Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST,DonMeixner Date: 09 Jan 03 - 06:24 PM I chose this one because no one would believe my real name. Wadlow Cuffington |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Cluin Date: 09 Jan 03 - 06:31 PM It's an anagram for "Cluin". |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 09 Jan 03 - 09:05 PM I can't remember. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: SlickerBill Date: 09 Jan 03 - 09:25 PM It was a nickname given to me by a good friend back in school, when I had a bit of a "look" going, as we all did at one time; tight jeans, cowboy boots, long hair. The slicker thing was obviously tongue in cheek. The "look" passed, but the handle didn't quite. sb |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 09 Jan 03 - 09:53 PM Comes from a newspaper column my granddad wrote for many years for a couple of local papers. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: MikeOQuinn Date: 09 Jan 03 - 11:39 PM Well, me real name is Jeremy Welch, but when I signed up here, I used a commonly-used stage name of mine (Michael O'Quinn), since I figured if anyone saw me in performance, they'd recognize it, and if they met me otherwise, I probably wouldn't recognize them, anyhoo. -J |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Rustic Rebel Date: 09 Jan 03 - 11:46 PM I threw darts at the dictionary. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Amos Date: 10 Jan 03 - 12:51 AM Me mum did it, being a Noffshoot of a Nold New Enkland clan whut got all their darn names from the Old Testament, their clothes from Saks and thier news from Walter Cronkite. Which is why I now live out West. :>) But it is handy, being short, and rare enough. A |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Genie Date: 10 Jan 03 - 01:52 AM Well, this is a deja vu thread for me, too. When I first visited, and soon joined, Mudcat, I was a relative internet neophyte, and I wasn't sure how good an idea it would be to use my real name. I've had various nicknames in my life, but the only one that some folks still call me is the one my grandpa always called me: Jeanie. Partly to avoid confusion with other "Jeans," "Jeannes," "Jeanies," and "Jeannies," and partly because I like the magical connotation, I decided to be "Genie" at Mudcat. Jeanene Pratt |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: songs2play Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:53 AM I like songs I like to play songs on my guitar It was pretty easy to get a name from that. Although I prefer being called "snogs", as it seems to have stuck after Mr Happy once mistyped my name in the Mudchat. Sad , I know, but what the heck. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:21 AM Been through it all before but.... Lots of other Rogers on the 'Cat. Being a child of the '50s I enjoy the rough and ready sound of the skiffle/jug band type of band, play no instruments other than washboard and kazoo... and if skiffle is defined as music played on battered, home made, crude and often out of tune instruments - well that's my voice to a T! RtS |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: bradfordian Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:37 AM I was born in the town of Bradford, Yorkshire, England. BTW, there are 2 or 3 Bradfords in USA, any 'catters therein, or from? (WARNING Thread Creep:) But I'm now in Robin Hood country (Nottingham) and am getting interested in Lord Byron (he's buried in my local church). I know there is a BYRON in Georgia & BYRON Wines in California, anyone have any connections with anything Byron? And thirdly as my christian name is BARRIE, I noticed there is a town of that name near Toronto which is having a 150th birthday. Anyone from Barrie? Brad. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Gurney Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:44 AM A schoolboy nickname from a distant youth. Older Britons may remember the TV programme Gurney Slade, with the nice theme tune. And Chris was taken. Chris. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST,allen woodpecker Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:10 AM From a lovely exchange in an episode of the sitcom "Dinnerladies" (which I actually never watch, I just caught this bit and it seemed like serendipity) between four women. First Woman - "I like that Woody, off the telly. Wotzisname?" Second Woman - "Allen?" Third Woman - "Woodpecker?" Fourth Woman (who hasn't been paying attention) - "Who's Allen Woodpecker?" I think she was talking about Mr Hemp, a.k.a. Woody Harrelson. Peace and love, a.w. