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Re: The Fantasy Name Game
Posted By: unipeg, on host 209.254.23.11
Date: Monday, November 29, 1999, at 18:43:09
In Reply To: The Fantasy Name Game posted by CodeMan38 on Monday, November 29, 1999, at 16:29:55:

> (I've finally decided to "de-lurk" from the forum, after months and months of visiting this site... Hey, it's one of the few message boards I actually enjoy *reading*. So, a quick "hello" to everyone in the forum...)
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> Anyway...
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> One of my (online) friends and I recently thought up an "alternate" use for the Fantasy Name Generator. (Yes, we were *really* bored that night.) It's something resembling a party game, except it isn't, because we're not exactly the most social creatures...but, oh well.
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> Basically, the idea is, pick a name from the Name Gen screen, and come up with an idea for a character whom it might possibly belong to.
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> For example, here are some of the names I've seen generated recently-- along with my ideas for characters that might correspond to them:
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> "Quayler"-- Turns everyone he sees into a certain former US Vice President.
> "Bluperon"-- Always flubbing up his most important actions.
> "Xibito"-- The evil museum curator.
> "Cetherther" and "Samsam"-- Two of Jar Jar Binks' (less annoying) cousins.
> "Lytorest"-- An undertaker.
> "Chedaru"-- A new Pokémon, which resembles a wheel of cheese.
> "Tanrayshywora"-- A timid sun goddess.
> "Periph"-- Can't see straight in front of himself, but he can surely see everything *else*...
> "Essoiss"-- Either an anthropomorphic gasoline pump, or perhaps his only form of communication is a Morse Code distress signal.
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> Anyone else want to try their hand at it?
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> -- codeman"life? what life?"38

*ahem* apparently i get to be the first to carry on this proud tradition.... welcome, codeman38, to our humble forum.... i would give you a list of some of the things we discuss, but since you've been lurking, well, what would be the point? but welcome all the same, i can already tell that you will, when you feel like it, make a wonderful contribution to the pages of sillyness that are already here!

uni"was that good enough?"peg