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What's in a name?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:07:12 GMT
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I haven't given this too much thought, and someone has probably already
explored this at length, but here goes. Off the top of my head I can think
of three (it was four, but now I can't remember one) SF series in which a
lead character was named Crichton (under various spellings.) The ones on my
list so far are:
Farscape
Red Dwarf
Buck Rogers
and like I said I can't remember the fourth.
Are there others? What's the deal? Coincidence? I expect so, but it's a
not-especially-common real world name, so it stands out. Is this some
veiled homage to the alleged writer Michael?
Dave!
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) I dunno if there's a link to He Who Wrote Jurassic Park, but a kryton (I dunno about the spelling and dictionary.com hasn't offered a non-Krypton alternative) is a device used in the fuse on a nuclear warhead... Cheers, - jsproat (24 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | Re: What's in a name?
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| From Dictionary.com: Crich·ton (krtn), James. Known as "the Admirable Crichton." 1560-1582. Scottish adventurer, linguist, and scholar whose intellectual achievements were lauded by Aldus Manutius and Thomas Urquhart. He was killed in a brawl. (...) (24 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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