BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 11:55 PM

I always thought of deckhand when I saw the name deckman...

crotchety old bastard would be more descriptive of me than Amergin....

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 11:49 PM

You know, Deckman, I've always wondered about what your name meant... Oddly, I never once thought 'Hey, maybe he builds decks.' :)

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: GUEST,not gargoyle
Date: 22 Nov 01 - 03:56 AM

a gargoyle is an ugly object that spouts foul water and other detritus into the gutter...not descriptive at all.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Deckman
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 07:38 PM

Great thread ... I'm glad that someone re-introduced it. No surprise with my name ... I build decks ... and it's also my e-mail monicker! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Melani
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 02:24 PM

Well, it's my real name. That way I won't forget it.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Guessed
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 06:20 AM

onomatopeaically

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: mouldy
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 02:29 AM

I originally posted to this earlier in the year, but then my daughter attempted to sign up and all my previous postings became "roopoo"..... Hah! you should see HER first thing in the morning!

Andrea - Still being Mouldy Old Dough

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 01:11 AM

yes.john

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: GUEST,BigDaddy
Date: 21 Nov 01 - 12:46 AM

Yep.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 06:07 PM

Partly yes, partly no. I am a lightly built person....hence, "Little". As for the "Hawk" part...I have terrible eyesight, so it doesn't work for that...but I have good connections with birds of prey in a spiritual sense, and have taken a falconry course at one time...so it does work there. I've always liked hawks.

When flattop refers to me as "Little Shit Hawk", he is using a common local expression for seagulls, "shit hawks". Very disrespectful!

Raptor - I thought yours was partly because of the Toronto basketball team...

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: lady penelope
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 05:23 PM

Well, my eldest brother always addressed me as "Oi, madam" when I annoyed him..........

Actually, I used this name as it was what that brother wanted to christine me ( Lady Penelope Creighton Ward in full, Thunderbirds had just come out ) there was already a Penny on the list and I just thought I'd finally get some mileage out of it!

TTFN M'Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Ned Ludd
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 05:09 PM

Sometimes!

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 04:16 PM

Yes. :|

---Lepus Rex

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: guinnesschik
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 04:11 PM

Well, yes. I'm stout, fond of the lovely dark stuff, and indeed, female.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Raptor
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 10:09 AM

I chose Raptor cuz I'm an ornotholigist!
Raptor

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: GUEST,pinkfiddle
Date: 20 Nov 01 - 09:28 AM

Well my fiddle is pink so yes!

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 08:25 PM

Mine means "scarecrow", probably in a field of "Tatties" (Potatoes). A Bogle is also a ghost. But the name was one of those terms of endearment used by my Scottish mother when either my sister or I came in looking particularly dishevelled after playing outside! It was later adopted by my husband to call myself or either of our 2 kids "Bogues". So now you know! Taatie Bogle

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:29 PM

I picked mine cuz I didn't wanna sign the name on my birth certificate to my posts, but I also didn't want to be an unnamed guest (let's not rekindle that rant though ;D )

I am mostly of celtic blood, however, if you combine the mixture handed down from my Mother and my Father, it's more than 3/4.

Or, you could just attribute it to the ease in which my "Irish" can be got. ;D

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Gareth
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 06:51 PM

I prefer my real name to :-

Sheepshagger

Which relates to an unfortunate incident involving a Ewe and a Vauxhall Astra !

Gareth aka Garydd, Garrett, Gruff, Garth (depending on which part of the British Isles I is in.)

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: GUEST,frankie
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 06:42 PM

I took my handle from the Mississippi John Hurt tune "Frankie" which was his take on the Frankie and Albert (or Johnny) story. Frankie "was a good girl" who shot her straying Albert "three or four times" and I'm a 6'5" 225lb. All-American boy who loathes guns so I hope not. f

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Dead Horse
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 05:16 PM

I aint dead, yet. Sing 'til I'm horse, tho! Name comes from local Morris side to which I belong. Sea shanty, Dead Horse, is our theme tune. It's also what we flog when we dance to a crowd of one drunk and his dog.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 09:48 AM

Oh, this thread's back! Well, I'm goddess-shaped and have a nursery colony of Little Brown Bats in the roof of my house from March until September.

I once told a friend I was a cat goddess, but she shook her head and said, no, I was a cat mat. (Sigh. They DO walk all over me!)

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Gillie
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 09:45 AM

Well, mine's just a old family name. Nothing to do with looking like a servant!

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Gillie
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 09:43 AM

From Magician,

Yes, Tig bounces!!

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Tweed
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 07:14 AM

Mine's from the cheap suitcase-type covering on the amp I use. (fender of course!) Old and dull looking but my tubes glow in the dark with an occasional flash of blue.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: GUEST,Firecat
Date: 19 Nov 01 - 05:57 AM

Well, mine's sort of descriptive! The "Fire" could describe my temper and the "cat" describes my preferred choice of pet!

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: aussiebloke
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 10:56 PM

Yep, I'm an Aussie (not to be confused with Ocker - different tribe) of the male persuasion; hence...

