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11 Apr 2007, 1:45 am

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I'll stick with the snake, Quater's Avvie freaks me out a bit.

Lord Vetinari....well, you couldn't call him a nice person, but he's a good person, after a fashion.

I once heard a phrase. "Honorable people do not always act honorably. Sometimes they cannot." Still not entirely sure what exactly that means.

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11 Apr 2007, 1:51 am

RadiationHazard wrote:

Quatermass wrote:

KBABZ wrote:

I'll stick with the snake, Quater's Avvie freaks me out a bit.

Lord Vetinari....well, you couldn't call him a nice person, but he's a good person, after a fashion.

I once heard a phrase. "Honorable people do not always act honorably. Sometimes they cannot." Still not entirely sure what exactly that means.

"A lesser evil for a greater good."

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11 Apr 2007, 1:59 am

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I have just changed mine to Lord Havelock Vetinari, the benevolent dictator of Ankh-Morpork. The rank means "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". And the signature, well roughly "If you have someone's attention, their hearts and minds will follow..."

And what does 'testiculos' translate to in that signature? Attention, perhaps? No, can't be.

I like this avatar much better.

What does "Quatermass" mean, while we're at it?

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11 Apr 2007, 2:03 am

Quatermass was an old TV Sci-Fi professor who preceded Doctor Who by some years. And that word you highlighted, well, that's the more questionable part of it. As I said, it is a very rough translation, for reasons of taste....

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11 Apr 2007, 2:20 am

Because I'm a gun nut, pure and simple. Oh, and quartermass please educate us as to the meaning of that particular word, inquiring minds must know. :wink:

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11 Apr 2007, 2:23 am

PINEY! RUN!! !

I fear you.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:29 am

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I fear you.

Paranoia will do that to you.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:31 am

T-rav20 wrote:

RadiationHazard wrote:

I fear you.

Paranoia will do that to you.

I'm originally from Jersey myself... Atlantic City as a matter of fact.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:37 am

Congratulations on getting out, I'm not sure how big an improvement Florida is though.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:39 am

T-rav20 wrote:

Because I'm a gun nut, pure and simple. Oh, and quartermass please educate us as to the meaning of that particular word, inquiring minds must know.

No.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:42 am

Quatermass wrote:

T-rav20 wrote:

Because I'm a gun nut, pure and simple. Oh, and quartermass please educate us as to the meaning of that particular word, inquiring minds must know.

No.

Tsk, shame.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:43 am

...That's it! *descends upon Quatermass and cuts into a thousand pieces, then throws pieces into an alternate dimension composed exclusively of pain*

Quatermass means: "I LOVE 13375p34k" in Latin or something.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:56 am

ahayes wrote:

NO!

I just said that Quatermass is from THIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Quatermass.

As for that other word, you're not going to know it.

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11 Apr 2007, 2:56 am

Because it was made especially for me.

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11 Apr 2007, 3:04 am

CockneyRebel wrote:

Because it was made especially for me.

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11 Apr 2007, 3:44 am

Okay, fine, I'll say the full meaning (more or less), but it's in the spoilers...

spoiling the motto wrote:

When you have someone by the cojones, their hearts and minds will follow...

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