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Subject: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Jun 09 - 10:45 PM I've given this some thought. Yessiree. And my nomination for coolest and best Mudcat member handle is: "My guru always said" I think that's brilliant! ;-) I also like "Cool Beans". Simple, yet very cool. Nominate your favorite(s) below and explain why if you wish to wax eloquent. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 07 Jun 09 - 11:26 PM
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 07 Jun 09 - 11:31 PM Yes, indeed you do. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Bill D Date: 07 Jun 09 - 11:59 PM maybe the one who actually claimed "Guest"? But I am partial to one from long ago: "Jack (who is called Jack)" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: catspaw49 Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:24 AM Frank, ITS (in the swamp) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Slag Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:55 AM Had I known it was a competition I would have taken more time in choosing my moniker. I went for brevity (brevity being the hallmark of genius, you know). In my mind was "Slag Hammer", a name I have used in on-line gaming. Sorry is everyone assumed I was just a slagger! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Benjamin Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:08 AM Slag Hammer… I like it! Even if it isn't official, it's got my vote! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: CarolC Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:10 AM I think Hand-Pulled Boy is a good one. A lot of scope for the imagination with that one. bubblyrat's another good one. And of course, Fat Bastard. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: DougR Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:28 AM Gargoyle, I know we are probably miles apart on politics, but I have always enjoyed your posts. This one is a doozie. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: DougR Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:32 AM Oh, I forgot to provide my vote for the best "Mudcat member handle." It's Amos. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: GUEST,jOhn Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:03 AM black belt caterpillar wrestler. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: GUEST, topsie Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:13 AM I vote for jOhn / Guest,jOhn / Sir jOhn (and any other variants). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: bubblyrat Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:25 AM Oh !! I am SO pleased to be among the nominees ! Yes, I like "My Guru Always Said", or "My Gas " as we call her--If you haven't heard her sing yet,then you is definitely missin'something. "Spleen Cringe" has a bizarre,Gothic,Tolkienesque ring to it, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:10 AM Q - he/she seems to know his/her stuff, too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: GUEST,Mr Red Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:17 AM Or maybe the one who claimed "Guessed"? It was given to a person named .................... you GUEST it.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: kendall Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:54 AM Cretinous Yahoo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 08 Jun 09 - 07:58 AM It should really be "The Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler" but that was not allowed as it was too many characters! Keeping it in the family, so to speak, (concertina family at least) I nominate Crane Driver. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:43 AM And, if a piper, you'd be "Black Belt Octopus Wrestler," of course. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: freda underhill Date: 08 Jun 09 - 08:54 AM kendall, i agree .. "Cretinous Yahoo " and I've wondered if he / she is an aussie! :-D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: pdq Date: 08 Jun 09 - 09:39 AM Dead Horse is rather hard to beat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: kendall Date: 08 Jun 09 - 09:42 AM Cretinous Yahoo is not an Aussie. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Amos Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:35 AM DOugR: Thank you for your vote. I secretly agree with you. Amos |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: kendall Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:50 AM I know who he is but I'm not at liberty to say. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: bubblyrat Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:02 PM "Dead Horse" may well be hard to beat, but you can't flog it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:08 PM I always liked "Mooh," which I believe we were told is pronounced "Mike." ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:26 PM Well, we have certainly found some inspiring choices here, haven't we? I have to agree that "Cretinous Yahoo" and "Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler" are about as good as it gets. "Spleen Cringe" is also quite extraordinary. I sort of shiver every time I read that one. I think I should nominate our friend Shane's handle even though he is not technically a member.... Blind DRunk in Blind River If you'd ever been to Blind River, you would realize just how appropriate that is. There's almost nothing for a person to DO there except get drunk. To say that "Amos" is the best is just silly! It's the man's real given name for God's sake! It's like calling yourself "Dave" or "Frank" and then saying it's the coolest and best Mudcat member name. Get a grip, Amos. Smell the coffee. Study the life and times of William Shatner in detail until finally you wake up and begin to appreciate the better things in life. Rent some Winona Ryder movies. Get a hamster. Man, I have no idea what DougR's been smokin' to pick your name as the best, but I am shocked. Just shocked. