OT - Forum Decorum

Suicide Junkie · #1 January 14th, 2002, 11:34 PM

I needed to create a login name, so I pondered long and hard to find a name that:
a) looked/sounded neat
b) could not be taken too seriously.

After a week, this was the best I could come up with.

capnq · #2 January 15th, 2002, 02:10 AM

Long, long ago, in a thread far, far away...

Growltigga · #3 January 17th, 2002, 04:15 PM

Praetor, I like the French for all their faults, Canadians and Australians are good people too!!

BTW, Praetors were not officers in the Praetorian guard, the guard was formed originally to guard praeteors. The title originally meant a consul, and later a judicial magistrate. In 242 B.C. two praetors were appointed, the urban praetor (praetor urbanus), deciding cases to which citizens were parties, and the peregrine praetor (praetor peregrinus) deciding cases between foreigners. The urban praetor exercised the functions of the consuls in their absence and of the peregrine praetor when he was holding a military command. As I recall, two additional praetors were appointed to administer Sicily and Sardinia, and two more to administer Spain. A principal duty of praetors was the production of the public games. Under the empire, the functions of the praetor were gradually taken over by the other magistrates and title was more an honorific.

I guess you want to be more a Praetorian ie a elite guardsman of the late empire (and generally a german mercenary) rather than a Praetor (a magistrate and game producer) - maybe not

PS spot who did classical civilizations at uni

tesco samoa · #4 January 17th, 2002, 07:06 PM

is it me or has this forum been really busy lately.

There has to be about 60 threads running right now. Shouldn't we be slowing down before gold??

I am coming here 3 times a day now to keep up.

Ouch.

Not complaining.

P.s. Canadians are quite polite.

If you hit there parked car in their driveway the first things out of their mouth will be 'Sorry about putting the car in driveway'

Growltigga · #5 January 17th, 2002, 07:15 PM

must be because lots of forum lurkers have lots to say - I suspect when Gold comes out the forum will go into meltdown

Canadians are nice and polite - just like British - muggers over here ask permission first 'Excuse me old bean, would you mind awfully if I just helped myself to your wallet?' 'Yes?, oh well, never mind, sorry to have troubled you'

Fyron · #6 January 18th, 2002, 03:39 AM

As an ex-semi-lurker, I know what you're talking about. I have made about 80 Posts in the Last 2 weeks or so. KA-BOOOM!!!

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Actually, that number might be closer to 60 or so. I can't remember what my # of Posts were before this explosion.
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[ 18 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

oleg · #7 January 19th, 2002, 02:29 AM

quote:
Originally posted by dumbluck:

IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer. It was a joke a while back; unfortunately, I no longer remember the punchline....

may be it was :

"I am a doctor, not a lawyer!"