BS: I've Changed My Name

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 09:55 PM

Bobert, change it to "Amis". Means "friends" in French and it'll annoy Amos to no end. Or you could use "Amiss" like in "Something's amiss here!" Or Amo (means "I love" in Latin; "amas" means "you (singular) love"; "amat"   means "he, she, or it loves."

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 10:25 PM

Or "Gaudeamus! Or ipse loquat! Or Quod Erat Demonstrarum!! Or in res ipse!

The world is your oyster!


A

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

Don't get carried away. Actually, "Bobert" is just fine.

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

Shane McBride back from the dead?

That's only been done once before.

Where's a St. Paul when you need one?

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

He never died; he just smells that way.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Janie
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 12:13 AM

Still confusing. Rapaire or Rapparee - neither look like they should be pronounced "Old Goat."

(she said as she ducked and ran for cover:^)

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 03:18 AM

"The zed in MacKenzie is actually a yogh."

No, stop, stop, STOP! :0)

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:17 AM

People write my name wrong often so I'm tempted. I've been called Pastey, Pastie, Pasty, Pastie and Patsie. No-one could get Trish wrong can they?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:38 AM

Get "Trish" wrong? Ahhhh, somebody else?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:40 AM

"The zed in MacKenzie is actually a yogh."

In the same way, a true Scot will always insist on spelling curdled milk as "zedart" rather than "yoghurt".

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:47 AM

Zeu got that one right Kevin :)
John MacYoghurt [probiotic]

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 10:09 AM

Welcome, Rapparee. I shall maybe change my Mudcat name to Featherstonehough, just for the daftness of it.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 11:58 AM

...I see 'Rumplestiltskin' isn't taken...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 01:48 PM

Pronounced "Fanshawe".

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:26 PM

Cholmondely

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Gurney
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 02:37 PM

A well-hung artist, Chumley.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: IWTATBM
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 04:42 PM

I can see where you're coming from Rapparree, occasionally people mispronounce my name too. It's just lack of effort.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 04:49 PM

Superman used to have a comic book foe called "Mr. Mxyzptlk" that would be a great name to switch to...except in Hawaii.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 04:50 PM

Please pronounce this rap-ear!!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 04:51 PM

This ability is so wrong!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:15 PM

Ahhhhh... who are you Rapaire?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:26 PM

Why not try a three letter name. There is less opportunity for error...right Gnu?

Or better, how about two, FU?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:30 PM

I have no ear for rap....I prefer music..

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:31 PM

Indeed, Ed T. I even went for no caps. Suits my mentality... simple.

Coulda gone with one letter but there was no story to tell in that. I mean, g, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 05:37 PM

Raparee<

Have you ever considered using the name "Little Johnny fucker faster?" If you do, I have a good joke for you to use in your com'in out party :)

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 06:56 PM

I'm going to change it again to Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:02 PM

It'll have to be Amos²

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:04 PM

Maybe Bill Dee...

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:10 PM

hey

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 07:15 PM

arrrgghhhh....that'll teach me

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 09:37 PM

However, Joe Offer said back up there..

"..please tell us when you change your name."

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 09:48 PM

Dubya was seeking the destruction of Bill Dee some time back. I think Bill had better not change his name.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 09:50 PM

Bill tried a cute & clever name once....many years ago. It..um...didn't work well. Dubya wouldn't even have gotten the joke.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amergin
Date: 12 Nov 10 - 11:03 PM

Maybe we should call you Reacharound Rap, so no one gets confused....

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 05:52 PM

A few odd band names. Just because I want to post them :)



Funny Band Names

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:00 PM

Reacharound Rap??? You are in danger of being stuck.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Genie
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:12 PM

Rapparee, ya didn't say who you wuz or whatcher name usta be afore ya changed it?

I wuz wundrin' if this new "ruh-PER-ry" person wuz the artist formerly knowed as "Rapaire."

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name to Rapparee
From: Genie
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:14 PM

BTW, Rapparee, if you change your name to "Chrysler" or "General Motors," there's prolly more $ in that.   Tom Paxton thinks so anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:32 PM

Watch it. Or, he may hit you with his pike. And, i don't mean the fish.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 06:35 PM

The Outlaw Rapparee

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:03 PM

1. Yes, Genie, that is correct.

2. So, Ed T., what else is new? I like the Clancy Brothers version better, but that one is still good.

3. Pike, hell! I've got a double clamshell, swept-hilt, rapier as well as a fully functional small sword (mid-18th Century version) and I know how to use them. Also a main gauche, a rondel, and various other such things.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:09 PM

This is fairly new, old dog:
Rapparee Kennels

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:13 PM

Hunted from out our father's home, pursued by steel and shot
A bloody warfare we must wage or the gibbet be our lot
Hurrah! This war is welcome work, the hunted outlaw knows
He steps unto his country's love o'er the corpses of his foes

This charmin' verse is the thin disguise
Of Rapparee, librarian wise
A man not widely known for looks
But masterful in reading books
His blade is not of rusted steel
But of gray-painted foam,
And he sleeps not in any limestone cave
But in a large warm home.

But give him a hand, good Mudcats all
And let these trifles be
For all is well now he's learned to spell
The name of Rapparee!
The name of Rapparee.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:21 PM

"It has been observed, and with truth, that the Irish Rapparees seldom indulged in the habit of intoxication or intemperance, and this is not at all to be wondered at. The meshes of authority were always spread for them, and the very consciousness of this fact sharpened their wits, and kept them perpetually on their guard against the possibility of arrest. Nor was this all. The very nature of the lawless and outrageous life they led, and their frequent exposure to danger, rendered habits of caution necessary—and those were altogether incompatible with habits of intemperance. Self-preservation rendered this policy necessary, and we believe there are but few instances on record of a Rapparee having been arrested in a state of intoxication. Their laws, in fact, however barbarous they were in other matters, rendered three cases of drunkenness a cause of expulsion from the gang."

Illustrated Stories and Tales of The Irish

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:22 PM

...But my rifles are a bright as my dear wife's eyes
My arms are strong and free,
What care have I for your strictures, laws?
I'm an outlawed Rapaire, I'm an outlawed Ropaire!

The mountain fastness is my home,
Way up in the crystal air,
With a bed of gneiss on the Rockies' rim
And the green sage smellin' fair.

(Steel, Amos. Good, well-made, high-carbon steel. 37 inches of it in the small sword's blade, with a small clam shell guard and a knuckle bow to use as a knuckle duster, the grip well-wrapped in twisted brass wire and pommel to deliver a pummeling.)

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:36 PM

Ed T... quoted... "... the Irish Rapparees seldom indulged in the habit of intoxication or intemperance..."

I beg to...

GARRYOWEN

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
But join with me, each jovial blade
Come, drink and sing and lend your aid
To help me with the chorus:

cho: Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail;
No man for debt shall go to jail
From Garryowen in glory.

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run
We are the boys no man dares dun
If he regards a whole skin.

Our hearts so stout have got no fame
For soon 'tis known from whence we came
Where'er we go they fear the name
Of Garryowen in glory.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:47 PM

Oh, Raparreee, I've faced your vile "steel" and it was painted foam.

But I am pleased with your spelling now, so that;s something...



A

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:54 PM

Oh, vile pedant! Cease and disist. The sword is mightier than the pencil.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:55 PM

Terry?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 07:56 PM

I've never changed my name - but sometimes it's gone out for a drink with Harvey and come back as somebody completely differnt.