BS: Name Change

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Politenessman
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 12:49 PM

What about me? It's bad manners to forget about me. Don't make me come over there.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 02:49 PM

I once heard about a (possible fictitious?) woman named Clitoris.
It's believable to me.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 03:11 PM

Was that the woman who had to visit her doctor because she scratched her Volvo?
John

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 08:23 PM

My mother's maiden name was Mavis Davis.
That's why she named me Jennifer Grace Eldridge......been through a couple of surname changes but still Jennifer Grace.
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Strupag
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 06:03 AM

I believe that John Wayne changed his name from Marion Morrisson.
Well, who could blame him: If I was called Morrisson, I would change it too.
Anyway I started off in Mudcat by using my day name, Andy Mitchell, but I thought I was getting more into the spirit of things by using a Mudcat name.
Anyway, John, I missed the thread that made you decide to change your name. Which one was it.
Cheers
Andy

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Santa
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 07:49 AM

I was drawn into the site via my daughter, and I took a nickname because I was under the impression that it was the norm. Basically, I think I'd be a bit more comfortable under my real name.   However, I can't now change to my own without giving away part of hers..... maybe she wouldn't mind. Those who know us, know our real names anyway. Anyone who wants to know can ask.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Beardy
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 07:58 AM

I've been known as Beardy for over 20 years (cant think why!).

Stewart

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 08:04 AM

Marion Morrison, right. But Roy Rogers started life as Leonard Sly, which just WOULDN'T work for the King of the Cowboys.

Annie Oakley started out as Phoebe Ann Moses, too.

Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Isaac Newton, Huddie Ledbetter, they all started out very young, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 01:19 PM

Rapaire? I'm so confused.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 01:23 PM

I demand that members stop doing that!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 01:31 PM

Ha! RHIR RHIP, ducky!!

(Rank hath its responsibilities, rank hath its priveleges).

:>)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: pdq
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 02:06 PM

Two of the better "name changes" of all time are:

       Billie Holiday    -    born: Eleanora Fagan

       Patsy Montana    -    born: Ruby Rebecca Blevins

Also note that Patsy Montana was born in Arkansas.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bob Hitchcock
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 02:19 PM

I went to High School with a girl named June Burchitt, she got married very young to someone named Smith I think.

Bob.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 02:22 PM

Mr and Mrs Kerr and their son Wayne
John

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 03:45 PM

Yes, we all are confused, Guest. We wander through life looking for order and find only disorder. We search for Truth and find only Untruth, mixed in with enough Truth to keep us searching. There is nothing to bring Order from Chaos, and so we wander about blindly, confused.

I could go on. And on. And on. I studied the Existentialist in college. Ho BOY! could I go on.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 03:52 PM

Personally, I think changing her name to Marilyn Monroe was a big improvement.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 04:13 PM

I went to school with a girl named Carrie Hunt. Truth.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 04:19 PM

There was a girl in junior high named Merry Christmas. She was elected Miss Merry Christmas at the Christmas Dance that year.

Were I her, my parents would have been deceased years before.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 04:22 PM

Yes, Rapaire (if indeed that is your real name), I passed harsh judgment upon Carrie's parents, believeing they could be justly convicted for criminal naivete in a juvenile court. -guest

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Beardy
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 04:53 PM

Boris Karloff was born William Pratt.
Family history quite interesting. Mother was a governess to children of King of Siam, (believed to be basis of King & I). Brother was head of British Consulars.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 09:24 PM

Okay, I'll be the one to bite: What's the significance of "Carrie Hunt", pray tell?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 09:32 PM

Heard of somebody once during the last big Tolkien craze who named her kid Bilbo. Inevitably, when he started school the b's morphed to d's. I understand he came home one day from the third grade (9-10 years old, for you UKers) and announced "my name is now John."

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Dec 03 - 09:33 PM

Have you never heard of "Spoonerisms" DaveO?

Something most English and Aussies seem to know about.

The Rev Spooner was an English clergyman whose dull sermons were enliven by his regular verbal mistakes such as

"I have in my breast a half formed wish"

coming out as

"I have in my breast a half warmed fish"

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:36 AM

I've mentioned this before (shitfire, I've mentioned everything before), but I was in school with a girl named Sharon Peters. It never dawned on a lot of us til one day my best friend's Dad heard the name and said, "What? Sharon Peters? Jesus, what is that? Some kind of bathroom game?" Cracked us up then!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:53 AM

Carrie Hunt? Ummm...

"Sea Hunt"?

Look, that's unfortunate, but "Mike Hunt" is far more unfortunate...

So is "Don Duck", and I knew a guy in Scarboro with that name in the early 70's. He wouldn't let anyone call him "Donald" for some reason... :-)

Speaking of which, there was a real live folksinger named "Duck" Donald. He used to play with Cathy Fink. No joke.

There's also the famous Toronto musician/painter Joe Mendehlson, who changed his name to Toronto Joe Mendhelson, then Sophisto Joe Mendehlson, and finally Mendehlson Joe! And no, I don't know where the damned "h" goes in "Mendehlson". I'm not even sure if there is an "h". His art stinks, but it's better than Bob Dylan's...at least I think it is. Well, it's almost a dead heat.

