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Hello Tiamat!

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I was just wondering about your nickname and its origin... but you need not answer or explain this if you would rather keep it a mystery.

Best wishes and heaps of fun and enjoyment!

Ossario T'an
:^)#

My name happens to come from the infamous Dungeons and Dragons series. Actually, it is a smattering of a few different things, but mostly from the D&D. It happened to be a nickname given to me by a few drunken friends......Tiamat is a seven or eight (I cannot remember given the circumstances it was place in)headed dragon that rules the 7th level of Hell. I happen to be born in the year of the dragon, hence the fit. But to my chagrin, the ruler of Hell seemed to fit as well, since I seem to find myself in situations that I could only be described as my own personal Hells. *SIGH*. What's in a name, anyway....?

I'm deeply tempted at this point... OK I have to....
"a rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." Act II Scene II, R&J
Although that was a joke originally, the Rose theatre was near the Globe theatre when Romeo and Juliet was originally produced, and way back then their sanitation wasn't so good....
Sorry for that totally random comment.
I'll go now.
Joanna
PS have a fish

in keeping with total randomity,
Tiamat is also the name of a planet that orbits the sun (yes, ours) every 3600 years. billions of years ago it collided with a planet called marduk which used to hang about between mars and jupiter and created the asteroid belt and the earth (yes, ours).

well anyway. hi. welcome.