BS: Why did you choose your nickname?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:57 PM

Geez Bill ... I had completely forgotten about the heels!!! I don't know how since I was always having "Half-Soles and Heels" done when I was growing up. The athletic shoe society we've moved into has really put a crimp on their business I bet.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:35 PM

Hahaha - good one!!! I do feel that way sometimes!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 06:54 PM

Jeri, if you've been using Usenet that long, are you a Jeriatric?

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Tincap
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 04:41 PM

Tincap is the name of the country crossroads near where I grew up in Eastern Ontario. Since I moved from there 20 years ago its been pretty well swallowed up by urban sprawl. I guess this is my way of keeping the community alive in spirit.

By the way the community got its name from the tin roof on the bell tower of the old one room school house. As the school sat on top of a hill the "tincap" could be seen from quite a distance.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Bill in Alabama
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 03:54 PM

Catspaw-- I thought you had taken the name from the very popular brand of shoe heels and soles which shoe shops used to advertise, but then I remembered that my grandfather had a certain kind of carpenter's implement by that name; I would have never associated it with sailing.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:55 PM

LMAO here Bumwash....A TIRE TREAD???.....I love it......beats the reality hands down!!!!

Catspaws are wave patterns and as a long time sailor, it was a term I'd been using for years. Then oneday it struck me, some weird corrolary between the sound of a Hammered Dulcimer and the fresh breeze and lightness of a catspaw. When we picked a name for the company 6 years ago, Catspaw Dulcimers seemed kinda' nice. Add this to the fact that our cats are always walking across one (or the piano) and it became even more appropriate. I started making soundholes in the cat's paw design after that. The 49 was both my age when I signed on and the year I was born.

But the tire tread thing is a lot better...and a step up...I could be Tigerpaw!

Spaw - Which is where it finally ended up.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: selby
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:53 PM

Selby is my home town and it just seemed like a good idea at the time although I usualy add my own name at the end anyway Keith

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:35 PM

Jaxon: here in Wyoming, home of Jackson Hole, the residents all abbreviate it to Jxn.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jaxon
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:28 PM

My given name is John. Family and friends have called me Jack or Jackie all my life. My father's saloon buddies called me Jackson, it must have been something in the Old T.
I later had a girlfriend who took to calling me Jackson also. I just shortened it to save time.
Jack Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:26 PM

unless we hear differently, I am gonna assume that 'catspaw' refers to some brand of tire tread..*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:21 PM

Oh..............Well, catsass49 was already taken so...

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Margo
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 12:30 PM

Well, boringly simple. My name is Margaret. Margo, which is my common nickname, was taken already. Sooooo, instead of using Margaret, I went with the more exotic version, Margarita.

Shame on you, Catspaw! You commented about everyone else's name, but gave no explanation of your own! Come come, now fess up!

Margarita

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Larry B.
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 12:03 PM

Diminuative of Lawrence, and a useful tool. If someone calls me and asks for Lawrence, I know it is almost certainly someone I do not know conversationally, and who is probably trying to sell me something.

LB

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:55 AM

Actually, I was looking for a nickname that had a folk sound to it, like Ramblin Jack Elliott, and I've always been a Hank W fan, my favorite of his being I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. EJ = my actual initials. LEJ or Leej, the nickname for my nickname, is a Spaw-ism.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Easy Rider
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 11:06 AM

Easy Rider is a Blues term. I'm into the Country Blues:

1 - The "easy rider", also known as "See See Rider" or "C C Rider" (see also rider), is a blues cliché for the sexual partner, although originally it referred to the guitar hung on the back of the traveling bluesman.;

2 - Southern Louisiana's John "Johnny B" Bradford says: "An easy rider is the husband or significant other of a whore - thus the name. He doesn't work or pay for sex. It's his easily. Thanks to John "Johnny B" Bradford for this contribution to the list.

Sounds like a good life to me!

