BS: Why did you choose your nickname?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Sourdough
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:00 AM

I started using Sourdough as a CB handle when, for a short time, I had a radio mounted on my motorcycle. I liked the name because it fit my interests in both prospecting and in treasure hunting, both of which seem to take me into the bush a lot. It also works for tradiutional music.

The name stuck and my best friend has referred to me as Sourdough now for years so when asked for a nom du Mud, I dug this up.

Sourdough of Sonoma

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Llanfair
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 03:22 AM

Jon. That would be "White...one of my best kept secrets!"
(bloody Welsh speakers!) Ach y fi Bronwen.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 05:00 AM

I started off with an enquiry under my real name, when I began to post regularly in a lighter vein I followed Mudcat tradition to choose a nickname, chose Roger (my given name) the zimmer (a walking frame for the elderly or infirm) because someone on another site had called me "the pelvis" for supplying lyrics to a 50's popular song & I had responded that at my age "the zimmer" would be more appropriate. I changed it recently in case it offended anyone with genuine mobility problems and given I'm a jazz & blues freak, & the skiffle end of the folk spectrum is where I connect with the Mudcat folkies ( and I only play the kazoo) hence "skiffler".
long boring explanation,sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: anahata
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 05:40 AM

My nickname is my business name Anahata. It's Hindi and roughly means 'open heart'....I work with flower essences and healing people spiritually. I noticed later that the letters in my first name and surname come pretty close to forming Anahata which was pretty weird.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 05:44 AM

Well, I am not, but would like to be. My surname is King, and I just came up with the 'king brilliant thing one day and it made me giggle. I use it for all sorts of things, and it always makes me laugh - and then I regret it in case anyone is offended by the implied bad-word, or in case anyone thinks I am horribly arrogant. But I usually sign myself by my real name (so that's OK then...)

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Tiger
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 07:24 AM

Well, I didn't exactly CHOOSE it, at first anyway. Some kids started calling me that in high school - not sure why 'cause I'm kinda laid back. That was OK with me - when you're a Ralph, it helps to have a nickname.

After April Stevens came out with "Teach Me, Tiger" and everyone started singing it to/with me, it became indelible.

.....Ralph (Tiger) Butts

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 07:39 AM

Geez Mouldy, say no more!!! Interesting that Sourdough posted just after you did. You two should get together.

Big RiB and El Swanno...Glad to be of service. Now if Father Joebro would follow suit........

Rick, you had a fine chance awhile back to go with "Bootsie" which would have kept it in the family, so to speak.

Bobby bob...If you combine both your posting names you could be Bobby Van (and Storage Company) and post up some sappy rock lyrics too.

Come clean there Leej. Are you sure you're from Kaintuck or is it Ellijay, Georgia? And are you really "Lonesome" because you have a Radio Shack 479 miles from nowhere or because of Tennessee Ernie?

Bill D., I think I see your problem. You could have gone with "Bumwash" though.

And Big Mick...I would never have guessed.

Banj, you had to work so hard to attain your exalted 4 star rank.....Don't be modest, General Banj has a nice ring to it......Well, at least better than your banjo does.

WW, if you move are we going to have to swap names again? You can probably get some moving help from the Bobby Van and Storage Co.

Don, with your sense of humor, I'm surprised you didn't opt for "Sawzall"...but I kinda' like the Reebok thingie...Actually, it has a nice Marx bros sound, like Hugo Z. Hackenbush.......yeah...calling Dr. Plimsole....hmmmm....beginning to take shape here.

Bertie!!!! 'Nuff said.

bbc, I really like Rick's take...Beebs....kinda' suits you.

Interesting thread ... Where's Jeri?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:07 AM

So, Roger, it really is you!

I chose my name because I'm not really Steve Parkes, but when he finds out I know he'll be r e a l l y mad!

