BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: JennyO
Date: 23 May 03 - 02:09 PM

Hi, Clean Supper. Funny you should mention anagrams. We (Solidarity) were at it again last week. My anagram (taking some liberties with spelling) is "I rely onn jely".

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: beadie
Date: 23 May 03 - 01:37 PM

. . . first and last initials   { B & D}

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Clean Supper
Date: 23 May 03 - 11:48 AM

It's an anagram of my real first and surnames. Can you guess what they are? (Sh! those people who know who I am...)

Ecopella, a lovely enviro choir in Sydney that I was part of (and still feel connected to despite having been some 10 000 miles away from them for nearly two years) had a few amusing nights at the pub making anagrams of one another's names. Some people brought computer generated ones specially. I can't remember whether mine was worked out or computer-generated.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: wilco
Date: 22 May 03 - 05:35 PM

I'm the 48th Duke of Wilco of Tennessee.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: MARINER
Date: 22 May 03 - 04:44 PM

Although not a mariner, I did spend 30 years at sea and I thought the title suited me ,at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Desdemona
Date: 22 May 03 - 12:44 PM

I'm a scholar of Shakespeare, and have at various times felt strangled by the insecurities of others!

D.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 22 May 03 - 06:07 AM

Its from Toy Town. as most(but not all) of my posting are not for real.

Hello Big Ears

F### off Noddy.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 22 May 03 - 04:47 AM

I didn't choose it, my parents did.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Phot
Date: 21 May 03 - 01:55 PM

Simple really, I'm a professional photographer!

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Padre
Date: 20 May 03 - 10:09 PM

I'm a priest - chaplains are often called Padre.

Padre

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Steve Benbows protege
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 10:18 AM

Well, quite boring really. Steve Benbow was a fairly well known British folk singer. He is my good mate and my Guitar tutor. Therefore I am Steve Benbow's protege.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Schantieman
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 06:06 AM

Hey, Leadfingers - I used to sing that song - 'The Folker' - I got it from the singing(?) of Fred Wedlock in the 70s. My version (well, his) is slightly different:

"I'm Leadfingers Wedlock and my story's seldom told
And I massacre folk music with a yard of German plywood and a capo..."

No idea, offhand, who wrote it, unless it was someone called Steve Turner.   Hang on....

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Fibula Mattock
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 05:09 AM

I once wanted a name with an archaeological theme (my old job) that sounded like a formidable old academic lady (I'm not - I'm young and only slightly formidable). A fibula is a type of brooch (like a safety pin) and also the name of a bone in the leg. A mattock is like a pickaxe but with a wide, blunt end on one side. It's my favourite digging tool. I thought that together they sounded like a proper name. Sort of. In real life I'm known as Kate.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: forty two
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:47 AM

My dad had a shop - address was 42 XXXXXX. I liked the number as a kid and used to go round shouting 42 42 and the nick name stuck

You can imagine the ego trip when Douglas Adams came out with the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Yup it's me "the meaning of the universe life and everything" !!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: BusbitterfraeScotland
Date: 16 Jan 03 - 04:17 AM

My mudcat name is Busbitter, the reason is because I was riding my Scooter, and I battered or ran into the back of a bus losing my four front teeth, so that's how I became known as busbitter.
I can't remeber the accedent, and yet when I went into hospital I was asked a rreally stupid question which was 'Did you see the bus?'
If I saw the bus would I have ran into the back of it.
I'm not that stupid, mind you I do stupid things however that's not one of them.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Jim Krause
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 07:31 PM

I got tired of explaining to the British folk that I don't sing sea songs about cursing sailors. So I dropped the name Soddy, and started using my real name. If it was good enough for my Mom and Dad, it's good enough for the Mudcat Cafe. And no, Spaw, my real name is not Henry Montesque Fillbrook Shakespeare Rottensone the III.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: mike the knife
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 01:20 PM

That was the nickname given to me by my former rugby club. I collect pocketknives & always had one handy to cut medical tape, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: vindelis
Date: 15 Jan 03 - 12:48 PM

Having just spotted 'Kimberlin' in another thread, I know WHAT you are, (Cos it means yoom ain't narn o' we); but on which side of Ferry-Bridge do you live?

