De Lorimier
North American Scum
It's yours. You said it not me. Now, ENOUGH THREAD-JACKING!
What does your name mean?
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Richard III
Duke of Gloucester
I don't consider Quebecers to be eligible for that particular reptilian moniker. Don't worry, De Lorimer, he has a different kind of beast in mind 
My CFC name was chosen both because it's interesting, and because it was the name I used when playing the English in Civ II (and now, Civ III), as a reference to both the play and the movie with Ian McKellen. In other words, in Civ, I am not as nice as I am in the real world!
I also am interested in R.III as a historical symbol, since there is a debate hundreds of years after his death as to whether he really was the villain he was said to be by Tudor propaganda, raising questions about how "true" history is.
(All of this has, of course, been explained in about six of these threads, now)
My real name is, well, confidential. But the first half of it means "strong and powerful" in the original language. This is a great source of ironic
to me, incidentally...
R.III
My CFC name was chosen both because it's interesting, and because it was the name I used when playing the English in Civ II (and now, Civ III), as a reference to both the play and the movie with Ian McKellen. In other words, in Civ, I am not as nice as I am in the real world!
I also am interested in R.III as a historical symbol, since there is a debate hundreds of years after his death as to whether he really was the villain he was said to be by Tudor propaganda, raising questions about how "true" history is.
(All of this has, of course, been explained in about six of these threads, now)
My real name is, well, confidential. But the first half of it means "strong and powerful" in the original language. This is a great source of ironic
to me, incidentally...R.III
CurtSibling
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The French?
We have the 'Auld Alliance!'
A good as reason to back up our old mates on the continent as any!
And you know full well the historical reasons for any disagreements between our nations!
And you English hate us just as much, or you wouldn't have invaded in the first place!
That is why a Scot is honour-bound to batter your thug/football fans whenever we meet!
That stuff is all in the past, but ninnies like you seem to delight in digging up ancient grudges...
You silly fellow!
Now get back on topic, before you drop your cricket bat!
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
@Richard- frogs are amphibians, not reptiles.
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
We don't actually and we invaded basically because we could. We woke up one morning and decided that invading Scotland would be a good idea and then we did it. Simple really.
That is so weird you said that because I am actually holding a cricket bat at the moment.
Richard III
Duke of Gloucester
Yes, you are quite right - as far as the animal is concerned...
(and teetering on dangerous territory, shall we get back on subject, please, before the cheese-eating surrender monkeys offer further temptation?)
R.III
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
Careful they may think you are talking about the French.
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
"surrender monkeys" ...I can't help but laugh at that one.
But De Lorimier relax; the Americans face a lot of bashing on these threads and even if I didn't agree with most of it, I would be able to 'take it' because we are an advanced industrialized nation. I know some Americans freak out like thin skinned ninnys when they hear it but that's to their shame.
And so you must hold your head high. Yes, France bashing goes on here utterly unpoliced by our impartial mods (who wield the frog bat themselves from time to time). Never mind it, something tells me Franco-Prussia will have history's last laugh.
...I can't help but laugh at that one.But De Lorimier relax; the Americans face a lot of bashing on these threads and even if I didn't agree with most of it, I would be able to 'take it' because we are an advanced industrialized nation. I know some Americans freak out like thin skinned ninnys when they hear it but that's to their shame.
And so you must hold your head high. Yes, France bashing goes on here utterly unpoliced by our impartial mods (who wield the frog bat themselves from time to time). Never mind it, something tells me Franco-Prussia will have history's last laugh.
Zcylen
Moonlight Rambler
MrPresident
Anglo-Saxon Liberal
I like the way you link industrialisation with a sense of humour. However Germany proves this theory wrong. (I have insulted the French, the Scots, the Americans and the Germans all in the matter of one hour...must be a record).
De Lorimier
North American Scum
I relax. I just liked the idea of not letting him get away with it. Now, as I said before... NO MORE THREAD-JACKING!! 
Sultan Bhargash
Trickster Reincarnated
Germans have a sense of humour, it just doesn't translate.
napoleon526
Emperor
Mine is a clever compbination of napoleon and 526. Napoleon is Napoleon. 526 used to be my house number.