Pete Starkers (but don't tell ... you-know-who)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Vixen
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:25 AM

In real life I'm a Victoria, which is fine when I'm feeling imperious, but not so hot when I'm behaving in my usual wild and wooly ways. I gave up Vicki for Vic, because I don't like the "little girlishness" of Vicki. On the other hand, I'm getting tired of being addressed as "Mister" both on the phone (low voice) and in person, (must be my height?). To make a long story interminable, I've felt since I was a child that the red fox and the sugar maple are my kindred spirits. When I used to make greeting cards for my friends, I dubbed them "Vixen Grafix" and when I started writing songs, I called them "Vixen Muzik," so when I found the mudcat, Vixen seemed like a good choice. My monogram, since about the age of 8, is a capital "V" with the dot from the "i" to the right of it, which looks sort of like a pointy nose with an eye, and would pronounce, rebus-fashion, as V-eye, but nobody ever figured that out or called my by that name. Too clever by half, I'm told.

V

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:29 AM

What!? Where!? Wh...? Oh yeah, sorry. I'm just Jeri. I'd been posting on Usenet newsgroups for about four years prior to joining Mudcat, and signing my real name. It's hard to break with tradition.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Easy Rider
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:06 AM

Easy Rider is a Blues term. I'm into the Country Blues:

1 - The "easy rider", also known as "See See Rider" or "C C Rider" (see also rider), is a blues cliché for the sexual partner, although originally it referred to the guitar hung on the back of the traveling bluesman.;

2 - Southern Louisiana's John "Johnny B" Bradford says: "An easy rider is the husband or significant other of a whore - thus the name. He doesn't work or pay for sex. It's his easily. Thanks to John "Johnny B" Bradford for this contribution to the list.

Sounds like a good life to me!

__________ This phrase can be found in: Big Bill Broonzy, C C Rider (1) Big Bill Broonzy, C C Rider (2) Mississippi John Hurt, See See Rider

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:55 AM

Actually, I was looking for a nickname that had a folk sound to it, like Ramblin Jack Elliott, and I've always been a Hank W fan, my favorite of his being I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. EJ = my actual initials. LEJ or Leej, the nickname for my nickname, is a Spaw-ism.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Larry B.
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 12:03 PM

Diminuative of Lawrence, and a useful tool. If someone calls me and asks for Lawrence, I know it is almost certainly someone I do not know conversationally, and who is probably trying to sell me something.

LB

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Margo
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 12:30 PM

Well, boringly simple. My name is Margaret. Margo, which is my common nickname, was taken already. Sooooo, instead of using Margaret, I went with the more exotic version, Margarita.

Shame on you, Catspaw! You commented about everyone else's name, but gave no explanation of your own! Come come, now fess up!

Margarita

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:21 PM

Oh..............Well, catsass49 was already taken so...

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:26 PM

unless we hear differently, I am gonna assume that 'catspaw' refers to some brand of tire tread..*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jaxon
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:28 PM

My given name is John. Family and friends have called me Jack or Jackie all my life. My father's saloon buddies called me Jackson, it must have been something in the Old T.
I later had a girlfriend who took to calling me Jackson also. I just shortened it to save time.
Jack Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:35 PM

Jaxon: here in Wyoming, home of Jackson Hole, the residents all abbreviate it to Jxn.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: selby
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:53 PM

Selby is my home town and it just seemed like a good idea at the time although I usualy add my own name at the end anyway Keith

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:55 PM

LMAO here Bumwash....A TIRE TREAD???.....I love it......beats the reality hands down!!!!

Catspaws are wave patterns and as a long time sailor, it was a term I'd been using for years. Then oneday it struck me, some weird corrolary between the sound of a Hammered Dulcimer and the fresh breeze and lightness of a catspaw. When we picked a name for the company 6 years ago, Catspaw Dulcimers seemed kinda' nice. Add this to the fact that our cats are always walking across one (or the piano) and it became even more appropriate. I started making soundholes in the cat's paw design after that. The 49 was both my age when I signed on and the year I was born.

But the tire tread thing is a lot better...and a step up...I could be Tigerpaw!

Spaw - Which is where it finally ended up.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 03:54 PM

Catspaw-- I thought you had taken the name from the very popular brand of shoe heels and soles which shoe shops used to advertise, but then I remembered that my grandfather had a certain kind of carpenter's implement by that name; I would have never associated it with sailing.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Tincap
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 04:41 PM

Tincap is the name of the country crossroads near where I grew up in Eastern Ontario. Since I moved from there 20 years ago its been pretty well swallowed up by urban sprawl. I guess this is my way of keeping the community alive in spirit.

