From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:18:00 -0400, Michelle Bottorff   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > Brian M. Scott  wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> A classical version of this is á½   
   Ï…τις (Outis) 'Nobody', the   
   >> alias used by Odysseus when he fought the Cyclops   
   >> Polyphêmos.   
      
   > Outis.  Aha!   
   > This one has finally kicked off the story fabulator...   
      
   > Here's what I'm thinking.  She could pull out this   
   > reference pretty much as soon as she figures out he's   
   > lying about who he is, (maybe even as her way of letting   
   > him know she knows he's lying) and they could have a   
   > conversation about it, and he could claim (as a joke)   
   > that she misheard him, he didn't say he was Outis, he   
   > said he was Otis. Eventually he flirtaciously informs her   
   > that because she is such a special person she has his   
   > permission to shorten his name to Otto...   
      
   Sounds good to me!   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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