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Dave J
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 14:11
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Quote: "We have exeats at my school. It's when you don't have saturday school and have to go home for the weekend. That's a fixed exeat. You can also request an exeat - that's just for you."


I feel so abused...


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DivW
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 16:33
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Ahh! A Pratchett Fan! Where have you been CMOT? Have you played Noir? It's damn good, but the ending sucks!

Sorry. My name should be pretty obvious, it's DivW. I'm David Warnock, so it's DivW. Nothing hard about it, really.

-Dave

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DivW
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 16:44
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Oh, and to clarify, 666 is the number of the beast. It's not from the Iron Maiden song. Just call it number of the beast, because people who follow what they hear in song or see in television annoys me, eg: the other day, we were watching Underworld, and people were saying "Why change it from werewolf to Lycan" and i was like because the Vampires live for ages and probablt spoke Latin originally, and Lycan is short for Lycanthrope which translates roughly as "Were-beast" form latin, i beleive, although i could be wrong. Anyway, there weren't just Warewolfs, as they beleived, almost any animal can transfer Lycanthropy, including bears and rats. Anyway, back to the point: people who say things like "Vampires, you know Buffy?" irritate me because all these damn TV shows always change it around slighly so that it's further from the truth. A Good example is Blade, where Silver was required to kill the Vamps-wtf? See my point? Anyway...sorry bout that...got carried away.

Hold on, just checked for the roots of the word, it's this:
Quote: "The term "lycanthrope" is actually a misnomer, coming from the roots lycos (wolf), and anthropos (man). A more correct term is "therianthrope," from therios (animal) and anthropos."


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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 20:31
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I think mine started off as a nick on Messenger, I just thought it'd be a good stereotypical Scotish name (although I'm not Scotish ),

Hamish = Stereotypical Scotish first name

Mc = Common pre-fix for Scotish sirnames

Haggis = Well known Scotish food, also starts with the same letter as Hamish, so goes well .

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comando 300
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 22:26
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mine was when I made my first account in a web site(is now down),I come out with it I dunno why.Almost all my accounts have it.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 22:28
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Why did you not spell it with two "M"'s? Or is it not meant to be a soldier name?

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the desktops
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 22:49
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If you watch the TheScreenSavers on TechTV!!! I changed it around to be TheDesktops. I kinda of like it.

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Ian T
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 23:24
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ANTI FAT GAIN FOR FIN H.

So what's my full name

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Killswitch
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Posted: 18th Feb 2004 23:30
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Including middle names?

~I see one problem with your reasoning: The fact is that is a chicken~
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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 19th Feb 2004 00:26
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666=Book of Revelations, Lycanthrope means werewolf, theresanthrope means werebeast, but, yes: 666 means mark of the beast. I found that out in the 4th grade when I asked mom about it in some horror movie

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Posted: 19th Feb 2004 00:36
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@Dazzag I was a little kid when I come out with that.And it's just a username and I like it with one "m" .

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Dazzag
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Posted: 19th Feb 2004 01:05
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Fair enough.

Oh, and X, you probably mean The Omen. Class film.

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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 19th Feb 2004 01:08
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is that the one with the possessed kid? it was good, and the tattoo of the three sixes (though in revelations the middle six is supposed to be a snake, int his they were going around in a circle. i like the movie)

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Dazzag
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Posted: 19th Feb 2004 02:05
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Don't think he was possessed. Was basically the anti-christ. And he had 666 as a birthmark on his head if I remember rightly.

Think it was the Omen (or something very similar) that had his social security number (or something very similar) as Jesus, but with numbers and the wrong way round or somesuch (like upside down calculator tricks). ie. his computer info even pointed to the Anti-christ. Nice. And then the computer geek finds out and gets cut in half by a lift. Or something. Erm. Was a while ago...

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Posted: 19th Feb 2004 02:56
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I love the Omen films - been on Sky TV for last few weeks and so last week I saw Omen and this week I saw Omen II.

It was Omen II that that geek got cut in half in lift but he was a chemist, not a computer geek. Found out Damien's blood was from a Raven and was going to tell someone.

Roll on Omen III and IV...

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Lord Ozzum
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Posted: 20th Feb 2004 02:53
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ST. TACO, THEM WARTY TWICK

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Killswitch
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Posted: 20th Feb 2004 22:13
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If only I had placed a copyright on my idea, I'd be making a good few bucks by now!

~I see one problem with your reasoning: The fact is that is a chicken~
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