how did you choose your mudcat name?

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Callie
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 03:57 AM

today = "oggi" (pronounced like "(st)odgy".

Callie is the main character in Monica Dickens' "House at World's End" books. Or was it "Follyfoot"? I don't quite remember now.

And I'm not an actor.

Callie

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Brendy
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 04:03 AM

I remember as a kid, especially at football matches, people in the crowd would start chanting this 'Oggie oggie...' thing.
I used to join in, of course; kids tend to do that.

But I never had a clue what they were on about.
One of those many un-answered questions from childhood, I suppose.

B.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: death by whisky
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 09:55 AM

OGGIE'OGGIE,OGGIE. Max Boyce buttie.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Albatross
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 10:42 AM

Well I fell hopelessly in love with a fellow mudcatter three years ago who also uses a mystical bird's name. So I that gave me the idea. I've just about got over it now. It's fun trying to fly high in the sky over the ocean without flapping ones wings very often.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: SpitWhistle
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 10:48 AM

'cause I play the whistle with the consequent drooly results!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 03 Aug 00 - 12:46 PM

Wincing Devil is an anagram of my name.

Anagrams are nifty! MONICA LEWINSKY is an anagram of SLICK MAY WIN ONE.

http://www.anagramfun.com/

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Wincing_Devil
Adopt a Sphynx: Think of all the money you'll save on Furrball remedies!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: P05139
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 12:45 PM

I chose my Mudcat name for the following reasons:-

1) My real name is Kathryn, which can be shortened to Kat.

2) Cats are my favourite animals.

3) I was in a folk group at school called Fireboots.

So... take Kat and spell it like the animal. Add the Fire from Fireboots at the front and ... duh-duh-duuuhhh.. you've got Firecat.

Come to think of it, I got off lightly! I was gonna call myself Athena after the Greek goddess of music but I decided I wasn't THAT good!!!

C ya l8er!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: black walnut
Date: 04 Aug 00 - 01:31 PM

i play a black walnut celtic harp and a black walnut fretted dulcimer....

~black walnut

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Bearheart
Date: 14 Aug 00 - 09:05 PM

It's part of my real name, the part I relate to the most. I am a bear at heart--- I give bear hugs (of the female variety), I love honey, I'm a healer (what bears are known for in most tribal traditions all over the world); and Bear is my spiritual connection, and to me music of any kind is about Spirit-- it comes from the deepest part of us, our soul, the part of us that feels beauty and passion. (I am definitely not a Zen Buddhist!).

Bearheart

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: roopoo
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 02:42 AM

Well I'll answer to anything, and frequently do, but I chose mouldy because I sell my salt dough under the name of "mouldy old dough". Apart from one mumming play, the only boards I have trodden were am-dram before kids happened; BUT I did get to play Captain Smollett in a pantomime version of "Treasure Island" (well slap-a-my-thigh!), and when I was at school, Japheth in a play by some French playwright of the 1930s about Noah. Got to perform in the Nottingham Arts Theatre for that one!

Andrea (aka mouldy, mum, Audrey, wife, cloglady, omigod it's her again... etc, etc).

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 03:53 AM

I'd come to mudcat many times
to find a song in folk sublimes
When to my delight what did I see?
That people there could write to me!
It happened on that fateful day
When I was looking Childe's way
The song I wanted, There it was
And it became my handle 'cause...
My name is Thomas and I've seen
The bonny road of Elfland's Queen!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 04:34 AM

Amergin was the bard for the Milesians......the name I admit is a bit grandstanding on my part....I would change it to something more fitting like Shitinabucket if it wouldnt make the Mudcat gods so angry....

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: okthen
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 05:36 AM

i had been on the periphary (spelling?) of mudcat for months, totally addicted but not a member.

i dillied and dallied for so long, that in the end (after doing my usual quality control check on greene king)i thought

okthen

i also wanted something short that icould type in each time, if i'd known it was all done for me i might have chosen "the complete works of william shakespeare"

all in all i think i'll stick with what i got

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: GUEST,cleod
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 08:52 AM

I loved the movie 'Highlander' and decided I wanted to be called MacLeod...then because there were so many people on the 'Net by that nick, I shortened it to 'cleod' - my numdane name is Carolyn (you can, however, find all the letters of cleod in my full name).

Mbo - i thought your name was African...there was this story that I read before in an African setting with a character named Mbo...

Firecat - also thought you got it from a book!

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: hesperis
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 09:54 AM

The word 'hesperis' came to me, I know not from where,
some time after a dream I had where my friend who just got married
was married already, and his apartment was in the same place but different,
and I was given new clothes of red and black by his wife,
and she did a scholarship search for me on her computer,
and I insisted that I was not Greek...
I have strange dreams.
(The ones I remember anyway!)
The dream is jumbled in my memory now, I have it written down somewhere though.

Anyway, I seached for hesperis on yahoo, this is what I learned:

Hesperis is a lesser Goddess of ancient Greece,
a dancer around the trees of golden apples,
and a handmaiden of Helos.

Hesperis is also hesperis matronalis,
a flower also known as Damask Violet, Dame's Violet,
Sweet Rocket, Dame's Rocket, and Mother of the Evening.
It is a night-bloomer with a very sweet scent,
and ranges in colour from white to purple.

Purple is my favorite colour right now.

I thought of signing up as Brighid, because she is my favorite (named) Goddess,
but I have email in hesperis already, and I know too many people named Brighid or Brigette...

~*sirepseh*~

PS: I am new here, and am not yet comfortable giving my real name.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 10:28 AM

Art Thieme is the guy who lives next door to us here in Chernoble. He died several years ago after undergoing an excruciating year and three quarters of radiation sickness that was worse than anyone in our entire city. I figured I'd use his name as it wasn't being used any more. He was with theCIA as it turns out. (Most Americans here were.) When he had lived in the USA he became somewhat famous in Memphis, Tennessee as Elvis Presley. But now he's really dead. As far as I know, though, he never ever touched a guitar or banjo or jews harp or musical saw or dulcimer or anything---just a balalaika which everybody picks around here. They are definitely "unplugged" around here, but we are still amplified electrically--not by choice however. Just living here now has resulted in a degree of natural electricity and amplification that gives our instruments unique properties that are found nowhere else on the planet. My own Martin B-28 (3-piece back and rosewood sides with multi roentgen bracing) is, on occasion, brighter than a 175 watt bulb. Some here use their instruments (still after all this time) to get a nice tan.

Love to all,

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: sophocleese
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 12:26 PM

Hello hesperis, no need to apologize or explain for not using your real name here. Many people don't for many different reasons. Welcome to Mudcat.

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: Roger in Sheffield
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 01:47 PM

Hesperis - I was reading that you did not know where it came from and thinking instantly Hesperis matr...
Just as I was feeling very clever and about to reply with my botanical knowledge I scrolled down the screen to see that you had already dicovered Dames Violet. It grows in my garden - beautiful scent!
Good name

Subject: RE: how did you choose your mudcat name?
From: okthen
Date: 15 Aug 00 - 01:58 PM

good job it's not hesperus-you could get wrecked;)

cheers

bill