By the way the community got its name from the tin roof on the bell tower of the old one room school house. As the school sat on top of a hill the "tincap" could be seen from quite a distance.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 06:54 PM

Jeri, if you've been using Usenet that long, are you a Jeriatric?

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:35 PM

Hahaha - good one!!! I do feel that way sometimes!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:57 PM

Geez Bill ... I had completely forgotten about the heels!!! I don't know how since I was always having "Half-Soles and Heels" done when I was growing up. The athletic shoe society we've moved into has really put a crimp on their business I bet.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Mbo
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:59 PM

Weeell...my real name is Matthew, but (don't laugh) thanks to a particular episode of "Home Improvement" I became Mbo, or as it should by written, M-Bo. As a result of this my sisters immediately became Cbo and Kbo. When feeling rather omnipotent (like a cheesewheel) I address my self as "Mbo" or "Ol' Mbo" (though at 20 years of age, the "Ol'" is pushing it a bit. Maybe when I'm older I'll opt for "Mbo Og."

By the way...I just read a Irish folk tale about about a little boy who was 6 feet tall when he was 10 years old. His name was Big Mick (also known as Amadan Mor in Gaelic, but it may prove offensive if translated!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Hummingbird
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 09:02 PM

Well, It's pretty simple, I just love Hummingbirds. Have them hanging around the house, on the wall and wallpaper on the puter. If you look at them, they are just fascinating!!! I've spent hours watching them at my windows and flower beds. Dog's havn't caught one yet either!!!!!! Hummer

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: _gargoyle
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 09:25 PM

Catspaw....I honestly thought you had a daughter named Kat, Cat, (Katherin, Kathy)....

(BTW sic'd the Fed's on your Maw-in-Law's postal annex for purloined mail and lost money orders)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 09:32 PM

G'day,
I posted a couple of times as Alan, then a regular mudcatter at the time, X of Y (only the names have been changed to protect the innocent), slagged Waltzing Matilda, Australia's unofficial national anthem. This DEMANDED a reply from an Aussie, so taking the same middle name I replied as Alan of Australia, sometimes Alan of Oz.

Cheers,
Alan Foster

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: folk1234
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 09:45 PM

Like many of you, I'm sure, I have many, many passwords and user ID's. I've finally found one that hasn't been taken and that I can remember and use in almost ecery cyber-venue.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From:
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 09:56 PM

Allen you are from THE GREAT FAMILY of BREWERS... by the same name?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: JedMarum
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 10:24 PM

hmmm - if I had known this was a really cool place, I would not have used a pseudonym. But being a fairly inexperinced Web user when I opened my Mudcat account, I presumed anonymity was appropriate ... so I made up a name on the spur of the moment that both fit my heritage and fancy ... Liam Devlin sounds like any one of dozens of names my friends and cousins had in the Boston, where I grew up.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: raredance
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 10:39 PM

Last name's too long to type in all the time. I dropped the caps because all too often when I hit the shift key to cap a word, I also get the second letter capitalized as well. It's bad enough in song lyrics but I didn't want that constant reminder of ineptitude. When I sign my name I only use "R" with the last name. Besides all that "rich r" sound better than "poor r"

rich r

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 10:47 PM

G'day,
I have nothing to do with Foster's Lager, but I do play the Foster's Lagerphone.

Cheers,
Alan

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:04 PM

"Spaw,

You is a sailor? Whats your craft? I live in the land of Lightnings but I've sailed every thing from Snipes to Stars and most hulls in berween. Given my druthers I'd take the Snipe over the Lightining and I'd prefere a Sanderling to most anything.

Regards

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: emily rain
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:24 PM

banjer, i always thought your name signified "banjo player" or "one who banjes".

