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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: pretentious names and titles
Message-ID: <919@ellie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 12:48:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 12:48:08 1986
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In article <712@osiris.UUCP>, jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
> 
> 	I am interested in other people's opinions about something that
> is pretty common among net people, and that is the use of famous names
> from fiction or from D&D campaigns and the like. What brought it to
> mind was one instance in particular of a person who uses a character's
> name from a famous work of fiction aka <another name> where the second
> name is also a fictional character. There are also all the Princess
> Somebody of Someplace and the Lord SoandSo's. (This does not include
> nicknames like Pooh or Snoopy, if you'll excuse my taking those names
> in vain :-)
>			 	... What is the importance of using
> hig-falutin' names ? Is the user in that much need of an ego-boost ?
> My reaction would be to assume that the person would seem to be fairly
> immature but maybe that's not so. Comments, anyone ?

I think they're fun!  Creative people get sick of the same old "First
name, Middle Initial, Last Name." On the Usenet, titles of nobility
are a cheap way to get color out of black-and-white.


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