June 24, 2002, 11:42
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Origin of your user name?
Post the origin of your user name in this thread, please.
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...20#post1066020
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June 24, 2002, 11:45
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I found my user name in a toilet. I was so drunk I almost threw up on it.
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Mother ****ing goddamn ass chewing, **** sucking son of a *****
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June 24, 2002, 11:49
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June 24, 2002, 11:56
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I was born with it... well sort of. It's more of a result of emigrating to Canada.
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June 24, 2002, 12:06
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Um... it's my name?
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June 24, 2002, 12:09
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I hope you beat your parents severely for that.
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Mother ****ing goddamn ass chewing, **** sucking son of a *****
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June 24, 2002, 12:19
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They are locked up in the basement getting whipped as we speak.
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“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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June 24, 2002, 12:29
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From the opera by Mussorgsky
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June 24, 2002, 12:34
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Wheel of Time
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June 24, 2002, 12:38
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My last name.
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June 24, 2002, 12:40
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In the course of this inspection Satan informed Caligastia of Lucifer's then proposed "Declaration of Liberty," and as we now know, the Prince agreed to betray the planet upon the announcement of the rebellion. The loyal universe personalities look with peculiar disdain upon Prince Caligastia because of this premeditated betrayal of trust. The Creator Son voiced this contempt when he said: "You are like your leader, Lucifer, and you have sinfully perpetuated his iniquity. He was a falsifier from the beginning of his self-exaltation because he abode not in the truth."
Not a nice guy, but I like the name.
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June 24, 2002, 12:41
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And here I thought it was some bastardization of Caligula...
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June 24, 2002, 12:43
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
And here I thought it was some bastardization of Caligula...
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Nope, its from this book...
http://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html
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June 24, 2002, 12:44
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I still think of you as our own Little Boots Caligula.
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June 24, 2002, 12:46
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Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I still think of you as our own Little Boots Caligula.
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You arent the first to associate it with Caligula. Civnation called me that in one of his rants once.
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June 24, 2002, 13:03
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Ah, it is something that pisses me off. I used to have this 'Alexnm' as a user name sometime before, because it is my first name (Alexandre) plus the initials of my surnames (N and M). Only after I registered here is when I noticed that it sounded like "Alex Enema". I hate it. And I can't change it.
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June 24, 2002, 13:16
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Off the top of my head. Of course, it is the constellation/supernova Cassiopeia, except in Finnish. But there's no real motif. I honestly just invented it to get playing AC on email.
Most people abhorrently mistype the part after the 'si', so I've thought of switching to Kass or Kassi.
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June 24, 2002, 13:23
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Orange Software = OrangeSfwr my AOL screen name (at the time 10 character limit on usernames)
Registered here as OrangeSfwr, later abbreviated to 'orange' since everyone called me that anyway (and the rest usually misspelt it as OrangeSwfr)
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June 24, 2002, 13:24
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Flavius Arrianus Xenophon was one of the more prominent figures in the Roman world of the 2nd century C.E. A native of Nicea (Iznik) in Bithynian Nicomedia (Izmit), he was a Greek Stoic philosopher and historian, who enjoyed Roman citizenship in the equestrian ranks. Arrian was a pupil of the famous Stoic philosopher Epictetus at Nicopolis and Arrian wrote up his lecture notes, or memorabilia. Perhaps while at Nicopolis he explored the surrounding countryside, for Arrian shows in his writings a firsthand familiarity with the regions of Ambracia and Amphilochia, as well as the sea route between Acarnania (south of Nicopolis) and the island of Leucas.
Later, he also visited Delphi (where he may have met Plutarch), when he was part of the advisory council for settling boundary disputes, which was headed by Avidius Nigrinus. During the emperor Trajan's (ruled 98-117 C.E.) Parthian campaign, Arrian may have served as an equestrian officer in Armenia (c. 114 C.E.). At some point he became part of the circle of the emperor Hadrian (ruled 117-138 C.E.), perhaps travelling with him in 121-122 C.E. and playing host when Hadrian wintered in Nicomedia in 123 C.E. What is certain is that Arrian enjoyed great favor under Hadrian. He may have been Proconsul in Baetica in 124 C.E., and perhaps was with the emperor on his visit to Africa in 128 C.E. (The noted Roman historian Anthony R. Birley, in his Hadrian. The Restless Emperor (London: Routledge, 1997), suggests that it was on this trip that Arrian may have gathered some of the ideas he would later incorporate into his book on Tactics, written in 136 C.E.)
