Ghyll talk:Opoudelian Starker - Revision history

Jcowan: Adding Wikipedia links

2005-03-07T21:12:43Z

Adding Wikipedia links

Jcowan: All those names

2005-01-31T18:51:42Z

All those names

Morbus Iff: +1

2005-01-25T01:19:08Z

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I quite liked this one. --[[User:Morbus Iff|Morbus Iff]] 20:19, 24 Jan 2005 (EST)

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 == All those names ==
-The names given for the Starker are garblings of names actually used for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew Wandering Jew] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman Flying Dutchman].  Some versions of the Wandering Jew legend do make him a Roman centurion, though I made up the name, which is a fusion of Marcus Aurelius the Emperor and the Norwegian (and Nobel-Prize-winning) author Henrik Pontoppidan.  "Vanderdecken" is the usual name for the Flying Dutchman; "Vandervecken" is a variant used AFAIK only by Larry Niven, as an alias for Jack Brennan in ''Protector''.
+The names given for the Starker are garblings of names actually used for the [[Wikipedia:Wandering Jew|Wandering Jew]] or the [[Wikipedia:Flying Dutchman|Flying Dutchman]].  Some versions of the Wandering Jew legend do make him a Roman centurion, though I made up the name, which is a fusion of [[Wikipedia:Marcus Aurelius|Marcus Aurelius]] the Roman Emperor and the Norwegian (and Nobel-Prize-winning) author [[Wikipedia:Henrik Pontoppidan|Henrik Pontoppidan]].  "Vanderdecken" is the usual name for the Flying Dutchman; "Vandervecken" is a variant used AFAIK only by [[Wikipedia:Larry Niven|Larry Niven]], as an alias for Jack Brennan in ''Protector''.
 The references to philosophunculism and amphigory are allusions to ''Stranger in a Strange Land''.  "Hezu or Alvu" is "Jesus or Elvis" with a Spanish accent.  As for [http://www.google.com/search?q=Jhrool the Jhrool], it's a lump of blue fluid in a jar somewhere in [http://mindheart.org Nick Turner's] house -- or is it?
---[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 13:51, 31 Jan 2005 (EST)
+--[[User:Jcowan|John Cowan]] 13:51, 31 Jan 2005 (EST)

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		+	== All those names ==
		+	The names given for the Starker are garblings of names actually used for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew Wandering Jew] or the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Dutchman Flying Dutchman]. Some versions of the Wandering Jew legend do make him a Roman centurion, though I made up the name, which is a fusion of Marcus Aurelius the Emperor and the Norwegian (and Nobel-Prize-winning) author Henrik Pontoppidan. "Vanderdecken" is the usual name for the Flying Dutchman; "Vandervecken" is a variant used AFAIK only by Larry Niven, as an alias for Jack Brennan in ''Protector''.
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		+	The references to philosophunculism and amphigory are allusions to ''Stranger in a Strange Land''. "Hezu or Alvu" is "Jesus or Elvis" with a Spanish accent. As for [http://www.google.com/search?q=Jhrool the Jhrool], it's a lump of blue fluid in a jar somewhere in [http://mindheart.org Nick Turner's] house -- or is it?
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		+	--[[User:Jcowan\|Jcowan]] 13:51, 31 Jan 2005 (EST)