A rose by any other name.... OR getting to know you...

[Initiate]

Initiate is taken from one of my favorite books, The Initiate. I felt it summed up by personal will power and eventual strength in film making. I also hope to make a film that roughly follows the story of the initiate.

1. Because I think it would be great, and 2. Because it was a true story and it has heaps of Occultism, Mysticism, and Alchemical Products inside it which have always fascinated me.

The Film will only be able to make when I am high up in the food chain though, The Book Itself is. The Initiate ? By Anonymous.

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[Spoon boy]

I bend spoons.

[miker]

miker was my uid with my first isp in, ooh, 1997 I think. it stuck.

[tatorhead]

tatorhead is a nickname my brother gave me. where he got I don't know.

[untamed_aggression]

I dunno if anyone remembers a Tango ad from a few years ago where some freaks torment a fat kid with megaphones. If not, this'll jog your memory.

You'll notice that A)I bear an uncanny resemblance to the fat kid and B) It begins with the voice over "James Raynor dislikes the untamed aggression of Orange Tango."

My name is James Raynor and I, indeed, am not that keen on Tango. So rather than taking legal action with the unauthorised use of my name and likeness, I just nicked part of their slogan.

[jungleguy]

Machead = self explainatory not too sad to have lost the name though.


Jungleguy = If you met me you'd understand, but more to do with some flowers I bought someone.

[Kev Owens]

Untamed, I saw a slight resemblance, but his breasts are much bigger than yours. [img]wink.gif[/img]

Actually, that reminds me, I rang up for a tango man 5 years ago and the bastard still hasn't come! [img]mad.gif[/img]

[Chance4321]

chance ( P ) Pronunciation Key (chns)
n.

1.
1. The unknown and unpredictable element in happenings that seems to have no assignable cause.
2. A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck: Chance will determine the outcome.
2. The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability. Often used in the plural: Chances are good that you will win. Is there any chance of rain?
3. An accidental or unpredictable event.
4. A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity: a chance to escape.
5. A risk or hazard; a gamble: took a chance that the ice would hold me.
6. Games. A raffle or lottery ticket.
7. Baseball. An opportunity to make a putout or an assist that counts as an error if unsuccessful.


adj.

Caused by or ascribable to chance; unexpected, random, or casual: a chance encounter; a chance result.


v. chanced, chanc?ing, chanc?es
v. intr.

To come about by chance; occur: It chanced that the train was late that day.


v. tr.

To take the risk or hazard of: not willing to chance it.


Phrasal Verb:
chance on or upon

To find or meet accidentally; happen upon: While in Paris we chanced on two old friends.


Idioms:
by chance

1. Without plan; accidentally: They met by chance on a plane.
2. Possibly; perchance: Is he, by chance, her brother?

on the off chance

In the slight hope or possibility.


[Middle English, unexpected event, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *cadentia, from Latin cadns, cadent- present participle of cadere, to fall, befall. See kad- in Indo-European Roots.]

Synonyms: chance, random, casual, haphazard, desultory
These adjectives apply to what is determined not by deliberation but by accident. Chance stresses lack of premeditation: a chance meeting with a friend. Random implies the absence of a specific pattern or objective: took a random guess. Casual often suggests an absence of due concern: a casual observation. Haphazard implies a carelessness or a willful leaving to chance: a haphazard plan of action. Desultory suggests a shifting about from one thing to another that reflects a lack of method: a desultory conversation. See also synonyms at happen See also synonyms at opportunity


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Source: The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright ? 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Chance

\Chance\, v. t. 1. To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.

Come what will, I will chance it. --W. D. Howells.

2. To befall; to happen to. [Obs.] --W. Lambarde.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Chance

\Chance\, adv. By chance; perchance. --Gray.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Chance

\Chance\, a. Happening by chance; casual.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Chance

\Chance\ (ch[.a]ns), n. [F. chance, OF. cheance, fr. LL. cadentia a allusion to the falling of the dice), fr. L. cadere to fall; akin to Skr. [,c]ad to fall, L. cedere to yield, E. cede. Cf. Cadence.] 1. A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

It is strictly and philosophically true in nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real and immediate cause. --Samuel Clark.

Any society into which chance might throw him. --Macaulay.

That power Which erring men call Chance. --Milton.

2. The operation or activity of such agent.

By chance a priest came down that way. --Luke x. 31.

3. The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.

It was a chance that happened to us. --1 Sam. vi. 9.

The Knave of Diamonds tries his wily arts, And wins (O shameful chance!) the Queen of Hearts. --Pope.

I spake of most disastrous chance. --Shak.

4. A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.

So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on 't --Shak.

5. (Math.) Probability.

Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance, or probability, that the event will happen is measured by the fraction a/a + b, and the chance, or probability, that it will fail is measured by b/a + b.

Chance comer, one who comes unexpectedly.

The last chance, the sole remaining ground of hope.

The main chance, the chief opportunity; that upon which reliance is had, esp. self-interest.

Theory of chances, Doctrine of chances (Math.), that branch of mathematics which treats of the probability of the occurrence of particular events, as the fall of dice in given positions.

To mind one's chances, to take advantage of every circumstance; to seize every opportunity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Chance

\Chance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Chancing.] To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation. ``Things that chance daily.'' --Robynson (More's Utopia).

If a bird's nest chance to be before thee. --Deut. xxii. 6.

I chanced on this letter. --Shak.

Note: Often used impersonally; as, how chances it?

How chance, thou art returned so soon? --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ? 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Chance

adj : occurring or appearing or singled out by chance; "their accidental meeting led to a renewal of their friendship"; "seek help from casual passers-by"; "a casual meeting"; "a chance occurrence" [syn: accidental, casual, chance(a)] n 1: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances; "the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington"; "now is your chance" [syn: opportunity] 2: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "it was a chance meeting" [syn: luck, fortune, hazard] 3: a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive" 4: a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; "what is the probability of rain?"; "we have a good chance of winning" [syn: probability] v 1: be the case by chance; "I chanced to meet my old friend in the street" 2: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; "When you buy these stocks you are gambling" [syn: gamble, risk, hazard, take chances, adventure, run a risk, take a chance] 3: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: find, happen, hit, bump, encounter]

Source: WordNet ? 1.6, ? 1997 Princeton University

Chance, MD
Zip code(s): 21816
Chance, VA
Zip code(s): 22439

Source: U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

Chance

(Luke 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at
that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not
the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded traveller, but the plan of
God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria) the priest came down, that is, by the
conjunction of two things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in
the providence of God. In the result they fell together according to the
omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the divine government."
Compare the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26, 27). There is no
"chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of
knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another (1 Sam. 6:9;
Eccl. 9:11).

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

[deanl]

Hey there.

Right. But why are YOU called Chance?

Despin out.

[twister!]

And why Despin?