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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7260716" data-attributes="member: 6799649"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />When 4E came out I thought that I wouldn't like it much, compared to 3E. But I like to find things out for myself, so I joined a club that played 4E.Around the same time I listened to a radio show that had a segment on 'the funniest radio clip of the week'. This week's clip was of a presenter reading out a letter from a listener. &quot;What a great letter from....who sent it?&quot; *rustle* *rustle* &quot;Ah, here it is! It's from a lady called 'Helvetica Bold'. What a great name! It sounds like a viking warrior princess! Thanks for the letter, Helvetica!&quot;Well, he obviously didn't realise that 'Helvetica Bold' was not the name of the listener but the type of font, but you can bet your bottom dollar that his listeners realised! The next day he was bombarded by letters from people called 'Times New Roman' and suchlike.I was searching for a name for my new 4E PC when I heard this. When I got to work (I didn't own a computer at the time) I scrolled down the list of fonts to see if any of them would work as a name for my female human swashbuckler-y rogue, and 'Arial Black' jumped out at me.The group I joined had a website, and the creator of the site had us sign in using the name of our PC. Later the group abandoned the website and started a Facebook group. Which meant I had to join Facebook. : (Which is why my Facebook name and my handle on various forums is Arial Black. I was also 'Malachi Silverclaw' on the Pathfinder forum because that was the name of my first Pathfinder organised play PC.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7260716, member: 6799649"] :D When 4E came out I thought that I wouldn't like it much, compared to 3E. But I like to find things out for myself, so I joined a club that played 4E. Around the same time I listened to a radio show that had a segment on 'the funniest radio clip of the week'. This week's clip was of a presenter reading out a letter from a listener. "What a great letter from....who sent it?" *rustle* *rustle* "Ah, here it is! It's from a lady called 'Helvetica Bold'. What a great name! It sounds like a viking warrior princess! Thanks for the letter, Helvetica!" Well, [i]he[/i] obviously didn't realise that 'Helvetica Bold' was not the name of the listener but the type of font, but you can bet your bottom dollar that his listeners realised! The next day he was bombarded by letters from people called 'Times New Roman' and suchlike. I was searching for a name for my new 4E PC when I heard this. When I got to work (I didn't own a computer at the time) I scrolled down the list of fonts to see if any of them would work as a name for my female human swashbuckler-y rogue, and 'Arial Black' jumped out at me. The group I joined had a website, and the creator of the site had us sign in using the name of our PC. Later the group abandoned the website and started a Facebook group. Which meant I had to join Facebook. : ( Which is why my Facebook name and my handle on various forums is Arial Black. I was also 'Malachi Silverclaw' on the Pathfinder forum because that was the name of my first Pathfinder organised play PC. [/QUOTE]

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