BS: Identity Whos Who

Subject: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:10 AM

A little bit of fun to while away the winter nights (or those in the Southern Hemisphere, something to do after getting back from the beach).

We have a number of wild and wonderful Mudcat identities. So, can anyone work out who the real people behind the identities are, and secondly, where the identity comes from.

The identifyees need only answer by 'yes', 'no' or 'I am not playing', so identifyers should respect the latter.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST, topsie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:22 AM

Quite often people post under a mudcat/pseudonym and then put their name at the bottom, which kinda gives the game away.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 09:17 AM

it would give half of it away, but not necessarily where the pseudonym came from.

Subject: AnyClone Help Request
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:09 AM

Is it just me... or is there a risk that someone will be outed in this thread who does not wish to be?

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 11:27 AM

That could happen in any thread at any time. Then revised rule three - only identifyees who have opted in.

So I've opted in.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 12:33 PM

Mine isn't 'wild and wonderful', at all. E and B are the initials of my first and last names. I thought about spelling it 'Ebie', but it looked weird, and, of course, that is something I am not. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Newport Boy
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 12:48 PM

And mine is hardly a mystery.

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: kendall
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:06 PM

Nor mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: MarkS
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:09 PM

Mine is boringly obvious

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: DMcG
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:22 PM

Mine based on no more that when I first used the internet back in the very early 1980s the computer I used only allowed 4 letters for a login name, so its my first initial then the first 3 of my surname. I've stuck with it ever since.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:30 PM

well, spb cooperator ?

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:32 PM

Its my initials and that I belong to a workers co-operative.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:41 PM

The first and last words from the full title of my collection - "Walkabouts: travels and conclusions in verse" (as here).

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:47 PM

Guess....

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 01:57 PM

Rapparee?...Rector Partee?

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Little Robyn
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 02:03 PM

Mine's easy too.
I'm 5 foot one and a half.
And Robyn with a Y is the girl's way of spelling the name.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,Silas
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 02:13 PM

Mine is an open secret!

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 02:49 PM

Mine is 'wacky and self-deprecating' but I cribbed the name from an Alexei Sayle show. 'Return of the Fat B****rd'

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:24 PM

...and I could have sworn you were a contented bird of prey, F.B.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:45 PM

"where the identity comes from"... This is one of many thtreads.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,seamus Kennedy
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:53 PM

Who is Seamus Kennedy?
Oh, wait! That's me...never mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 03:58 PM

Believe it or not, I'm Dave MacKenzie (one of many).

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Maryrrf
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 04:34 PM

My name is Mary, and at the time I signed up I worked for a company called "Red River Foods".   It has been ten years since I worked for that company, so I sometimes think I should change it, but I haven't bothered.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Bert
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:00 PM

I'm Bert and I don't think that Seamus Kennedy really is Seamus Kennedy.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:21 PM

I am the walrus

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Taconicus
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 05:44 PM

My Mudcat name is a hint as to my location, and thereby to guessing my identity by the nature of my postings, if you've heard me sing. But I may not necessarily say yea or nea to guesses.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Ed T
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 06:35 PM

I am not really Ed, I am his sock puppet. Ed the Sock is a real sock puppet character, a crusty, but funny,Canadian TV music critic, who inspired my Mudcat name, "Ed T".

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 06:36 PM

Even knowing a full name isn't a lot of help.

The (in)famous website How Many Of Me says there are over 9,450 in the US alone with my name, but I can't be found with Google because the serial killers, bootleggers, horse thieves, etc (although most may be relatives) are more "popular" search subjects and they don't show enough results to get to anything about someone as boring as me.

Even knowing a specific location isn't much help, since my local phone book lists at least 18 with the same name, although I've only met four or five of them.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 06:57 PM

I'm a Song Thief so I stole my handle from a song (Which I still sing)

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 07:25 PM

I chose DonMeixner because there are two others out there with the same name and I find it easier to hide in a crowd. Actually my name is Don Meixner so the distinction is easy to find once you know.

