how did you choose your mudcat name?

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:21 PM

Mine, of course, stemmed from an episode of "Home Improvement" where construction worker Jimbo gave Tim Allen his own hard-hat, with "Timbo" written on it. Add that to a store we saw in North Augusta, South Carolina that was a constant subject in my bizarre little cartoons--"Jimbo's Gas & Goodies". AND the sinister cigar-smoking clown Zbo from "Are You Afraid Of The Dark?"--all led to me calling my sisters "Kbo" and "Cbo"...the first letter of the first name, followed by a "bo". They reciprocated and started calling me "Mbo". This was oh, 6 years ago. It's prounouced "Em-bo". It's funny, some folks think it's my initials! Sorry, those would be MER.

--Mattbo

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: flattop
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:17 PM

Did you sunburn you head in Havana Little Hawk? Don't you have a shortage of donut shops in Orillia. Isn't Orillia a police state?

You knew that the All Points Bulletin web site had a story about donuts killing more American cops each year than guns and car crashes. Take those Boston Creams out into the parking lot and fill em full of holes.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Escamillo
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:04 PM

This is from the previous thread (I'm getting old at the Mudcat ?):
"Since the early times of BBSs I had to choose a nickname, and I decided that it should be an Opera character, the music I love (not all operas). I considered Radames, Calaf, Giovanni, Scarpia, etc. and then winner was.. Escamillo, le torero de Granada ! (from Bizet's CARMEN) There were two reasons: I was already singing as baritone (before my teacher declared me a tenor), and Escamillo was so handsome, so brave, so ridiculously romantic ! "
Un abrazo - Andrés (in Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: PoohBear
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 11:03 PM

I am very fond of the bear with very little brain - I am also a blond and hence hear all the jokes about blonds with very little brains. Occasionally, I have no brains - so it seemed to fit!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:53 PM

Oh, thanks again, moonchild...

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:52 PM

If you were in Canada, you would more likely have lost your donut. We have more donut shops per capita than any other place in the world. I kid you not. There are 6 Tim Horton's Donut shops in Orillia, as well as several other donut chains, and we only have 27,000 people in this town. Soon they will be building double decker ones, for lack of available vacant land. Ye Gods! Weird situation, eh?

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,Sean Ruprecht-Belt
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:47 PM

Bother. It appears I've lost my cookie.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,Sean Ruprecht-Belt
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:46 PM

So many actors among us! I'm somehow cheered by that. I guess I should have guessed it though. With all the talent that runs rampant through this forum, it couldn't be limited to just music. And Bill, I won't hold your Equity card against you. Here in St. Louis where I hail from, an Equity card just means you won't be able to get work here anymore. But that's a whole other story for another time.

-Sean

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: MMario
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:46 PM

Banjo Bonnie - I will always remember the Little Neo who I passed down a chocolate Milkshake in a cow shaped glass with a little paper umbrella up it's *ahem* at the MudCat Cafe. But dang, girl, you done growed up fast!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:44 PM

As I indicated in a previous string, I had the name "Little Hawk" in a "previous" (as they say) life, when I was a young man among the Lakotas in the later 1800's. I am absolutely serious about that. I thought I'd use in on Mudcat, because I like it. My actual name (now) is George Coventry, and I sometimes wonder if I should just have registered under that in the first place...

So-called "previous" lives, by the way, are not actually previous at all...it's all happening at once on the level of spirit, because spirit is timeless. And it's all changing all the time in more ways than can possibly be expressed through spoken or written language.

So...any advancement in consciousness you make here and now affects not just this life but ALL OF YOUR LIVES!!! And thats' STRONG MEDICINE. So...I advise all people to be moderate, loving, and forgiving...and to stand up bravely for their ideals at the same time. We are all of one spirit. It may not seem that way, but remember, this is the world of illusion here...this is a magnificent dream (or a horrific one, if you please)...and one day the dreamer will awake to find that all his fears indeed were groundless and only his love remains as an eternal testament in the fields of creation.

I am Little Hawk. I am George Coventry. And I am what you are. And I know it.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: keltcgrasshoppper
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:41 PM

My son is known as "grasshopper". His band is new rock and roll. I came to be known as "Mrs Grasshopper", by most of his friends. Then I decided to start a business promoting Celtic Musicians from Canada, called it "Celtic Grasshopper Inc"... Well when I tried to get the name for e mail it was taken, hence the Keltic. When I joined the Cat, I hit the PPPPPPP too many times thats the story of kelticgrasshoppper.. KGH

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Biskit
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:27 PM

So that's what happened to Little Neophite.My handle's -Biskit-The name is short the story long.(I've told it once before an' that was enbarassing enough My Real Name's Donnie

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Brendy
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 10:11 PM

There may be many thesps, Liz, but there's only one thosp

face=fantasy size=4>Brendy

(sorry, thosp, I couldn't resist that!!!)

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: rangeroger
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 09:55 PM

I used to be a park ranger and my name is Roger.I was a ranger when I first started going to Strawberry Music festival and now that I've been on staff for 15 years the nickname has stuck with me.