__________ This phrase can be found in: Big Bill Broonzy, C C Rider (1) Big Bill Broonzy, C C Rider (2) Mississippi John Hurt, See See Rider

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jeri
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:29 AM

What!? Where!? Wh...? Oh yeah, sorry. I'm just Jeri. I'd been posting on Usenet newsgroups for about four years prior to joining Mudcat, and signing my real name. It's hard to break with tradition.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Vixen
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:25 AM

In real life I'm a Victoria, which is fine when I'm feeling imperious, but not so hot when I'm behaving in my usual wild and wooly ways. I gave up Vicki for Vic, because I don't like the "little girlishness" of Vicki. On the other hand, I'm getting tired of being addressed as "Mister" both on the phone (low voice) and in person, (must be my height?). To make a long story interminable, I've felt since I was a child that the red fox and the sugar maple are my kindred spirits. When I used to make greeting cards for my friends, I dubbed them "Vixen Grafix" and when I started writing songs, I called them "Vixen Muzik," so when I found the mudcat, Vixen seemed like a good choice. My monogram, since about the age of 8, is a capital "V" with the dot from the "i" to the right of it, which looks sort of like a pointy nose with an eye, and would pronounce, rebus-fashion, as V-eye, but nobody ever figured that out or called my by that name. Too clever by half, I'm told.

V

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 08:07 AM

So, Roger, it really is you!

I chose my name because I'm not really Steve Parkes, but when he finds out I know he'll be r e a l l y mad!

Pete Starkers (but don't tell ... you-know-who)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: catspaw49
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 07:39 AM

Geez Mouldy, say no more!!! Interesting that Sourdough posted just after you did. You two should get together.

Big RiB and El Swanno...Glad to be of service. Now if Father Joebro would follow suit........

Rick, you had a fine chance awhile back to go with "Bootsie" which would have kept it in the family, so to speak.

Bobby bob...If you combine both your posting names you could be Bobby Van (and Storage Company) and post up some sappy rock lyrics too.

Come clean there Leej. Are you sure you're from Kaintuck or is it Ellijay, Georgia? And are you really "Lonesome" because you have a Radio Shack 479 miles from nowhere or because of Tennessee Ernie?

Bill D., I think I see your problem. You could have gone with "Bumwash" though.

And Big Mick...I would never have guessed.

Banj, you had to work so hard to attain your exalted 4 star rank.....Don't be modest, General Banj has a nice ring to it......Well, at least better than your banjo does.

WW, if you move are we going to have to swap names again? You can probably get some moving help from the Bobby Van and Storage Co.

Don, with your sense of humor, I'm surprised you didn't opt for "Sawzall"...but I kinda' like the Reebok thingie...Actually, it has a nice Marx bros sound, like Hugo Z. Hackenbush.......yeah...calling Dr. Plimsole....hmmmm....beginning to take shape here.

Bertie!!!! 'Nuff said.

bbc, I really like Rick's take...Beebs....kinda' suits you.

Interesting thread ... Where's Jeri?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Tiger
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 07:24 AM

Well, I didn't exactly CHOOSE it, at first anyway. Some kids started calling me that in high school - not sure why 'cause I'm kinda laid back. That was OK with me - when you're a Ralph, it helps to have a nickname.

After April Stevens came out with "Teach Me, Tiger" and everyone started singing it to/with me, it became indelible.

.....Ralph (Tiger) Butts

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 05:44 AM

Well, I am not, but would like to be. My surname is King, and I just came up with the 'king brilliant thing one day and it made me giggle. I use it for all sorts of things, and it always makes me laugh - and then I regret it in case anyone is offended by the implied bad-word, or in case anyone thinks I am horribly arrogant. But I usually sign myself by my real name (so that's OK then...)