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: aussiebloke
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 01:02 PM

Well, I'm a bloke, and I'm from Australia, so it wasn't that hard...

Cheers all

aussiebloke

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: vindelis
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 12:58 PM

It's the Roman name for Portland.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: DG&D Dave
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 11:54 AM

Doom Gloom and Despondency, Dave.

Due to judging a song contest for the last 15 years (at least).

God its depressing!!!:>

Loads o' Love to all Sidmouthites and AMBS.

Dave Barnes.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:48 AM

On my birth certificate. When joining mudcat I tried Brutus but it was already occupied.
All my student friends call me Brutus which is my cerevisial (beer) name; I came to it when some girls asked me what the B. on my card meant (I was also baptized Bruno Cornelius). I gave them three guesses:
Bernard? - No.
Beppo? - No.
Brutus? - No.
But Brutus stuck.

Wilfired

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: The Pooka
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:40 AM

At first I wanted to be "The Mole" or some variant (not to say deviant)(I *told* you not to say deviant) thereof -- a persistent nickname given by my friends in college (both of them) who marvelled at my sunny disposition, social skills and intellectual farsightedness, not to mention my star-shaped nose. (I *told* you not to mention nyaah nevermind.) However -- seriously for once now -- I abandoned that out of respect for the memory of the then-recently-deceased, universally-beloved, LR Mole. A guy like that, you just retire his jersey number. So then I picked this foreshortening of The Pooka Fergus MacPhellimey, a character of the great Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen, whose writing I admire and shamelessly plagiarize. I would have used the whole name but that might have seemed a bit ostentatious. :) Invisible sixfoot rabbits had nothing to do with it but sometimes I steal that image too, what the Hell. I have seen "pooka" defined as "a mischievous Irish devil". Well what in the Divil comes over ye all nyaah nevermind. (And another thing: we once had a Himalayan cat named The Pooka *Furball* MacPhellimey, whom my wife wrote in for a local office at an election & then demanded that the officials illegally reopen the voting machine in order to correct their failure to report her frivolous vote -- which they did. Anything else ya wanna know? Don't answer that.)

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,Redhorse at work
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 08:31 AM

England has got lots of white horses on hillsides, but only one red horse, above the village with which I share a name. The fact that the horse has not been seen for 250 years and no-one now knows where it was sited or even what it looked like, adds a certain symbolism of something or other.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Sam L
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 07:46 AM

I didn't want to simply use my name, so I used my name for complicated reasons.

    My name is Fred Miller, but I thought it would be more fun to choose a name reflecting a particular interest of mine, so my name would habitually reflect that interest above any topic I commented on. "Fred Miller" seemed to do this nicely. And so if I logged on to comment here that Yuk's remark about people being narcissists is total b.s., people can see that this comes from my deep concern and expertise in "Fred Miller" as a subject of general interest, not just some personal whim or bias.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 03:55 AM

Ella wuz me great grannies name and she was a lovely lady, who died when I was 6. She was brill, used to build me and my cousins dens in her dining room, with tunnels made from clothes horses with drapes over them leading to under the old oak dining table, which was our den headquarters. A daft fun old lady and I loved her. So thought, that's a good a name as any to use...

(Suzie is me proper name - well, actually it's Suzanne, but I get all sorts of variations, the milk man calls me Joanna, and his wife - the milk lady (whaddya know!) calls me Samantha - I'm used to it now)

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 14 Jan 03 - 02:44 AM

I'm a big guy and my most important role in life is "Daddy."

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: COINWOLF
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 06:52 PM

Chosen for me by the Ghost of Upton...Thomas Bound

As shown on Upton Town's website History section:
Upton's Ghost
Thomas Bound, who came of an old Upton family, a puritan in religion and politics, was churchwarden in 1640 and 1641. He became Captain of an Upton volunteer corps in the Civil War and helped to turn out the popular rector, William Woodforde. He probably devised the scheme by which the bridge and the church were captured in 1651.

