note amelinda I've (finally) discovered this nod, so I suppose I should answer (since I'm not one of the 'uses my real name' folks). So that this does not become a novel, I'll try to stick to the origins of [amelinda].<p> When I was very very young, my parents were AD&D gamers. My dad is an amazing DM. So, by the time I was 6 or so, I was playing along with them (and their group of mostly Ph.D. candidate players). I continued to play with this group throughout my childhood and adolescence. Fairly late on (just before we moved away and my dad stopped having time to play), we did a "let's play 1st level characters again for a change" campaign. Thus was born the character with the unlikely moniker 'Amelinda the Apostrophical.'¹<p> I use my real name², just about anywhere I can, but my next choice is amelinda. I suspect I ended up using it here because I crossed over from Everything³.<p> These days, I might have a hard time listing all the aliases and nicknames and handles I've used. <hr> <h6> ¹ Can you tell that, as an adolescent, I had a large vocabulary but didn't exactly know what they all meant?<br> ² "real" I should say. I wasn't exactly born with this name. That is another story, however, and one that doesn't belong here.<br> ³ Yes, Everything. I started there back in the day, before it migrated to E2.<br> 110166 110166