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Dead Horse Date: 08 Jun 09 - 12:53 PM Blushing here. Monicas are usually of significance(sp?) only to those concerned. Mine just happened to be that I was a member of Dead Horse Morris at the time. A few weeks earlier and it might have been Gundulf and now is more likely to be Kent Cajun or simply Bus Pass :-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: GUEST Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:01 PM My all-time favorite Mudcat name belonged to someone who was not a favorite personality: Martin Gibson. I realize that this handle may not have the same resonance for those to whom "folk music" means unaccompanied singing, pipes, fiddles, and squeezeboxes. But to this American babyboomer whose experience of the Great Folk Scare marked the beginning of a lifelong love affair with the acoustic guitar, the name "Martin Gibson" always seemed downright brilliant. (In the middle of writing this post, I was reminded of how much I liked the name "Polly Squeezebox" when I first encountered it. Haven't seen that handle lately ~ are you out there, Polly? Maybe under a different, and perhaps even "real," name?) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:05 PM "Martin Gibson" was a brilliant pick, no doubt about it. Some others along that line were Kent Ovation and Taylor Takamine, but they can't match Martin Gibson. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:11 PM Funny, I never thought about being Oscar Schmidt or Daigle Wannabe (star wars sounding). Schmidt Chromaharp is just WRONG... ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Amos Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:18 PM Little Hawk: I can see, given your real name, why you would be averse to using a givenname as a handle. However, not being a scholar, you have no concept of the depth and breadth of resonance, nuance, color and nostalgia, heroic notions and cosmic vision associated in our culture with the handle I chose. Some examples: Amos 2:4, "This is what the LORD says: 'For three sins of Judah, even for four, I will not turn back [my wrath]. Because they have rejected the law of the LORD and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods, the gods their ancestors followed." Amos 3:7, "Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets." Amos 9:14, "I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit." And these, from Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher: "While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be." on Age and Aging "The surest sign of age is loneliness." "Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams." "Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture." "Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly." "Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators." "A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay." "Our ideals are our better selves." "To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." "A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences." And from the man who brought us the best chocolate cookies ever made: Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. Wally 'Famous' Amos And all this is the tip of the iceberg. A brief study of the MOAB will reveal that even in my own modest endeavours I have exceeded the mark of all my nominary predecessors in incisive brilliance and tough, witty, bon mots of every sort. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: PoppaGator Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:27 PM GUEST above, extolling the name of "Martin Gibson," was me, unaware of my cookie being inactive. Along the lines of "Kent Ovation," etc., I always thought someone should have come up with a similar-type handle with the first name "Stella." However, I suppose that there simply aren't any serious-enough guitar nerds among our female members. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: wysiwyg Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:33 PM Open Mike is a girl (Laurel), so why couldn't Stella be someone actually named Marlon? ~Jangly Reinharp |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:39 PM Impressive, Amos, impressive. You make a strong argument. Yes, burdened with the dreadful given name "George" I must skulk through life miserably like Chuchundra the Muskrat...keeping to the shadows...never daring to enter the centre of the room...ridiculed by the existence of fictional characters like "George of the Jungle" and "Curious George". Gawd, Amos...how I envy you! ;-) **** How about Stella Harmony? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Amos Date: 08 Jun 09 - 01:57 PM OR Stella Sierra Seagull? A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: curmudgeon Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:04 PM Stella Kay |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: pdq Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:12 PM Artful Codger deserves at least an honorable mention. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:21 PM Yes, that's a clever one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: gnu Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:22 PM Gotta be gnu... a simple, dumb animal who is friendly and helpful to all but turns into a raging Wildebeeste when provoked or when a member of the herd is attacked. Gentle and meek yet slays lions when required. Just one of the gang type that steps up when it's time, every time. Humble and unassuming or demanding and relentless. Yes, I am blowing my own horns, but a gnu's gotta do what a gnu's gotta do to get his due. Sue me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:25 PM I thought Martin Gibson was a pretty good one. On the other hand having a good handle can't help some people, can it? And, yes Gargoyle, you have indeed lived up to your name! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: ClaireBear Date: 08 Jun 09 - 02:53 PM I am partial to Crane Driver. I find that name so clever that I'm periodically tempted to change my handle to McCannic -- but if I did, you'd all know where I got the idea. Besides, I'll never be half as good on my squeezer as Crane Drive is on his -- and one of my mottoes is "Never invite comparison when you're sure to lose by it!" Claire |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: fat B****rd Date: 08 Jun 09 - 03:04 PM Thankyou Carol C. I remember you liking the Alexei Sayle connection. For the bst possible reasons it's gotta be Peace. LOL from Charlie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: My guru always said Date: 08 Jun 09 - 04:32 PM Hey, thanks Little Hawk, that's topped off my day nicely *grin* It's actually from a song I was known for singing and it just seemed to stick. There's a clip of it here: Good thread too, my vote would go for WYSIWYG but also nominate the Black Belt Caterpillar Wrestler, he sure can wrestle that thing! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jun 09 - 05:53 PM Cute song. ;-) Gotta PM you about something now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Gervase Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:09 PM I always found Mousethief an intriguing moniker. Wonder where he is now... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 08 Jun 09 - 06:28 PM Yes. A good one. He seemed to see it as meaning that he was a mouse that thieves, rather than someone who steals mice. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Slag Date: 08 Jun 09 - 07:35 PM Excellent pdq, re Dead Horse ( and too bad Herr Bach got your handle first). Little Hawk, YES! Martin Gibson was a brilliant pick though he was just stringing us along. So much for "f" holes. By the way, Little Hawk has always been a favorite of mine (do you happen to drive a Tercel?)!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Ebbie Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:18 PM I have always liked Wyowoman. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Beer Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:31 PM I'll go for Mooh as well. Every time I see his post I see a cow Mooing in a field(no offense meant.). Beer (adrien) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: heric Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:31 PM I always thought catspaw was goddamned clever. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Rowan Date: 08 Jun 09 - 10:37 PM Along the lines of "Kent Ovation," etc., perhaps I should have picked "Crabbed" or "Jeffries' mute" but I knew that Crane Driver had cornered that market. Most of the ones listed have elicited wonder and appreciation but I could add Foolestroupe, Hrothgar and Squeezeme. Cheers, Rowan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Alice Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:39 PM yup, WyoWoman, good one |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Alice Date: 08 Jun 09 - 11:49 PM also, Artful Codger ToulouseCruise Roger the Skiffler Chocolate Pi khandu Blackcatter GutBucketeer |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:12 AM ...I don't think anyone has used "MadCut"..? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: bubblyrat Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:17 AM Talking of Mice, I had originally considered using the handle "Nostradormouse" after the eponymous(e) visionary rodent,but I didn't fall in to that trap (I got cheesed off with it). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: kendall Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:21 AM Are you baiting us? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: GUEST,Cretinous Yahoo Date: 09 Jun 09 - 07:37 AM I'm still around, just don't have much to say anymore. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:29 AM Coolest: coldude (natch!) Best:Max (of course) Honourable mention: El Greko RtS (thanks for the mention, Alice!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Cool Beans Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:45 AM Thanks for the shout out. I like the moniker John on the Sunset Coast 'cuz you don't immediately know which country's west coast John's on. Makes him kind of universal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: bubblyrat Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:53 AM Well,it couldn't have been anywhere in the British Empire,now could it ?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Spleen Cringe Date: 09 Jun 09 - 12:31 PM Hey, Bubblyrat! Great handle, even greater taste... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Little Hawk Date: 09 Jun 09 - 01:27 PM Nostradormouse is incredible!!! I can't believe anyone would turn that name down after having thought of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:09 PM If I were joining today, I'd be "Chuck U. Farley". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: gnu Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:27 PM Best guest ever was Anonymoose. Another horny beast (yes, I know about antlers.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: heric Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:48 PM Guy in the paper yesterday's real name was Nhat Tung. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Wesley S Date: 09 Jun 09 - 03:05 PM I considered using "Master of the bleedin' obvious" but decided that Wesley S was easier for me to remember. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler Date: 09 Jun 09 - 04:06 PM I quite like the explanation behind 8pints. Perhaps Bob would like to share it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Cool Beans Date: 09 Jun 09 - 04:46 PM Good one, bubblyrat! Took me a minute to get it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Coolest and best Mudcat member handle! From: Slag Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:18 PM Sorry, but Anonymoose and Anonymouse have been around for generations. That is not to say that I don 't appreciate the fact that it IS a clever name. When my Dad courted my Mom he wrote her poetry signed "Anonymoose"! |