Bound, a grim and covetous man, is said to have disposed of two of his three wives, forging the will of his last wife on her deathbed. He took his own life by drowning in the Causeway pool between his homes at Soley's Orchard in Rectory Road and Southend Farm. There are many legends of his haunting the neighbourhood, sometimes on horseback, and frequent fancied sightings; so, eventually his ghost had to be exorcised.

His bones were later removed from the parish church; his skull was taken by a tradesman and became a drinking cup. Even now, when a pony gets out on the road, there are people who shut their doors exclaiming "Here he comes again!"


The Ghost of Thomas Bound's Cat lurks around every corner. The one eyed cat who travelled extensively around England, at the time of Oliver Cromwell, was a fiddler of the first order. He reached notes other fiddlers could not reach, he jugged and reeled in a manner unaccustomed to his feline breed, and he danced his way from tavern to tavern following the sound of music, song and laughter. Thomas Bound may still be seen riding on his horse in Rectory Road by Soley's Orchard, but the cat is only seen these days on the occasion of Upton's Folk Frolics on May Day Bank Holiday. His wooden leg is heard thumping the boards in time to his jigs and reels. His tail flaps wildly at the feet of a Morris Man (whose dancing steadily diminishes with the passing of time and beer).

Losing his leg in a Worcester fight, his present leg was a gift of oak from a tall dark cavalier who hid in an old tree.

Festival Cat
www.uptonfolk.org

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: chordstrangler
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 04:17 PM

I'm afraid that it describes my guitar skills...M

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 01:33 PM

Gosh... I went back to one of those threads Spaw linked to and found a rather short explanation, replete with a poorly attempted joke.... which could be misinterpreted...

"Mine ? I did not choose it. It was the nickname I went by (and still do) when I joined this raucous yet knowledgeable group. It is reflective of my gentle nature and my Hyde side. BTW, it's pronounced g-nu, emphasis on both syllables."

Not that I have a "Hyde" side nor that I am in any way less than a gentleman – well, good ol' boy. Rather, when provoked, the gnu can become a formidable and fierce foe… it's Wildebeeste side. The name was bestowed on me years ago by my cousins who have seen the transformation.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Jan 03 - 08:26 AM

another interesting anagram ....Mr. Mojo Risin = Jim Morrison

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: DancingMom
Date: 12 Jan 03 - 09:46 PM

My daughter gave me the name. I dance around in my house when I'm working in it, and she used to call my dance "the Mom bop." I have a habit of doing a little bouncy thing listening to music driving in the car, too (Yes, I look where I'm going, it's not THAT bouncy) Hence the Dancing Mom title. Remind me of Captain Kangaroo's Dancing Bear. Sharon

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 12 Jan 03 - 02:06 AM

My new Guitar action was too high, or I was pressing the strings wrong, or I have delicate hands, or I should not have started playing again, then I would not be needing to read mudcat ....

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 11:14 PM

It's an anagram of my real name, Noah Merck.

Aloha,
Noah

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: *daylia*
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 10:40 PM

it's a secret!

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: boglion
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 07:24 PM

I spend a lot of time in the bogs of County Kerry (where my mother was born) but was brought up in the wonderful environment of South London which hosts the delights of Millwall Football Club (the Lions) which is another obsession.

Therefore bog = mud lion = cat.

I used to post as "Millwall" but some people found that a little too aggressive - prejudice is a terrible thing!!!

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 06:52 PM

CarolC ... "a rose by any other name..."

hmmm - you went from a 'C' to a 'D' ...in music that's called modulation (just for a little musical anecdote)

A name is such a personal choice ...when you were born you probably didn't have much input on selecting your name. So this time around ... (continuing hesitatingly)

If you wanted to stay with your pattern you could now be CarolD. Or for a nod to recorded music: CarolCD. Obviously, my favorite choice is GUEST. It's so easy to remember, and handy, too.

Those that know you much better will no doubt have better suggestions. But in the end, like Shakespeare alluded in the quote above, "What's in a name?"

