TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?

Subject: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 11:53 PM

This is crazy! I count:

Mary in KY
Ma-K
Sinsull
Sorcha
and now I find out lamarca is a Mary too! Are there any more?
No wonder I hate my name......

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jan 01 - 11:59 PM

For it was Mary...Mary
Plain as any name can be.
But then society for propriety
May say....Marie.

But it was Mary...Mary
Long before the fashions came
And there is something there
That sounds so square
Its a grand...old...name.

(mary garvey too)

Spawmary

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:00 AM

My mom was a Mary. I think it is a beautiful name, Sorcha.:-) How about if you spelled it differently, i.e. Merry, Merrie, Maree, Marey, etc?

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:00 AM

I believe Hollowfox is a Mary too.

Don't forget our own dear sweet MaryMac!

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:03 AM

You're right about 'fox....that's two more..........7 so far.

Spaw

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Matt_R
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:05 AM

Giac is also a Mary.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:27 AM

My name is Mary, too....

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:31 AM

I'd sign as PraiseMary but you know what 'ud happen then.

*G*

~S~

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:38 AM

Amergin whois Nathan--you are full of shit!!and I know it!!LOL!! Soooz the Flooz--you start Praising Mary around here and you aren't going to know who answers......(I think Mary Garvey is Mary in KY...) but still...it's way more than 4 Marys...(I like Mhaire but nobody I know can pronounce it correctly and it is way too big a pain to change it legally.) There are also 4 other Mary L. Greens and 3 other Mary L. Wises in Wyoming.......talk about trubbles.......and one of them is one digit off my birthday and one digit off my SSN.......

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:50 AM

Mary Daily

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:55 AM

Well, it's about 68, depending on whether or not you count people named Rosemary, and whether you count duplicate memberships, which people are reminded to PLEASE not have...
At least one Mary has three memberships, and she's one who whould know better.
-Joe Offer, who cheated and checked the registration database-

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Alice
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:05 AM

And of Alice there are....

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:10 AM

Joe, I am pretty sure I am not one of those bad girls, I only registered under Sorcha.

Mary, Mary quite contrary.........and Alice fell down the rabbit hole........

68, huh? Too many Marys........glad I am not one of them! LOL!! (see why I am a Sorcha?)

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:16 AM

(ooo, I counted 4 MaryMacs----that's a baddie!) Then there are the Marias, Marinas, etc.......I'm GLAD I'm Sorcha here.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:25 AM

Sorcha, you seem to be in a rare mood tonight....

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:27 AM

(Bard, maybe it is actually an "up" mood for once......it's been so long, I am not sure I would recognize it.......)

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:30 AM

I'm glad to hear it.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:41 AM

Wow! I counted only three Marymacs - guess she's have to get a talking-to. There are six Alices registered, but only one who studies songs in the shower. There are two people registered with Sorcha's real name, but the other is in Florida. I guess there are about fifty Joes - I lost count. Three people named Max.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:46 AM

Oh dear heavens.....there is another Mary W in Florida? and 3 Max-es? How will we know when Emperor Max is posting? If there is another of me in Florida, how will I know if it is really me?

And I thought the 4 Marys was bad enough........

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:48 AM

It does get confusing doesn't it? I am pretty sure that the MaryMac some of us know from the radio is MaryMac90 and I think she is 2 of the other MaryMac's (the ones with locations). I have a feeling in the back of my mind that the one that is just "MaryMac" is a completely different person.

With regards to the duplicate memberhips, apart from Joe's reminder, surely it even creates hassle for the member who must have 2 or more sets of PMs to check if they are not to miss them.

Another Mary I can think of, and I think she is still around is "Sings Irish" - one of the 2 people to introduce me to Mudcat from the newsgroups I used to read (and still would if my ISP had a decent news server) - she and Jeri have a lot to answer for!

Jon

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:52 AM

MaryMac
Marymac in CA
Marymac@her sister's
Marymac90

There are the 4! MaryMacs.....and Jon, you are right about Sings Irish......I had forgotten about her. Too many Marys.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:59 AM

As far as I know MaryinKY and Mary Garvey are not the same person.

Nice to see you humming along, Sorcha. My mom found out there was another Mary Elizabeth Hudson in the same town when her bank acct. got screwed up!

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:04 AM

Local bank accounts are easier than state wide Credit Bureau accounts. I found out that I had an unpaid bill at Herberger's in Cheyenne when I had never even shopped there,even for cash!!

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:21 AM

"Last night there were four Marymacs,
Tonight there'll be but three,
There was Marymac Beaton, and Marymac Seaton,
And Marymac Carmichael, and me."

Sorry, Marymac, I just couldn't help it....

-Joe Offer, grinning impishly-

---

The Four Marys Thread (click) is very interesting, by the way....

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Sorcha
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:25 AM

Off with her head!! Off, I say, OFF! (hi Joe, I 've been thinking about the 4 Marys since I started this, and couldn't believe nobody picked up on it....) Beaton, Seaton, Carmichael and me....

