ha haI think we already decided my user name would remain the same, but woo nevertheless!
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Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:01,
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pssssst!i'm asking quietly in order not to look stupid
but what does your screen name mean anyways?
(but what does your screen name mean anyways?
Ironman tetsuo Back once again with the renegade mastah!,
Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:03,
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Ptolemy was a Greek Egyptian Pharoahbut this relates to a tortoise does it not, Ptols?
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bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon.,
Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:08,
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It's a long storyBasically I have a habit of sticking stubbornly to my guns even when it's blindingly obvious that I'm wrong. When I founded a magazine years ago and everyone told me it was a big mistake (as usual) I named it in tribute after the man who arguably made the biggest cock-up of all time, but who stuck to his guns all the same: the ancient astronomer Ptolemy, who pronounced that the Earth was the centre of the universe (much later overturned by the heliocentric, or sun-based system we all now now to be true).
Fifteen years later the magazine's still around, and I'm stuck with the nick-name Ptolemy.
The short version meanwhile is that I also have a tortoise named Ptolemy, so I tend to just tell people I'm named after him. It's easier.
(Fifteen years later the magazine's still around, and I'm stuck with the nick-name Ptolemy.
The short version meanwhile is that I also have a tortoise named Ptolemy, so I tend to just tell people I'm named after him. It's easier.
Ptolemy the man with the silent pea,
Thu 9 Mar 2006, 16:26,
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