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.