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 09:58 AM

There was Mary Seton
And Mary Eton
There was Mary Carmichael
And me.
(Mary Hamilton)
Yeah - I probably got the names wrong but SCREW IT!
Contrary Mary

Intro to Mary It's A Grand Old Name:
"My mother's name was Mary
She was so good and true
Because her name was Mary
She named me Mary too..."
Actually, my mother's name was Edna.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Alice
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 10:11 AM

I've been thinking of the Four Marys song with this thread, too. Very funny, Joe!

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 10:18 AM

Oh yes, I had forgotten Sings Irish Songs. Hers is Mary-Kate, I believe...

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 10:42 AM

For a beautiful Barry Taylor midi, check Lesley's site here. (http://www.contemplator.com/folk/4marys.html)

And yes kat, I am not Mary Garvey.

Sorcha, I think most of us are the same generation. Now I'm not saying y'all are as old as I am, afterall, I'm older than Spaw (and we know that's older than #$%^&), but have you ever heard of a little girl named Mary in the last 20 years?

Scary Mary

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 10:52 AM

I yam who I yam... ..Popeye

(lotsa Bill's too...but we manage)

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: GUEST,jaze
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:15 PM

I think Mary is an elegant name, Sorcha. I'm stuck with James. Do you know how many people have the effrontery to call me "little Jimmy"?

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:17 PM

So how's it going, Little Jimmy?

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:25 PM

How many Marys on the Mudcat? There could never be too many.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: MMario
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:25 PM

I know several Mary's who are less then 20 years old.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: GUEST,Fibula Mattock
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 12:27 PM

Mary-Kate's a lovely name, Matt! Almost as nice as Kate on its own...
Fibs (who just happens to be a Kate)

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:23 PM

Yes MMario, but are they a double-name Mary (Mary Beth, Mary Jane, Mary Lou, Mary Warren, Mary Margaret (me)) or just Mary? I haven't met a little girl named just Mary in many, many years. If you know one, tell her how special she is, and hello from me.

I now live in a heavily Catholic town. One of my friends, Mary Annette, tells the story of the old priest here who used to baptize all, and I mean all, little girls with the first name of Mary. He had to slip it in under his breath. Many families had little girls with four names, all with the first name of Mary!

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:26 PM

I knew a girl at community college who was the same age as me (19), and her name was Mary (middle name Alice).

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Amergin
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 01:45 PM

Matt, what they're talking about are the fad names of their time....when I was born Nathan was a popular name...

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 02:12 PM

In the Irish there are two versions of Mary - one for Our Lady and the other for ordinary use. Muire and Maire (and there are spelling variations of both.)

I suppose it's some misplaced embarassment about the name that has knocked it out of common use these last couple of generations, after centuries during which it was by far the most common girl's name in England and in America, among Protestants just as much as among Catholics, in spite of everything.

Perhaps people worry that if she's called Mary, any deviltry she gets up to will be a little bit worse. The way you don't get Jesus much as a common boys name in English.

Onhe thing I predict with certainty is that Mary is going to be a common enough name again in time.

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:19 PM

Hail, Marys!

Eb

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: harpmolly
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:19 PM

I was told that Molly is a diminutive of Mary; does that count?...wait a minute, I resemble that remark! Dammit!

the wee mollycule

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:32 PM

Yep, I'm a Mary. So is my mother, and that led to confusion before I grew up and moved off on my own. Telephone callers, someone yelling "Mary!" at a party (lots of Marys among my parents' friends). At college I lives in a dormitory with about five other Marys on the same floor, in the same section. *Ahem* I was the only one who didn't have some kind of descriptor (middle name, nickname, whatever) grafted to her name.:)

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: SINSULL
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:14 PM

Kind of like yelling "Mom!" in the supermarket. Thirty heads spin and reply "Yes?"

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:17 PM

My name is Alex and I go to a Russian church. Every time someone yells, "Alex!" at last five people turn their heads and say, "Yes?"

Alex

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:24 PM

Hey hotshots. Watch it. If you know someone's real name is Mary but it is NOT the name they post under, you should not be outing them. Think about it.

~S~

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:29 PM

And anyway, isn't it a bigger problem that we have so damn many Catspaws??? At least 49.

~S~

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:33 PM

Praise, there are also people like SingsIrish who sign themselves Mary even if they post under another name.

Jon

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: kendall
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:45 PM

I have a friend named Russell, and he has a wierd sense of humor. He likes to say his motto is: Eat drink and be MARY

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 07:55 PM

I know, Jon, but you know...

~S~

Subject: RE: TOTAL BS: Marys on Mudcat--How Many?
From: Lox
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 08:06 PM

Surely you know that to become a member of the inner clique (MCIC) you have to have once been called mary, changed your name to mary, wanted to change your name to mary, have a good reason for changing your name from mary or have a good reason for not changing you name to mary.

It's all on the application form.

Hail Marys (winks subtly at Ebbie before giving the secret sign)

lox