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Ahh post padding.....

It's evil and should be stamped out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Like anybody cares about it except as an excuse to have silly little parties. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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Will this post padding never end?

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Clearly not.





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Could we please leave this thread to its purpose and not spam it? Thanks.

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From a conversation with my girlfriend about James Bond after consuming far too many mind-altering substances. We got to thinking that 006 was probably senior to 007, and began working our way down the list until we reached 000. Pronounced out loud in the Bond tradition you get 'Double-oh-oh' (sounds a lot like uh-oh). This struck us both as ridiculously funny and worth remembering so I scrawled it onto my arm before succumbing to the effects of overindulgence. The next morning I read it as Agent 0=Agent Zero, and figured it sounded pretty cool as a monkier.

Agent Zero is also the name of a character from the X-Men comics, a rather rubish band, and the founder of a shadowy organization in 'Hell is for Heroes'.

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...Maybe M is 000...

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Well, my name was created with great intelligent thought, debate, and caused a few wars.....

Actually, I named my beautiful male Beta "Fuzzie". I found it rather amusing. When I joined this Forum, I figured that no one would use such a name. It is such an informidable and threatening name. :} Then I wanted a icon to go with it and found a picture of a Beta (AKA Samurai Fighting Fish) on the net (tried taking my own photos - who knew taking fish photos would be so difficult! ). I thought it would be cool to have a fish in space. So I cut, paste, edited and hours later came up with a wonderful picture. Too bad the picture had to be shrunk so small that I can't tell what the heck it is. Maybe someday I'll come up with a better icon - comparable to some of the wonderful ones you all have come up with.

Fuzzie

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The etymology of my moniker... well, it's the main character in my favorite Tolkien Tragedy: The Tale of the Children of Hurin. Most people already know that. If not:

http://www.lotrlibrary.com/racesofarda/turin.asp

The name Turin means "he who desires mastery" and Turambar means roughly "master of fate." So the name seemed to fit well into the Grand Lord/take-over-the-universe thing.

My avatar is a Common Mode transcription of the name in tengwar letters. I pasted it into MS Paint and put some color behind it, then had DEG do his magical frame/lightsource thingy to it.

My Empire's name, Aa' Turam, is just a play on the roots of the Sindarin, as is the name of its citizens; the Tura'amni.

In Eru's Name, MayYourSunsShineForever
Turin Turambar
Grand Lord of the Tura'amni

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Interesting thread...
I've often wondered where some of these names came from, so it's only fair that I add my own brief tale.

As I see has been true in several other cases, my moniker is the result of searching for a name for internet use. I started joining a few sites while I was getting my computer science degree, and we were probablly talking about ciphers in one of the classes, so that part of the name just sort of fell out of me at the time. Not only did I find my chosen name to be taken, it was taken in plenty of variations. So, undaunted, I added the extension 7071, which is merely the first four digits in the sine of 45 degrees (or half the square root of 2), and a number that I remember. Thus, Cipher7071.


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Rats. Now I have a headache. BOOM!