# Vironese names *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Oct 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *22 Oct 1998, 20:47* >> 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) ---