BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers

Subject: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:09 PM

Whenever I see a post from "Seaking (at work)" it conjures up this totally surreal mental picture of the driver of one of them really huge hollychoppers taking a few minutes off to log in to Mudcat, halfway out to an oil rig.

What Monikers produce that kind of picture for you?

Don T.

Subject: Lyr Add: AQUALUNG (from Jethro Tull)
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:21 PM

When I see the name "Clinton Hammond" I picture a duck's sexual orifice sitting on top of a church organ (the instrument).

In the case of "Shambles" I picture an unkempt figure similar to Aqualung on the famous Jethro Tull album cover, shambling disconsolately through the park, spitting out the pieces of his broken luck, and watching the frilly panties run...

"Aqualung"

Sitting on a park bench
eyeing little girls with bad intent.
Snot is running down his nose
greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.
Drying in the cold sun
Watching as the frilly panties run.
Feeling like a dead duck
spitting out pieces of his broken luck.
Sun streaking cold
an old man wandering lonely.
Taking time
the only way he knows.
Leg hurting bad,
as he bends to pick a dog-end
he goes down to the bog
and warms his feet.

Feeling alone
the army's up the road
salvation à la mode and
a cup of tea.
Aqualung my friend
don't start away uneasy
you poor old sod, you see, it's only me.
Do you still remember
December's foggy freeze
when the ice that
clings on to your beard is
screaming agony.
And you snatch your rattling last breaths
with deep-sea-diver sounds,
and the flowers bloom like
madness in the spring.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:26 PM

I picture Chongo as a Moniker.

LH ... The Aqualung figure in regards to Shambles ... I agree!!

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:33 PM

Naah! Play nice guys, please. I was trying to start a "non bashing" threaDon T.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:33 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:35 PM

OK .... but ya gotta admit ..... it was a good one from LH.

Let's face it .. this thread is gonna be ... well, interesting.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:40 PM

When I see a post by "number 6" I think of a very large multicolored numeral done in flashing violet and orange neon-tube lighting. Oddly enough, the numeral that the sign pictures is "4".

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:41 PM

:~(

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 08:45 PM

4 but I'm a 6 ...

.. do I think of the Double Bubble character Pud when I see a post from Bee-dubya ?? :)

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 09:14 PM

Damn, sIx! This is one of those times when I wish Mudcat had those new-fangled animated smileys so I could have one rolling all over this post peeing on himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 09:51 PM

WYSISYG - either H Wogglebug esq, VHE or a bare bones word processor

Bee-dubya-ell - an aggressively rural person from Superman's home planet

Little Hawk - a small globule of phlegm, as yet unspat

number 6 - a thin, short haired bozo in a pair of starched Dr Denton pyjamas

misophist - one who eats peanut butter while contemplating a mirage

Joe Offer - a crocodile

Sorry, I'm very literal minded.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 09:57 PM

That definition of Little Hawk had occurred to me too, but I thought I'd leave the pleasure to someone else... ;-)

How do you get a crocodile out of Joe Offer?

I now picture Bobert as a rustic hillbilly ozark mountain-man type with a big beard, but that's not because of the name. It's because of the writing style he deliberately has created which portrays him that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:02 PM

Very, very good Mack/misophist

but may I remind you all is fair game in this thread.

mack/misophist ......... a failed experiment from the Island of Dr. Moreau :)

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:20 PM

I picture Martin Gibson as a schizophrenic person who can't figure out what he is. Does he play a Martin guitar or a Gibson? Is he straight or GAY?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: CarolC
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:22 PM

When I look at my own, it looks to me like a gypsy moth caterpillar, with the first 'C' being the head, the 'arol' being the body, and and the last 'C' being the tail.

There are a couple of screen names that create a lot of scope for my imagination, but I daren't say which ones or why.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:26 PM

LH should be answered pubicly, I suppose. Offer is one of the many gods of Ankh-Morpork.

For my own moniker, I used the literal definition of 'misophist'. Besides, the experiment wasn't so much failed as ill conceived. Nightmarish, some would say.

Had I been even more literal about Little Hawk, I would have ended up with 'meerlin'. And I'm not going to go there.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 10:58 PM

LH, that was a bit of a low blow.

Capri-Uni - an island united in peace

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: catspaw49
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 11:06 PM

"LH, that was a bit of a low blow."

Yeah kat, but then again, so is Clinton..............and that was an even lower blow......Much like Clinton's sister.

Spaw ... Who respects Clinton's ability to "play the dozens" too and awaits the return shot!!!(;<))

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 11:27 PM

Clinton has informed me that he doesn't have a sister, Spaw, but if he did I venture to predict that she would be the lowest blow in town.

Anyway, Kat may be referring to my Shambles comment as the "low blow", but that is honestly what I DO picture in my mind when I see the name "Shambles". I picture old Aqualung. It has nothing to do with my estimate of Roger's character, it is simply the image the name itself dredges forth from my imagination for some reason.

We had a hamburger joint named "Shambles" just south of Orillia on the highway. It was there for many years, and it never seemed to have much business. We always would laugh when driving by, because who in his right mind would call a place of business by the name "Shambles"? One has to wonder. Anyway, the Shambles hamburger joint finally went bust a couple of years ago, after Shane stopped eating there on his occasional trips to Toronto. It stands now, vacant and forlorn (just like Shane himself), a sad reminder of a glorious past that lives on only in local memory. One day that will also be true of my Shatner statue and my collection of Winona Ryder pics.

"Sic transit gloria mundi."

