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[giza]

While searching around on Google, I found this post from jwz which was somewhat amusing. The post contained this picture:



Apparently there is region of Egypt known as Giza, which is where all the pyramids are. There is also a Great Pyramid of Giza, heh. I did not know any of this before I picked my current nick many years ago, go figure.

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[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

You mean that's not where you picked your alias from? =o.o=

Where did you get the name, then? }:>

-Deuce

[shenryyr.livejournal.com]

interesting that you didn't know.

you just need to play some Pharaoh :)

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[bikerwalla.livejournal.com]

S-E-X?

"That's the nickname I had back in high school. Sexy Randal the Pharaoh Master!"

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[giza.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, when I used to play Sim City 2000, I would use the levelling tool and make a gigantic mountain on an otherwise flat land. Then I would populate it with water tiles, which became waterfalls. From there, I would create hydraulic power on each waterfall and have powerplants that would last forever, and give me more water than I would ever need, too!

[shenryyr.livejournal.com]

not only that, but the waterfalls gave the surrounding area very high value :D

I used terraced hills for housing -- one road goes up, makes a loop, then down the other side.  only two tiles were needed for road, so the rest was waterfall, and sometimes a hydro plant.  don't need millions of them, after all ;)  houses love to be on hills in sim games :D

[torrle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I also find it interesting ya didn't know.

Interesting pic, though. It'd be way funnier if they took it so that the pyramid was wearing the 'roof' of the logo like a hat.

[was1.livejournal.com]

It's the Great Pyramid of Pizza ;)

That's a wonderfully-compused shot, such a nice juxtaposition.

[shenryyr.livejournal.com]

industrialization and modernization of egypt has left stark contrasts of what we think of as egyptian society of old, and of present.  but the egyptians who built the pyramids, who have that as their history, are mostly gone.  arabs conquered most of north africa a long, long time ago, and the change from egyptian society to arab was on par with, if not a greater change then what that picture displays.  do you think of egypt as arab?  or as egyptian?  most people still see it as egyptian, but that society is gone.  just another misconception in today's world.

[inaquara.livejournal.com]

How did you even aquire the name without hearing about it somewhere? I mean....were you asleep all the time in your history classes or something? ^..~ hehe your named after something over 500 feet tall and 'rock hard' ...go firgure ^..~

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[giza.livejournal.com]

>were you asleep all the time in your history classes or something?

Yes. I had lots of issues when I was in school. I graduated high school with a GPA of a whopping 1.8.

>hehe your named after something over 500 feet tall and 'rock hard'

Maybe I'm a macrofur at heart. ;-)