I'd say it depends on the surname. A variation of "arthur" in itself
should be okay, given that it's a common real name, not one made up
for a story. If the surname were a variant of "Pendragon", then there
would be a problem. Kinda like Silllvestur would be okay, but adding
the surname Stallowne would make it a bad name.

Lol.

Its one of the only good animes to come out this year, im sorry if you
couldn't follow it but that doesn't mean noone else wont like it.  Maybe you
should watch the directors commentary to help you understand it.  I hope you
have seen the full unedited versions and not the shortened pieces of crap
they played on cartoon network recently.  Any true fan of anime doesn't
watch what is played on cartoon network, those bastards, but I do like
Sealab 2021, Home Movies, Aquateen Hunger Force, Mission Hill  and a few
others.

Ben Sisson  said:
}Btw don't know if you care or not but your nonstandard quote indicator
}( } ) looks fuggin horrible in fonts

Actually, I do care.  Not very much, but the caring is there.  I hadn't
really thought about how it looks in other fonts.  It's not the first
problem I've had with it, though.  Once, in another newsgroup, someone ran
a lovely newsgroup stats program, and I came out as the only poster who
posted only 100% original text with no quoting. :)  This being a
mysteriously erroneous result, he fixed the stats program to account for
my odd predilection.

}that don't have the same size for every character including making it
}much harder to read.

Reading USENET with a proportional-spacing font!  Aggh!  Sorry, I consider
that a sin.  Almost, but not quite, as bad as eating fish on a friday and
pretending it's not meat.  Were I ever to indulge in ASCII art, your
appreciation for my lovely pictures would be completely destroyed by such
a font.

}What's wrong with ( > ) like everyone else?

There's nothing -wrong- with being just like everyone else, I suppose.  
But "}" looks really spiffy in -my- font(s).  And I do rather -like- not
being like everyone else, and it seems a harmless enough way in which to
do so.  There was also in my mind the idea that the standard ">" character
might result in more confusion when discussing HTML.  Of course, "}" is
gonna mess up a conversation about C just as much. :)

Your complaint, however, is duly noted, and I shall think on it.  Perhaps,
at some point, I'll go to the trouble of changing it to something else,
but I haven't actually looked at the man page for my newsreader in about
6-7 years since I configured it that way, and I remember it being
particularly opaque, so it may take some time to figure out.

I felt quite proud of getting it to do that.  I'm shocked to discover I've
been annoying people for -years- and nobody ever told me!

But tell me, how would it look if I

Remington said:

or

Remington said:
]quoted
]like
]this?

or

Remington said:

or

Remington said:
~quoted
~like
~this?

or

Remington said:
=quoted
=like
=this?

Those also look fairly cool to me.  Would one of those be less
troublesome?

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