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!!


A

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.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Nov 10 - 08:57 PM

Amos, you gave up. The swords I brought (or rather Jeri brought for me) to Getaway were not the ones I am speaking of -- these I would have had a problem getting on an airplane. However, if you want to face them next year I'll ship them on ahead. Or perhaps, less dangerous to your continued living, I'll send on a pair of mensur sabers and you can return to mellow SoCal with a nice fresh scar on your cheeks (those of your face, unless you turn and run).

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:54 AM

Pens schmens! Swords schmords!

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 11:59 AM

Did Rapparee work at a libraree?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:01 PM

Yupee, hee didee.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:04 PM

Have you thought about changin' yer flippin' face?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Nov 10 - 12:14 PM

Well, no, Shame. It's just that I am required by law to wear a mask when I go out because if I don't women become instantly aroused by its display of masculine good looks. Then they either crawl all over my body or swoon. When I was just a lad I could break up marriages of fifty years standing just by being glimpsed as I walked down the road. Ladies young and old, rich and poor, threw themselves at me, begging me to "pleasure them".

I understand you have the same standing legal order, to wear a mask when you go out. I understand that it started the moment you were born and it's going to continue after you're dead. The difference is that you have to wear it all the time because if you don't clocks stop, mirrors break, and if you look at a train it derails. People have to be admitted to hospital because of violent gagging and non-stop vomiting. And I've heard that even the masks are starting to reject you, just like a facial transplant would.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 04:37 AM

>Have you thought about changin' yer flippin' face?

- Shane<

Many times Shane, many times. Costs a fortune though.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Les from Hull
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:30 AM

My name is pronounced Lez. Just though I'd let you Mercans know.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:46 AM

"My name is pronounced Lez" - is that as in French, Spanish or Polish?

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:47 AM

or German or ........

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 01:34 PM

Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to change my name to TEd, because it made a lot of sense then.

But, it was one of those middle of the night decisions, ya know, the ones that do not seem to make much sense in the morning. So, in the morning I decided leave it as it as it always has been. So, its now off.

I did not tell anyone. But, if you happened to dabble in "telepathic communication" you may have gotten wind of this very temporary name change, "thingie".

This is to confirm I am still Ed T and I am sorry about any confuson that my early morning mind TEd wanderings may have caused.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 02:00 PM

When people changes their Mudcat names, all their past posts are updated with the new name. This can be quite confusing if the original names have been used within discussions as the names in the text no longer match the names heading the posts.

Is it be possible to have a directory, accessible through the Quick Links, which would cross-reference the changing identities of members ?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 02:48 PM

Good point, Doug, but it seems a long shot. Of course, I dunno squat about how things work; just glad they do.

I was considering changing my name to g as it takes 66.7% less time to type but I thought, hey, I don't have to type it and anyone who wants to can just type g and I'll know who they are talking about.

Ed T... I hope you never change ya crazy bugger.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 03:45 PM

It's sort of a good idea, but several folks have 'messed' with the name bit so often that it would take forever to sort them out.

Names are for **ID**, not for game playing.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 08:31 PM

I blame it all on the Dems losing the House.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 08:36 PM

No, it's all Reagan's fault. Not the dead president, King Lear's daughter.

Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 08:46 AM

I am so indecisive it would take me forever to come up with a new name.