h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I was born in Uganda of Canadian parents. My father is an engineer. Kasese was at that time a VERY small village comprising of a few homes and an airstrip in which supplies were sent in for surrounding villages. I was born in Kilembe. My middle daughter's name is Kasese, meaning "Morning" in the Toro Dialect. There is a folk Lore story behind the word which is too long to go into.

Thanks cl zoomer, I think I prefer that explanation. I never actually asked them why thet called me it, though I was often asked by others what GT meant, I'd just tell them it had no particular meaning.

GT

Oh, cl, I've been remiss, I did see the Lions, will try to get something in my journal, before I totally forget.

Can U explain how Kasese is pronounced?

Hi Abi- Kasese is prounounced Ka-say-see.

oHooo I like it! Thanks, it's nice to know

ditto, I kind of had that in the back of my mind...now, I know for sure

I originally had a different nickname ,but then my totally posessive and (now in retrospect!)quite horrid B/F of the time complained about it so much that i thought id change it toget
some peace!...JustMe was all i could think of at that precise moment!..i did really like Serephina (after a charachter in a novel)though!

Well, a couple of years ago in RL I got sick of people (many foreign) always mistaking my real name Tilde, to Hilde, Mathilde, Mathilda or just ~ . They mostly pronounced it wrong too.

Tilly was a bit more English-sounding, most people get the pronouncation right, and no one thinks I stole it from a type

Wulfric is Anglo-Saxon and means "Wolf power". It was a name, apparently, of a king of Sussex, amongst others. It has no significance to me other than I liked the sound of it.

Scorpion deRooftrouser is one of the Twelve Red-bearded Dwarfs that feature in the 'Beachcomber' writings of J B Morton.

For the record, the other eleven are Sophus Barkayo-Tong, Amaninter Axling, Farjole Merrybody, Guttergorm Guttergormpton, Badly Oronparser, Churm Rincewind, Cleveland Zackhouse, Molonay Tubilderborst, Edeledel Edel, Listenis Youghaupt and Frums Gillygottle.

Well mine was originally a play on the slogan of a "well-known washing powder" as in Perseus - Washes whites whiter.

However it was kindly pointed out to me that this might have, erm, unagreeably BNP overtones, so I ditched the end bit and ended up just being the Greek bloke who rescued Andromeda from the sea serpent, before the two of them lived happily ever after.

Well I can dream can't I?

Mine was given to me by a friend, who said that good things happened to him when I was around

I've grown into more, so much so that I buy things shaped like stars , and will be attracted to anything with a star in its name.

I'm looking for a psuedonym. Preferably more interesting one than a real-sounding name. Something that means something like Jello Biafra . What methods are there for finding one?

Pick an interesting looking word and try to mangle it.

From your journal Hemy Blasp might be a nice name

Now that's a good idea.

Well i finally changed my back ,caused a bit of confusion at first though

Mine even ..sorry , morning brain!