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Post by szaleniec on Apr 15, 2009 21:10:42 GMT -5
It means "madman" in Polish. There's no particular story behind it.
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Post by mistermuncher on Apr 15, 2009 21:12:39 GMT -5
It's my IRL nickname, or one of them, anyway. It derives from the inability of a buddy to read my surname as written.
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Post by frogflayer on Apr 15, 2009 21:39:43 GMT -5
From 'The Golden Bough'
To this hut rides a troop of village lads with a king at their head. He wears a sword at his side and a sugar-loaf hat of rushes on his head. In his train are a judge, a crier, and a personage called the Frog-flayer or Hangman. This last is a sort of ragged merryandrew, wearing a rusty old sword and bestriding a sorry hack. On reaching the hut the crier dismounts and goes round it looking for a door. Finding none, he says, "Ah, this is perhaps an enchanted castle; the witches creep through the leaves and need no door." At last he draws his sword and hews his way into the hut, where there is a chair, on which he seats himself and proceeds to criticise in rhyme the girls, farmers, and farm-servants of the neighbourhood. When this is over, the Frog-flayer steps forward and, after exhibiting a cage with frogs in it, sets up a gallows on which he hangs the frogs in a row.
and bugger me sideways, when I went to look it had no web footprint - so I took it.
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Post by Deimos on Apr 16, 2009 6:59:01 GMT -5
Deimos
Greek god of dread
Its either that or twisted mind
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