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 02:52 PM

I have a nursery colony of Little Brown Bats (that's the variety of bat, not just the description) between the bedroom ceiling and the roof from March-ish until August/Septemberish. And I'm reasonably knowledgable about bats (and many other obscure and not so obscure subjects).

Bat Goddess

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Hollowfox
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 09:30 AM

Only before mealtime.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: guest(intruder-inactive)
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 07:59 AM

"hurrah" began life as "Ha Rollo"
the norse equivalent of writing one's representative

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Rollo
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 05:50 PM

Well now... my friends say I look like a looney savage viking... Rollo the viking is a main song figure by a quite famous band over here.

But I suppose the truth they named me rollo is my enormous belly. When I'm too drunk to walk over main street they say I just roll over. Dunno. Can't remember. But I can't remember crossing the street anyway, so maybe they're right.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: savindwales
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 05:46 PM

i lived in hawai'i 'til just recently. i always objected to tourists being taken out to view the whales that passed by o'ahu. as a small protest i never went out to bother the great beasts. so i always considered myself to be savin' the whales.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: annamill
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 05:35 PM

Yes. Why do you ask, Two-Dogs-F**king?

Just being funny ;-) **BG** (joking) giggle Tee Hee LOL LMAO etc.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Pinetop Slim
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 05:23 PM

describes aspirations

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: FOG(Friend of Gnome)
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 05:05 PM

The first time I tried to register with Mudcat I tried just about every combination of my real name Phil with various letters/numbers and it wouldnt let me do it, so finally since I am a friend of DtG I decided FOG is a good one. Since then it has been pointed out that it is quite a good description since a lot of the parties /sessions I go to can get quite misty/hazy and sometimes its difficult to see across the room Bhong said Zebedee-I rest my case said FOG-please put money into it. FOG

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 04:10 PM

I woulcn't presume to tell you what other people have called me. Mostly it's rude, crude and socially unaccptable, just like me.LOL, Kindest regguards, Neil

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 06:40 AM

Gonff the mousethief (from a websearch) comes from a book in which animals rebel against an evil cat who has seized power in a phantasy land.

Makes me wonder about your motives, Alex, and who please do you consider to be the evil cat over here?

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Tinker
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 12:40 AM

Got the name the first time I was exposed to folk music many years ago. As I had a tendency to try and fix most anything (not always with much sucess),an abiding case of wanderlust, and I loved to dance with most anyone I could pull out on the dance floor.... I now call a contractor, chauffer the kids, but still love to dance

Tinker

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 12:19 AM

Well, my mudcat name is not descriptive of me at all....Now one of my Paltalk names on the other hand....

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 12:06 AM

Lonesome...sometimes. Kind of like ol Hank, listenin' to that whippoorwill at 3 in the morning while the rest of the world's asleep. EJ...all the time. Although, after eating that meatball and onion sandwich for lunch, I'm feeling more like Catspaw.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Gypsy
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 11:23 PM

Ooohhhh....Alex, you gotta share that book! Thank you so much for posting the fragment of it.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: CamiSu
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:57 PM

Nope, just my name, though Cameron is close to camaron which means shrimp...there are days when I really wish I was taller.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: hesperis
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:51 PM

Cool, MT. Which book is that from?

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: wdyat12
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:23 PM

Aaah! and here I thought you got your name for pulling pranks in community library computerrooms.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: mousethief
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 06:45 PM

My name comes from a character in a book, whom I admire even if I don't resemble him as closely as I'd like to:

Gonff the mousethief padded silently along the passage from the larder and storeroom of Kotir. He was a plump little creature, clad in a green jerkin with a broad buckled belt. He was a ducker and a weaver of life, a marvelous mimic, ballad writer, singer, and lockpick, and very jovial with it all. The woodlanders were immensely fond of the little thief. Gonff shrugged it all off, calling every creature his matey in imitation of the otters, whom he greatly admired. Chuckling quietly to himself, he drew the small dagger from his belt and cut off a wedge from the cheese he was carrying. Slung around his shoulder was a large flask of elderberry wine which he had also stolen from the larder. Gonff ate and drank, singing quietly to himself in a deep bass voice between mouthfuls of cheese and wine.

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 06:30 PM

*reading back*...umm Chan....umm..Fortunato, if you have to ask about the sheep, you can't join..(and grape jello is perfectly normal..LIME jello is perverted!)

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: hesperis
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 06:12 PM

Well, I can be flowery sometimes *->-

... and I am a Goddess.

That's my name!

~*sirepseh*~

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 05:55 PM

Sartorially RED.

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: Kim C
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 03:33 PM

Heehee! I couldn't remember if Fortunato was the waller or the wallee! Been a long time since I read that story.

I did have some amontillado once. Mighty tasty. :)

Subject: RE: BS: are mudcatters nicknames descriptive?
From: GUEST,Fortunato
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 03:18 PM

Yes, Kim, Fortunato was walled up with a cask of wine by his enemy, Montressor. I am more careful with my criticism of my peers. I do however enjoy fortified wines.

ahem. cheers, fortunato