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Joanna

Ps have a fish

Thanks for the warm welcome - I'll check out the pages you mentioned.

Oh and thanks for the fish - I'll keep it away from the cats.


Ta. N.

Undoubtedly a good idea... I'd never really considered those fishes as potential virtual catfood, but its a possibility...

Hmmm, Moadib, did the name come from Freank Herberts Dune series? Sorry to pry, just wondering
BCNU - Crescent

Ooooh, there's always one sharp-eyed one, isn't there?

Yup - you got me. Just for added humility on my part I haven't even read the books - just watched the spice-addled film a few times.

(Note to self: work harder on secret identities).

Prying allowed, by the way (up to a point).

cya.

Hee David Lynch strikes again, and Sting shows he has almost no acting talent Aaahhhhh it would also explain your spelling of Mhuad'ib So, what is it like being named after a Kangaroo-rat-thing Sorry, just slipped out - I will slink away now.........
BCNU - Crescent

"almost no acting talent"... how very charitable. "I _will_ kill him" why do singers feel the need to be in films?

I think I'll stick with the anglicised spelling - otherwise people will think I've just sneezed.

I think I'm named after a shadow shaped like a kangaroo-rat-thing - oh well - cover really blown. I should have been named after "the strength of the base of the pillar", or whatever it was. I'd have been so far off with the spelling of that that nobody would have recognised it.

Happy slinking.

cya

So, are you likely to read the books?
I personally think that the film is great - and it's soundtracks is one of the best soundtrack albums ever!
There's a good dictionary of Dune terms here:
http://www.h2g2.com/A244595
BTW.

hmm, i've missed something here haven't i? who or what is moadib? (not you, the character)

Well...

There's a series of novels called The Dune Series (which I've never read) that are a sci-fi mainstay. Then David Lynch came along and decided that he'd make a film of it (which I watched) and get several thousand pages of novel into about 2 hours of film. Being directed by David Lynch, being set on another planet, and being (in part) about the drug-addled dreams of a proto-saviour stroke warrior stroke prophet type bloke it is occasionally hard to follow.

Anyhoo, the main character changes his name to Moadib (as I heard it in the film) or Mhuad'ib as, apparently, it appears in print. This name is taken from a shadow on his new home planet's 2nd moon in the shape of a rat/kangaroo type beastie.

The name, it transpires, was not as smart as I'd hoped as, firstly, I was rumbled within a day of getting here, and, secondly, I can't even spell it correctly.

I may change it to Geoff.

If you've actually bothered to read all of that then you should probably get a hobby .


Mo.

for your information i DO have a hobby: throwing fantastic parties with "thought to be dead, but actually living a quite life on venus" famous people and everlasting alcoholic beverages, the largest firworks displays known to man (or woman) and live music. so there!

I sit corrected

so you should......by the way, you are hereby cordially invited to gatecrash any party held by St Angelwings, Patron Saint of Blue Skies. only please be sure to crash the gate and not the window, some joker's already managed to do that.........

Hello
I'm not sure which I find more amusing.
The whole Dune rant or gate crashing.
So how goes the battle with work and shuffling papers to look busy.

you get the wierdest chats in this place...
btw dont worry TraKtor im not following ya I just happened to visit the same page as you

be careful of the fish Mr Rat-Kangaroo-Shadow-Atriedes-Mistake, or ill have the RSPCF onto ya

---Red Fish

Oooh 'eck!

An o-fish-al organisation after me!

I may be able to escape on my motorpike - Cod willing.

*Maybe they won't notice the desperate attempt to switch attention from my crumby nickname*

It is a good nickname You don't want to be floundering around, looking for another, all to no porpoise. I am sorry, puns just slip out, every now and then
BCNU - Crescent

I agree - it is a good and distinct nickname, and it starts conversations because of the Dune film reference. So I'd stick to it if I were you.

Aww - you guys...

Mo

hmmf ~mutters~ everywhere i go people make puns outta my name... it all seems a bit fishy to me...


---RedFish