Dylan's a way better songwriter.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Strupag
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:13 AM

You mean Robert Zimmerman!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 08:24 AM

No Strupag, I think he was referring to Blind Boy Grunt.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: artbrooks
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 08:45 AM

Then there is that Mudcatter favorite Bruce, a.k.a. 'Utah', Phillips, who was introduced the first time I saw him (at a coffeehouse just off the University of Utah campus in about 1965) as "U. Utah Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Golden West."

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Barden of England
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 09:23 AM

Seeing as there's another John Barden, an Irishman and folksinger residing in Germany, I've decided to become 'The Barden of England' seeing as how I live in Kent, although 'The Patio of England' would be more appropriate these days!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 10:26 AM

I think the second letter of second word should become a "u" John :-)

Perhaps I should change my name to T.T.G.O.T.B.P.R. - I've been called it for years. There are at least half a dozen catters who know what it stands for. My real name's easier though.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 10:49 AM

Awful kind of you to leave the rest of us hung up wondering, though, isn't it?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Barden of England
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 11:01 AM

I see Dave. They say I look a bit like Dave Burden - sorry - Burland. Don't keep me in suspense, what does T.T.G.O.T.B.P.R. stand for?

If I can make Stansted by the way, I will, but can't guarantee as there might be something 'Morrisey' that my S.O.H. may want to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 11:07 AM

The Tito Gobi of the Balls Pond Road.

A title which I aquired (it actually started off as The Maria Callas . . .) from the Late John (Whiskers) Barker of Crayfolk/Dartford/Farningham fame. "Gastove" (Dave Freeman) also owes his name to John.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 11:21 AM

Gee -- the expanded version makes less sense than the acronym!!! :>)

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 11:26 AM

Awright...and who can identify who "Blind Girl Grunt" is or was?

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:11 PM

Little Hawk...I have MET "Duck" Donald...and have the one LP he was on with Cathy Fink..that was 24 years ago or so! They used to tour with a 'poet' roughly comparable to William McGonagall

(I don't know what that has to do with anything, but 'threads will creep')

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Strupag
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 12:51 PM

Bill D, How dare you suggest that the great Topaz could not write anything but brilliant stuff!
Here's one of my favourites: -

The Moon
Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou seemest most charming to my sight;
As I gaze upon thee in the sky so high,
A tear of joy does moisten mine eye.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the Esquimau in the night;
For thou lettest him see to harpoon the fish,
And with them he makes a dainty dish.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the fox in the night,
And lettest him see to steal the grey goose away
Out of the farm-yard from a stack of hay.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the farmer in the night,
and makes his heart beat high with delight
As he views his crops by the light in the night.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the eagle in the night,
And lettest him see to devour his prey
And carry it to his nest away.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the mariner in the night
As he paces the deck alone,
Thinking of his dear friends at home.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the weary traveller in the night;
For thou lightest up the wayside around
To him when he is homeward bound.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the lovers in the night
As they walk through the shady groves alone,
Making love to each other before they go home.

Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the poacher in the night;
For thou lettest him see to set his snares
To catch the rabbit and the hares.

William Topaz McGonagall

Profound stuff eh!

Andy Mitchell

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 03:09 PM

oh, yup..profound indeed! Like Rev. Sun Myung Moon!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 04:20 PM

That may just be the worst poem ever written.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 05:17 PM

Mot in the same class as McGonigal!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:26 PM

Bill D., I am acquainted with a lawyer named--and who uses all of it-- Donald Duck III!   And guess what his son is named! Some people never learn.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:48 PM

That's pretty awful.

As for Blind Girl Grunt she might have been not a person, but a vision, a quest, a goal, a mystique inspiration -- kind of like "seeing the elephant".


A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Dec 03 - 07:59 PM

On the contrary, Amos, Blind Girl Grunt is a real character...I'll give you a clue...from the field of popular music.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 05:04 AM

Janis Ian.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:04 PM

Well, as you'll see, I've done it. And I've gone for a new identity that should be easy and self-explanatory for all, Joe included. Who knows, the time may come when the Fionn part can fade into history.

I reckon that puts you next in line, LH. Just click "membership" at the top, and it's done in a moment. So out you come, before I out you myself, George....

Happy new year to one and all....

Peter Kirker (the piss-artist formerly known as Fionn)

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Martin Gibson
Date: 01 Jan 04 - 08:50 PM

Martin Gibson here.

Forum name only.

Real name will never be revealed.

Will never be a Mudcat insider. Thankfully.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:41 AM

I think he's really Dobro the House Elf.
John

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 08:52 AM

... that's like a Theatre Cat, isn't it? ...

pisses on everythig, chases a few rats for fun, snarls at everybody except those who feed it...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: freda underhill
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 09:22 AM

we have a politician in Australia called Richard Face...

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jan 04 - 09:54 AM

Martin Gibson should be changed.... I'd suggest Stella Kay Ovation.