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Zac M 
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 Posted: October 10 2005 at 16:16 |
Mine is the title of a Van der Graaf Generator song, in which Peter
Hammill claims that Meurglys III (his guitar) is his only friend 
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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Syzygy
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:06 |
Mine came from a word which got me an immense score in a Scrabble game (I had a blank for the third 'y'). I only discovered that there was also a prog band of the same name after I joined this forum - I've now got a copy of their album, though I can't say it's made a huge impression on me.
As for the meaning, look it up! (once an English teacher, always an English teacher).
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Arsillus
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Joined: March 26 2005
Location: United States
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Points: 7374
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:10 |
 Bj-1 wrote:
Everyone should know what my Nick-name means    
BlowJob-1
No, really: I just though about a "cool" stupid nick-name (Bj-1) and used it. And also because "Bj" is the first letters in my name.
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So is your real name like Bjork? Or Bjohann?
My username is an accidental mispelling of the first track off of Camel's "Moonmadness." It was half-intentional, half-not.  
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Pr@gmatic
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Joined: October 04 2005
Location: Virgin Islands
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Points: 1023
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:15 |
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horza
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Joined: August 31 2005
Location: United Kingdom
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Points: 2530
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:21 |
mine was a character in a sci-fi book by iain m. banks called "Consider Phlebus" - the character horza was a shapeshifter - one of the last of his race - and the story is epic, i have read it twice 
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Originally posted by darkshade:
Calling Mike Portnoy a bad drummer is like calling Stephen Hawking an idiot.
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bluetailfly
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Joined: January 28 2005
Location: United States
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:24 |
Mine's taken from a rare-heard prog track included on an out-of-print LP by a virtually unknown English prog band who, in their prime, toured endlessly in the early '70s on the English college circuit without success before becoming disgusted and disillusioned with the whole shabby enterprise. They never made it Stateside.
I'll have to go look it up again...I'll get back to you...
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"The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle."
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Pr@gmatic
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Joined: October 04 2005
Location: Virgin Islands
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 18:28 |
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The Miracle
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Joined: May 29 2005
Location: hell
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Points: 28427
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 20:54 |
I'm named after the 'evil' characted from DT's Metropolis
later I discovred that it's also an ELPowell song and a Queen song.
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Pr@gmatic
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Joined: October 04 2005
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:02 |
^ Metropolis, that's a great song. 
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Philrod
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Joined: May 23 2005
Location: Canada
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Points: 319
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:06 |
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Philippe Rodriguez to Philrod! Simple as that!
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Cygnus X-2
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Joined: December 24 2004
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:12 |
Cygnus X-2 is actually a low mass X-Ray Binary.
Edited by Cygnus X-2
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Trotsky
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Joined: October 25 2004
Location: Malaysia
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Points: 2771
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 22:22 |
I'm a real history buff and into left-wing politics ... Leon Trotsky was a hero from the time I was 9 (see what happens when you put history books in the hands of little kids )
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"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”
"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
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BaldJean
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Joined: May 28 2005
Location: Germany
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Points: 10387
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 23:08 |
quite obvious for me: I'm Jean (short for Jeanine; interestingly "Jeanine" is pronounced the French way, while "Jean" is pronounced the English way), and I'm bald. BaldJean is my nick on many forums. the same is true for my wife Friederike; for her "Friede" is short for "Friederike". coincidentially "Bald Friede" also means "Soon peace" in German.
question to Syzygy: does your name refer to the astronomical or the linguistic meaning of "syzygy"?
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 A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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Pr@gmatic
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Joined: October 04 2005
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Points: 1023
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 23:32 |
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^ Jeanine is such a beautiful name, by the way.
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KoS
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Joined: May 17 2005
Location: Los Angeles
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Points: 16310
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 02:00 |
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well mine came from watching conan o' Brien
one day he just said " I am the King of Siam!" in his monolouge
I thoght it was a cool thing to say
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Guzzman
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Joined: August 21 2004
Location: Germany
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Points: 3563
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 05:44 |
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I once owned a 1000cc Moto Guzzi (italian motorbike) and my nickname is derived from that.
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"We've got to get in to get out"
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Lindsay Lohan
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Joined: May 25 2005
Location: Norway
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Points: 3254
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 06:12 |
Maidenrulez...well there is more to this nick than meets the eye...
the M stands for Magma is a really neat band
the A stands for Armadillos should not be kept in bed
the I stands for Insanity is really unhealty for your reputation
the D stands for Dinner is best served after breakfast
the E stands for Eternity is a really daft thing
the N stands for Nobody can expect the spanish inquisition
the R stands for Rodney is a man that i have never known
the U stands for Unbeliviable that i cant think of any good prog band on U
the L stands for Lame nicks are best ended with an Z
the E stands for Erection wich is a really daft thing
the Z stands for ZZebra wich is a clever band name.
and when i got the cabitols together it suddenly formed Maidenrulez...ah well a really strange coincidence 
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PROGMAN
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Joined: February 03 2004
Location: Wales
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Points: 2664
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 07:13 |
My name was though of fast, PROGMAN just happened as I first discovered this site.
PROG - PROGRESSIVE
MAN - my gender
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CYMRU AM BYTH
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Syzygy
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Joined: December 16 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 07:57 |
BaldJean wrote:
quite obvious for me: I'm Jean (short for Jeanine; interestingly "Jeanine" is pronounced the French way, while "Jean" is pronounced the English way), and I'm bald. BaldJean is my nick on many forums. the same is true for my wife Friederike; for her "Friede" is short for "Friederike". coincidentially "Bald Friede" also means "Soon peace" in German.
question to Syzygy: does your name refer to the astronomical or the linguistic meaning of "syzygy"?
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The linguistic meaning - I only became aware of the astronomical meaning after I joined this forum.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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NutterAlert
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Joined: June 07 2005
Location: In transition
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Points: 2808
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 08:08 |
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Nutter Alert is track 3 from VdGG's Present Album released earlier this year.
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