Well, I LOVE my Mudcat name. Since I frequently like to assume the persona of an ignorant, inbred piece of poor-white trailer-trash from the wastelands along the Florida/Alabama border

Whadda ya mean "assume the persona"? Is that like "pretend"? You mean you're really NOT a dumbass redneck?   Heeyar, hyuck, snorf, snarble! Bullshit!!!

I find it advantageous to affect the "initials as name" tradition as carried on by many of my rural neighbors. People named "Bruce" do not drive monster four-wheel-drive pickups that can snatch Abe Lincoln's face from Mount Rushmore. People named "Bee-dubya" do.

I'll give up my Mudcat name when they pry my keyboard away from my cold dead hands!

That's tellin' 'em, Bee-dubya. You da man! Ennybody don' like it, we'll jus' open up a canna whoopass on them sumbitches!