[ale] OT: Looking for good theme for network names

[Rod Young]

What till the movies start exploding on the scene.

Danny Cox wrote:

> All,
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dan Newcombe wrote:
>
> > That's what I usually do as well.  Our original web server was named
> > Mirkwood, due to the number of spiders and spiderwebs encountered in that
> > forest in The Hobbit.
> >
> > My notebook is Rohan, which are a mobile group of riders.
> >
> > My desktop is Bree, which was a town that was home for a night, and evil
> > things happened there (my desktop runs NT :)
> >
> > The nameserver is Rivendell, which was a place full of ancient lore and
> > knowledge.
>
>         Well, I've kept quiet until now.  In a former life, my company had
> Tolkein names too.  Then I arrived.  I had been introduced to "Bord of the
> Rings" by Harvard Press.  An obvious ripoff, but quite fun!  The characters
> in that book were similar to the originals, but were usually product names.
> GoodGulf Grayteeth, Frito, Moxie, Pepsi, and Spam just to name a few.  Since
> I placed little name plaques on each machines, they got some very strange
> looks, indeed!
>
> Danny
>
> --
> To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.

--
To unsubscribe: mail majordomo at ale.org with "unsubscribe ale" in message body.