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Thread #34965   Message #479451
Posted By: Rollo
08-Jun-01 - 06:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Where did ur name come from?
Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
My name is Roland, but only relatives use that name nowadays... to the rest of the world I am ROLLO.

The reason being my faible for vikings, the team captain of my BLOODBOWL team of norse called Rollo the Red, (a very funny game, bloodbowl: a mixture of tabletop, chess and american football with fantasy monster miniatures!) my rowdy beard having red strains, and all in all it is quite descriptive...

for I am fat as a pig... and they say: Rollo, roll over! Har, har, har...

If anyone cares: Roland, comes from Ruotland, which means "Rules the Land" or King. Of course my parents chose this name after the great paladin of Charlemagne. When they told it my grandparents they said: "But you cannot give your son a dogĀ“s name!" The big great mean ole watch dog from the farm next door was named Roland, too...

Rollo