how did you choose your mudcat name?

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: bbelle
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 03:02 PM

Sean ... a good idea ... go for it! I am an actor, too. (I consider the word "actor" to be all encompassing.)

It would be interesting to see how many of us enjoy this form of expression.

moonchild

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Shanti
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:57 PM

And you're either a virgin or you're not...can't be EXTRA virgin, unless you're a saint. And if you're going to use extra virgins, wouldn't that be excessive viginity in your olive oil?

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Sean Belt
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:55 PM

Psuedolus,

Good to see another actor on the forum. I also spend a lot of time acting. Depended on it for a (meager) living for a few years. Any other theatrical types 'round here? Maybe we should start a new thread to acknowledge the actor/musicians amongst us!

- Sean

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mbo
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:54 PM

Not as rare as you think, Brett!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Naemanson
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:51 PM

And if you need virgins to make virgin olive oil why isn't it the rarest thing on earth?

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: kendall
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:48 PM

I use my own name because I hope people will recognize it and buy my tapes. (I thought about Honest Abe, but it didnt ring)

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:43 PM

I picked mine because I am a Civil War reenactor and I portray an Irishman who has been in the army since the Mexican War. My CW rank is that of first Sgt. so it was sort of a no-brainer. One questio; How many extra virgins does it take to make extra virgin olive oil? Kindest reguards, Neil

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Gervase
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:16 PM

Yup, Roger, you've sussed it; Liz DOES squeak! We've tried WD40, extra virgin olive oil, bat dripping and Castrol, but you can't get rid of the squeak...

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 02:12 PM

I chose "Soddy" because I decided to pretend to be one of the Big Boys by starting my own record lable and publishing company which I named Old Sod Shanty Music. I use that nicname on several bulletinboards. I named the record lable after a folk song by the same title. So, that's how I did it. As to why, I don't have a ready answer for that. Except that perhaps I didn't use my real name not because I wanted to protect my anonymity, but because there are quite a few people who have the same name I do, complete with the same spelling. I guess I wanted to be different than all those others.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:47 PM

Stalked !!!!
Ok this is Ugly Old Goat of the Alps resetting my Cookie!!!
...and off to look at those other threads

UOGotA

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Kim C
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:38 PM

First name, last initial. Nicknames are fun but I seem to be more comfortable with my own name. :)

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Shanti
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:33 PM

Shanti is a Tibetan word meaning peace. I first ran across it when I was trying to think of a name for a Siamese feline who used to live with me. On one internet list I used my real name, Leslie. Then on another, just recently, I tried to use Shanti, but found I was the 19th of the name in that particular group. I'm not terribly fond of being anything 19, but there you have it. I was glad to be able to use it with the mudcat group, without the numerical designation. Being an avid Celtophile, I sometimes use my current feline roommate's name, with her permission, of course...Grania.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Ed Pellow
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 01:33 PM

I call myself Ed Pellow - because I am...

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

"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" ... the mudcat forum was the first place of its kind, for me, and I was leery of using my real name, so I used "chinadoll" ... but that didn't feel right. Then I changed it to "humdinger folksinger" (to quote Dylan) ... that was too much of a mouthful and other mudcatters addressed me as "hdfs" ... and there was a question as to whether I was a goil or a boy. Then I decided to used my real name "jenny" ... because I felt comfortable with the people on the mudcat. Then I was stalked by another mudcatter, no longer felt safe, and changed my nickname to "moonchild" ... because I am a child of the moon and thusly, ruled.

I'm no longer afraid to use my real name on the forum and occasionally do, but the name "moonchild" has stuck and become a part of me. Only a very few mudcatters, even those I've met inperson, call me by my real name.

moonchild/jenny

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

A lot of it depends on when you started, and where you started on the internet...

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

Here are some other threads having to do with this very topic
Nickname II
BS: Nicknames
BS: Why did you choose your nickname?

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

I do a lot of Community theatre in Wilmington De, and my favorite part was Pseudolus from "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". what a funny show! Not a very exciting explanation but.....

Frank

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Sean Belt
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:55 PM

Well.....

It's my name. When I first got into the internet and bulletin boards and whatnot, it never occurred to me that you're supposed to use an alias. Then I continued to post with my real name to keep me honest. That way I am not tempted to use an alias to say things I wouldn't stand behind outside of cyber-space.

- Sean

Subject: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 01 Aug 00 - 12:42 PM

this has probably been explained earlier
If so I have not seen it
Some people use 'real' names and others post under a designer label
so what I wanted to know was why you choose a particular label
This might dispel some of the mystery though - but I would still like to know if bald Eagle really is bald and which bit of Liz squeaks (or is she just small?). Mainly though what the heck does InOBU mean????
I like to think it means In Outside Broadcast Unit - typing away in the shed in the garden !

Roger