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 06:18 AM

My dad calls me patrish. real name patricia, but i feel more like a patrish. So its my real name without the "a"

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Big Mick
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 06:19 AM

So, young fella................Amadaun Mor is it? C'mon, let's take a walk out this back door of the pub......Oh don't worry, it's just a nice walk in the woods....What?.......Well, yes, you probably should take a last look at the place.......LOL. I know that story from my Dear aul Gran. For those with no knowledge of Gaelige, Amadaun translates to fool, and mór is big, hence Big Fool. I would prefer Mícheál Mór.

All the best,

Big Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 07:55 AM

Hmmm, I posted yesterday and it said it went through, etc. but I can't find myself (think I'll ask my boss if I can take time off to find myself -- nah).

Anywho, what I said was I had a summertime nursery colony of little brown bats (that's the variety, and also a description) between the bedroom ceiling and the roof. As a result of annual July (usually) bat adventures, I know a lot about little brown bats and bats in general. Oh, and they like me, so Bat Goddess seemed appropriate. I was Linn the Thanatolithologist before I got legal and Jeri sucked me into, I mean "introduced me to" Mudcat by getting me involved in the gravestone symbolism thread.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Wotcha
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 11:45 AM

I grew up in London, and eveyone used to say "wotcha mate" or just plain "wotcha !" which is loosely translated into American as "How's it goin'?"

Cheers, Allahamdalla Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: mariejanis
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 02:21 PM

mariejanis expanded as marie janis was a german spy who seduced a british air-ace in the great war - for those who are not from anglicana that was the 1914-1918 war. I adopted it for personal reasons (I lust after young airmen in flying helmets and goggles and carrying sticks of celery or rhubarb)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Caindawg
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 03:57 PM

12 years ago, whilst snowboarding my favorite local backcountry at Mt Cain, Vancouver Island, I heard some local kids call me that. I guess it had something to do with my particular expression of joy upon finding a patch of pow as yet untouched. The young guys were sort of amazed at this much older dude riding stick and I heard one tell another something like "that's that old Cain dog". I kinda liked it and now it's not only on many lists but is also the name of my production company and my solo acoustic bluesman-act alter-ego.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 05:42 PM

Anima= spirit
terra= earth
mater is hidden in between.
My women's chorus stumbled upon the name early in its existence. I started the group up, feel pretty identified with it- Animaterra even gets its own mail from charity orgs now! So that's me.
Otherwise, Allison-with-2-l's (from New Hampshire, not Australia)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: K~~
Date: 06 Oct 99 - 06:20 PM

It's easy to type.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: thosp
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 01:04 AM

thomas= thos
peter= p
ergo thosp or thosper
a nickname for me used by some members of my since childhood--- ohhhh thomas= first name
peter= middle name

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: ddw
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 01:21 AM

I started on the mudcat with ddw in Windsor (previous explanation for place stands here) but that was a pain to type in all the time. The ddw is my initials and my ID at work (we have to identify our work on every story we write/edit in this business and there was already a dw at the first place I worked), so it's just automatic to type it in.

David Dale Whitaker

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Magpie
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 02:20 AM

My goodness!

I never thought so many would answer to this thread. It's nice, though, I feel I'm getting to know you all a bit better Thanks!

Magpie

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Dinty
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 08:45 AM

Well, as I stared at the registration form I knew that I did not want to use my real name and I had to go back to college and dust off "Dinty." Some of my oldest friends still use it. I used it while bartending through college. People seemed to like being served ale by someone named Dinty Moore. People also seemed to have fun coming up with variations on it... Baron von Dinthoven being one of my personal favorites. It actualy had nothing to do originally with the beefstew but I think that it why it stuck.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Dinty
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 08:45 AM

Well, as I stared at the registration form I knew that I did not want to use my real name and I had to go back to college and dust off "Dinty." Some of my oldest friends still use it. I used it while bartending through college. People seemed to like being served ale by someone named Dinty Moore. People also seemed to have fun coming up with variations on it... Baron von Dinthoven being one of my personal favorites. It actualy had nothing to do originally with the beefstew but I think that is why it stuck.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 Oct 99 - 09:00 AM

Dinty, I'll bet you are wondering how your post appeared twice. It often comes from using your "back" button after you enter a post.