I have been a member of local Community Theaters in several areas and really enjoy it.

rr

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 08:24 PM

LTS, A close second in favorite parts is the Lion in the Wizard of Oz. Got to do it twice!! Ah what a show.... I'm sorry to hear of losing the lyrics to "Rainbow". Kind of a shame you weren't "Mudcatting" through the Memorization thread back then, coulda saved you the hassle huh? LOL......

Frank

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bflat
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 08:20 PM

It was subliminal.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 08:12 PM

From my parents. What sort of surprises me is that people I thought were female seem to be male, and/or vice versa. Interesting preconception! NOT THAT IT MATTERS!!!!!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:25 PM

Bill ... you're just not the type of get rid of a perfectly good piece of clothing because of a little wear and tear.

I've done a lot of theatre, mostly musical, but the only card-carrying-whatever I've ever been is a Turtle.

moonchild

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,Iains
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:22 PM

Tried my name, someone had beaten me to it so I shoved an s on the end

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bill\sables
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 07:09 PM

Not a lot of people know this but I am a card carrying member of EQUITY the British actors union. I used to do a bit of extra work for television companies but I wasn't quick enough to get to the front of the line when dinner was called and it seemed to be the ambition of every extra to beat the proper actors and crew to the food and then eat as though you'd never eaten for a week. I will never understand why, but I was always cast either as a convict in chains in a medieval prison or a Tramp or wineo I remember turning up once to play the part of a tramp and the wardrobe mistress, the cheeky bugger, said the clothes that I was wearing would be perfect for the part. these were the clothes that I usually wore every day. Cheers Richard Burton

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Catrin
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:58 PM

'cos its my name, never occurred to me to do anything else.

Catrin

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:40 PM

Oh DAAAAHlings, I didn't realise there were so many thesps here amoung us.... I too, have trod the boards, done the tits and teeth thing, and done the am dram.... Was Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz once, forgot the words to 'somewhere over the rainbow'.. great eh?!

Break a leg luvvies.....

And yes, I do squeak. Available on a CD called 'A Cardi and Bloke' by Les Barker, poet extraordinaire, and can't help coming from Manchester.

LTS

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 06:21 PM

I know, I know! Every time I hear that family story I gag and thank my lucky STARS that they rethought that! Those of you who've MET me will really agree, Missy just ain't me...

And this came up in hearme: for those of you wondering, the Mrr of Mrrzy is pronounced like Myrrh.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:55 PM

Liar! Your name is Grandpa. Congratulations again!
SINSULL is a combination of my family name and my mother's maiden name.
Missy, Mrrzy? I'd have left home!
Mary

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bill\sables
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:44 PM

I used to be called Bill Sables but somehow lost my cookie when I changed my hard drive and modem. I tried to get back with Bill Sables but found someone else was pretending to be me and would not give me my name back. So I thought I would use my imagination and chose bill\sables and that seemed to work. My real name is Hesperous Sprott Cheers Hesperous

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Brendy
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:32 PM

And Brendy is just the way us northerners shorten the name Brendan.

Sláinte
Breandán MacÍomhair

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:21 PM

"Missy?" ..... NEVER!

moonchild

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:15 PM

Mrrzy IS my own name, at least it's the nickname I've had since I was a baby. Anyone I write notes to learns it right quick since I sign notes Mrr. The nickname arose when my parents brought home a baby with a three-syllable name to sisters aged 5, 6 and 7. I was almost Missy, thank you girls for deciding against THAT one!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From:
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:12 PM

I was given it by my parents.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 05:09 PM

There are too few names in the world

I read the last few posts and thought they were about me!

(hoping that they weren't) Ed

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:59 PM

La donna e mobile!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:54 PM

I started off at Little Neophyte, because that is what I was at the time. I had no clue about folk music and I had just taken up playing the banjo.
Then I changed my name to Banjo Bonnie as I became more confident with my music.
Then I changed my name back to Little Neophyte because I felt I was way over my head music wise and felt like I wanted to crawl back into my crib.
Then I changed my name back to Banjo Bonnie when I had built up some confidence and didn't feel so little anymore.
Now I would like to change my name back to Little Neophyte because it suites me more, but I figure whoever is managing the resource page will kill me and I will confuse people so much they will be mad at me.
So I figure I should just accept my moniker but really folks I am Little Neophyte at heart.

Bonnie

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Nynia
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:49 PM

Nynia, also known as St. Ninian, a native of SW Scotland who studdied in Rome and brought Christianity to my homeland many moons before Columba. I'm not big into religion I just like the name, it was there when I was looking for a monica. Like Shanti I didn't fancy being no 19+ of anything. Anyway it's fun when people hear me and discover that Nynia is really a guys name. :-)

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Downeast Bob
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:43 PM

I sometimes go out and hop freight trains. That led me to attend the National Hobo Convention at Britt, Iowa in 1996, where I was dubbed a "Knight of the Road" by Luther the Jet, who was then King of the Hobos. Luther asked for my road name. I didn't have one, so I said "Downeast Bob" because my home was in Maine. I figured what was good enough for the hobo community was good enough for the Mudcat community. My real name is Bob Baldwin.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:34 PM

I'm never done any physical acting, but I love dramatic readings. I did this with my sister in a Theatre Literature class we were in together. It was loads of fun. She admits my Hamlet was better than Branaugh. Hee hee, I even shocked the other classmates by putting on a perfect British accent for Prospero! But my highest regarded, performace was Gabriel in August Wilson's "Fences." Great play! Oy...back to the music..