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: ballpienhammer Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:57 AM I am round and hard on one end! |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST,Vixen@work Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:46 AM Actually, there's another version of this story out there in one of the old threads. However, in the days of old, before the internet was host to many many many XXX websites.... My name is Victoria, I go by Vicki, and when I was small and spent lots of time in the woods alone, there was a red fox that I saw often just about the time I was 'spozed to be going home. I have no idea if the fox was a vixen or a dog, but I imagined her to be a sort of girl friend who came out to tell me when to get home so mother wouldn't be angry with me. Thus, when I started making greeting cards for my friends, I called my "publishing company" (mind you, I'm still only about 10!) Vixen Grafix. And when I started writing songs, I called *that* venture Vixen Muzik. (neither one has made a penny) Along the way, I got some education, and I spell better now. However, in the process of getting the education, I discovered the philosophical concept of the chiasmus, and the anatomical structure of the same name, and have developed an interest in the myriad of memes represented by the character "X" and how it's formed by two "V"s, and so on and so forth... So when I first got on the net (anybody remember Megabyte University??) back in the early 90's, socially speaking, Vixen seemed somehow safer than my real name, and I've stuck with it, even though its e-meaning has e-volved into something I really have nothing to do with (those XXX sites I mentioned earlier...) V |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Michael Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:49 PM You'll have to ask my mam. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:45 PM Brdafordian, Re your thread creep, Byron, Georgia, which is about an hour south of Atlanta, was the sight of the 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival, also known as the "Southern Woodstock". Crowd estimates at the festival were roughly the same as for Woodstock. It was the largest crowd to ever see Jimi Hendrix perform. (Much of the crowd at Woodstock and Isle of Wight had already left before Jimi came on stage.) It was a hoot. As far as I know, that is Byron's only claim to fame. Bruce |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Little Hawk Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:52 PM It's a name from a former lifetime. I still like it a lot, and have used it among friends for many years. Little Hawk |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Brakn Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:03 PM People would call me Bracken because I was in a band called Bracken. When I went solo it was presumed that my name was Bracken...so I stuck with it. Michael Bracken brakn |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: ex-pat Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:40 PM erm, I am I guess, from another land. Well we are all from somewhere but I am not living in the country I am from. So I get called an ex-pat! |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: leprechaun Date: 11 Jan 03 - 12:00 AM Everybody calls me that, with minor variations which include The Mexican leprechaun, That god-damned leprechaun, and mayonnaise. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Leadfingers Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:05 PM The parody of 'The Boxer'written by the bloke from Nottingham who's name I have forgotten called'The Folker'was my introductory song for so long that when I had cards printed I used it as part of my professional name. I'm Leadfingers Silver and my story's seldom told I massacre folk music with a Yankee status symbol and a capo |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: allanwill Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:42 PM Quite simple (my mudcatonym, that is, not me). My Name is Allan and I live in the Australian Capital Territory, Orstrailya. (thread creep) - Leadfingers,I have a recording of Noel Murphy doing that parody, but different lyrics to what you quote. Allan |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Strupag Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:54 PM An strupag is the Scots gaelic term used for a wee cup of something. I used to do a show on a wee local radio station in Ullapool, Lochbroom FM. The show was called the Sunday Strupag. Many's the strupag we had after the show and it wasn't always tea! |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST Date: 11 Jan 03 - 06:52 PM CarolC ... "a rose by any other name..." hmmm - you went from a 'C' to a 'D' ...in music that's called modulation (just for a little musical anecdote) A name is such a personal choice ...when you were born you probably didn't have much input on selecting your name. So this time around ... (continuing hesitatingly) If you wanted to stay with your pattern you could now be CarolD. Or for a nod to recorded music: CarolCD. Obviously, my favorite choice is GUEST. It's so easy to remember, and handy, too. Those that know you much better will no doubt have better suggestions. But in the end, like Shakespeare alluded in the quote above, "What's in a name?" Best of luck in your decision. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: boglion Date: 11 Jan 03 - 07:24 PM I spend a lot of time in the bogs of County Kerry (where my mother was born) but was brought up in the wonderful environment of South London which hosts the delights of Millwall Football Club (the Lions) which is another obsession. Therefore bog = mud lion = cat. I used to post as "Millwall" but some people found that a little too aggressive - prejudice is a terrible thing!