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selenite, and for once I'm actually doing it. :)
Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
Telophase. One of the phases of mitosis (cell division). Long and long ago (four years, in Internet terms), I was playing with the Internet Anagram Server, and dropped in my first and last names. One of the phrases that popped up was "Telophase Fines." Not too long afterwards I needed to sign up on a web forum somewhere and didn't really want to use my real name. Casting about for a suitable moniker, I rememebered the anagram, and popped in "telophase." History was made, and I have found that in most cases, I'm the only Telophase on a forum, so if I try to sign up somewhere and that name it taken, it's usually because I signed up there already. Someone had already gotten Telophase on Gmail, however, so I'm telophase14 there. I get interesting responses to my username - Sometimes people are "Weird," sometimes they think I'm a Bio geek, and once someone told me I was their favorite phase of mitosis.
I did have someone once ask me, in what came across as a condescending manner, if I knew what telophase really was. Strangely, they never responded to me when I said "Yup. A phase of mitosis. Why?"
I shall, however, break the chain of the meme by telling you that if you wish to consider yourself tagged you are.
selenite, and for once I'm actually doing it. :)Explain your LiveJournal name and its meaning. When you're done, tag as many people as there are letters in your name.
Telophase. One of the phases of mitosis (cell division). Long and long ago (four years, in Internet terms), I was playing with the Internet Anagram Server, and dropped in my first and last names. One of the phrases that popped up was "Telophase Fines." Not too long afterwards I needed to sign up on a web forum somewhere and didn't really want to use my real name. Casting about for a suitable moniker, I rememebered the anagram, and popped in "telophase." History was made, and I have found that in most cases, I'm the only Telophase on a forum, so if I try to sign up somewhere and that name it taken, it's usually because I signed up there already. Someone had already gotten Telophase on Gmail, however, so I'm telophase14 there. I get interesting responses to my username - Sometimes people are "Weird," sometimes they think I'm a Bio geek, and once someone told me I was their favorite phase of mitosis.
I did have someone once ask me, in what came across as a condescending manner, if I knew what telophase really was. Strangely, they never responded to me when I said "Yup. A phase of mitosis. Why?"
I shall, however, break the chain of the meme by telling you that if you wish to consider yourself tagged you are.
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Since everywhere I went the name was already available, I just stuck with it. I haven't worked at The Princeton Review in over five years now, but it's still handy due to it's availability.
There's a couple of references to a TPRJones on juno.com that's not me, and I suspect it's not a valid reference as it's only shown up ont he To line of a spam email. Otherwise if you see a TPRJones on the internet (http://www.google.com/search?q=TPRJones&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images&sa=N&tab=iw), that's me.
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