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More names (was: How to determine YOUR Star Wars name)

From:Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...>
Date:Sunday, June 20, 1999, 14:42
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Andrew Smith wrote:

> >How to determine YOUR Star Wars name: > > >For your new first name: > >1. Take the first 3 letters of your 1st name and add > >2. the first 2 letters of your last name. > > >For your new last name: > >3. Then take the first 2 letters of your Mom's maiden name and add > >4. the first 3 letters of the city you were born in.
Irire Abbha. There's yet another method floating around on alt.fan.pratchett: (J.L. - initials to avoid compromising her)
> The name is two parts, each five letters long. > The first three letters are the last three letters of your surname. > For me, that's "Ees". > The next two are the first two letters of your first name. "je". > > The first three letters of the second name are the first three > letters of your mother's maiden name. "And". > The final two letters are the first two letters of the place where > you were born. Mine's "ay" (Aylesbury).
This makes me Mptir Abbha so I'll try my maiden name: Outir Abbha. Much better.
> >How to determine your Star Wars honorific title: > >1: take the last three letters of your last name and reverse them > >2: add the first three letters of the name of the first car you drove/owned > >3: insert the word "of" > >4: tack on the name of the last medication you took.
Tpmman (eek, hang on) - Tuoman of Thyrax. (J.L.:)
> Other variations include your theatre name: the first name is your > middle name (or parent's, if you don't have one, or sibling's, or > cat's, or...). The second is the name of a park near where you were > born, or near where you live if you don't know the geography of your > birthplace (I certainly don't).
Ruth Haarlemmerhout (park near the hospital that I was born in) or Ruth Staten Bolwerk (park near where we lived at the time). I rather prefer the Staten Bolwerk version. (J.L.:)
> > >Does anyone have further variations on these? My Guide leader > > >knew more (like the name you'd have if you were in a porno movie > > >- yes, Guide leaders aren't all innocent like me <g>) but she'd > > >forgotten.
(H.K.:)
> > Yep, that's your pet's name for your forename, and your street > > name for your surname. So mine's Tigger Coppice... ;)
Carlotta Kruis. Interestingly, "kruis" means "crotch" as well as "cross" in Dutch. (And from J.R.:)
> 1. Porn name = name of first family pet and your > mother's maiden name.
Would make me Piep Abbenes. Not as good as Carlotta Kruis :-) 2. Opera name = Your middle name and street name. Ruth Kruis, obviously. I'll never sing opera... Irina Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastinay. irina@rempt.xs4all.nl (myself) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/index.html (English) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt/irina/backpage.html (Nederlands)