Random Craft Name Generator (snipped from a larger article)

Mar 1 15:50 UTC 2000

The Random Craft Name Generator

        On the other hand, if you are individualistic like everybody else you
        ma
y be looking for a name that expresses the uniqueness of your personality but
st ill sounds like all the other craft names you've ever heard. Fortunately,
this i sn't too hard. Several years back, a gentleman of Lady Pixie's
acquaintance told
 her that the best way to get laid at a pagan gathering was to have the PA
 syste
m announce, "Will Morgan and Raven please come to the information booth?" Since
the resulting crowd would include at least a third of the female attendees, he
w ent on, it wouldn't be too hard to meet someone interesting. While Lady Pixie
ha s not tried this out herself, she has tested the principle behind it in a
series
 of controlled double-blinded experiments, and discovered a rule that she has
 mo
destly named Moondrip's Law: 80% of all Craft names are made up of the same
thir ty words combined in various not particularly imaginative ways.

        The discovery of this principle has allowed her to make the once
        difficu
lt task of creating craft names easy, by means of the Random Craft Name
Generato r, release 1.0.

        To use the RCNG, take either two or three of the following words (using
any convenient randomizing method, including personal preference). If you take
t wo, simply run them together; if you take three, one of the words becomes the
fi rst part of the name, and the other two are combined to form the second.

        Wolf    Raven   Silver  Moon    Star    Water   Snow
        Sea     Tree    Wind    Cloud   Witch   Thorn   Leaf
        White   Black   Green   Fire    Rowan   Swan    Night
        Red     Mist    Hawk    Feather Eagle   Song    Sky
        Storm   Sun     Wood

        Try it out: "Rowan Moonstar." "Raven Blackthorn." "Silver Ravenw.."-
        uh,
 never mind.

        For the expanded version (RCNG 1.01), come up with a name by any of the
methods covered elsewhere in this guide, or take some ordinary American name,
an d add a two-word name produced on the RCNG to the end: "Gwydion Silvertree."
"Sy bil Moonwitch." "Squatting Buffalo Firewater." The possibilities are
endless!

        (Note that this list will change with shifts in fashion; Lady Pixie
        expe
cts to bring out an upgrade to RCNG 2.0 in a year or two.)

:wq

response 2 of 12:

Mar 1 21:16 UTC 2000

        Shall I post more from the site, or would you like the URL?

response 4 of 12:

Mar 1 22:50 UTC 2000

I liked the section that wasn't shown, where the author talked about picking
the name of your favorite Tolkein or Lackey character and duking it out with
others who DARE to use the same name. The whole article was hilarious.

I also liked the way the author teased Silver RavenWolf.

response 6 of 12:

Mar 2 19:24 UTC 2000

   this is really funny.

response 8 of 12:

Mar 3 13:52 UTC 2000

    You might be a TechnoPagan if:

You call your corners on a cellular phone. 

You've had to remove candle wax off your keyboard. 

You charge your ritual tools- with a Visa. 

You use a remote control in place of an athame. 

You download your book of shadows. 

You cast your circle in a chat room. 

Your familiar is a mouse. 

You attend ritual skyclad because it's too much trouble to get
dressed for a computer. 

Your Yule ritual involves defragmentation. 

Your altar cloth is a mouse pad. 

Your cauldron is a crock-pot. 

Your cone of power has a surge suppresser. 

Your magical name, e-mail address, and on-line name are all the
same. 

If you end a circle with Ctl-Alt-Del. 

Your athame has a SCSI interface. 

Your OBE's begin with a netsplit. 

Your ritual robes conceal a pocket protector. 

You calculate the phases of the moon with Windows '98. 

Your altar has a keyboard. 

Your drawing down a circle is a POST (power on self test). 

You do most of your correspondence by email and sign off with
Blessed Be. 

You don't call it a ritual, you call it a Macro. 

You have ever attached ribbons to a May Pole using a staple gun. 

You invite the God and Goddess to come online. 

You keep a Disk of Shadows (with encrypted backups). 

You participate in online rituals more than you do FTF. 

You refer to eclectic ritual as cross-platforming. 

Your Beltane ritual includes more than one news group. 

Your candles have batteries. 

Your deities include Murphy and Gates. 

Your drumming is done on a CD player (pre-recorded). 

Your herbs are always mail-ordered (express, overnight). 

Your idea of a great retreat has a Computer City, electricity, and a
TV nearby. 

Your incense is by Glade. 

Your magic wand is a laser pointer. 

Your magical writing is done in binary code or C++. 

Your pentacle is made of computer chips. 

Instead of asking what tradition someone comes from, you ask what
operating system they run. 

Your coven is spread over a 12,000 sq. mi. area. 

Your Book of Shadows has a 6-digit version number. 

You refer to deities using 3-letter acronyms (ODN, LKI, THR). 

You do cord magick with ethernet. 

You ritually down your server for Samhain. 

When your quarter candles burn out, the UPS backup system kicks
in. 

Erecting the temple entails formatting more than 4 disks. 

Casting the circle changes an (int) to a (float). 

Your Star Trek screen-saver signals when your meditation period is
over. 

Passing the cakes and ale entails using a /me command. 

Your search for truth involves regular expressions. 

You draw down the moon using a light-pen. 

Your tarot cards multi-task. 

Your daemons collect news for you. 

Your crystal ball has a horizontal-hold control. 

You refer to solitary practice as a stand alone. 

You tap into the collective unconscious using a web browser. 

Your favorite deity has a homepage. 

The address of your covenstead begins with http:// 

Your circle is a token ring 

response 10 of 12:

Apr 8 12:25 UTC 2000

check out "http://www.elhigh.edu/~inwht"
it's the homepage for the Lehigh University pagan student organization...
not much on the page, but the humor section has some ineteresting tidbits ;)

response 12 of 12:

May 1 17:56 UTC 2000

ack, yes...
me and my stupid typing-faster-than-I-read fingers
gomen kudasai