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 11:38 PM

"the image the name itself dredges forth from my imagination"

Exactly LH ... the intent of this thread isn't to take shots at the person, but as the thread says .. your reaction to the moniker.

LH ... was the Shambles burger joint in Gasoline Alley .. that stretch along the highway to Barrie?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 11:39 PM

Yeah, it was the Shambles one I was referring to...probably wouldn't have bugged me if you hadn't posted the lyrics. I don't think our Shambles covets little girls and I don't like the implication that he might. I KNOW you didn't mean it that way, but a little thought might've been better.

Spaw, you blow!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 11:52 PM

Well, let me state for the record that I do not wish to insinuate that Roger, a/k/a Shambles, in any way resembles in his foibles or his personal qualities the character Aqualung in the Jethro Tull song. I have no reason to think that of Roger, and I don't think it of him.

"Bagpuss" is one I was really puzzled by, until I found out that it was a character on some British show for children.

6 - The famous Shambles burger joint was about 6 miles north of Gasoline Alley on the northbound side of Hiway 11. Its predominant color was orange. It was ugly as sin, in that sort of glossy, cheap 50's burger and soda pop stand style that goes well with that hard shiny stuff that counters and kitchen tables were made of back then...the kind that had the aluminum edging on them with the little grooves that the dirt would get stuck in? What was that countertop stuff called? It was butt ugly, and it was everywhere. Kind of like aluminum siding, only worse.

Man, we oughta do a thread on that kind of stuff back then. Was it "art deco" or what the hell was it?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Apr 06 - 11:57 PM

formica? I think it's still around though..?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 12:02 AM

No, not formica. The word "kitsch" comes to mind...it was definitely in the category of things that are "kitsch", but it had a special name.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 12:03 AM

I vaguely recall the joint LH ... typical late 50's fast food outlets ... great description of that aluminum edging ... that was quite common with matching stools ... I'll ask my wife the interior decorator on the name of that counter top material.

sorry bout the thread drift here.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 12:09 AM

It's okay. I just started a thread for kitsch items. We can drift over there.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 12:14 AM

The style was nouveau deco (I just made that up). The 'art deco' period ended some time in the 1930s or 1940s. The fifties did seem to have a bit of a deco rivival though. And we're in the middle of another deco revival period right now. Sorry for the drift.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 12:25 AM

Yeah, that's what I thought. There has to be a name for that general category of 50's and early 60's stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: CarolC
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 01:50 AM

Shite?

(sorry)

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 01:59 AM

Shambles - the floor of an abatoir or the chute leading to it. Interesting name for a burger joint. You sure they weren't vegans?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Mo the caller
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 05:04 AM

I wonder if Shambles comes from York. One of the streets there is called the Shambles, from the old word for butcher.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: MBSLynne
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 07:22 AM

The Discworld crocodile god is Offler not Offer and he isn't really an Ankh-Morpork god, though every God is represented somewhere in Ankh-Morpork.

I don't know what images come to mind, but I do know that I'm often very surprised when I meet Catters in the flesh, to find that they are totally different from the way I pictured them

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Once Famous
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 07:57 AM

I play a Martin (guitar) and a Gibson (banjo). And I am as straight as can be.

when I think of Ron davies, I think of a woman trapped in a man's body.

For Amos, no body.

For Arne, acne of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: gnomad
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 07:58 AM

Shambles (York) picture

'nother

Somehow, this isn't what the 'cat name brings to mind.

Funny but Liz the Squeak doesn't bring to mind a picture, but a sound: a gym-shoe (sneeker?) skidding on a vynil floor. Roger the Skiffler does bring an image to mind, but this is a family show isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 08:40 AM

I think the name of the countertop stuff you guys are looking for is Arborite. My mother worked for the company for a while and we had our fair share of it around the house in the 50's and 60's. as far as I know it's still around somewhere as it's virtually indestructable.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Homeless
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 09:32 AM

I have to agree re: Shambles. From the very first time I read the name it brought forth an image of Aqualung, shuffling in a slight erratic way down the street.

number 6 always brings to mind a cowering, confused, thin person in a large, sterile, stainless steel room lit with a bare bulb.
This image is courtest of a sound byte from an Iron Maiden album, which I suspect is in turn taken from some movie
(in Orwellian, corporate, hollow tones)
subject: "Who are you?"
diembodied, authoritative voice: "The new number two."
s: "Who is number one?"
dav: "You... are number six."
s: "I am not a number. I am a Free Man!"
dav" "Ha, ha, ha, ha." (evil laugh, implying "That's what you think.")

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 09:38 AM

Homeless, it's from the TV show The Prisoner. The current show Lost bears a passing resemblance.

I thought 'the shambles' was a location, but I can see the Aqualung thing too.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Crystal
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 09:56 AM

I always think of Patrick McGooham when sIx posts!
Torturing Gardan Gnomes is what Gnomad makes me think.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 09:57 AM

"when I think of Ron davies, I think of a woman trapped in a man's body."

*giggle*...having known Ron for 20 years or so, I can think of no more INappropriate description.

now the moniker that I like is 'Guest'...makes me want to add "Edgar A." to the end.

Homeless is interesting, too...I had strange visions of that one...till I met him RT and he turned out NOT to be smelly and in ragged clothes..*grin*....

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: MMario
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 10:14 AM

hmmm - I don't seeem to get much in the way of pre-conceptions...but for some reason "number 6" comes up as a "Get Smart' secret agent type...

Though I know better - "Little Hawk" always makes me picture a kid playing 'Indian', with fingerpainted war paint and a rubber tomahawk.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 10:26 AM

Little Hawk could have been the kid in O. Henry's "The Ransom of Red Chief."