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: *daylia* Date: 11 Jan 03 - 10:40 PM it's a secret! Shhhhhhhhhhhhh |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Mark Cohen Date: 11 Jan 03 - 11:14 PM It's an anagram of my real name, Noah Merck. Aloha, Noah |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST,sorefingers Date: 12 Jan 03 - 02:06 AM My new Guitar action was too high, or I was pressing the strings wrong, or I have delicate hands, or I should not have started playing again, then I would not be needing to read mudcat .... |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: DancingMom Date: 12 Jan 03 - 09:46 PM My daughter gave me the name. I dance around in my house when I'm working in it, and she used to call my dance "the Mom bop." I have a habit of doing a little bouncy thing listening to music driving in the car, too (Yes, I look where I'm going, it's not THAT bouncy) Hence the Dancing Mom title. Remind me of Captain Kangaroo's Dancing Bear. Sharon |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST Date: 13 Jan 03 - 08:26 AM another interesting anagram ....Mr. Mojo Risin = Jim Morrison |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: gnu Date: 13 Jan 03 - 01:33 PM Gosh... I went back to one of those threads Spaw linked to and found a rather short explanation, replete with a poorly attempted joke.... which could be misinterpreted... "Mine ? I did not choose it. It was the nickname I went by (and still do) when I joined this raucous yet knowledgeable group. It is reflective of my gentle nature and my Hyde side. BTW, it's pronounced g-nu, emphasis on both syllables." Not that I have a "Hyde" side nor that I am in any way less than a gentleman – well, good ol' boy. Rather, when provoked, the gnu can become a formidable and fierce foe… it's Wildebeeste side. The name was bestowed on me years ago by my cousins who have seen the transformation. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: chordstrangler Date: 13 Jan 03 - 04:17 PM I'm afraid that it describes my guitar skills...M |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: COINWOLF Date: 13 Jan 03 - 06:52 PM Chosen for me by the Ghost of Upton...Thomas Bound As shown on Upton Town's website History section: Upton's Ghost Thomas Bound, who came of an old Upton family, a puritan in religion and politics, was churchwarden in 1640 and 1641. He became Captain of an Upton volunteer corps in the Civil War and helped to turn out the popular rector, William Woodforde. He probably devised the scheme by which the bridge and the church were captured in 1651. Bound, a grim and covetous man, is said to have disposed of two of his three wives, forging the will of his last wife on her deathbed. He took his own life by drowning in the Causeway pool between his homes at Soley's Orchard in Rectory Road and Southend Farm. There are many legends of his haunting the neighbourhood, sometimes on horseback, and frequent fancied sightings; so, eventually his ghost had to be exorcised. His bones were later removed from the parish church; his skull was taken by a tradesman and became a drinking cup. Even now, when a pony gets out on the road, there are people who shut their doors exclaiming "Here he comes again!" The Ghost of Thomas Bound's Cat lurks around every corner. The one eyed cat who travelled extensively around England, at the time of Oliver Cromwell, was a fiddler of the first order. He reached notes other fiddlers could not reach, he jugged and reeled in a manner unaccustomed to his feline breed, and he danced his way from tavern to tavern following the sound of music, song and laughter. Thomas Bound may still be seen riding on his horse in Rectory Road by Soley's Orchard, but the cat is only seen these days on the occasion of Upton's Folk Frolics on May Day Bank Holiday. His wooden leg is heard thumping the boards in time to his jigs and reels. His tail flaps wildly at the feet of a Morris Man (whose dancing steadily diminishes with the passing of time and beer). Losing his leg in a Worcester fight, his present leg was a gift of oak from a tall dark cavalier who hid in an old tree. Festival Cat www.uptonfolk.org |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 14 Jan 03 - 02:44 AM I'm a big guy and my most important role in life is "Daddy." |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Ella who is Sooze Date: 14 Jan 03 - 03:55 AM Ella wuz me great grannies name and she was a lovely lady, who died when I was 6. She was brill, used to build me and my cousins dens in her dining room, with tunnels made from clothes horses with drapes over them leading to under the old oak dining table, which was our den headquarters. A daft fun old lady and I loved her. So thought, that's a good a name as any to use... (Suzie is me proper name - well, actually it's Suzanne, but I get all sorts of variations, the milk man calls me Joanna, and his wife - the milk lady (whaddya know!) calls me Samantha - I'm used to it now) |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Sam L Date: 14 Jan 03 - 07:46 AM I didn't want to simply use my name, so I used my name for complicated reasons. My name is Fred Miller, but I thought it would be more fun to choose a name reflecting a particular interest of mine, so my name would habitually reflect that interest above any topic I commented on. "Fred Miller" seemed to do this nicely. And so if I logged on to comment here that Yuk's remark about people being narcissists is total b.s., people can see that this comes from my deep concern and expertise in "Fred Miller" as a subject of general interest, not just some personal whim or bias. