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Old 10-09-2005, 07:43 PM   #1
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i wouldn't mind some ideas for mine too... i did have some but i can't remember them
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Old 10-09-2005, 08:59 PM   #2
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Me and Kath were talking the other day about what her PT was going to be and then I told her about TGWBS's suggestion of Wordsmyth (which I'm going to use BTW) and she suggested using alliteration and came up with "Wandering Wordsmyth". Now, I'm pretty sure that's what my PT will be if I get offered it. What do you guys think of it?
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Old 10-09-2005, 11:13 PM   #3
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Me and Kath were talking the other day about what her PT was going to be and then I told her about TGWBS's suggestion of Wordsmyth (which I'm going to use BTW) and she suggested using alliteration and came up with "Wandering Wordsmyth". Now, I'm pretty sure that's what my PT will be if I get offered it. What do you guys think of it?
Sounds very typically 'Downsian: alliterative, medieval, with some application to one's character.

I have to say, though, that I find this thread remarkably funny in the light of the Barrow-Wight's strong policy regarding Personal Titles, that he who asks is doomed to be passed over, and that it is a special honour...

However, while proposing titles for those with no idea, I have to say that I think t'would be great fun to be "Ghost King of Arnor", considering all the "Ghost Princes of Cardolan" floating around...
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Old 10-09-2005, 11:25 PM   #4
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I have to say, though, that I find this thread remarkably funny in the light of the Barrow-Wight's strong policy regarding Personal Titles, that he who asks is doomed to be passed over
Are you saying this from experience? Because I think I can. Well, that's what I get for being impatient...

Anyway, it's kind of fun trying to help others figure out what they want in a PT, as well as speculating about one's own. I might even say that talking about it and listening to all the good feedback would be a little more entertaining than getting a title. I mean, I would love to get one, but once it's gotten, there's no more speculating on what to choose. It's done, there's no changing it. It's almost a bitter-sweet event.
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Old 10-10-2005, 07:36 AM   #5
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Perky, what about His Perkiness, which someone referred you as somewhere (can't remember where).

I have more ideas for my title-to-be (if I ever get one...)
Daughter of the Dead
Daughter of the Dark
Daughter of the Stars
or maybe Spirit of Seaweed...
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Old 10-10-2005, 07:47 AM   #6
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His Perkiness, which someone referred you as somewhere (can't remember where).
That was me! It would actually be very funny.
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Old 10-10-2005, 12:07 PM   #7
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Are you saying this from experience? Because I think I can. Well, that's what I get for being impatient...
No! I play things far too safe (except MAYBE in Werewolf...), to ever contemplate that.

And, as Bethberry noted, it's not QUITE the same thing posting on this thread as asking for one. Several of the people who posted early on this thread were in the last batch of nominees...

No, I just find it funny, that's all...

Hmm... and speaking of Werewolf, I'm surprised no one has gone with a Werewolfish title yet...
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Old 10-10-2005, 12:23 PM   #8
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Hmm... and speaking of Werewolf, I'm surprised no one has gone with a Werewolfish title yet...
I don't think anybody will. Werewolf participation is only a small part of Downs membership, which is only a small part of what makes each one of us a person. No matter what the sleepless nights say.
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Old 10-10-2005, 12:50 PM   #9
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And in a few years the obsession with it may pass, and then it would be a rather strange title to any newbies. Still, it would be a way of remembering the good old days
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Old 10-10-2005, 07:47 AM   #10
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I have to say, though, that I find this thread remarkably funny in the light of the Barrow-Wight's strong policy regarding Personal Titles, that he who asks is doomed to be passed over, and that it is a special honour...
Quite true, on both counts, as The Barrow-Wight has proclaimed several times, yet discussing possible PTs is not the same as PMing his Wightness and asking for one. And, after all, a thread like this is evidence of the estime with which some Downers regard the conferring of a Personal Title and as such I suspect it works within his sense of Wight things.

EDIT: And rather than "His Perkiness", something more Downish might be þe Perkiness. After all, we have The Perilous Poet and The Squatter of Amon Rüdh, but no one I think has yet used any of the Old English letters.

EDIT II: Heavens to betsy, I forgot about The Saucepan Man!
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Old 10-10-2005, 08:18 AM   #11
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