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09-10-2004, 05:51 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Hammering away in Valinor
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i think we all know what mine is
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09-10-2004, 06:52 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus
Posts: 83
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A Thought for the Future
Pyroclastic is a geologic term approximately meaning "volcanic rock fragments". Unfourtounatley, this name has been quite prophetic regarding my geology carreer among other things. Never think that names have no bearing on who we become.
Flames! ~Pyro~
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09-10-2004, 09:49 PM
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Wight
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Greenwood the Great.
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Pyroclastic - my dad is a geologist, so when I saw your name I immediately had visions of various volcanoes erupting in spectacular fashion (specifically, Mt. St. Helens and Pinatubo). I love you now.
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09-11-2004, 07:53 PM
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Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Mordor University, Wisconsin Campus
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Well thank you Latchwen, I'm flattered. I really wanted to find something both geologic and LOTR realted, and I'm pleased with the result.
~Pyro~
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09-17-2004, 05:17 AM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: London, UK
Posts: 20
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Terrifyingly nerdile as it is I chose my screen-name in homage to Apple Computer's Great High Poobah of software. Tragic I know.
Could be worse though. I very nearly went with Teleporno for sheer amusement value
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09-17-2004, 10:34 AM
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Princess of Skwerlz
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles)
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Welcome to the Downs, Avie! Your alternate possible name choice would have surprised a lot of people who haven't read HoME! I wonder what Tolkien would think if he realized the connotations of that name nowadays...
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09-17-2004, 11:17 AM
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Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: London, UK
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Thank you for your kind welcome. Happy to be here!
One indeed wonders if the good professor had been over-indulging in the pipeweed when he came up with that particular linguistic gem As you say though, words change their connotations over time. No doubt Prof T would revolve in his grave to think that his noble Elf creation now conjures up visions of....erm....certain specialist telecommunications services!
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09-23-2004, 11:41 AM
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Pilgrim Soul
Join Date: May 2004
Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle...
Posts: 9,461
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I half wonder if it even occured and maybe someone had to point it out to him ...surely if he noticed such things he wouldn't have called the Uruk/Orc in Cirith Ungol (not Gorbag) THAT.... but maybe it just meant a type of tobacco or a bird like a cormorant then........
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