Shog9 - I gotta ask
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This has been bugging me all day. What does Shog9 mean? cheers, Chris Maunder
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This has been bugging me all day. What does Shog9 mean? cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: This has been bugging me all day. I'm honored :-O Chris Maunder wrote: What does Shog9 mean? It is a long and boring story. This being The Soapbox, i'll go right ahead :-D : Back when i first was becoming familiar with this 'Net thing, i realized my need for a good nickname. Of course i couldn't use my real name, as it is not at all unique, and usually is already taken. :( So, i tried to come up with a name that was easy to remember, and sounded real, without actually meaning anything. As usual, i failed miserably; shog is a Middle English (or Old Welsh, or Scottish... depends who you ask it seems) word meaning "to shake" or "to move along". This means nothing to me however, so i ignore it. Oh yeah, the nine bit. Well, as i mentioned, this all originated a while ago, when i was young and naive (as opposed to now, when i am... still young and naive...), and thought the best way to ensure people did not steal it from me was to make it even more obscure by appending a digit ('cause if you see Shog9 then of course Shog and Shog8, etc. have already been taken, and who wants to be Shog10, right? ah well, it didn't work... :(( ). So that's it. The whole sordid tale. Glad you asked? :-D --------_**
I don't think that I'm a sell-out but I do "Enjoy Coke!"...
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-- Bloodhound Gang, The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope
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Chris Maunder wrote: This has been bugging me all day. I'm honored :-O Chris Maunder wrote: What does Shog9 mean? It is a long and boring story. This being The Soapbox, i'll go right ahead :-D : Back when i first was becoming familiar with this 'Net thing, i realized my need for a good nickname. Of course i couldn't use my real name, as it is not at all unique, and usually is already taken. :( So, i tried to come up with a name that was easy to remember, and sounded real, without actually meaning anything. As usual, i failed miserably; shog is a Middle English (or Old Welsh, or Scottish... depends who you ask it seems) word meaning "to shake" or "to move along". This means nothing to me however, so i ignore it. Oh yeah, the nine bit. Well, as i mentioned, this all originated a while ago, when i was young and naive (as opposed to now, when i am... still young and naive...), and thought the best way to ensure people did not steal it from me was to make it even more obscure by appending a digit ('cause if you see Shog9 then of course Shog and Shog8, etc. have already been taken, and who wants to be Shog10, right? ah well, it didn't work... :(( ). So that's it. The whole sordid tale. Glad you asked? :-D --------_**
I don't think that I'm a sell-out but I do "Enjoy Coke!"...
**_
-- Bloodhound Gang, The Inevitable Return Of The Great White Dope
Sounds familiar. When I started out we had nothing but a bbs with a link to the 'net. Since the bbs was populated mainly by illiterate children, I picked Philogynist as a moniker. I loved it when some bozo would 'whisper' "What's it mean?" I could then reply, "Opposite of Misogynist." A couple of them actually knew what a dictionary is and how to use one - good tykes! Unfortunately, when we got a "real" ISP in town, they allowed only 8 chars for a username, and it got chopped to Philo. That took all the fun out of it :(