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wileypeter) wrote2008-12-31 09:46 am
wileypeter) wrote2008-12-31 09:46 am
Your name is what?
I was curious. What does your user name mean? What's the connection?
Mine: Years ago I worked in a copy & printing shop. We also did business cards. They had a cheapo card, white with black print. I'm sure you've seen them.
A colleague was almost as goofy as I was at the time, and we went in on a card together. My initials and number in the left margin, his in the right, and in big print in the center, "WILE E. COYOTE, Supergenius."
This should surprise nobody here.
As an experiment, I dropped a few in a club in San Jose just to see if anyone would call, and how far they'd travel. Two weeks later at least one card had made it to Idaho. I got close to a dozen calls for "Mr. Coyote."
We eventually sprang for a more elaborate ACME Products card, but the original WILE E. COYOTE card was the classic. (The inclusion of a short product list on the ACME card was a real hit, though. For some reason people would always read the word "batsuits" out loud. Never failed.) My first email address was at a bbs, and "wiley" was the obvious choice. It's been lurking about ever since.
So, where did your name originate?
Mine: Years ago I worked in a copy & printing shop. We also did business cards. They had a cheapo card, white with black print. I'm sure you've seen them.
A colleague was almost as goofy as I was at the time, and we went in on a card together. My initials and number in the left margin, his in the right, and in big print in the center, "WILE E. COYOTE, Supergenius."
This should surprise nobody here.
As an experiment, I dropped a few in a club in San Jose just to see if anyone would call, and how far they'd travel. Two weeks later at least one card had made it to Idaho. I got close to a dozen calls for "Mr. Coyote."
We eventually sprang for a more elaborate ACME Products card, but the original WILE E. COYOTE card was the classic. (The inclusion of a short product list on the ACME card was a real hit, though. For some reason people would always read the word "batsuits" out loud. Never failed.) My first email address was at a bbs, and "wiley" was the obvious choice. It's been lurking about ever since.
So, where did your name originate?
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κύμτεζιον, which is listed in the Tuft's University Perseus project and A Greek-English Lexicon by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott as to be agitated by the waves, Arist.HA622a18; toss about like waves, en têi koiliai k. ta sitia Gal.19.717 ; of the pulse, Id.8.482, 9.180.
I spent a portion of my early childhood living on Crete. I learned to read and write Greek at age four, a bit before I began writing in English. So when it came time to find an AOL user name one day and EVERYTHING was taken, it was natural to fall back on Greek words. This is a random spelling of a word I love. My pronunciation of it is now completely bastardized. (The actual pronunciation just doesn't roll off the English/American tongue, and doesn't translate exactly to the spelling I used.)
There you go.
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Yours name also, full of spiritual beauty.