BS: I've Changed My Name

Subject: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 02:43 PM

Just as Giok did, I have changed my Mudcat name so that nobody will have to guess how it's pronounced, assume that I'm associated with rap or hip-hop, etc.

All y'all are welcome.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 02:44 PM

Thanks Bobert. I appreciate that.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 02:53 PM

Mine is pronounced like the mersey river... but I'm keeping it!

I thought Giok was pronounced Jock. Was I wrong?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:01 PM

AND...he changed his name properly, but going to Membership and updating only the information that needed to be changed. Far better and far less confusing than submitting a new membership.
(duplicate memberships are highly discouraged, name changes are fine if done for good reason, but please tell us when you change your name.)

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM

Not having to deduce what it was changed from would also be good.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM

You went ape?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM

Was it the rising of the moon?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:11 PM

He could not bear the endless stream of remarks I aimed at him about spelling his name "Rapaire" but wanting it to sound like "Rapparee".

Ultimately what did him in was a little ditty I wrote carrying his assertion ad absurdum:

Go out and reparee the car,
The weather is faree and warm,
But take caree not to go far,
Or in some laree come to harm.
But breathe the pleasant summer aree
And shun the barree who sleeps within,
For you've a flaree at pissing off
And causing swaree with clever sins.
Or sit a while in this charee
And do not glaree so and scowl!
Of trials my sharee you have caused
From many affarees dark and foul.
And so repent and in praree
Attempt to purge your many sins
Do not your soul thus imparee
But squaree accounts both out and in.
For though you debonaree are
No billionaree will you be
If you change not your bill of faree
And to disreparee tumble free.

"Bewaree, Oh, Bewaree"
Agnes Saint Claree
Songs from County Claree
Faree Play Press, Montclaree, NJ, 1984

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:20 PM

Rhymes with Paree?**BG**

Thanks for doing it the correct way AND telling us about it!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:25 PM

I still don't know how to pronounce it.

is it

Wrap are e?

Which syllable(s) have emphasis?

And why do we care since we are communicating in print?

JakdeSAYler

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:26 PM

How ya gonna keep him
Down on the farm,
Now that he's Rapparee!!???
How ya gonna keep him
Away from harm,
Runnin' around
And painting the town?
How ya gonna keep him
Down on the farm
That's the mystereeeee!
He's gonna want to hear that jazz-band now!
He'll never want to touch that horse and plow!
Oh, how ya gonna keep him
Down on the farm,
Now that he's
Rappareeeeee!!!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:32 PM

I thought it was chongo ...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:32 PM

Yes it is Jock.
I assumed that Rapaire was a fancy way of spelling repair, and that he was, as in Gilbert & Sullivan, a Wandring minstrel.
Ergo he was 'a thing of rags and patches', and in constant need of Rapaire!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 03:42 PM

Thanks for letting us know, formerly known as Rapaire.

Are you now on a witness protection program?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:03 PM

Yes, but the pronounce it 'witless projection'...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:09 PM

If I were to change my name, I would go all out, and use one of the ones below:funny names

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:34 PM

Now, Mike, I think you told me at the Getaway, but I forgot: What is the meaning of "Rapaire"?? I keep thinking it's some obscure cultural reference....but maybe it's something Catspaw dreamed up.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: kendall
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:39 PM

there is an Irish song about a rebel named Redmond O'Hanlon the gallant Raparie. That's how I knew how to pronounce it.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:40 PM

I'm confused..

Is Rappy now Bobert?

And if so, who and where is Bobert now?

Jock's prounounced Giok, which I thought was pronounced..duh...giok..

...but giok's now McKenzie anyway.

So...if Giok's Jock, who is now McKenzie, then is Rapairee...jock, or giok, or bobert?



Oh, Cripes!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:41 PM

And WHO is MIKE, Joe?

Is he related to Edmond? Or the brother of Redmond?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 04:44 PM

Minor repair.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:05 PM

When announcing a change names it might be a good idea to say what the old name was...

What difference does it make how people pronounce a name when we communicate through the "printed" word? How can we tell anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:10 PM

kendall... both spellings indicate an Irish "rebel" who wields a pike or sword.

At least I can still call Mike Rap. I am easily confused.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:12 PM

Oh... hence my reference to ape (guerilla) and the song The Rising of the Moon... wi' pike upon yer shoulder by the rising...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:12 PM

McGrath sez: What difference does it make how people pronounce a name when we communicate through the "printed" word? How can we tell anyway?

Well, Kevin, even though I've met you in person, I still am not certain how to pronounce your surname. So, every time I see a post from you, I'm profoundly confused.

Come to think of it, maybe profound confusion is just a natural state of life for me.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:18 PM

Thought it meant swordsman but what do I know/
Hi Rap.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:27 PM

It helps to know how a name is pronounced when we talk about you. I thought "Rapaire" was "repair" too. You're still gonna be shortened to "Rap".

McGrath, when I heard him on Max's Mudcat radio show way back in the dark ages, was "McGraw".

For years, I thought "epitome" was "eppi tome" -- rymes with "peppapoem", because I only ever heard it in my head when I read it. The first time a thing like that come out of your mouth when you're in a group of folks who know better, you realize that it's good to know pronunciation.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:32 PM

You aren't alone there, Joe. I'm all too accustomed to having shop assistants correct me - "Oh, you mean McGrath - pronouncing it to rhyme with path, or maybe math.