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:34 PM

Sorry for the misquote. Should have been ...

"all the world's a stage ..."

moonchild

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:25 PM

To quote ... "every world's a stage ..."

I remember "Bobby's Girl." It was a great teen song.

moonchild

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:19 PM

Whoa, fellow thespians!! Who'da thunk it?!? Actually I agree with the post that said we are all actors in a way. I've sung songs just to sing them and then I've sung them "in character" and it's amazing the different reaction!! Anyway, theatre has influenced my musical side in a BIG way. choice of songs, style of delivery, and (so that I don't creep any furthur away from the topic....sorry) my name!!!!!

Frank

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bobby's girl
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:17 PM

I chose my name because when I joined the Mudcat my favourite teddy was sitting by the computer. He is called Bobby, and (for those of you who are old enough to remember) there was a song called Bobby's Girl, which suddenly, under the influence of a couple of glasses of wine, seemed appropriate. It confused the heck out of Bill/sables when we called at his house though, when he knew I was Bobby's Girl, and assumed that my husband, whose name is John, was Bobby!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,ed wood
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:02 PM

no and no

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Sean Belt
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 04:02 PM

Oh, GUEST:Ed,

must you bring your personal issues with another poster into every venue? It really is tiresome and childish. Please do take the time to get over yourself. And I seriously doubt that it'll get anyone to think well of you over how we all think of Moonchild. She seems pleasant and mostly well mannered. You on the other hand seem to strive for neither.

It's also strange that you cop Ed Wood's name for your post. It shows an awful disrespect for a man who's given so many of us a lot of (albeit unintended) laughter. There are many directors much worse that poor old Ed. At least he had a passion for what he did and a charming ineptness showed through in almost all of it. The same could probably not be said for your snide and unimaginative little posts.

There. I've said my piece and resolve henceforth to ignore the resultant self-important snit-fit from certain individuals that I see looming on the horizon.

Now, then how did you choose your nickname?

- Sean

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:55 PM

Wasn't that one about a dead dick ... you were the leading man?

backwoods birkenstock bitch

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,ed wood
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:51 PM

i dont remenber that one. i was thinking of a remake of "necromania"

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:36 PM

ed ... I've already been in your movie "My Year of Living Dangerously" ...

backwoods birkenstock bitch

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:18 PM

Well I've seen your productions "ed" and you don't know Jack shit although youy've employed him no doubt.

Business name and year of birth, which at the time was also my age. I had been using it as a password several other places and never thought about it.

Spaw

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: celticblues5
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:15 PM

Huzzah for the theatre! Me too - hs, college, & community - now do storytelling, which is modified theatre. Pseudolus is great, but my all-time favorite has to be LaMancha.

Used this name for a long time on various mailing lists - pretty easy to figure - them's mah two fave-O-rite kinds o'music! (and 5 thanks to my perennial absent-mindedness - used celticblues & forgot the password (on a different list), so the thing wouldn't let me re-sign-up as the same name because there was already someone by that name (me!) on the list - who sez puters aren't capable of bureaucracy? ;-)

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:12 PM

Johnny Depp played slide guitar on "Fade In-Out" by Oasis.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Gervase
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:12 PM

But hang on (adopts serious, poncey mode),
Doesn't acting encompass any sort of performance - be it playing, singing or dancing - in that by doing so you are stepping out of yourself and shrugging off your everyday self?
Thus isn't every one of us here an actor ('even if the acting is confined to posting things you wouldn't otherwise say under pseudonyms,' he said, darkly).

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,ed wood
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:07 PM

we've seen your acting already moonchild do you want a part in one of my movies

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:06 PM

I find it's helpful to use my real name online. It hasn't caused me any problems, but I do use some precautions.

• The only mailing address I give out in public forums is a post office box
• I usually post my e-mail address as a clickable link (or use my Hotmail address)
• I don't give my exact date of birth on Mudcat Resources
• I don't post messages that reveal that I will be away from home for a long period of time
• My home address is not published in the telephone book
• I don't mind people knowing my home phone number, although I don't usually post it in Web messages.
• If you attack or provoke people online, be aware that they may wish to fight back in ways you may not have anticipated. If you're not nice by nature, it might be an idea to be nice online for your own protection.

If you don't use your real name online, you may not need to be quite as cautious, but you should use some prudence about what you reveal about yourself. I think that women need to be a little more cautious then men, but I don't think anybody needs to get too paranoid about Internet privacy. I'd recommend prudence, not paranoia.
-Joe Offer-