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: GUEST,Redhorse at work Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:31 AM England has got lots of white horses on hillsides, but only one red horse, above the village with which I share a name. The fact that the horse has not been seen for 250 years and no-one now knows where it was sited or even what it looked like, adds a certain symbolism of something or other. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: The Pooka Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:40 AM At first I wanted to be "The Mole" or some variant (not to say deviant)(I *told* you not to say deviant) thereof -- a persistent nickname given by my friends in college (both of them) who marvelled at my sunny disposition, social skills and intellectual farsightedness, not to mention my star-shaped nose. (I *told* you not to mention nyaah nevermind.) However -- seriously for once now -- I abandoned that out of respect for the memory of the then-recently-deceased, universally-beloved, LR Mole. A guy like that, you just retire his jersey number. So then I picked this foreshortening of The Pooka Fergus MacPhellimey, a character of the great Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen, whose writing I admire and shamelessly plagiarize. I would have used the whole name but that might have seemed a bit ostentatious. :) Invisible sixfoot rabbits had nothing to do with it but sometimes I steal that image too, what the Hell. I have seen "pooka" defined as "a mischievous Irish devil". Well what in the Divil comes over ye all nyaah nevermind. (And another thing: we once had a Himalayan cat named The Pooka *Furball* MacPhellimey, whom my wife wrote in for a local office at an election & then demanded that the officials illegally reopen the voting machine in order to correct their failure to report her frivolous vote -- which they did. Anything else ya wanna know? Don't answer that.) |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Wilfried Schaum Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:48 AM On my birth certificate. When joining mudcat I tried Brutus but it was already occupied. All my student friends call me Brutus which is my cerevisial (beer) name; I came to it when some girls asked me what the B. on my card meant (I was also baptized Bruno Cornelius). I gave them three guesses: Bernard? - No. Beppo? - No. Brutus? - No. But Brutus stuck. Wilfired |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: DG&D Dave Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:54 AM Doom Gloom and Despondency, Dave. Due to judging a song contest for the last 15 years (at least). God its depressing!!!:> Loads o' Love to all Sidmouthites and AMBS. Dave Barnes. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: vindelis Date: 14 Jan 03 - 12:58 PM It's the Roman name for Portland. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: aussiebloke Date: 14 Jan 03 - 01:02 PM Well, I'm a bloke, and I'm from Australia, so it wasn't that hard... Cheers all aussiebloke |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: vindelis Date: 15 Jan 03 - 12:48 PM Having just spotted 'Kimberlin' in another thread, I know WHAT you are, (Cos it means yoom ain't narn o' we); but on which side of Ferry-Bridge do you live? |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: mike the knife Date: 15 Jan 03 - 01:20 PM That was the nickname given to me by my former rugby club. I collect pocketknives & always had one handy to cut medical tape, etc. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Jim Krause Date: 15 Jan 03 - 07:31 PM I got tired of explaining to the British folk that I don't sing sea songs about cursing sailors. So I dropped the name Soddy, and started using my real name. If it was good enough for my Mom and Dad, it's good enough for the Mudcat Cafe. And no, Spaw, my real name is not Henry Montesque Fillbrook Shakespeare Rottensone the III. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: BusbitterfraeScotland Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:17 AM My mudcat name is Busbitter, the reason is because I was riding my Scooter, and I battered or ran into the back of a bus losing my four front teeth, so that's how I became known as busbitter. I can't remeber the accedent, and yet when I went into hospital I was asked a rreally stupid question which was 'Did you see the bus?' If I saw the bus would I have ran into the back of it. I'm not that stupid, mind you I do stupid things however that's not one of them. |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: forty two Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:47 AM My dad had a shop - address was 42 XXXXXX. I liked the number as a kid and used to go round shouting 42 42 and the nick name stuck You can imagine the ego trip when Douglas Adams came out with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Yup it's me "the meaning of the universe life and everything" !!!! |
Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name? From: Fibula Mattock Date: 16 Jan 03 - 05:09 AM I once wanted a name with an archaeological theme (my old job) that sounded like a formidable old academic lady (I'm not - I'm young and only slightly formidable). A fibula is a type of brooch (like a safety pin) and also the name of a bone in the leg. A mattock is like a pickaxe but with a wide, blunt end on one side. It's my favourite digging tool. I thought that together they sounded like a proper name. Sort of. In real life I'm known as Kate. |