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Doesburger 
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Joined: September 14 2005
Location: Netherlands
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Points: 50
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 Topic: How did you think of your username?
Posted: October 27 2005 at 06:18 |
I come from Doesburg, Nederland 
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Bilek
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VIP Member
Joined: July 05 2005
Location: Turkey
Status: Offline
Points: 1484
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Posted: October 27 2005 at 05:48 |
Bilek is my name... simple as that! If you wonder why I chose it, you'll have to ask my mother, because she named me
actually I first wanted to adopt black, which close to the original pronunciation of my name in English, but I did something wrong, or someone else already assumed it!!! Strangely, I never saw anyone named black in the forum!
I still continue to use that alias in my reviews, though I submitted no more than 30 so far, and because of business I'm not likely to increase this number nowadays...
meaning of my name is similar to Andrea's (the male one ): actually it comes to mean "wrist" literally, but my parents had the idea of its figurative meaning when naming me, which is "strength". I can't say I fit my name, though
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Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!)
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator
Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20614
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 05:04 |
As my fave jazz artist is John Coltrane and Trane is his nickname and based on my family name: Chantraine , I thought of chanting the Trane's praises:
which would make Chant Trane
but I decided that if one day my newly discovered taste for writing should ever amount to something (one can always dream, but you never know!) , then Shawn Trane and finally Sean Trane would be fitting!!
As you would pronounce that nickname , it is the best way to pronounce my family name for non-francophones around the world is Sean Trane!
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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tuxon
Forum Senior Member
Joined: September 21 2004
Location: plugged-in
Status: Offline
Points: 5502
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 02:07 |
Tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on, tux on
He has eyes down at the bingo on that lucky Friday night
The match was rained off Saturday but the panel came in bright
And on Sunday your mates were toasting you with champagne down the pub
And on Monday you went to London
To pick the cheque up with your mum
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I'm always almost unlucky _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Id5ZcnjXSZaSMFMC Id5LM2q2jfqz3YxT
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TheProgtologist
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin
Joined: May 23 2005
Location: Baltimore,Md US
Status: Offline
Points: 27802
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 01:34 |
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My name derives from a song by Enchant that I loved the name of....Progtology.
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Zac M
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Joined: July 03 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 3577
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 01:27 |
 Logos wrote:
My username comes from a prog album!  |
As does mine  , a song on a prog album that is
Edited by meurglysIII
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"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."
-Merleau-Ponty
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Andrea Cortese
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator
Joined: September 05 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 4411
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Posted: October 26 2005 at 00:53 |
Having your location in Antarctica you should have seen aurora australis! 
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Borealis
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Neutral Zone
Status: Offline
Points: 599
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 17:17 |
I just love aurora borealis, they're the most beautiful things I ever saw (I saw those a couple of time, they sometime were better than what's on my avatar). They're out when it's dark and cold, it feel so nice to have them when you're out at night. I don't know, I just love them. And since I live in Québec (I'm very proud of that, you know it ), I just though it would represent me well.
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Vive le Québec libre!...
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Seyo
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Joined: May 08 2004
Location: Bosnia
Status: Offline
Points: 1320
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 09:14 |
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This is a common nickname for my given name "Sead" in my country!
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Logos
Prog Reviewer
Joined: March 08 2005
Location: Finland
Status: Offline
Points: 2383
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 08:50 |
My username comes from a prog album!
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Andrea Cortese
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Joined: September 05 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 4411
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:54 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
Hello Andrea.
Sorry for the typing error "sotty", it must have been a Freudian slip because I meant "sorry" but I also love beer !
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goose
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 20 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 4097
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 07:51 |
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erik neuteboom
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 27 2005
Location: Netherlands
Status: Offline
Points: 7659
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 04:47 |
Hello Andrea.
Sorry for the typing error "sotty", it must have been a Freudian slip because I meant "sorry" but I also love beer !
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erik neuteboom
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 27 2005
Location: Netherlands
Status: Offline
Points: 7659
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 04:43 |
Sotty Andrea  , thanks for your explanation  . I really only know female Andrea's here in Holland so it remains a funny story about the Greeks roots of the word Andrea ..!
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Hangedman
Prog Reviewer
Joined: November 03 2004
Location: Canada
Status: Offline
Points: 1261
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 02:52 |
The Tarot card, and a good helping of obvious symbolism
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Andrea Cortese
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Joined: September 05 2005
Status: Offline
Points: 4411
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Posted: October 25 2005 at 00:47 |
erik neuteboom wrote:
No negative comments this time ..!!
Except that my name Neuteboom is a typical Dutch name and always hard to pronounce  for non Dutch speaking people! By the way, I asked Andrea to be a he or a she because both is possible in Italy!
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Hello Erik,
It's not both possible in Italy, though, being only a male name!
In other european countries I know they use the name also as a feminine...what a paradox: in fact the ancient greek root of it, anér, means "MALE" while the other ancient greek word andrèia means "virility" and "strenght"!
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kunangkunangku
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 14 2005
Location: Indonesia
Status: Offline
Points: 22
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Posted: October 24 2005 at 18:42 |
mine is the first word that was instantly popped up in my mind when i searched for usernames to sign up with yahoo messenger. it's "my firefly" in indonesian. 
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i don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
- b.b. king
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erik neuteboom
Prog Reviewer
Joined: July 27 2005
Location: Netherlands
Status: Offline
Points: 7659
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Posted: October 24 2005 at 17:58 |
No negative comments this time ..!!
Except that my name Neuteboom is a typical Dutch name and always hard to pronounce for non Dutch speaking people! By the way, I asked Andrea to be a he or a she because both is possible in Italy!
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Ed_The_Dead
Forum Senior Member
Joined: April 29 2005
Location: Poland
Status: Offline
Points: 4928
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Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:27 |
Well... I'm a big Maiden fan... That band actually made me love prog So its my small tribute...
Btw Your not the 1st one with this idea! I had a thread like athat 2!
And someone had another be4 me...
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goose
Forum Senior Member
Joined: June 20 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 4097
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Posted: October 24 2005 at 16:27 |
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