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From: li@uw-vlsi.ARPA (Phyllis Li)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: "pretend" names and aliases
Message-ID: <223@uw-vlsi.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 17:17:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 17:17:29 1986
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Reply-To: li@uw-vlsi.UUCP (Phyllis Li)
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Summary: In case anyone noticed...

I normally use the "pretend" name Liralen, on every net other than
this one, thought it would seem more straight-forward to use Phyllis,
but something that Ol' Grizzly and Pooh wrote struck home.  Liralen 
is actually another facet of my personality, not particulary bigger
or better, just different.  I used it because the name given me when
I was a little, cuddley bundle of warmth doesn't cover everything 
that I now am.  (all 5'10", black haired, black eyed 140#s of me)

Heck, the last time I told someone what my name was they laughed!  :)
It was after a rather fierce series of lessons I had given to some
beginning fencers, and after chewing them out for some really stupid
moves, praising them consisely for doing what looked right for them,
and generally acting like what a ROTC student politely called a bitch
of a sergeant, they all asked me what my name was (I had just walked
into the club without introducing myself), and when I told them Phyllis
they all started chuckling.  Then I heard strains of the old TV series
intro music, and I had to start laughing myself...

Why does Liralen cover me better than Phyllis?  Look at the quote at
the bottom.  I think that Phyllis died about four years ago, when she
started looking inside to see what was there other than fear of bad
grades, 3/8th inch thick glasses, high IQ, bookworm, asthma, math and
science nerdliness and isolation; and on finding nothing she died.
Only to be replaced by someone a little wiser, a little emptier to
begin with, but with a hell of a lot more potential for laughter, love
and insanity, all the things that count, right? :)

Whatever, I ramble.  Take care all.

					Liralen
-- 
"The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward
so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there."

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