It's probably a mistake to post to this thread. . .
SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 11:38 AM

Little Hawk ..... the Radio Flyer

JohnInKansas ... HAL 9000 from 2001

MMario ... a baker (for some reason)

Stilly River Sage ... a Joshua tree

Bill D ... a Methodist minister

Bobad ... a raccoon

Bert ... some one who works in a convenience store


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: gnomad
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 01:02 PM

In rescpect of Crystal's charge I plead Not Guilty, but I'll admit to having been tempted at times.

Crystal makes me think of a chandelier, and of course Mr Red is a loquacious horse.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Van
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 01:20 PM

Lizthe Squeak is an odd moniker - perhaps she'll explain its origins. From her postings she comes across as an affable old hippy.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 01:39 PM

Devastating, Mario, devastating. ;-D I always did play the "Indian" back in those childhood days. I was pro-Indian when I emerged from the womb.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 01:47 PM

Liz the Squeak has posted before that her laugh got her that moniker, I believe...

A "Methodist minister"???? oh, my! *swigging my whiskey as I critique various religions*

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Kaleea
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 02:07 PM

LH--I gotta laugh, cause I think of a feller I know by the same name who always portrays the tribal trickster at Pow Wows & gatherings. He is not little, but very tall & barrel chested.
L the SQ-- I think of a little cartoon mousie talking with a squeaky voice.
Silly River Sage makes me think of some old guru type sitting & grinning while contemplating his naval beside a stream.
   gnomad makes me think that the nomer "gomad" was already taken-or else somebody can't type well.
katlaughing conjurs up the image of a woman in the wild west days laughing.
    catspaw-a kitty grabbing it's toy.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 02:29 PM

That's STILLY with a T (for Stillaguamish River).

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: MMario
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 02:33 PM

T-stilly? Stilly-T? nah - just don't look right.

on the other hand (or the gripping hand, as the case may be)

T'Stilly sounds like a dragonrider.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Minstrel of the Dawn
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 03:10 PM

Re: Martin Gibson.

"....is he straight or GAY?"

Neither. Twisted and very unhappy. Which is why.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: bobad
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:31 PM

"Bobad ... a raccoon"

My nickname in school was muskrat or muskie - derived from my family name.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:35 PM

MY nickname in high school was "Studly Studmuffin" -- derived from, ah, certain personal traits popular with the young women.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:41 PM

If you ever hear Liz the Squeak laugh you will understand how she got her name!!......I suspect she is banned from Les Barker's concerts!!! *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:42 PM

CatsPHiddle .... cat's pee.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: SunnySister
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:45 PM

Oh this is a great thread!! I loved the Aqualung reference, Little Hawk- one of my all-time favorite songs for a myriad of reasons. Before reading your post,LH, I was like a lot of the others and thought about The Shambles in York.

Liz the Squeek- makes me think of a really cool undercover agent's name

Peace- makes me think of someone who should be living in a tent in People's park in Berkeley

Joe Offer- makes me think of a car salesman's name

El Greko- well, makes me think of... well, El Greko

MMario- makes me think of a video game

Bobad- for some reason makes me think of a bobcat.

KatLaughing- makes me think of pure happiness and laughter (I'm a cat lover too so that helps! :)

catspaw49- makes me think of 49 cats paws

Stilly River Sage- makes me think of those tongue twisters that I was never any good at.

Azizi- makes me think of a mythic female but like a cool female superhero with sort of an Egyptian feel as well.

Obviously I could go on and on- and have! :)

--SunnySister- who hopes no one gets the blues from reading my name reactions

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:49 PM

cats pee to the uneducated me thinks!!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:53 PM

catsPHiddle ..... humph !

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 04:54 PM

*G*

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,mack/misophist
Date: 05 Apr 06 - 09:12 PM

El Greko? What else but Dominico Theotocopolis? (sp?)

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Homeless
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 12:14 AM

Thanx, Jeri. Since I've never owned a TV I'm not that familiar with anything on it.

Bill D, by the time we met, I wasn't homeless anymore. You were maybe expecting *me* to be Aqualung?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 07:13 AM

Sir jOhn ( or nOrman now) always makes me think of one of the knights in Monty Pythons Holy Grail, possibly one of of the ones who gets rabbited....

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Bagpuss
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 02:44 PM

Apparently, non british people have a very different reaction to my name than do the brits around here...

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: MMario
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 02:47 PM

bagpuss - the image your name conjjures up for me varies - some days a bagpipe toting cat - and sometimes a bagpipe MADE of a cat.
\
Sunny Sister - that video game is the bane of my existance!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 03:50 PM

Well, if you want to make a set of bagpipes out of a cat, all you have to do is put on full body armour, put the cat under you arm, and squeeze.

You will soon produce sounds similar to a non-musical person first attempts to play the conventional bagpipes....

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: MMario
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 03:51 PM

and here's a wierd one - what comes to my mind for Bunnahabhain is a Mr. Coffee type coffee maker!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bert
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:14 PM

Bagpuss - someone playing bagpipes and sounding like a cat that has been trodden on.

Catspaw49 - PC49

Bill D - A Barbie doll, 'cos Barbie was copied from a German doll called Bild Lily.

Mmario - the stuttering cow in Seamus' song Old McDonald's Deformed Farm.

Shambles - a broken down old miner's shack.

Number 6 - a weird extrapolation from Number 1 and Number 2.