Kris

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: anahata
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 05:40 AM

My nickname is my business name Anahata. It's Hindi and roughly means 'open heart'....I work with flower essences and healing people spiritually. I noticed later that the letters in my first name and surname come pretty close to forming Anahata which was pretty weird.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 05:00 AM

I started off with an enquiry under my real name, when I began to post regularly in a lighter vein I followed Mudcat tradition to choose a nickname, chose Roger (my given name) the zimmer (a walking frame for the elderly or infirm) because someone on another site had called me "the pelvis" for supplying lyrics to a 50's popular song & I had responded that at my age "the zimmer" would be more appropriate. I changed it recently in case it offended anyone with genuine mobility problems and given I'm a jazz & blues freak, & the skiffle end of the folk spectrum is where I connect with the Mudcat folkies ( and I only play the kazoo) hence "skiffler".
long boring explanation,sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Llanfair
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 03:22 AM

Jon. That would be "White...one of my best kept secrets!"
(bloody Welsh speakers!) Ach y fi Bronwen.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Sourdough
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 02:00 AM

I started using Sourdough as a CB handle when, for a short time, I had a radio mounted on my motorcycle. I liked the name because it fit my interests in both prospecting and in treasure hunting, both of which seem to take me into the bush a lot. It also works for tradiutional music.

The name stuck and my best friend has referred to me as Sourdough now for years so when asked for a nom du Mud, I dug this up.

Sourdough of Sonoma

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: roopoo
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:43 AM

I make and sell salt dough models under the name of Mouldy Old Dough, and I have never been what you would call a tidy person. mouldy

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: MudGuard
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:33 AM

You see, there was this discussion about whether we are MudCats, MudKittens or MudWhatever...
Then I noticed there are some other members called Mudjack, MudPuppy, MudKat...
So the first part of my nickname had obviously to be Mud.

Now for the second part:
My (German) surname is Waechter, which translates into Guard.

I just put these two parts together resulting in MudGuard.
And some weeks later I learnt there is an English word mudguard (which translates back into German as Schutzblech).

MudGuard

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Big Mick
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:18 AM

Real easy. My given name is Mícheál. My Grandmother always called me Mick. I am 6'2 1/2" and about 18 stone (250 lbs). Hence the Big. And in the early days I remember the confusion if I used Mick, because Mick Bracken and Mick Lowe (Hello, fellas) were also on the site.

Big Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: _gargoyle
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:15 AM

Dear BBC.....I sincerely hope that YOU and others within this thread were NOT so "trusting" and naive as to reveal you real name.

"Madonna @...." can explain why.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: CarlZen
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 01:11 AM

My last name is Carlsen and the Z slipped in there, looked nice.........

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: escamillo
Date: 05 Oct 99 - 12:44 AM

Since the early times of BBSs I had to choose a nickname, and I decided that it should be an Opera character, the music I love (not all operas). I considered Radames, Calaf, Giovanni, Scarpia, etc. and then winner was.. Escamillo, le torero de Granada ! (from Bizet's CARMEN) There were two reasons: I was already singing as baritone (before my teacher declared me a tenor), and Escamillo was so handsome, so brave, so ridiculously romantic !

(I hate bullfights and hunting and any kind of torture on animals, and would like to see all toreros in jail, but the character was overwhelmingly attractive)

I owe to myself to once get dressed as a "toreador", scan the photo and put it in the front page of my programs (I'm a professional programmer) and see my customers' faces.

Andrés Magré

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: John Hindsill
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 11:51 PM

Actually I don't like nicknames, especially diminutives. And for very personal reasons I will not respond when people call me Jack...a common nn for John. The last time I had a nickname was in Phys Ed class in HiSkool. If you can guess it, like Rumplestiltskin I will make you wealthy beyond dreams.---John

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: campfire
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 11:40 PM

I started "Mudcat" life as Dawn, my real given name. Then once I was trying to find one of my old posts (with the user search) and found stuff I never wrote! Guess I'm not the only Dawn in the 'Cat! So I decided that since around a campfire is about the only place I ever really play anymore, I might as well be...

campfire

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: sophocleese
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:57 PM

You're right Don, I don't believe you. There isn't an "N" for Nike?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Susan A-R
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:33 PM

Well, I got to be known as Susan A-R at work (where there were three or four other Susans. Seemed as good as anything. Arnowitt-Reid is just too darned long.

Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Mudjack
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:33 PM

I used to be Jack Mostly Folk. I got that from a co-worker some years back. He asked me what kind of music did I play and sing and I answered'"mostly folk". He then said Oh. Jack "Mostly Folk" Roberts.I used that for about 8 years. Jack Mostly Folk was just to much, so some time back I decided to go with Mudjack and it's easier to type in. My given name is Jackie, but like Joe said you can't keep a little kiddies name ad I've been Jack for most of my adult life.
Mudjack

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Dave Swan
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:28 PM

I had wanted a nickname all my life and none stuck to me. It was Catspaw who hung El Swanno on me and I loved it immediately. Sometimes, usually at the end of a goofy posting, you'll see me sign that way. It's nice to be called that around here. pj still doesn't call me that, but I think some of the animals do.

E.S.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 10:09 PM

hmmm...because I know so many here, I just wanted to be ME....and *big grin*..I had ONE attempt at choosing a cute, clever nickname..and it caused too much byplay and remarks.........my name is Bill Day..or B Day.which CAN be written as..ßIÐÉT...can you imagine THAT lasting in here...*grin*

so....Bill D sort of is enough

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: bbelle
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 09:57 PM

Well ... my first nickname was "humdinger folksinger," then I was "chinadoll," then I used my real name for awhile, but had to change that, so I decided on "moonchild." I'm not a moonie and the only time I ever "mooned" anyone was a Capitol police officer in 1968, riding through The Capitol grounds in Washington, DC. Actually, I chose it because that's who/what I am ... a July baby and ruled by the changes in the moon ... moonchild

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: DonMeixner
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 09:11 PM

Because no one would believe my name was Reebok J. Plimsole.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: j0_77
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:50 PM

like j? in use j1 in use and so on till j0. No data on the rest ... mbee mIRC or something can't recall - 3 years and still the same nick. J=JugBand :)

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: BSEED(CharlesKratz)
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:36 PM

Since college one of my friends has called me "Bad Seed," or usually just "Seed." When I signed up for AOL, I thought I'd use the name, but Bad Seed was already taken, so I changed it to bseedkratz, not noticing I had hit the caps lock, which made it BSEEDKRATZ. --seed

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:29 PM

Llanfair, white what???

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: bbc
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:09 PM

unassuming initials for Barbara Bowen Carr.

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 08:04 PM

What nickname?

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:47 PM

I started out with my real name, then discovered there was another K.C. on the 'cat, so I changed to WyoWoman, but we haven't heard from that other K.C. since. So I don't know if s/he also changed to avoid confusion or what...

But I like WyoWoman -- it lets people know where I'm from (sort of -- although people from outside the U.S., and many from inside -- have no concept of where/what Wyoming actually is. No matter how many times I tell people I live in Wyoming, or I moved to Wyoming, they still ask me how I LIKE Montana. We have a bit of an identity problem here...)

WW

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Banjer
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:30 PM

I just took the name of my favorite instrument, dropped the letter O and added JER. Don't ask me why...I just did!

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:27 PM

I use my real name (except Jonathan is shortened to Jon which is what I prefer to be called). I have always prefered to be me (ie Jon Freeman) rather than go by another name.

Jon

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: poet
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:19 PM

I used to be a CB and although our extended family over the water may not realise it AM CB became illegal and FM was the legit way to go. I was fond of AM but to be legal I was on Both My handle On AM was Bouncer(my Job) on AM and Poet(My Secret Hobby) on FM. and I've stuck with them.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Why did you choose your nickname?
From: _gargoyle
Date: 04 Oct 99 - 07:14 PM

Like most good things....it was a gift...from friends...