In a (probably vain) attempt to get this thread back on topic:
My user name (which I also have explained in a few other threads) means "lotus-flower", or something similar. I learned later the "original" Padma was a Hindu monk.
In my particular case, I "borrowed" the name from my favorite books (the Childe Cycle by Gordon Dickson). Padma the Outbond is a wise old philosopher we first meet in Soldier, Ask Not. The title "Outbond" means he is a connection between his homeworld and some other part of humanity. Sort of like an ambassador, sort of like a contractual agent. The last time we see him (in The Final Encyclopedia) he is known as the Inbond - a very revered title.
My user name (which I also have explained in a few other threads) means "lotus-flower", or something similar. I learned later the "original" Padma was a Hindu monk.
In my particular case, I "borrowed" the name from my favorite books (the Childe Cycle by Gordon Dickson). Padma the Outbond is a wise old philosopher we first meet in Soldier, Ask Not. The title "Outbond" means he is a connection between his homeworld and some other part of humanity. Sort of like an ambassador, sort of like a contractual agent. The last time we see him (in The Final Encyclopedia) he is known as the Inbond - a very revered title.
He also scored the last goal ever in the Boston Garden.From the Encyclopedia:
CROMAGNON RACE, the name given by Paul Broca to a type of mankind supposed to be represented by remains found by Lartet, Christy and others, in France in the Cromagnon cave at Les Eyzies, Tayac district, Dordogne. At the foot of a steep rock near the village this small cave, nearly filled with debris, was found by workmen in 1868. Towards the top of the loose strata three human skeletons were unearthed. They were those of an old man, a young man and a woman, the latters skull bearing the mark of a severe wound. The skulls presented such special characteristics that Broca took them as types of a race, Palaeolithic man is exclusively long-headed, and the dolichocephalic appearance of the crania (they had a mean cephalic index of 73.34) supported the view that the find at Les Eyzies was palaeoiithic. It is, however, inaccurate to state that brachycephaly appears at once with the neolithic age, dolichocephaly even of a pronounced type persisting far into neolithic times. The Cromagnon race may thus be, as many anthropologists believe it, early neolithic, a type of man who spread over and inhabited a large portion of Europe at the close of the Pleistocene period. Some have sought to find in it the substratum of the present populations of western Europe. Quatrefages identifies Cromagnon man with the tall, long-headed, fair Kabyles (Berbers) who still survive in various parts of Mauritania. He suggests the introduction of the Cromagnon from Siberia, arriving in Europe simultaneously with the great mammals (which were driven by the cold from Siberia), and no doubt following their route.
Don't ask, why I chose it. It's a carry-over from another forum that I signed up for in a hurry, and picked the first thing that popped into my head (which I should have examined, if such things are popping into it for no reason).
CROMAGNON RACE, the name given by Paul Broca to a type of mankind supposed to be represented by remains found by Lartet, Christy and others, in France in the Cromagnon cave at Les Eyzies, Tayac district, Dordogne. At the foot of a steep rock near the village this small cave, nearly filled with debris, was found by workmen in 1868. Towards the top of the loose strata three human skeletons were unearthed. They were those of an old man, a young man and a woman, the latters skull bearing the mark of a severe wound. The skulls presented such special characteristics that Broca took them as types of a race, Palaeolithic man is exclusively long-headed, and the dolichocephalic appearance of the crania (they had a mean cephalic index of 73.34) supported the view that the find at Les Eyzies was palaeoiithic. It is, however, inaccurate to state that brachycephaly appears at once with the neolithic age, dolichocephaly even of a pronounced type persisting far into neolithic times. The Cromagnon race may thus be, as many anthropologists believe it, early neolithic, a type of man who spread over and inhabited a large portion of Europe at the close of the Pleistocene period. Some have sought to find in it the substratum of the present populations of western Europe. Quatrefages identifies Cromagnon man with the tall, long-headed, fair Kabyles (Berbers) who still survive in various parts of Mauritania. He suggests the introduction of the Cromagnon from Siberia, arriving in Europe simultaneously with the great mammals (which were driven by the cold from Siberia), and no doubt following their route.
Don't ask, why I chose it. It's a carry-over from another forum that I signed up for in a hurry, and picked the first thing that popped into my head (which I should have examined, if such things are popping into it for no reason).
