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16 Jan 11 - 07:10 AM (#3075582) Subject: BS: Identity Whos Who From: SPB-Cooperator A little bit of fun to while away the winter nights (or those in the Southern Hemisphere, something to do after getting back from the beach). We have a number of wild and wonderful Mudcat identities. So, can anyone work out who the real people behind the identities are, and secondly, where the identity comes from. The identifyees need only answer by 'yes', 'no' or 'I am not playing', so identifyers should respect the latter. |
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16 Jan 11 - 07:22 AM (#3075589) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST, topsie Quite often people post under a mudcat/pseudonym and then put their name at the bottom, which kinda gives the game away. |
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16 Jan 11 - 09:17 AM (#3075642) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: SPB-Cooperator it would give half of it away, but not necessarily where the pseudonym came from. |
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16 Jan 11 - 11:09 AM (#3075688) Subject: AnyClone Help Request From: wysiwyg Is it just me... or is there a risk that someone will be outed in this thread who does not wish to be? ~Susan |
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16 Jan 11 - 11:27 AM (#3075704) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: SPB-Cooperator That could happen in any thread at any time. Then revised rule three - only identifyees who have opted in. So I've opted in. |
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16 Jan 11 - 12:33 PM (#3075731) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Ebbie Mine isn't 'wild and wonderful', at all. E and B are the initials of my first and last names. I thought about spelling it 'Ebie', but it looked weird, and, of course, that is something I am not. :) |
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16 Jan 11 - 12:48 PM (#3075743) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Newport Boy And mine is hardly a mystery. Phil |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:06 PM (#3075756) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: kendall Nor mine. |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:09 PM (#3075759) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: MarkS Mine is boringly obvious |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:22 PM (#3075765) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: DMcG Mine based on no more that when I first used the internet back in the very early 1980s the computer I used only allowed 4 letters for a login name, so its my first initial then the first 3 of my surname. I've stuck with it ever since. |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:30 PM (#3075768) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: The Sandman well, spb cooperator ? |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:32 PM (#3075771) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: SPB-Cooperator Its my initials and that I belong to a workers co-operative. |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:41 PM (#3075775) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: WalkaboutsVerse The first and last words from the full title of my collection - "Walkabouts: travels and conclusions in verse" (as here). |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:47 PM (#3075778) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Rapparee Guess.... |
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16 Jan 11 - 01:57 PM (#3075787) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: WalkaboutsVerse Rapparee?...Rector Partee? |
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16 Jan 11 - 02:03 PM (#3075791) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Little Robyn Mine's easy too. I'm 5 foot one and a half. And Robyn with a Y is the girl's way of spelling the name. Robyn |
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16 Jan 11 - 02:13 PM (#3075794) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,Silas Mine is an open secret! |
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16 Jan 11 - 02:49 PM (#3075810) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: fat B****rd Mine is 'wacky and self-deprecating' but I cribbed the name from an Alexei Sayle show. 'Return of the Fat B****rd' |
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16 Jan 11 - 03:24 PM (#3075844) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: WalkaboutsVerse ...and I could have sworn you were a contented bird of prey, F.B. |
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16 Jan 11 - 03:45 PM (#3075859) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: gnu "where the identity comes from"... This is one of many thtreads. |
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16 Jan 11 - 03:53 PM (#3075863) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,seamus Kennedy Who is Seamus Kennedy? Oh, wait! That's me...never mind. |
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16 Jan 11 - 03:58 PM (#3075866) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Dave MacKenzie Believe it or not, I'm Dave MacKenzie (one of many). |
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16 Jan 11 - 04:34 PM (#3075885) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Maryrrf My name is Mary, and at the time I signed up I worked for a company called "Red River Foods". It has been ten years since I worked for that company, so I sometimes think I should change it, but I haven't bothered. |
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16 Jan 11 - 05:00 PM (#3075904) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Bert I'm Bert and I don't think that Seamus Kennedy really is Seamus Kennedy. |
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16 Jan 11 - 05:21 PM (#3075916) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,Big Norman Voice I am the walrus |
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16 Jan 11 - 05:44 PM (#3075928) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Taconicus My Mudcat name is a hint as to my location, and thereby to guessing my identity by the nature of my postings, if you've heard me sing. But I may not necessarily say yea or nea to guesses. |
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16 Jan 11 - 06:35 PM (#3075962) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Ed T I am not really Ed, I am his sock puppet. Ed the Sock is a real sock puppet character, a crusty, but funny,Canadian TV music critic, who inspired my Mudcat name, "Ed T". |
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16 Jan 11 - 06:36 PM (#3075964) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: JohnInKansas Even knowing a full name isn't a lot of help. The (in)famous website How Many Of Me says there are over 9,450 in the US alone with my name, but I can't be found with Google because the serial killers, bootleggers, horse thieves, etc (although most may be relatives) are more "popular" search subjects and they don't show enough results to get to anything about someone as boring as me. Even knowing a specific location isn't much help, since my local phone book lists at least 18 with the same name, although I've only met four or five of them. John |