Martin Gibson - Kay Harmony

Kaleea - a Cub Scout leader

Gnomad - gonad

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:15 PM

Bunnahabhain for me summons of visions of some kind of weird cross between a rabbit and a hobbit.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: MMario
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:17 PM

Kaleea - the panther in the Jungle books (yes, I know that's not Bagheera's name - but hey, my mind works in wierd ways- as any of my relatives or friends)

m - m- m- m- Moo!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:35 PM

Bunnahabhain - the act of not being allowed buns.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:47 PM

Bunnahabhain, I could drink a case of you. But for some reason or other a character from Gulliver's Travels comes to mind first.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 04:51 PM

Bagpuss always brought to mind an image of someone who had had a lot of fat on their face earlier in life, but had lost some of the weight with age, leaving someone with thick lips, droopy eyes, and heavy jowly cheeks than hang well below the level of the chin.

Bunnahabhain - a rabbit with a stutter in its hop.

Kaleea - a rail thin, dark goddess, with short, layered hair and clad in gauzy, black material. (probably because of some sci-fi book I read at one point or another)

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Micca
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 05:41 PM

Kaleea... a ukelele toting Hula dancer in Waikiki
Bunnahabhain.... an obscure and rare single malt whisky
Number six.. a brand of cigarettes

it only works for people I havent met...

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 05:46 PM

Khandu - the Egyptian god of enabling things to be accomplished.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 06:01 PM

Little Hawk - Shaman in traiting/waiting

Spaw - short for "spawn" of what, we will never know!**bg**

Alba - White Light of Blessings

Lonesome EJ - Old-timey Western fellah riding the high range

Bert - a young prince in the loo (have you got any Prince Albert in the can?" in the US, Prince ALbert is a type of tobacco; can=tin, also a euphemism for loo)

Justa Picker - self-effacing impressario

alanabit - some kind of tool or someone with a "sidekick," i.e. Al and a Bit!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 06:41 PM

"bagpuss - the image your name conjjures up for me varies - some days a bagpipe toting cat - and sometimes a bagpipe MADE of a cat."

Strangely, the bagpipe made of a cat actually exists.

There's a musician who joins the Bedford Hotel sessions at Sidmouth every year, who makes his own bagpipes, and he has one with a bag tiger striped in black and orange fun fur that looks a bit like Bagpuss.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 06:46 PM

The Barden of England!

A sort of giant size William Shakespeare strutting his hour on the stage.

I cheated a bit 'cos I know him well, and it's true.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bert
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 06:57 PM

katlaughing is of course Lewis Carroll's cheshire cat, all that's lef tis the grin.

Micca - a nicotine free tobacco substitute.

Azizi - St. Francis

Little Hawk - a guy with a tiny tomahawk

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 07:10 PM

I favour the bow and arrow or the spear, not the tomahawk.

Spaw is short for "spawn", yes....spawn of Cthulhu!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 07:23 PM

Bert - bert Jansch
Martin Gibson - the guy in the old Gibson advert 'subtle is the mood of folk music' he's got a stool and a nylon strung instrument on a stand
caspaw - a tabby
Bobert- wayne Newton singing waiting for the Robert E Lee
Little hawk - bird of prey landing on a large mouse

Number 6 - thats a blue white and gold packet of twenty fags that I used to buy in 1960's, they were four bob.

Jeri - Mick Jagger's blond

katlaughing - Dave Katz or someone else who was on the old blues project alum

Metchosin -obscure branch of metallurgy
Liz the Squeak - like the queen, but younger and more sexy
CarolC - 60's journalist Caroline Coon
Ardmacha - Tommy Makem

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 07:40 PM

My reaction to your Mudcat monier is like
Smoking hash from a pumpkin
and thinking of Thanksgiving.
A difficult trick to turn…
especially around the holidays.

Waiter, there's a fly in my soup!
I say "let him eat!"
There's more then one way to skin a cat!
…but the other eight methods
aren't being taught in schools!
And those books aren't cheap, damn it!
I'm here for learn'n.

The early bird gets the worm!
…yet, nobody seems to notice
that the early worm gets eaten!!
At least it's never addressed…
sun gazing as it were…
and only rats are winning rat races…it's fixed…
saving their pennies and stitching their petticoats!
It was never explained to me with any satisfactory…
my lessons didn't cover that!

It's a good thing that bees aren't the size of barn owls!
It's a damn good thing!
I'd be awfully nervous at picnics.
Bugs are terribly upset with us.

If children aren't allowed to smoke…
Especially at school…why is that the first thing
Your forced to make in art class is a ceramic ashtray??!!
Damn confusing signals.

Yogurt has an active living culture…
yet I'm forced to put up with strip clubs and those
annoying shops that sell nothing but baskets!
Nobody complains -
I'm certain the majority has been infected!
I see these arcane baskets everywhere now.
My brother's wife has a basket for the television remote!
A little remote basket!!

I'm certain they're on to me -
there's few I trust with this!
I'm on the lookout.
It's a bloodless basket cult that I'm sure are responsible
for all of those heartless paintings of geese flying over water,
and all of those covered bridges!

Bob Ross was involved I'm certain!

You show my a Lady Diana commemorative plate,
and I'll bet there's a damn basket within 5 feet of it!
They show at your door, early, on your day off…
grinning…asking if you'd like to learn to make baskets
right in the privacy of your home.
Become one of the few, the proud, the basket brigade!
I know what their up to.

