Raven's Roost

Raven's Ramblings. By Charles Carleton, otherwise known in various spots on the net as 'Rampant Raven' because there are too many other people named Charles Carleton for me to be the first on a site with my real name. Raven flies under that name on Yahoo Messenger, XBox Live, and Plastic.com.

Saturday, March 01, 2003

Rampant Ravings


Why Rampant Raven? As my description states, any real name is too common to be unique in most online communities. I like Ravens, they are some of the most intelligent birds around, and have a cool goth look rahter than the clownish look of the other smart birds, the parrots. But another problem is that any word in the dictionary is common enough to not be unique in an online community. Not wanting to use a name such as 'Raven879098', I had to combine 'Raven' with another word.


Ravens have a reputation for running Rampant, but Rampant Raven is also a bit of a bad pun involving heraldry. If an animal in a heraldic design is reared up on its hind legs, it's described as being 'rampant'. And Ravens are almost always rampant unless they are flying.

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