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How/Why did you choose your nickname?
Chan-Mick le Frog Posted Jan 4, 2003
Bebel,
My Star War name would be Gabbod Thipar.
Did you know that "Bebel" is French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo's knickname?
And wouldn't you be from Manchester by any chance?
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Titania (gone for lunch) Posted Jan 4, 2003
As explained on my user page, Titania is one of my RL nicknames...
...at the time it was 'invented' I was a member of a folk dance group (dances from Eastern Europe, Greece, Israel...) and a girl in the group had given me a male nickname that stuck...
...and then I got to know the mother of one of the dancers very well, and she said 'you can't have a male nickname!' and then changed it into a female one (Titania) and it wasn't until later that I realized that it was the name of the queen of fairies from Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer's Night's Dream'
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Bebel Matman Owlatron's Thundercat Tshirt Dude Posted Jan 4, 2003
Jazzedupcurry, I know he's a cameraman, but he said something like "zooming is one of the worst things a newbie can do" 
?
Chan, I was born in Manchester, but I wouldn't say I'm from there as I left when I was 2!
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skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jan 4, 2003
"skugga" is icelandic, it's origin is "skuggi", which means shadow. It's used in the male and in the female form as a famous name for horses. I named my first cat skuggi, and then decided to adopt skugga as my nickname for h2g2 and another forum I'm joining.
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skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires Posted Jan 4, 2003
... which explains why - among other things - I'm the keeper of shadows... 
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Chan-Mick le Frog Posted Jan 4, 2003
I left the town suggested in my SW name when I was 5.
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Cheeky Posted Jan 4, 2003
I am known to be Cheeky on occassion so it's stuck!
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Bebel Matman Owlatron's Thundercat Tshirt Dude Posted Jan 4, 2003
Paris, by any chance?
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Ged42 Posted Jan 4, 2003
Mines an old school nickname (first half of my surname)combined with the number 42 (for obvious reasons) with the X and full stops added to give it a sci-fi vibe
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nessus Posted Jan 4, 2003
Like Larry Nivens Known Universe stories
Nessus is a Piersons Puppeteer
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Jan 4, 2003
Hi Bebel, hi and thanks Jazz! The zooming is a camera lense and the more natural and dramatic way to do it is to actually move the camera in and out (dollying), changing the focus as you go. Harder to do but the change in foreground/backround is much nicer. fyi, the movements are dolly in and out (moving camera), truck left and right (moving camera), pan left and right, tilt up and down, zoom/focus in and out.
Thus endeth today's lesson.
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Jan 4, 2003
Oh I forgot pedestal up and down which moves the camera vertically. All these can be related to handheld as well.
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Floh Fortuneswell Posted Jan 4, 2003
Mine is also a nickname from school.
Floh (=flea) is young Arthur's nickname in "The Sword in the Stone" and I had (and still have 
) his figure
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Coniraya Posted Jan 4, 2003
The literal translation of mine is castle white and I made it up when I first started playing Diablo on Battlenet, years ago.
The Welsh pronounciation would be ky-er-wun, sort of.
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Chan-Mick le Frog Posted Jan 4, 2003
Bebel,
Yes Paris. A town I rather dislike.
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Noggin the Nog Posted Jan 4, 2003
I'm not tall enough to be Olaf the Lofty, or evil enough to be Nogbad the Bad. So...
Noggin
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- 61: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 4, 2003)
- 62: Titania (gone for lunch) (Jan 4, 2003)
- 63: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 4, 2003)
- 64: Bebel Matman Owlatron's Thundercat Tshirt Dude (Jan 4, 2003)
- 65: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jan 4, 2003)
- 66: skugga (ACE), keeper of shadows, lots of rats, no betta splendens anymore and badly drawn vampires (Jan 4, 2003)
- 67: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 4, 2003)
- 68: Cheeky (Jan 4, 2003)
- 69: Bebel Matman Owlatron's Thundercat Tshirt Dude (Jan 4, 2003)
- 70: Ged42 (Jan 4, 2003)
- 71: nessus (Jan 4, 2003)
- 72: clzoomer- a bit woobly (Jan 4, 2003)
- 73: clzoomer- a bit woobly (Jan 4, 2003)
- 74: Saturnine (Jan 4, 2003)
- 75: Floh Fortuneswell (Jan 4, 2003)
- 76: Coniraya (Jan 4, 2003)
- 77: Chan-Mick le Frog (Jan 4, 2003)
- 78: Noggin the Nog (Jan 4, 2003)
- 79: Saturnine (Jan 4, 2003)
- 80: Coniraya (Jan 4, 2003)
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