On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:21:25 +0000, you wrote: > >Raven: (12:19 PM) ya bastid >Ultimate Joe: (12:19 PM) what? >Raven: (12:20 PM) I didn't know you liked Steven Brust >Ultimate Joe: (12:20 PM) Who? >Raven: (12:20 PM) aw crap >Raven: (12:20 PM) Who is Lazarus Long? >Ultimate Joe: (12:20 PM) A character in several Robert Heinlein novels. >Raven: (12:20 PM) ah.... >Raven: (12:20 PM) well, I'm on this mailing list >Raven: (12:20 PM) and on it is a Lazarus >Ultimate Joe: (12:21 PM) (I am a bastard though... I have an unreleased ROTK >trailer.) >Raven: (12:21 PM) recently, he was called Lazarus Long >Ultimate Joe: (12:21 PM) What mailing list? >Raven: (12:21 PM) So, I figured, how many Lazarus Longs can there be >Raven: (12:21 PM) a mailing list for the world of Steven Brust >Ultimate Joe: (12:21 PM) Never heard of hi. >Raven: (12:21 PM) So I sent a bunch of emails to the list, assuming that >Lazarus Long was you. >Raven: (12:21 PM) Crap. > >:/ Well, oddly enough, my nick, lazarus, was only partially taken from the Heinlein Lazarus. I also got it from my uncanny and annoying tendency to "come back from the dead" when playing various games, such as Magic and Battletech. -- lazarus "Folly it may seem," said Haldir. "Indeed, in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him." -- J.R.R. Tolkien