Once I was at Union Station,
Just killing time for the Antioch 5:45
When somewhere among the unending surges,
Of the infinite hordes of gainfully employed -
Moving smoothly and rudely from the cattle cars,
To the bright blinding glare of commercialism…
I distinctly heard a low "MOO"

Never a native…I ambled forward,
Just this side of the people aquarium,
Until, I too surfaced…
The prime material plane.
Somewhere in the phallic metropolis -
Lounging gaggles of busy street birds
The city buzz and the impressive asphalt grid,
The ceaseless swath of dull yellow taxis
And the sweet smell of the chocolate factory
Like the lingering scent of a child's burp.

But details faded outside my peripherals,
Making room for the slow rendering images,
And high ended bitmaps…and JPEGS…
…Outside the horizons of my spheres of influence.
One hell of a trick,
700 dots per square inch.
How thorough…but,
They're not fooling me like they used to.

Hell…didn't I see that cloud bank the day before yesterday?
And there's something familiar about those strays.
Is this urban static a sound loop looping?
Those waiters look suspiciously flat…
Was that a bar code on his lapel?
Can synchronicity be explained away
By the eyeball in my system tray?
Is that butterfly a government spy?
Such a convenient biology.

I rush across the street…
I pick up a pay phone and shout PLUTONIUM!
PRESIDENTAL SLUDGE!
FISHER SALAD!!
PHOTOSHOP!
And wait for the squad cars and armored soldiers,
Who flog and cuff me and toss my dangerous form,
Into the back of an Amway truck.
I know too much!

Some hours later -
Lobotomized and grinning,
I saunter out of the Pentagon wearing an embroidered patch,
That coldly tags me as "Camus Absurd Man"
700 dots per square inch.

The cicadas were warming up their instruments
as echoes of "last call" were ebbing in the canyons,
behind every crooked smiling window tooth,
grinning the moon glow collective…

Eight miles north of a camp site in Quebec,
Big Foot was pissing in the bushes
and softly whistling a Scott Joplin tune in F#…
seems it was a favorite of the Pharaohs.

In Denny's diners from every horse post and paved deer trail
on the planet, creatures of almost subhuman bearing were filing in.
"Moons over My'Hammy"…smoking please.
Whores were shutting the doors behind drunken conventioneers…
Pillowed mints already tasted.

On some road outside of Sharpsville
a fiber optics peddler was snorting coke
and wishing he looked better naked.
Police were breaking down a door in Tampa…
3 dead in a domestic tif.

Somewhere in Rossville a farmer's wife was making coffee
while an Andromedian Spacecraft hovered silently above the corn,
microwaving circled glyphs for the crop-dusters to marvel over.

A recently divorced woman in Jersey was check'n her e-mail and
cruising a Bi-curious chat room…cordless in tow,
while a tuna boat was trolling over an observant giant squid.

It was on.

Free will was ebbing on the pre-dawn foam…
washing in on the rhythmic ripples of all that other free will
in a sea of wills that couldn't hold their own alone.
Good morning Earth…
I ain't sleepy 'no' more.

It's true
I'd like to walk the Earth -
Tread the full circle in a lazy stride
Unshaven
Unwashed
Not minding my own filth
And the stink of my own breath
Never-minding that my sight is slowly fading
As my footsteps vanish behind me
I'd feed a deer an apple right out of my hand
And sleep in the darkness of a cougar's cave
Throw stones and shadow fence with fallen branches
Cry out loud and sing to the migrating Monarchs
And whisper secrets to the bare earth beneath me
I'd ride atop a coal car and smoke fresh marijuana from a coke can
Stay up for days in a daze
Dodging and hiding…teaching myself to whistle Mississippi Queen
To the moon frogs and night beams
Scratch myself raw and walk on all fours
Ignore the collective consciousness
Talk openly to Gods
And masturbate right in front of them
I'd sneak into the farmers house and swipe all the labels from his canned goods
Leaf through his Max Brand western novels and pet his dog
I'd navigate by starlight
Map the earth with my shoes
Walk all the way to Italy
Holding my breath and waving at Poseidon
Tell him not to look so glum
He looks good in green…"stop your bitching"
I'd collect pixie dust in a fishing net
And blow it into the open windows of sleeping children's rooms
Turn over a large flat stone and count the spider eggs and magic Sal Bugs
Sit on a thick Sycamore limb and swing my legs
Play nine pins with the forest folk
Unslip the moist restraints of my fragile mind in a long fine curve
I'd become meat
I'd become the quick blooded beat
I'd be ripe and randy
Be sick and soaked to my knees in selfish swallows
Be greedy and smooth
Be ready but wait
Be an animal God and court mother nature with a fresh bouquet of bright puffy weeds
Get down to some serious cloud busting
Get a full body tattoo of myself…only larger
And parade my naked ass through the silent sleepy streets
Wear a bright red fiber-glass jock strap and a jet black wig
Hand out photo copies of my birth certificate to blind broom makers and elder barbers
Snore loudly from the filthy floors of bus station bathrooms
Scrawl my private journal on restaurant napkins with a ball point pen
Dissect the human condition with a soup spoon
Protest the senseless waste of time
Protest the preoccupation of time
Make myself available once a week to vomit outside Chinese buffets
While astride a speeding shopping cart shouting…"I am king-shit of fuck mountain"
Wear a Lone Ranger costume and shoot blanks at passing motorists
I'd breathe easily through a snorkel…everywhere I went
Sell my semen, my blood, and donate all my organs to science
But I'm keeping my skull damn it…it's just too fucking cool
I'd live in a waking dream…unable to run for shit, but flying like a bird
Walking right through walls and making little sense of the printed word
Phone in anonymous bomb threats to telephone psychics
Sure…
I'd like to walk the Earth
I'd like to perform live at my own funeral
I'd like to avoid my unpredictable doom
I'd like to know why it's not polite to eat the bride and groom
on a wedding cake
Or play an accordion during a somber wake
Or storm the pentagon with torches and farm implements
I'd relocate to a new shadow
I'd step lively
Or simply…eat Coco-puffs and watch cartoons