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16 Jan 11 - 06:57 PM (#3075976) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Leadfingers I'm a Song Thief so I stole my handle from a song (Which I still sing) |
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16 Jan 11 - 07:25 PM (#3075990) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,DonMeixner I chose DonMeixner because there are two others out there with the same name and I find it easier to hide in a crowd. Actually my name is Don Meixner so the distinction is easy to find once you know. Don Meixner |
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16 Jan 11 - 08:26 PM (#3076029) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Louie Roy I have nothing to hide |
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17 Jan 11 - 10:46 AM (#3076397) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Hawker At the time I joined it was the name of my Staffordshire Bull Terrier, who sadly passedc away last May aged 16 years. Lucy x (I always sign off with my proper name....or the first bit of it!) |
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17 Jan 11 - 11:21 AM (#3076422) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Steve Shaw I only ever post under my real name. Hopefully, this prevents me from typing anything too unwise. |
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17 Jan 11 - 11:22 AM (#3076425) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Steve Shaw Hello Lucy, by the way! :-) |
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17 Jan 11 - 11:24 AM (#3076428) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Becca72 Well you see, my name is Becca and I was born in 1972...creative, huh? |
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17 Jan 11 - 12:53 PM (#3076495) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: maple_leaf_boy My name is Joe. I picked my pseudonym, because I'm a supporter of the Toronto Maple Leafs (or Maple Laffs) hockey team. I've probably mentioned it before somewhere, after someone suggested it was a patriotic name for Canada, but it's a hockey name. |
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17 Jan 11 - 06:02 PM (#3076704) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Uncle_DaveO I almost always sign my posts (except the jokes) with either Dave or David Oesterreich. I use those names because my mother told me to. "Uncle_DaveO" is just a little more complex. I started calling myself as a singer "Uncle Dave" on the old HearMe facility, because when my brother's kids (count 'em, ten!) were kids I would play my guitar and sing to them for hours at a time, by popular demand. But when I tried to sign in elsewhere the program wouldn't allow that, because there was usually a predecessor of that name. So I added the "O", the initial of "Oesterreich". And I found that most programs didn't like the user name to be separate, so I ran it together, and inserted the underline for esthetic reasons. Dave Oesterreich |
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17 Jan 11 - 06:42 PM (#3076738) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Rapparee Even those who have met me and know who I am don't know who I REALLY am. |
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18 Jan 11 - 03:57 AM (#3076942) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Slag I have explained my name before because I never intended it to be that I am a slagger (though I have on occasion, generated a little heat!). I was unaware of the internet term and had used the name Slaghammer in gaming. I grew up in the welding business and my very first job at age 6 or 7 was chipping slag from welds with a, well, slaghammer. For brevity's sake I just chipped off the "hammer" part and came up with Slag! |
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18 Jan 11 - 04:49 AM (#3076955) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,LTS on the sofa Pretty obvious.... I'm Liz and I squeak. Although with this arthritic knee now, I should really change it to Liz the Creak. LTS |
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18 Jan 11 - 05:06 AM (#3076962) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,Patsy I sometimes wonder who I am myself these days! But I might have some fun and change it just to see if anyone knows who I am when I am not myself, if you see what I mean? |
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18 Jan 11 - 05:18 AM (#3076969) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie Many years ago when I was working down the pit, there was a revue of one of my folk gigs in a local paper. My chargehand asked if it was me, and thought this was funny. (Good, I was trying to be a bit of a comic at the time....) He started calling me "Steamin' Willie Hardonn" for some obscure reason and it seemed to stick. I do note that one of our brethren, M'Unlearned friend, reckons it means something rather obscene. I thought it risque, but he seems to think it means something less obvious. Ah well, it doesn't. I had forgotten all about it till, when I had a mudcat account in my own name, somebody mistook me for somebody of a similar name who worked at his pit and sent me abusive private messages. So, two things. 1) if you don't have an account, you can't get abusive private messages. 2) I can use this as an alta ego and tell it like it is without having to explain my views when I get to a local folk club! (I enjoy folk clubs and have many friends, but sharing a beer and sharing political views? Do behave...) |
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18 Jan 11 - 05:55 AM (#3076981) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: Allan C. My initials are A.C.C.. I have omitted my last name. |
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18 Jan 11 - 06:02 AM (#3076983) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: freda underhill Frodo Baggins used the name Underhill when he went incognito at the Prancing Pony.. and Freda is a feminine version of Frodo. |
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18 Jan 11 - 07:20 AM (#3077021) Subject: RE: BS: Identity Whos Who From: GUEST,Grishka Rapparee (The Artist Formerly Known As Repaire), your secret identity has long been unveiled. I do not disclose my full name, in order to hide the fact that I am not really famous; the only 'catters to know me are those who lured me here ("I'm not a folkie!!!" - "Yes you are, you own acoustic guitars, sandals and even a mandolin." - "But I shave ..."). Actually many of us are quite keen to be known. Sometimes they assume that they already are, e.g. that we know where they come from. To save us "ignoramice" some detective work, I suggest that members can write a couple of lines about themselves, which can be viewed when clicking on the nickname links. (Or does this feature exist already, just invisible to GUESTs? In this case we would like to read whatever we are deemed worthy to know.) |