BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Schantieman
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 07:08 AM

Pretty tedious really: I (used to) sing a lot of shanties and other sea songs. The spelling is from the Bromyard Schantieman competition which I had the honour/good fortune to win several years ago.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 07:03 AM

Took the Irish Gaelic spelling of "raparree." A raparree was a highwayman, often a former soldier who had fought against the English.      
They viewed themselves as "Robin Hood" sorts; usually they were hanged.

Like them, "My spurs are rusty/My coat is rent/My plume is damp with rain/And the thistledown and the barleybeards/Are thick on my horse's mane."

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 06:45 AM

My name is Cat and I play the fiddle....wanted a different spelling so substituted the F for a PH....hence catsPHiddle!!

Cat

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: mooman
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:54 AM

I was "named" by 'Spaw after the good Lady McMoo made away with my previous name and cookie!

moo

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Partridge
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:47 AM

sounds like my previous name Patrish which for complicated reasons needed changed.

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:37 AM

My parents had a bizarre sense of humour.

BJ

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Oaklet
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:35 AM

Mine is an anagram of my surname. Or would have been but I couldn't be arsed to rearrange the letters.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: alanabit
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:13 AM

Mine's just a dumb acronym. I played in a couple of bands and it stands for Alan's Band's In Town. We called the band Alan's 'Abits.

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: catspaw49
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:12 AM

CLICK HERE for a previous thread you might enjoy and at the top of it you will find links to other "Mudcat Name" threads.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: stevetheORC
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 05:02 AM

Me I am into fantasy, but have always thought that ORC'S have had a bad press, very missunderstood !!!
Read 'GRUNTS' by Miss Gentle to get a clearer picture

Subject: RE: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Sonnet
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 04:58 AM

Mine's an obvious one. Semi-professional poet.

Jay

Subject: BS: How did you choose your mudcat name?
From: rock chick
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 04:56 AM

I have been looking at the names on this site now for some time, there are some weird and wonderful ones, it's made me wonder how each one of you came to choose your Mudcat name.

Mine was simple, A few years ago I would often experiment with different colours with my hair, on one occasion I had bought some purple, red, yellow, wash out hair sprays earlier in the day I sprayed it onto the front of my hair that night, which was also a spiky style (bit punky). As I walked in to the session my friend Charles Atlas (Mudcat name) called me rock chick! Which kind of stuck with me. I don't those colours now, it's much more subdued, not that I am, I love fun, music and good company, properly even more so than back then.