Hey Osiris!…go back and walk

Pop's slamming his hand in the fork drawer…screaming.
There's the next ( week's fickle ) flavor of the month!
Miss Teen pop star popping diet pills…pop.
Popping up on a two page spread…beaded sweat and soda ( pop ).
Hand in her panties, selling toothpaste…pop…
while the skulking thought police set their snares,

Pop goes my culture right under my nose.
I never wanted the Mickey Mouse Club
To become a breeding stable…for the next lolita
heavy weight champ of soft porn corn.
Pop corn porn…candied apples and sun screen tan lines.
That peck, peck, pecking didn't seem like much…
yet, over years it ate clean through the bone, bones bleeding.
Pop!
Something to do with the sun's lack of mystery…
it was no longer charming to throw stones at it…screaming.

Popping Fresh, Pop-ups, pop the iron lung…pop my reptilian core.
Pop me until I can't feel my arms.
Pop me until I shuffle like a corpse beneath the blinding light
of pop sun shopping malls…dragging my cold dead arms.
Peel my urban husk…unzip my membrane, raw…
let all that urban static blink me strobe, strobe blinking
into the neon nexus of blissful lobotomized butterfly milk.
Got Pop?

Let me ride astride the astral molasses!
Set me to slow roast on the bare horizon…
and in a breathtaking glimpse of one infallible purpose,
martyr myself in a tight viscous pupa…
no more confusing then clay.
…just let me wake up…
discover that I was my own god dreaming…
that the whole of this mess was just a grand example
of full scale multi-tasking of my buried consciousness.
Blame me.
Pop!
Make me stand in the corner and think about it.
Pop!
Make me go back and walk.
Pop!
Tell me that I can't go out and play until I've eaten everything on my plate.
Make me walk out and get my own switch…
And make me watch while you trim the leaves off.
Pop!
Make me hold my ankles and bend over…tight lipped…waiting.
Pop!
Stripe my ass with scolding red penance.
I'll still love you.
I'm Glob-Stop-McPop Top!
I sang in seven flavors.
If all your taste was in your mouth…
You didn't bitch about getting sick.
Pop!
You always asked for seconds…hell, you waited for seconds!
You didn't mind it that your favorite musician
doesn't even play an instrument!
So long as they tasted good, Charlie Tuna!
Your day dreams were pop dreams…
Your monicer a brand name of desire.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 07:41 PM

I think I've mentioned before that I did not have the opportunity to choose my own mudcat name. It was done to me as a "favor(?)" by someone else. I did give some thought to the appropriateness immediately on hearing how I was to known, and always suspected that most people would thing of:

@$#%$^*
or
^$%#$@!
or
*&(^!#@

Should this be, my favorite perhaps is:

*^%^$%@#)+!

John

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Joybell
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 08:08 PM

That makes you "number 39" then John? If my method and my arithmetic is correct.
Cheers, Joyofthebelles.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Metchosin
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 08:39 PM

Now I remember, Glubdubdribb and Brobdingnag, that's what I think of with Bunnahabhain's moniker.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 09:53 PM

Donuel-A Brilliant Writer!

Donuel that was my kind of read. Thanks for posting that. Excellent!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Once Famous
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:34 PM

Guest, Minstel of the Dawn, I am far from unhappy! You are just pissed off because I referred to you as Menstrual of the Dawn and many got a kick out of it, even Art Theime!

I can't be unhappy with all of the clever joy that I bring to this place.

I picture you with a lute in a jester's hat. As in dated.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Minstrel of the Dawn
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 10:58 PM

Can't keep from lashing back, eh? Very unhappy! Tiny, sick little ego. Hung up on bodily secretions, too.

Sad.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 06 Apr 06 - 11:16 PM

Someone once PM'd me asking about my moniker and then expressed disappointment at the prosaic explanation. (I contra dance, I live in the desert.) Never called or wrote again. :-(

Some of my best friends are belly dancers, though...

~ Becky in Tucson
that's the Sonoran Desert

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 04:43 AM

whats a contra dancer, I thought they were guerillas. in south america.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 12:08 PM

you confuse them with 'contra dunces' from Nicaragua.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 12:38 PM

If you really want to know... click here. Politics addressed in para. #4. In recent years I usually find it less necessary to include that disclaimer. ;-)

~ B in T

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 01:20 PM

oh

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 04:47 PM

Ah, Weelittledrummer... how well you know me..I am indeed, just like the Queen but much younger and some would say definately sexier....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Once Famous
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 07:31 PM

Minstrel, it's not at all sad. It's just retaliation for something YOU started here in this thread, not me, so stop your sniveling and whining, please beczause you are damn right I am going to lash back at your cowardly remark.

I am hung up on nothing, pal. Anyone who calls himself with a monicker like yours is got the problems.

