Hi Anne! Phil Edwards here.

I've been posting online in various forms since the mid-90s, and until I came to Mudcat I never, ever, ever used a pseudonym. I posted as Phil Edwards on the Fortean Times mailing list, in soc.history.what-if, in comp.software.year-2000, in alt.folklore.urban, on several different blogs and probably in other places I've forgotten. It was a real point of pride. The only reason I switched was that I liked Sedayne's "Insane Beard" handle - and I thought, since I'd been taking all that pride in sticking to my real name all this time, it might do me good to loosen up and play with the pseudonym kids for a bit. I became Pip by running my name through an anagram generator (using 'Philip' rather than 'Phil' to make life easier); it came up with 'Lewd' Pip Radish, which I rather liked. Then I dropped the 'Lewd' and here we are.

Course, none of this will make any sense in a year's time, when I've changed my handle to Ramblin' Jack Rumpo and Mudcat has automagically propagated it back through the archives.