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  • 16th October 2006 at 11:29 pm #40969
    Hollydays
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    My hubby is reading the latest Dune book (Hunters)…and he is trying to drive me nuts with possible baby names from the book!!!

    argh!!!!

    19th October 2006 at 7:09 am #76842
    lexxrobotech
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    Heh.

    I had a bulldog called Harkonnen.

    19th October 2006 at 4:10 pm #76845
    Hollydays
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    He likes Duncan…or Gurny…..lol

    19th October 2006 at 11:10 pm #76846
    theFrey
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    What ever you do, don’t let him pick a name until you find out what it means. I went to school once with a girl who’s first and second names were old englishy and meant stuff like fair and white. Which prompted a bit of mirth around the lunch table since she was a dark italian with brown/black hair. ;D

    20th October 2006 at 5:56 am #76852
    lexxrobotech
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    The boy’s name Duncan is pronounced DUN-kin. It is of Scottish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is “dark warrior; brown fighter.” A royal name in early Scotland. Literary: in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”, Duncan is king of Scotland.

    A “Gurney” is a stretcher with wheels.

    I’d stick with Duncan.

    20th October 2006 at 7:47 pm #76853
    Headgehog
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    Dune names aren’t all that bad. There are some mundane names like: Paul, Duncan, Jessica, (Alia, Miles, <- possibly exotic depending on your locale)
    Some more exotic names like: Leto, Vladimir, Chani, Sheeana, Wellington, Irulan (and some of these are regional normal too)
    And some “gonna get picked on” names like: Thufir, Hwi, Gurney, Ghanima, Stilgar, Maud’Dib and anything Tlielaxu

    25th October 2006 at 6:54 pm #76878
    Hollydays
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    Paul is nice, but it’s my dad’s name….so hubby wouldn’t pick it right there 🙂

    Oh well, we’ll see what he comes up with next…

    26th October 2006 at 11:23 pm #76881
    Anonymous
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    *waves* Newbie here.

    I’ve got Hunters in my bag – I’m a bit leery of reading it cos … well… the son’s other books are the suxxors, IMO. So… is it any good? (more to the point, if I think the orig. series is the bees frellin’ knees, am I gonna be able to stand reading Hunters?)

    Oh, and if someone could kindly PM and point me in the direction of avatar/sig info, that’d be just grand.

    27th October 2006 at 1:53 am #76887
    Hollydays
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    Hedgehog has a nice review of the book on one of the Sadcasts…IMO it is about 2x the size it needs to be and spends a lot of obvious time setting up for the next and supposedly last book…..but it is a quick read, so why not?

    27th October 2006 at 1:54 am #76888
    Hollydays
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    oh yeah, avatar….look up to the top of the page..you should see a “profile” button…..

    27th October 2006 at 2:56 am #76889
    Anonymous
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    [quote=”Hollydays”]oh yeah, avatar….look up to the top of the page..you should see a “profile” button…..[/quote]
    Yeah, I’m gettin’ error msgs when I try to upload. That’s why I figured mebbe I should ask if there was a limit or summit (ie 15 posts before yer allowed to get an av). I’ll try again later.

    27th October 2006 at 3:14 pm #76893
    Hollydays
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    at what part do you get the error?

    is your avatar too, ermm..big? ;P

    27th October 2006 at 11:56 pm #76894
    Anonymous
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    Nope. Not a forum newbie, just new to this forum so I know that it’s not all the usual suspects. Image is 4kb, and 48 x 48.

    this is the error message :

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    <edit> error happens after I when I try and save the changes

    28th October 2006 at 9:54 pm #76897
    Hollydays
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    nope – not your problem then. I changed some of my info and it saved fine.

    e-mail Saddy with your problem. sadgeezer@gmail.com

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