Minstrel of the Dawn. What a laugh. Gordon Lightfoot you are certainly not.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Alice
Date: 08 Apr 06 - 08:45 PM

Joe Offer - a man who looks like Steve Martin standing next to a lighthouse...
oh, wait, I think that's because I've seen Joe Offer's photo!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Bert
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 02:38 AM

Ah Alice, but I've seen Joe wearing a flower pot hat, standing on one leg, arms outstretched entertaining kids around a campfire.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 09:14 AM

I think the Queen may have slightly fatter arse than I do, but she has a better tailor.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 10:39 AM

I don't think, LtS, that the queen (we called her Liz the Diz when she danced on tables back in college days) could look better than you in a bikini.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Minstrel of the Dawn
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 12:51 PM

God, Martin, you are so pathetic!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: autolycus
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 01:24 PM

Aussiebloke. A nice chap who said hello when i joined.
Azizi.       A   " lady "    "    "    "   "    "
Bert.            " chap who, hang on, have I got the idea wrong? Well, it's one RESPONSE, anyway.

weelittledrummer    a small scottish drummer.

severn            a wise river.

Art Thieme       a dutch postmodern painter.

Gnu             someone thought up by Flanders and Swan, small and   clever

leadfingers       a failed burlgar (no offence meant.L)

Peace            a wise native american

Azizi             an exotic dancer (PLEASE forgive me,I'm a mad Cancerian)

Flamenco Ted       hmm   no clues there.

Rapaire            a tailor who can't spell

Artbrooks          a down=to=earth artist.

Liz the Squeak    a cheeky, grinning mouse.



    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Minstrel of the Dawn
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 02:17 PM

Nothing to deal with, dipshit. You're about nine cards short of a full deck. You are your own biggest problem.

Goodbye. I'm going to go talk to some humans.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 03:35 PM

Donuel - a bit like Ivor Emmanuel but more poetic and thinner
Terribus - Red Bus with scary Thomas the Tank Engine face on the front
Martin Gibson -in my imagination always wears a woolly pullover
Azizi - lurks outside the casbah selling 'feelthy' postcards
Rapaire - 1950's coupe
minstrel of the dawn - cold fingers, cold nose, dew on his plectrum
desert dancert - midnight at the oasis
Rustic Rebel - wears a smock carries a pitchfork, probably hangs around with werewolfs
Joe Offer - sells shirts on the market
MMario - Mario Lanza with a stutter

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Mr Happy
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 05:10 PM

http://www.personal.u-net.com/~saphir/funstuff/bagpuss.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Mr Happy
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 05:12 PM

http://www.personal.u-net.com/~saphir/funstuff/bagpuss.htm

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Once Famous
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 05:53 PM

Crap, I don't even own any pullover, wooley or not.

Minstrel of the Dawn you got right but it's doody on his plectrum, not dew.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 06:13 PM

I picture you with fairly short brown hair, average height, mustache, and glasses, Martin. Am I anywhere close?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 07:19 PM

No the guy in the Gibson advert, I seem to remember had a vee neck, and a check shirt. Subtle are the moods of folk music.

LH - that is a gay stereotype and unkind.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: katlaughing
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 09:12 PM

Mr. Happy, thanks for the link!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Once Famous
Date: 09 Apr 06 - 10:06 PM

Just the glasses part, LH. And only occasionally.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Crystal
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 06:08 AM

Donuel- County Donegal (I don't know why)
Little Hawk- a Kestral
Gnu- A hairy horned cow type thing. Possibly smoking a ciggerette (as in the Smoking Gnu)
DesertDancer- A Lost Desert Aisha (neopets)
Mr Happy- A Mr Man
Rapaire- a thin, sharp-bladed sword
Joybell- "Bells on a Sunday" on Radio 4

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Raptor
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 09:01 AM

Apparently no-one thinks of me at all (sniff).

I'm gonna jump of the coffie table and end it all.(sniff)
Don't worry the coffie tables only 18 inches tall. (wouldn't want to hurt myself).

Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 09:04 AM

Don't do it! A Velociraptor who's name is sung to the tune of "Rapture" by Blondie.
Back away from the edge.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Raptor
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 09:32 AM

Little Hawk - The little chicken that chases Foghorn Leghorn about(Loud mouthed Snook)
Gnu - The intellegent unlucky beast in that comic Strip.
Peace- A wise older brother who is the calm vioce of reason.
Martin Gibson- The creature that aniken (Darth) skywalker worked for in that shitty star wars movie.
John in hull- Some guy lost in the shitty part of Quebec.
Joe Offer - An infomercial salesman.
MMario- a charactor from Donky Kong.
Catspiddle - Full litterbox.
spaw- A playfull old cat that everyone loves but no-one knows where he came from and everyone forgives for smelling rank.
Number 6 - another wise brother.
Bobert- The old guy on the dean Markly string sticker.
Katlaughing- A timeless beauty like Emmyluo Harris same for CarolC.
WYSIWYG- a tell it like it is wise old soul.
Rapare- Razor sharp blade you don't want to antagonize.
BeeW-elll- George Bush.
Stilly River sage- A beautifull plant growing by a babbling brook.
Donuel - a mexican Clown.
Bat Goddess - A young beautifull goth girl.
Wee little drummer - christmass (rump a pump pum)
Mr. Happy- Robin William's Penis
Bill D - Bob The Billder Same for Deckman.
Liz the squeek- a cute little Mouse
Bagpuss - a nasty std
John in Kansas- Supermans dad
Joybell-Beautiful spring flower
Metchosin - Someone who picked themself
Bobad - Banna bananna fofad
Bert- Sessame street
Misophist- Mad scientist
Azizi- Little girl from its a wonderfull life

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Raptor
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 09:34 AM

Purple Fox -Red fox's smart Brother

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: number 6
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 11:53 AM

