Handles, handles, handles...

[benedetti]

Txurce, go to the Spanish Civ2 Site and download a scenario called "Spanish Pride". Chances are that you will like it a lot. BTW, what's the translation of Txurce into proper Spanish? San-Txurce? (j/k) (I mean, Kepa is Pedro and Andoni is Antonio. Txurce is...?)

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E questo e il fiore dal partigiano,
o bella ciao, bella ciao
e questo e il fiore dal partigiano
morto per la liberta

[benedetti]

And while we are at it, Beto Benedetti is the name of the hero (anti-hero) of Horacio Altuna's comic books. Formerly I was CDB, or Corpo di Baco (more or less, Goddamit! in Italian).

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E questo e il fiore dal partigiano,
o bella ciao, bella ciao
e questo e il fiore dal partigiano
morto per la liberta

[Txurce]

Benedetti:

I'll look for the Spanish Civ 2 site, and then try to convert it over to my Mac format. Thanks.

Txurce is "Jorge" in Spanish. I can't believe a non-Basque knows any other Basque translations!

Is Altuna the creator of "Dylan'd Dog"? And does "Corpo di Baco" means"Body of ---"?

[benedetti]

Txurce,
Not so unbelievable - I do not speak Euskara but I know quite a few things about the Basque country. For example I know that Guernica is now spelt "Gernika" in Basque :-) I think however that your capital should be Gasteitz (Vitoria) :-)

I think we may be talking about the same Altuna :-) Are you really Anglo? 'Cause if so you would be the first one I know who has heard about Altuna. Do you know Manara? Altuna is as good as Manara with the pen but (thanks God) not as... uhm... 'obsexed".

And yes, Corpo di Baco means literally that

benedetti

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E questo e il fiore dal partigiano,
o bella ciao, bella ciao
e questo e il fiore dal partigiano
morto per la liberta




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[Txurce]

Benedetti:

Given that the Basques are so traditionally anarchic as to never have had an official capital, I think I'll stick with the historic site of their periodic assemblies, by the sacred oak tree of GERNIKA. (I defer to your usage of the Basque spelling.)

I was born in Cuba, but have spent most of my life in the U.S. I've never read Altuna, but I did see a movie called CEMETERY MAN (DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE, directed by Michele Soavi, starring Rupert Everett), based on the "Dylan Dog" comic-book characters, with the actual plot inspired from a novel by Tiziano Sclavi.

[benedetti]

Oh well, but I think that after the long night of fascism was over, Gasteitz was made the official capital of Euskadi.

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E questo e il fiore dal partigiano,
o bella ciao, bella ciao
e questo e il fiore dal partigiano
morto per la liberta

[Ming]

Thanks benedetti...
I never knew what CDB stood for! Thanks for the laugh... I needed it this morning!

I love this thread.

[This message has been edited by Ming (edited April 28, 1999).]

[St Leo]

The Spanish CivII Site:-)

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St. Leo
http://www.sidgames.com/imperialism/

[Notnvs]

Of late I've been calling myself 'Shaft' (in real life). Hmm...

Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to ALL the groovy chicks?

Shaft!

DAMN straight!

Nananana nananana nananana nananana

They say this cat Shaft is a BAD mutha'

Shut yo' mouth!

Uh huh!

Nananana nananana nananana nananana

[Mark von Wagner]

My username? I always play as the Germans, so I added just 'von' to my name. 'Wagner' is a perfectly respectable German name, after all.

[catullus]

Catullus (Catulle) was a great roman poet. He is also the male leader of the Dead Poet civ (renamed Carthaginians), with cities like Coleridge, Shakespeare, Ovid, Vergil, Whitman...

C.

[DaveV]

My name is totally obvious and unoriginal, but I love some of the other stories here. If I had it to do over again, I think I would go for Doug Pirhana, from one of my favorite Monty Python skits. He was the "enforcer" of the gangster Pirhana Brothers, using sarcasm and literary irony.

[Tokek Belerang]

Tokek means gecko, belerang means sulphur.

Both words are from Bahasa Indonesia, the Indonesian national language. As some may know geckos are the only voiced lizards, and in the twilight they call their own name, repeatedly. Indonesians interpret the sound as 'tokek' (pr. TOH-kay). I'm not Indonesian, by the way, but Dutch, with some Indonesian blood. I love the sound of the tokek calling its name in the twilight, loud and defiant. While in North Bali I had one tattooed on my shoulder by a local artist.

'Belerang', or sulphur, is 'zwavel' in Dutch, and that has the starting three letters of the last names of me and my girlfriend, respectively.

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Numquam turbae misceri

[DaveV]

Quinlong,

Is that Spiney Norman standing behind you?

[Googlie]

I wanted Machiavelli, but it was taken.

Googlie is a cricket term for a ball bowled with a wrist flip, but over the back of the hand. To the batsman it seems that it is going to spin one way when it hits the pitch (a regular "leg-break"), but in fact it spins the other way due to the flip-wrist action, offering an unexpected deflection off the bat that may be caught.

Closest thing I could think of that seemed to typify Machiavelli in action. (For those of you who also play SMAC, you'll have guessed that I love framing the other factions!!)