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Why did you choose your particular user name?

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getreal
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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#161 Post by getreal » June 21st, 2009, 11:34 pm

Latest post of the previous page:

Wow, such imaginative answers!
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.

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#162 Post by Alan H » June 21st, 2009, 11:36 pm

Now we all know at least one word of Esperanto!
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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#163 Post by Hundovir » June 21st, 2009, 11:44 pm

You know two actually - hundo = dog, viro = man!

Esperanto is very easy - but I'm just a dabbler.

http://www.lernu.net/ is a good place to learn.

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#164 Post by getreal » June 22nd, 2009, 12:10 am

Hundovir wrote:You know two actually - hundo = dog, viro = man!

Esperanto is very easy - but I'm just a dabbler.

http://www.lernu.net/ is a good place to learn.
Yes, but having learned, who do you speak to? :wink:
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.

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#165 Post by Hundovir » June 22nd, 2009, 7:26 am

:D That's why I haven't progressed beyond dabbling!

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#166 Post by getreal » June 22nd, 2009, 11:48 am

I went to night school for 2 years to study Dutch a few years ago. At the end of it I could speak and understand enough to watch Dutch TV (not THOSE channels!!) and understand the gist of news items (The Brear shipping disaster was all over the news and the salvage team were Dutch, so it was on TV pretty well every day for a time) with either Dutch or Africaans speakers (from apartheid SA. I could understand what crowds were chanting and what the banners said, too!)

Now, I can't remember any at all. WTF speaks Dutch?
The Dutch rarely speak Dutch FFS!
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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#167 Post by Maria Mac » July 11th, 2009, 12:25 pm

Fascinating, getreal. Why did you choose Dutch?

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#168 Post by Alan H » July 11th, 2009, 3:17 pm

getreal wrote:Now, I can't remember any at all.
If you learned it all again, would it be double Dutch? :wink:
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There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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#169 Post by getreal » July 11th, 2009, 4:25 pm

Maria, we had a dutch student staying for a while and it seemed like a grand idea at the time, however, looking back he did seem overly prone to giggling when I tried to converse in dutch with him.

I also find cultural differences between what appears on the surface to be very similar countries, fasinating!
I learned that the dutch are big on houseplants and are a very multicultural society. Big woop!
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#170 Post by Hippolyta » August 27th, 2009, 9:42 am

My user name? Check out the wikipedia page :D Specifically...
Specifically in reference to Hippolyta in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"...
In the Elizabethan age in which women are dependent on men, Hippolyta comes from a tribe of incredibly strong empowered women.

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#171 Post by Marian » August 27th, 2009, 1:54 pm

I do have an imagination but you'd never know it if you looked at my user name. :laughter: I use it because I can remember it. Of all the things I ever lost I miss my mind the most. Let that stand as the reason I gotta keep it simple. :D
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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#172 Post by SoldierForTruth » August 28th, 2009, 5:32 pm

I chose my username a long time ago. Back when I identified myself as a Buddhist (about four years ago). At the time, I was in the US Army and I've always had a great reverance for reality and the pursuit of truth. Thus, SoldierForTruth was "born". Though I'm now just a verteran, I still think of myself as a soldier, so I don't see any reason to change it.
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#173 Post by Lorikeet » August 31st, 2009, 4:16 pm

I've seen some names on other forums that I've really liked - "the one in the yellow hat" has to be my favourite! "Fluffyporcupine" is another work of genius - but I don't have much imagination. I usually use my real name, but just fancied a change. I've met quite a lot of lorikeets at Paradise Park, home of the World Parrot Trust in Cornwall, and they're wonderful creatures. They produce huuuuge grins on people's faces:

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(I don't know who this kid is! I hope he wouldn't mind . . .)

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#174 Post by 411timber » November 17th, 2009, 8:02 pm

Well nothing to challenging about my user name.

I work in the forestry industry hence the timber. The 411 is for £411 I won on saturday for a 50p yankee....woo....hoo

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#175 Post by Nick » November 17th, 2009, 8:20 pm

A mighty oak from a little acorn.... :D

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#176 Post by Alan H » November 19th, 2009, 11:05 pm

Yew wood say that, woodn't you?
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There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:

1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#177 Post by recurrencebat » January 2nd, 2010, 6:57 pm

Hi Alan,
I chose my name cause it's an anagram of my real name. It's probably really easy to work out and occasionally I worry I give too much away online but oh well, I like it.
Becca (big clue if you want to work it out!)

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#178 Post by Maria Mac » January 2nd, 2010, 7:08 pm

Anagram? That means to er..turn words about right? :wink:

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#179 Post by recurrencebat » January 2nd, 2010, 8:21 pm

Yeah that's the one Maria, you rearrange the letters :).

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#180 Post by Hundovir » January 2nd, 2010, 8:32 pm

Rebecca Urrent
Rebecca Truner
Rebecca Urtner
Rebecca Nuterr

er... I give up!

Well, there are 6 letters remaining, so they can be arranged in 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 720 different ways. Granted some of those arrangements will look very strange for an English name so could be discounted, but nevertheless I can't be arsed to try any more! :laughter:

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Re: Why did you choose your particular user name?

#181 Post by Alan C. » January 2nd, 2010, 9:40 pm

"Pedant" attack :smile:
Hundovir
Well, there are 6 letters remaining,
You missed out an R and an E, eight letters.
I'm no wiser though, in fact I think the third R makes it more difficult. :shrug:
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