BS: Where did ur name come from?

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:20 PM

Mine is what my sisters, aged 5, 6 & 7 when I was born, called me. My friends have called me Mrr or Mrrzy all my life...

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Dorrie
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:07 PM

john in hull is that as in hull, yorkshire, england?

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Dorrie
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 04:03 PM

Prew do u know who i am? We met at windyb ages ago and joseph got his winker out????? dorrie xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Manitas
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 03:40 PM

When I first signed on I used the name Fingers being a melodeon player. It was also a joke as clumsy people are sometimes called 'fingers'. I lost the signon so signed on again as Manitas. This is a reference to the joke name Manitas de Plumbos which is itself a reference to the flamenco guitarist Manitas de Plata (silver fingers).

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: mytoycar
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 02:49 PM

Mine just so happens to be my surname, Natasha Prew, remember it as I WILL be famous one day!

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From: GUEST,Stevangelist (forgot to reset my cookie)
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 02:15 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 01:56 PM

Alexei Sayle and affectionately uncool workmates

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 09:27 AM

I wish I was: in Pinetop (a place along Carr Creek in eastern Kentucky) and slim.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: tonedeaf
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 09:14 AM

I think mine is pretty obvious - I always feel like an imposter here because I can neither play nor sing. I just love music. ( oh, and I do sing - but only when at home)

My real name was taken from the villain in a Zane Grey novel,( Nevada, I think it was.)

Cheers, Cedar

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Dorrie
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 08:43 AM

its very interesting actually sorry i use short-hand typing i'm from a lazy texting generation. i forgot to tell you i'm Dorrie as it is my dogs name and i didn't want to use my real name when i started because i wasn't sure what it was going to all be like. My dog is name after dorrie the witch from a childrens story book i was reading when i got Dorrie on my 4th birthday. Sorry that was quite long and probably quite boring but i'd thought i'd put why i'm dorrie seen as i asked all of you. love Dorrie xxx

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: GUEST,Robby (at a different PC)
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 08:13 AM

My given name's Robert. To my brothers and sister, I'm Rob. But my 92-year old father has always called me Robby. Soooooo.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 12:02 AM

my name is john and i live in hull, though i think you all probably guessed that!

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: CarolC
Date: 02 Jun 01 - 12:01 AM

I've never answered one of these (I don't think), but I think I will this time.

This is the first and only discussion forum I've ever participated in. When I first joined, I noticed that a lot of people have names that are playful and fun, or have some kind of meaning. I thought about doing something like that, but I kind of knew that whatever I picked for myself, I would get sick of eventually.

So I decided to be myself. Carol = my first name, and C = the first initial of my last name.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Matt_R
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 11:45 PM

Actually, Ur is one of the very first ancient agricultural cities, along with Uruk and Chatal Huyuk...all in the middle East. Ur is in modern-day Iraq. The biblical Abraham, was originally named Abram and was from Ur.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 11:11 PM

No mystery in mine, as has been said before, it's just a natural progression from my name, Kat LaFrance, and I do seem to laugh a lot. Didn't like the way katlaf/katlaffing looked, so I spelled it the other way. If I had used the name I was born with it would've been kathud/kathudding!**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 10:48 PM

We used to call ower planet 'ower' but when we opened the door to immigration we changed the name to ur so it would feel more welcoming. Oh. My name? Initials, e and b.

Eb

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: marty D
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 10:47 PM

I'm a complicated guy Catspaw. THAT'S why I play folk music. It helps me forget the real world. By the way, how did you know my name was Jablonski?

marty

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 10:39 PM

Geeziz marty, I had no idea it was so convoluted! Did you consider Jablonski as a possibility too? LOL

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: marty D
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 10:25 PM

When I first came around here, I was going to call myself 'Doc Jr.' Simply a joke honoring my musical hero Doc Watson. I was warned that some people would not get the humor and think I was actually comparing myself to Doc, rather than the hacker I was (I'm improving). Nobody actually calls me 'Marty' (it's always 'Martin') so I used 'Martin D' for a while, but then some people thought I was using a guitar model for a nickname. My brother Anglicised our family name to 'Dawson' (it's a tongue-twister in it's original form).....ah to hell with it. Once I DO learn to do justice to some of Doc Watson's songs, I'll go back to 'Doc jr.' but for the time being...

marty D

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Hyla
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 10:13 PM

Hyla is the genus name of the tiny Spring Peeper tree frog (they are so small they can sit comfortably on your thumbnail). They are one of heralds of spring in Pennsylvania, with their musical songs sounding like distant sleigh bells.

-Jeff

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 10:04 PM

Like Sarah, I found "Sam" well and truly gone when I joined Mudcat. Since I make my living driving a 25 year old bus, and we trade as Sam (& Billy the Bus), I decided to use my old mate's name as my Mudcat "Handle".

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Matt_R
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 09:58 PM

Cuz nothing else Matt_R's...

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Sarah2
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 09:34 PM

Pretty mundane: Joe Offer told me the Mudcat already had a Sarah, so to please pick something else. I happen to like the name, so I'm Sarah, too.

Sarah

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Sorcha
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 09:17 PM

Dorrie, I really hate to be such a nit picker, but I personally really hate stuff like "ur", "r u", etc. Now, on to your real question.

I never really liked my "christian" name, Mary, very much, so when I joined the SCA (Medieval re enactment), they offered me a chance to change my name. I chose Sorcha niGhlais........which means "shining one who is the daughter of Mr. Green". My maiden name is Green, and I like Sorcha (Sor-kh-ah), so I use it now for a LOT of stuff besides SCA.

Lots of people pronunce it Sor-sha, which is OK too. I have ended up being Sorsh (sic)the Scorch..........who tries hard to keep her temper............uh, uh.????

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 08:59 PM

I'd rather play guitar than just about anything else.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: vindelis
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 08:58 PM

It's what the Romans called Portland. Or so the history books say.

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Dorrie
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 08:38 PM

sorry i've never seen it- but all u new catters. Why?? Why is that ur name????????????

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 08:36 PM

Yeah, it's been done, but there are always some newfolks around so why not??

Here are a couple of older ones.........

Mudcat Names 119 posts

Mudcat Names 175 posts

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Where did ur name come from?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 08:16 PM

Mine is an anagram...my real name is Noah Merck.

Aloha,
Noah

Subject: Where did ur name come from?
From: Dorrie
Date: 01 Jun 01 - 08:05 PM

Ok so this has probably been done before but... Where does your mudcat name come from? Some of them are obvious as they are you real name but it always interests me love dorrie xxx