when I first got my computer. It is in reference to Colborne Street Pet Hospital.
Oh? Are you a veterinarian? Or is this your cat's hospital?
My user name is the K from my name (Kelly) to which I added "515" - this was the house number of a neighbor where I had happy days during this time when my family would take my sister & I to this neighbor's house for a visit during the time I was 8 - 11 years of age.
Doin' Warp 9 to the Great Kingdom of Adventure Games of Outer Space
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 3:51pm |
colpetSchattenjger
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Joined: 12 APR 2003
Status : Offline | I am a veterinarian, and own a clinic in a small town.
Occasionally visiting Uru Live (KI 0063722 .&&
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 4:06pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By K515 (24 NOV 2009 2:51pm)
My user name is the K from my name (Kelly) to which I added "515" - this was the house number of a neighbor...
I thought your numerics, 51 + 5, equaled your age (56). I then checked your age and...
But I'm disturbed.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 5:14pm |
| Deleted User | Norwood Ohio
April 1968
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 5:16pm |
JelenaPrivate Detective
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Joined: 30 SEP 2007
Status : Offline | When I joined AG forum I registered as LenaJ: my first name and the first letter of my surname. Later on I felt uncomfortable using my real name and started thinking about how to change it. I played around with the letters: Jlena and then realized that Jelena was perfect for me since I have Russian ancestors on my mother's side.
Temporary guest in your life.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 7:48pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 AUG 2009
Status : Online | It was a book that I read about a group of children who run away into an old asylum to get away from abuse, and try to protect themselves. In a way it runs somewhat parallel to my life. But that is another story. However.........the place that they run away to for protection is more horrific and dangerous than they bargained for. They are confronted with an insidious and powerful evil that changes them......and turns them into their worst nightmares. They become the monsters they fear most.
Book is Shadow Walkers and the writer is Nina Romberg, also known as Jane Archer. isbn1-55817-696-9 . 1993
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 8:37pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Mark (24 NOV 2009 4:06pm)
Originally Posted By K515 (24 NOV 2009 2:51pm)
My user name is the K from my name (Kelly) to which I added "515" - this was the house number of a neighbor...
I thought your numerics, 51 + 5, equaled your age (56). I then checked your age and...
But I'm disturbed.
I'd have written 'equalled' but then, I'm not American. [smiley=angel_smiley.gif]
Love all these stories about people's names btw.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 8:50pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Location: US, Georgia
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (24 NOV 2009 8:37pm)
I'd have written 'equalled' but then, I'm not American.
It's definitely one of those words that are 'either/or'.
Smarty.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:10pm |
anthonyJourneyman
Posts : 1270
Joined: 11 JUN 2003
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Caroline (24 NOV 2009 6:20am)
Well, just like Mark, I use my own real name.
Now, yes. But when I first came to this forum, you were "The Floozy". So, for that, I think you have some splainin' to do.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:22pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 AUG 2009
Status : Online | Originally Posted By adisarro (24 NOV 2009 9:10pm)
Originally Posted By Caroline (24 NOV 2009 6:20am)
Well, just like Mark, I use my own real name.
Now, yes. But when I first came to this forum, you were "The Floozy". So, for that, I think you have some splainin' to do.
Caroline.......you were.........."THE FLOOZY"!!??? [smiley=devil_smiley_grintail.gif]
so what have I missed.......really interested in hearing this one! [smiley=angel_smiley.gif]
inquiring minds want to know!
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:37pm |
CarolineJA+ Overseer
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Status : Offline | Gawd... you Americans really cannot spell, can you?
It was Caroline The Floozie. She was a character in a bunch of stories I wrote. That was quite a while ago. [wistful expression]
Oh okay, the history....
Back in the olden days, when Syberia was hot off the presses, I was on another forum that had no mods or supervision at all. So a few of us started writing stories together. I had just played the first Atlantis game which has floozies in it - you have to pay them with jewels to get the key. So one of the lead characters in this wacky story about spies and robots and ultimately, aliens etc, was Caroline, a nice English girl innocently caught up in the machinations of the Evil Empress Anna XVII (of the Universe). Caroline was coerced by M15 to disguise herself as an exotic dancer - stage name Caroline the Floozie and the Dancing Girls, in order to get close to the baddies. Things went belly-up and she had to complete her entire mission dressed in a pink belly-dancing outfit which constantly shed tiny pink sequins and the odd tinkly golden bell.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:41pm |
MarkGuild Master
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It just occurred to me that Caroline was 'The Floozie" when I came hanging around. But she was also "Caroline".
Can't trust her.
P.S. That "Floozie" avatar pic she had looked really odd. The first time I saw it, I thought, "Something is different with that woman's jaw. Seems awfully large; awfully "Arnold."
Turns out that there was absolutely nothing wrong with the jaws of Caroline's "Floozie" avatar - only what came out of them.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:42pm |
AShadowWalkerPrivate Detective
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Joined: 6 AUG 2009
Status : Online | aha..................
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/floozy
floozy, floozie, floosie [[ch712]flu[ch720]z[ch618]]
n pl -zies, -sies
Slang a disreputable woman
[of unknown origin]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 6th Edition 2003. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun 1. floozy - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets
hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker, floozie, hooker
bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl - a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money
I have always had enormeous respect for self employed business women. Really. These women are braver than me. No joke.
I really respect them. (serious)
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| 24 NOV 2009 at 9:45pm |
MarkGuild Master
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Thank you for that, ShadowWalker. We had no idea.
Please proofread your posts carefully to see if you any words out.
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