Arrian was Consul in 129 C.E. (or perhaps 130 C.E.). He may again have been part of Hadrian's entourage during 129-130 C.E. As Governor of Cappadocia from 131/134-137 C.E., he kept in touch with Hadrian, displaying zeal in his governance and proving successful in handling a military emergency. When Pharasmanes stirred up the Alani people, Arrian quelled the trouble with a well-orchestrated show of Roman force (136 C.E.), about which he wrote in his Acies Contra Alanos (Order of Battle Against the Alani). Arrian enjoyed a long and successful career under Hadrian and his successor, Antoninus Pius (ruled 138-161 C.E.). Arrian's writing seems to have been done mainly during the 130s C.E. His most famous writing is his Anabasis, a history of Alexander the Great, written in Greek. A great admirer of the famous Greek writer Xenophon, Arrian imitated his style.
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June 24, 2002, 13:25
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I just needed to think of something quick, and easy to remember. I actually had a better one registered ages before this one, but I couldn't remember my password. I remember when this was once "the biggest Greek Civilization site" lol, those were the days...
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June 24, 2002, 13:28
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Is it possible to change my user name without a new registration?
Hmm... I suppose the admins can do it...
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June 24, 2002, 13:28
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My first username, was my name Giancarlo. I don't know much about it... but my last name I do, Carini is name of the a port town in Sicily. If you go back far enough it would be traced back to nobility.
I am pretty sure all of you know what my new username is about. If not please watch That 70s Show and you will most likely find out who Fez is.
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June 24, 2002, 13:29
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I just needed to think of something quick, and easy to remember. I actually had a better one registered ages before this one, but I couldn't remember my password. I remember when this was once "the biggest Greek Civilization site" lol, those were the days...
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Just PM me... if you can remember ANYTHING about your old log on... I can probably track it down for you
And yes... those were the days
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June 24, 2002, 13:31
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hey ming, your username was a Jeapordy question the other day!
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June 24, 2002, 13:41
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June 24, 2002, 13:42
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Originally posted by Alexnm
Ah, it is something that pisses me off. I used to have this 'Alexnm' as a user name sometime before, because it is my first name (Alexandre) plus the initials of my surnames (N and M). Only after I registered here is when I noticed that it sounded like "Alex Enema". I hate it. And I can't change it.
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Hey! I didn't notice that! (But now I do....  )
Oh yes, as for mine, let's just call it a creative arrangement of sounds. 
Much kudos to everyone who has managed to mangle it into "ranskaladan", "raskaldan", and a myriad other variants. Thank you.
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June 24, 2002, 13:43
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And here is a picture of Fez (  ):
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Lets face it. We flamiing queers have more appeal then Pat Robertson and other religious wackos. We have shows that are really growing in popularity. We have more channels (Q TV, Logo Channel). And we help people in their style issues (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). The last thing I saw a religious preacher did was ask for $5 in a "generous pledge" to help his bank account in Zurich, erhm, some starving kids in Zimbabwe.
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June 24, 2002, 13:43
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Thucydides the son of Olorus was born probably about 460 BC and died about the year 400 BC When the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 B.C Thucydides probably took part in some of its early actions. Some time between 430 and 427 he fell ill in the plague, but recovered. In 424 he was appointed general, but his small squadron of ships arrived too late to save the important Athenian colony of Amphipolis from the Spartan commander Brasidas, though he successfully held the nearby port of Eion against Brasidas's attacks. In consequence he was exiled, not returning until twenty years had passed, only to die a few years later.
For much of the period he describes The Peloponnesian War is the only source that survives. The verity of his reports and the justice of his perceptions have been the cause of controversy amongst scholars for centuries. But it is certain that he used his historical imagination to reconstruct only as a last resort. When the various parts of the history were composed, which of these he revised, and whether their chronological inconsistencies are due to later editing - these questions are still unsolved.
I had just finished reading his histories when I found this site. I was impressed by Thucydides relative lack of bias in his histories as well as his scepticism, especially towards the supernatural.
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June 24, 2002, 13:46
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hey ming, your username was a Jeapordy question the other day!
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But I'm sure it had nothing to do with Apolyton... (I hope  )
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June 24, 2002, 13:55
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we're becoming very popular
No, actually it was something along the lines of "Ming the Merciless was the villain in what comic book series"
I only knew it was Flash Gordon becuase of this site
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