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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 30
Message ID: 73
#73, RE: Christmas Rose
Posted by LostFactor on Jun-28-01 at 12:31 PM
In response to message #72
>Hey, I laughed, once I parsed in the right characters

Okay, the joke works with any characters but not necessarily any characters with the same names as those mentioned, accepting that there are many characters named Edward but a relatively small number with wings. ;>

>(Speaking of which... where the heck did the title on20 come
>from, and what the heck does it mean?)

The title of on20 came to me in a moment that can only be described as divine inspiration. Really, I thought of it very early on, when calling it "a collection of story ideas" would have been extremely generous - the only thing that survives of it from that time are the "feel" of the series and the title graphic. Much as I'd like to give a neat story about its creation, I'm afraid it's similar to Matchbox Twenty - I just made it up.

As for what it means... I'm not telling. Because, well, it doesn't actually mean anything. I've played with a few attempts to have it mean something, but those came to nothing. The only halfway decent meaning ever ascribed to it is from Erin, who suggested that all of the characters in the story are going on 20. Except that Mark, Jim, and Clemens are already 20, Samantha is at least 24 (she used to be younger, but then she also used to be in the army and a student), and the scope of the story goes on until graduation (at which point even Chisato, the youngest member of the current cast, is going to be 22). So it's mostly just a title that sounds cool.

Well, maybe it does have ONE meaning - every season has exactly twenty active cast members (not counting spiritual entities or other weird phenomenon). But that came after the title, so it's hardly the intended meaning.
-Eliot "Being honest rather than inventing a convincing cover story" Lefebvre
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