Best of luck in your decision.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Strupag
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:54 PM

An strupag is the Scots gaelic term used for a wee cup of something.
I used to do a show on a wee local radio station in Ullapool, Lochbroom FM. The show was called the Sunday Strupag.
Many's the strupag we had after the show and it wasn't always tea!

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: allanwill
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:42 PM

Quite simple (my mudcatonym, that is, not me). My Name is Allan and I live in the Australian Capital Territory, Orstrailya.

(thread creep) - Leadfingers,I have a recording of Noel Murphy doing that parody, but different lyrics to what you quote.

Allan

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 03:05 PM

The parody of 'The Boxer'written by the bloke from Nottingham who's name I have forgotten called'The Folker'was my introductory song for
so long that when I had cards printed I used it as part of my professional name.

I'm Leadfingers Silver and my story's seldom told
I massacre folk music with a Yankee status symbol and a capo

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: leprechaun
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 12:00 AM

Everybody calls me that, with minor variations which include The Mexican leprechaun, That god-damned leprechaun, and mayonnaise.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: ex-pat
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:40 PM

erm, I am I guess, from another land. Well we are all from somewhere but I am not living in the country I am from. So I get called an ex-pat!

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Brakn
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:03 PM

People would call me Bracken because I was in a band called Bracken. When I went solo it was presumed that my name was Bracken...so I stuck with it.

Michael Bracken
brakn

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:52 PM

It's a name from a former lifetime. I still like it a lot, and have used it among friends for many years.

Little Hawk

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 09:45 PM

Brdafordian,

Re your thread creep, Byron, Georgia, which is about an hour south of Atlanta, was the sight of the 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival, also known as the "Southern Woodstock". Crowd estimates at the festival were roughly the same as for Woodstock. It was the largest crowd to ever see Jimi Hendrix perform. (Much of the crowd at Woodstock and Isle of Wight had already left before Jimi came on stage.) It was a hoot. As far as I know, that is Byron's only claim to fame.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Michael
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:49 PM

You'll have to ask my mam.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From:
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:46 AM

Actually, there's another version of this story out there in one of the old threads.

However, in the days of old, before the internet was host to many many many XXX websites....

My name is Victoria, I go by Vicki, and when I was small and spent lots of time in the woods alone, there was a red fox that I saw often just about the time I was 'spozed to be going home. I have no idea if the fox was a vixen or a dog, but I imagined her to be a sort of girl friend who came out to tell me when to get home so mother wouldn't be angry with me.

Thus, when I started making greeting cards for my friends, I called my "publishing company" (mind you, I'm still only about 10!) Vixen Grafix. And when I started writing songs, I called *that* venture Vixen Muzik. (neither one has made a penny)

Along the way, I got some education, and I spell better now. However, in the process of getting the education, I discovered the philosophical concept of the chiasmus, and the anatomical structure of the same name, and have developed an interest in the myriad of memes represented by the character "X" and how it's formed by two "V"s, and so on and so forth...

So when I first got on the net (anybody remember Megabyte University??) back in the early 90's, socially speaking, Vixen seemed somehow safer than my real name, and I've stuck with it, even though its e-meaning has e-volved into something I really have nothing to do with (those XXX sites I mentioned earlier...)

V

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: ballpienhammer
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:57 AM

I am round and hard on one end!

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,allen woodpecker
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:10 AM

From a lovely exchange in an episode of the sitcom "Dinnerladies" (which I actually never watch, I just caught this bit and it seemed like serendipity) between four women.
First Woman - "I like that Woody, off the telly. Wotzisname?"
Second Woman - "Allen?"
Third Woman - "Woodpecker?"
Fourth Woman (who hasn't been paying attention) - "Who's Allen Woodpecker?"
I think she was talking about Mr Hemp, a.k.a. Woody Harrelson.
Peace and love, a.w.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Gurney
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 04:44 AM

A schoolboy nickname from a distant youth. Older Britons may remember the TV programme Gurney Slade, with the nice theme tune. And Chris was taken. Chris.