Don Meixner

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Louie Roy
Date: 16 Jan 11 - 08:26 PM

I have nothing to hide

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Hawker
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 10:46 AM

At the time I joined it was the name of my Staffordshire Bull Terrier, who sadly passedc away last May aged 16 years.
Lucy x (I always sign off with my proper name....or the first bit of it!)

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:21 AM

I only ever post under my real name. Hopefully, this prevents me from typing anything too unwise.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:22 AM

Hello Lucy, by the way! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Becca72
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 11:24 AM

Well you see, my name is Becca and I was born in 1972...creative, huh?

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: maple_leaf_boy
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 12:53 PM

My name is Joe. I picked my pseudonym, because I'm a supporter of the
Toronto Maple Leafs (or Maple Laffs) hockey team. I've probably
mentioned it before somewhere, after someone suggested it was a
patriotic name for Canada, but it's a hockey name.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:02 PM

I almost always sign my posts (except the jokes) with either Dave or David Oesterreich. I use those names because my mother told me to.

"Uncle_DaveO" is just a little more complex.

I started calling myself as a singer "Uncle Dave" on the old HearMe facility, because when my brother's kids (count 'em, ten!) were kids I would play my guitar and sing to them for hours at a time, by popular demand.

But when I tried to sign in elsewhere the program wouldn't allow that, because there was usually a predecessor of that name.   

So I added the "O", the initial of "Oesterreich". And I found that most programs didn't like the user name to be separate, so I ran it together, and inserted the underline for esthetic reasons.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Jan 11 - 06:42 PM

Even those who have met me and know who I am don't know who I REALLY am.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Slag
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 03:57 AM

I have explained my name before because I never intended it to be that I am a slagger (though I have on occasion, generated a little heat!). I was unaware of the internet term and had used the name Slaghammer in gaming. I grew up in the welding business and my very first job at age 6 or 7 was chipping slag from welds with a, well, slaghammer. For brevity's sake I just chipped off the "hammer" part and came up with Slag!

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 04:49 AM

Pretty obvious.... I'm Liz and I squeak. Although with this arthritic knee now, I should really change it to Liz the Creak.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 05:06 AM

I sometimes wonder who I am myself these days! But I might have some fun and change it just to see if anyone knows who I am when I am not myself, if you see what I mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 05:18 AM

Many years ago when I was working down the pit, there was a revue of one of my folk gigs in a local paper. My chargehand asked if it was me, and thought this was funny. (Good, I was trying to be a bit of a comic at the time....)

He started calling me "Steamin' Willie Hardonn" for some obscure reason and it seemed to stick. I do note that one of our brethren, M'Unlearned friend, reckons it means something rather obscene. I thought it risque, but he seems to think it means something less obvious. Ah well, it doesn't.

I had forgotten all about it till, when I had a mudcat account in my own name, somebody mistook me for somebody of a similar name who worked at his pit and sent me abusive private messages.

So, two things. 1) if you don't have an account, you can't get abusive private messages. 2) I can use this as an alta ego and tell it like it is without having to explain my views when I get to a local folk club!

(I enjoy folk clubs and have many friends, but sharing a beer and sharing political views? Do behave...)

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: Allan C.
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 05:55 AM

My initials are A.C.C.. I have omitted my last name.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: freda underhill
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 06:02 AM

Frodo Baggins used the name Underhill when he went incognito at the Prancing Pony.. and Freda is a feminine version of Frodo.

Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 18 Jan 11 - 07:20 AM

Rapparee (The Artist Formerly Known As Repaire), your secret identity has long been unveiled.

I do not disclose my full name, in order to hide the fact that I am not really famous; the only 'catters to know me are those who lured me here ("I'm not a folkie!!!" - "Yes you are, you own acoustic guitars, sandals and even a mandolin." - "But I shave ...").

Actually many of us are quite keen to be known. Sometimes they assume that they already are, e.g. that we know where they come from. To save us "ignoramice" some detective work, I suggest that members can write a couple of lines about themselves, which can be viewed when clicking on the nickname links. (Or does this feature exist already, just invisible to GUESTs? In this case we would like to read whatever we are deemed worthy to know.)