From: "Alice Turner" <al@interport.net>
Subject: (urth) Vironese names
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:47:03 


>> Dan, who is still actually trying to come
>> up with a good "Whorl" name.  Currently
>> toying with "Shellac" (made from the
>> excretions of the Laccifer lacca, and thus,
>> seemingly as valid as "Silk").
>
>Mark Millman
>(who would be using "Nacre" as a nom-de-Verticille
>if he were posting to the Whorl, and so supports
>Dan's "Shellac" without reservation)


Just think, if Mark and Dan got into an altercation, and Dan won, we could
say, Nacre really got shellacked, didn't he?" and he (Mark) could reply,
"Well, I was knackered."

Okay, I'll go hide now. Sarge, any room in that doghouse?

-alga- (who thinks those are both excellent names)


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