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

Since I got my username/nick analysed by you, I have been thinking about something. What's the meaning of yours? It's possible that I've overlooked it, but using numerologi gave this result.

Magnolia gives the number of 25, which has the meaning "Critical sense and analyces". It gives wisdom through observing people and situations, and success through experience. It also provides the person with a good judgement, allthough you will not get rich from it.

Pretty cool ?

Wakan

That's VERY cool! It's not my real name of course, but it looks like I should consider taking it on!!

Thanks for wondering about it. It has amused me to realize that if I applied my own techniques to MY handle, I wouldn't get very far! No, I haven't done it -- after all, it would be QUITE difficult to suppress what I know about myself to assess what the name suggests without any other contexts to qualify it tho' you know ... just a word here or there in the way a person introduces her/himself gives away a lot of information, aside from the name. And the fact that they are at this site. I used to be interested in palmistry and realized quite soon that the way that I read two similar-seeming palms on different people was based a great deal on who was attached to the palm! Only a small part of the "data" was based on the creases on a person's hand. So much was just my tuning in to the way that the "readee" responded to what I said. There was always a small number of people who totally resisted me and with them I found myself stumbling about, getting nowhere.

I haven't done any of that stuff for a long time -- this name-reading stint is an amusing throwback to a very different era of my life! What makes it particularly pleasurable is that there is SO little to go on -- that's what tickles my fancy. Also ... I'm not expecting to be taken very seriously. I know that no-one is going to run out and marry a bus-conductor just because of something I've said.

Well anyway, thanks again! And may Wakan watch over you

Hee hee hee!

I hate to say this, but when I think of 'Magnolia' I can't help thinking of that annoying shade of paint that is all over the inside of our house. That and Barley White and Buttermilk. *shudders* There are only three rooms in the house without those colours: my room, my youngest sister's room and the bathroom. And I didn't choose the particular shade of washed-out orange, my parents did as I wasn't born when they decorated it. Huh!

Mmm. Palmistry. Sorry, I'm one of those who you'd hate!! Ever the sceptic... but only for some things, interestingly.

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No worries Ming -- I'm much too lazy to bother hating anyone!! Especially not sceptix, since I'm pretty much one myself.

My sympathies regarding the colour of your room. I promise my name had nothing to do with it ...

Well the immediate thought is of lotus flowers, and a vague thought that magnolia may be a flower too - as well as the rather dull shade of white you get in rented accomodation... names from flowers suggests either pretty, or the desire to be thought of as pretty. Someone who likes things to look nice, though probably not obsessed about it.
Other connotations would be the car maker Lotus, which suggests almost the opposite - an ambitious personality, emphasising a sleek mechanical look, rather than the natural beauty of a flower. A conscious ambiguity perhaps, to make the reader curious? They don't make Lotuses (Loti? Lotex?) in Magnolia colours, though, so it could equally be a co-incidence.

The capitalisation is standard, initially suggesting conservatism, which is buffered by Magnolia - the ultimate in conservative colours. But then Lotus, with it's eastern connotations, is far from that. Someone who maintains a conservative front, but has a sparkle in them, hidden away? Or someone deeply dull trying to create an image with a little more flair? I'd have to say the former, given that it's a username in h2g2...

Both names are very round in sound - the 't' in Lotus being the only edge. Someone happpy to take the rough with the smooth, who's here for fun, rather than to make a statement. Someone happy to sit back and laugh at the absudities they find, rather than steal the limelight for themselves... "The acorn cares not where it falls to the ground, the river runs unconcerned to the sea. Why do you strain against the world?"

*takes a large pinch of salt* - never divine the secrets of the diviner...

Delightful! Thank you, MyRedDice! A superb student ... you have caught precisely the element of make-believe ...

Magnolia sounds a teeny bit like my first name, but is a back reference to the fact that my sister used to call me Lady Magnolia when I was in my late teens -- I think it may have been because of the gold eye-shadow and heavy silver jewellery worn at 11 a.m. en route to college ...

Lotus is a part of the meaning of my surname. I've never liked either of my true names and have often experimented (off-line too) with the idea of being "someone else". Haven't the nerve to cross-dress tho' ... it would amuse me practically to death

I have sometimes been SweetLotus online, because "sweet" is the meaning of my first name.

A desire for beauty is right on the button! But I suspect there are other reasons for using flower names ...

Conservative capitals: I smile every time I write out my interpretation ... because yes, I would guess they are a disguise in my case -- though a lot would depend on who's making the assessment!

Humour is, in a sense a business for me -- I used to be a cartoonist. And there IS an eastern association.

On this mildly mysterious note, I exit stage right ... thanks again!

Well, I guess I'll have to take it up... I'll tail your Entry for customers... save on getting my own space...

*smiles*