Raptor ... an architect (I dunno why, but it does)
Purple Foxx ... a highway bandit back in the 1700's
Donuel ... yes, a clown could be French, could be Spanish
Joe Offer ... a math teacher
Ron Olesko ... a high school prinicpal
Azizi ... the girl in the Polar Bear Express, but grown up

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 03:18 PM

"Martin Gibson" anagram = Stag Born Mini

sums it up nicely

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 10 Apr 06 - 03:30 PM

Number 6 won this year's Grand National.
CatsPHiddle a nursery rhyme character with a doctorate
Sir John in Hull Rumpole of the Bailey
Katlaughing a Cat laughing (obviously)
WYSIWYG a hyperactive hairpiece
AZIZI Uhura's smarter sister
Liz the Squeek DangerMouse's smarter sister
Bat Godess like BatGirl only more so

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:09 AM

Martin ....you are so hard on yourself, advertising - even spicing up your uncharitable thoughts.

we all get 'em, we just don't advertise.

Didn't yur teacher ever tell you to play nicely with the other children?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 05:52 AM

See, now Donuel always conjures up a picture not unlike Antonil Banderas in 'Zorro'.... but with more facial hair.

Mmario always has me humming that song by Phil Collins - Pseupseudio... don't know why....

Catspaw49 evokes a hairy ol' granpaw settin' rockin' on the porch, corncob pipe in mouth and a jug of Arkansaw's finest treestump whusky on hand. '49 being the last time he had a bath.

CapriUni makes me think of a terrible 1970/1980's Ford Capri car, with one wheel. Nice to look at but not enough poke under the bonnet... : )

I picture Beedubya and all I can see is the 'Special' yellow school bus.......   sorry mate!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 06:18 AM

The clouds part and McGrath looks down on the Mudcat mites.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:58 AM

McGrath of Harlow - like Charlie Wooster on Wagon train, only they want to make a soldier of her son, works in car factory and rips up cinema seats to Rock around the Clock.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin the Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 02:11 PM

Martin Gibson.   Sort of like Ford Prefect.

In real life he's a Vogon surgically altered to look like Zaphod Beeblebrox, but he has no idea where his towel is.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Martin gibson not logged in.
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 03:02 PM

Ford Prefect got replaced by a Perfect Toyota.

I own 2 of them!

My towel, btw is on Mohammad's head. that way his hair can remain unwashed.

Don't forget to have fun at Mudcat!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin the Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:40 PM

In your case, that should probably be "Ford Defect."

You don't have a clue as to what I'm talking about, do you?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,I Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 09:48 PM

You best move you little Everready ass out of here Marvin. This is no place for the amatuers such as yourself.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin the Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:14 PM

And, I, you don't have a clue either.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,I Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:16 PM

I Robot doesn't have to have a clue.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin the Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:26 PM

A. I. Poor I Robot.

All "A." No "I."

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin the Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 11:48 PM

Robots don't need to breath. I was not in Brave New World, I was not in any 1950s sci-fi movies, and I was not in Lost in Space.

I was right. Not a clue.

So long, and thanks for the fish.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,I Robot
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 11:51 PM

You stupid egotistical idiot Marvin. He was talking about me I Robot.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Isaac Asimuth
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:00 AM

All right, you two junk heaps, cool it or I'll hit you with an electromagnetic pulse and haul you off the the junkyard where you both belong!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,I Robot
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:06 AM

You wouldn't do that to us would you daddy?

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Isaac Asimuth
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:26 AM

Don't tempt me!

I think I'm going to make up a few more Laws.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Noonien Soong
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:38 AM

Perhaps, Dr. Asimuth, you and I should combine our efforts and see if we can debug these contraptions.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Robbie
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:39 AM

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Will Robinson!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,I Robot
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:40 AM

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin the Robot
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:41 AM

Oh, shut up!

(Is it any wonder I'm depressed?)

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,T1000
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 12:51 AM

SHAUT UP YOU GUISE! JOU ARE MAKINK ROABOTS SOUNT STOOPIT!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Data
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 01:08 AM

(Sigh)

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:10 PM

Er, Marvin, no wonder you're depressed, you're an android, not a robot.. there is a difference but I can't be arsed to look it up tonight.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 05:39 PM

Play nice or I'll set Poppagator on yer.

I visualise him as the biggest, most battle scarred, and smartest 'gator in the pond. Not the sort you'ld really want to piss off.

Still, as we all know, that persona hides a big cuddly pussycat.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Marvin, the....er....uh....well, Robot. I g
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 06:38 PM

It's kind of an identity crisis, Liz.

You see, whoever or whatever bolted me together got it screwed up. They called me an android, but actually I'm a robot. The difference is that an android is a robot that looks like a human bean. You know, like Data. But even though I'm shaped sort of like a human bean, with arms, legs, head and all that, I still look so bloody much like a machine that I just can't "pass" the way Data could. It's kind of a fine distinction, but Dr. Azimuth knows what I'm talking about.

So when your Creator gets it screwed up, can you blame a guy for being depressed? Not to mention paranoid?

I understand that lots of humans feel the same way about their Creator.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Terminator
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:20 PM

I Was an andriot for da first part ovf da movie, den wass a roabot when    my flesh was burndt ovf.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,I Robot
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 10:23 PM

Oh ...... oh shiiit.

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: GUEST,Terminator
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 03:22 AM

Hey Liddle Roabot come heeah andt I'll oil your can!

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 05:31 AM

And I bet you still have that pain in your diodes all down your left side....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Reaction to Mudcat Monikers
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 06 - 09:35 AM

All you robots, remember: you're only as good as your extension cord is long.