====== Eric ======

===== Recruitment =====

I believe I joined the NPL after hearing about it in //Word Ways//, but I'm not sure of this. 
I heard about //Word Ways// from a teacher I had at Brown University.

Source: email from Eric.

//First Issue//: Jul 1980


===== Recruits =====

[[Alaraph]], [[Alf]], [[Arepo]], [[Calliope]], [[CoasterGal]], [[Iambic]], 
[[Junebug]], [[Lucis]], [[sue|Sue++]], [[lefty|Total]] (now [[Lefty]]), [[Windjammer]], 
[[Wombat]], [[Geneal]].

===== Nom =====

I originally considered taking the nom "Sugarlips", from a line of Snoopy's in an 
old Charlie Brown comic strip. Then I thought about using "USA", a rebus rubric 
with the reading "am Eric A" ("America"). Finally, I decided to base my nom on
my Hebrew name, "Duvvid Melech", which in English is "King David". I searched an 
entire dictionary of names looking for ones related to kings. When I came across 
"Eric", which is Old Norse for "always ruler", I knew I'd found my nom. For one 
thing, as a longtime fan of all things related to Stockholm, I happened to know 
that "Eric" was the most common male name given in Sweden in 1973. Furthermore, 
I noticed that the nom was a reversal of "ciré", a fabric with a brilliant 
finish that I happen to be partial to. To top it off, "Eric" is the "light" to the 
cryptic clue "wild rice", which is an edible grain!

==== Combinoms ====

As base-supplier and versifier:
  * Aelfric: Eric/[[alf|Alf]]


===== Offices =====

  * VP 94 (don't know if it was first or second VP, //cf// [[Quiz]])
  * 2nd VP 95