The right way sort of rhymes with hurrah. But I answer to them all anyway. Can't blame people for having problems with a name with six consonants and only one vowel. Klingons and Poles tend to have the same experience...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:33 PM

"Rapaire" could only be pronounced "RahPAIRE" according to normal rules of spelling in English. He was tryin' to get away wit sompn, is what.


A

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:36 PM

It's some time since we MacKenzie's gave up trying to get the Sassunachs to pronounce our name correctly. Back in the late 17th century the judge "Bluidie" MacKenzie was always pronounced MacKingie which is a close approximation to the original.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:39 PM

...I knew that one VIA the Australian cricketer - Glenn McGrath.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:43 PM

MacKingie which is a close approximation to the original.

So the problem is with the spelling?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 05:58 PM

Still too much confusion Rap....Why don't you just go with something more appropriate for you like "Fucknuts" and make it easy...........


SPaw

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:03 PM

Or just plain Nuts is that is too long.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:10 PM

Oh yes...Fucknuts is kinda cute. :0)

I'm Lizzie, with a Zuh, not Lizzie with a Zeeee 'cos Lizzie with a zeeee goes zeeeee not zuh...as Liza once sang...

Liza with a Zeee that is, not Liza with a Seeeeee 'cos Liza with a seeeeeee goes Lisa, not Liza..

Now I need to know who Mikerap is, and who the heck is Kevin!

Oh! My poooor head!
1 Across - 1 Down

:0)

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:15 PM

Are you Lizzie with a zuh or Liza with a zuh?

Because if you are the first that makes no sense at all to me.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 06:36 PM

Lizzie with a Zed I rather assume...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:27 PM

The reason that the "Fliphead from Poclatello" has flippin' changed his flippin' name is simple! He is a-scairt of me! He is tremblin' in his flippin' boots and has changed his name to try to, like, excape my dedely vengince, eh? This will not save the bolthole. I am not fooled so easy, eh?

Hey Rapoop! There is no flippin' excape from Shane McBride. When I set my flippin' mind on somethin' it is like a immovebale rock, man! Like a rock that cannot budje. You cannot get away by changin' yer name, retread. Just thought I wood let you know that you are doomed and don't have no hope anyways because of how you have inSULTED the hole McBride fambly and are gonna pay. Yup. No flippin' mercy for the likes of youse.

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:27 PM

Spaw
Priceless ... can't stop laughing

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:34 PM

The zed in MacKenzie is actually a yogh. Zed was only found in foreign words such as zeal in the 16th century, and the surname Menzies has the same problem, which is why Charlie's ancestors changed the spelling to Mingus. In later Scots, the spelling was changed to "y" apart from proper names. The Gaelic spelling is MacCoinneach, pronounced (approximately) mac Kunyoch.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:37 PM

Ahhhh, what's up, Rap???

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:37 PM

Ahhh Ok Dave ....

   can I have a drink of that also

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:42 PM

I had considered "Jo Offer" or "catspaw48" or "Amuss" but decided not to confuse things any more than they are. "Rapaire" is a fairly obscure Irish Gaelic variant of "Rapparee" -- other names used in the early 18th Century were "Highwayman" or "Tory" (!). It is pronounced "rap-a-ree". I remember back when I first signed on the name "Rapparee" was taken.

As for Shame McBride, I invite him to come visiting. Come heeled, though, 'cause I won't wait. I know about your immovable, rock-like, brain so I'll just gut-shoot ya and leave ya fer the coyotes and cougars. I just don't hanker to his back-shootin', dry-gulchin', cattle poisonin' ways, so I'll jist shoot him outa hand and be done with it. Rewards will be graciously accepted.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:48 PM

♫"Now, Mr. McGrath", the Mudcat said,
"How would you like your elegy read?
With some scarlet prose and your name said wrong..
Mr. McGrath, we should write a song.."♫

That's how I've always pronounced it...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 07:49 PM

This here's the story of Raparie
Who changed his name to Raparee
He posts like a barfly and stings like a flee
Just ask around Mudcat, and they know who he be

Say,Raparie
Say,Raparee,

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:20 PM

My rifle's rusty, my sword is bent
My flume is choked with dirt
And the thistledown and the barley beards
Mix well with my sweat and dirt.
But my purse is as empty as it ever was
I'm weak in the arms and knees
So I'll fight for whoever pays the most
And my name is Rapparee
And my name is Rapparee.

So lift your glasses friends with mine
And get your hand off of my knee!
So I'll fight for whoever pays the most,
I'm an awkward Rapparee
I'm a clumsy Rapparee. .

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:41 PM

Okay, that's it.... I'm changin' my name, too... Ahhhhh, what's left??? Hmmmmmmm??? I undedstand that "rapaire" ain't taken... Lemmne think on it... Sounds familiar thou???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:46 PM

What was wrong with wienerap or raponrapoff theycallmetherapper
or rapsodee

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:48 PM

That's it, I am changin mine ... gonna put my apostrophe in it just to piss off the TSA agents o'lddude

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:49 PM

Try "Bubba", Bobert, baby!! Boy!! Big Bobert a Bubba!! Bambalam!!


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