BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 12 Nov 01 - 12:03 AM

Hello, I am just testing something.john

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: John Routledge
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 08:34 PM

Geoff - Can I compromise and call myself Geordie Routledge :0) Cheers JR

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 08:20 PM

Okay, Doug. If you are gonna change your name to Rick Fielding, then I would like to change mine to Doug R.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 12:35 PM

I like the name ICKLE as it is much easier to refer to someone by a mudcat Nom-de-Cat and both Jane and Myself know exactly who the subject of the conversation actually is. That said the name we have most problems with is Chris - we and our children seem to know hundreds of them, and some are male, some female, so when somebody in the family says It's Chris on the phone.... it is usually followed by minutes of trying to define WHO actually is there.
Also, there is a certain charm of somebody being who they wish to be rather than who their parents decided to call them.
In my own case, I was known across the country as Geoff the Duck for a long time before I ever heard of the Mudcat Cafe, so I don't have any problem whatsoever with my usage of the name.
As Tyke says, there are possible perils in putting your own name in a public forum, it may be safer to just teach the rest of the world to call you Ickle!
Quack! GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Deda
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 12:27 PM

My lips are sealed. I may already be in big trouble for mentioning it. =^(

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 12:02 PM

Hamster?

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Deda
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 11:20 AM

If your "real" name is the one your mother gave you, then Deda is real enough; she also called me princess, and other variants on the name on my birth certificate. I also happen to know that Amos has in fact answered to another name in his life -- but far be it from me to divulge what rodent he was nicknamed. Except to say that he wasn't called Rat.

;o/

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Nov 01 - 10:26 AM

Echo that I get a load to one e-mail address after posting in a far distant guest-book
these miscreants even tried using the name of Agnes Sarawewa (Ken Sarawewa's widdow apparently). I intend to post as [e-mail] in all futeure public places - at least he'll regret trying it on.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Tyke
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 08:03 PM

It might be a bit late in the day but! If you use your real name on the net you are risking your own security! I would advise people to keep using their Mudcat names! I see it like this if Tyke is going to Bedworth for the weekend. No one who I do not know will be able to work out my home address. As Tyke they know my home is empty but they do not know where it is!

Also I hate to have to tell you this but there are some very funny people about and I'm not talking about Morris Dancers. You may know that I have a couple of Web Sites if visit those sites and look at the bottom of the Coblers Monday home page you will find rainbow-coloured object called a Sitemeter. This device lets me know who and when people visit this web site. It collects all sorts of information! Although it will not tell me exactly who the visitor is (unless I pay for that information) it will tell me where they came from, what system they are using and the time zone that they are in.

What I do know is that some of the visitors are commercial operators who make money collecting likely any looking email address from the web. Information is a valuable commodity! Do not give it away! I have gone to the trouble of setting up an alternative email address just to give to anyone who might then sell that on to a third party. I do not want Spam mail on my main email address so I only give it to people I trust.

I'm I being a pessimist NO my Glass is half full! I'm just being careful and web wise. You would be surprised at the scams that are going on! One con is to offer to invest 6 million pounds of third world Arms Deal Bribe money in the (Now get this! I nearly wet myself) Coblers Monday Sea Shanty Business. What who ever it was wanted was my bank details. I personally do not trust using my credit card on the net. I have had refunds on two fraudulent uses of its number being used to top up someone's Mobile Phone. So for goodness sake use a Mudcat name AND KEEP YOURSELVES SAFE!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 07:24 PM

Actually Madame Gashee -that is a great name -toora let me go!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Madam Gashee
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 06:54 PM

And I had such fun thinking up a name!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 06:42 PM

Well John -we said we'd do it and we did! (Change our names that is!) Gosh I feel like Billy Graham -come on down and be cleansed!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: John Routledge
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 07:58 AM

As I am not a real Geordie and no longer drink "Broon" I am reverting to my real name - John Routledge.

Although my initials are JR those of you who have met me can no doubt confirm that I am not Larry Hagman. Cheers JR

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Crane Driver
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 06:44 AM

All this openness is bad for ...... well, closedness I suppose. One of the things I liked about the 'Cattery when I first stuck my nose in was the crazy names some of ...... well, some of us ...... go by. Took me right back to the old asylum. Somehow it wouldn't be the same if everyone went under everyday names. No-one spells my last name right anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Mooh
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 06:43 AM

No innocence to protect here. Mooh is pronunced "Mike". Last name "Crocker". Like the cake mix. Spelling and grammar suspect. Like ad copy.

Peace. Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 05:08 AM

I'm Michael or Mike or Mick or any variation, except in work where I'm Jim because there's a lot of Michaels, (old joke - more Mikes than the BBC).

Michael James Roberts in Swansea

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Chip2447
Date: 10 Nov 01 - 04:41 AM

BillD...If I get any bigger I won't be able to see my feet. Chip(chip)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: AliUK
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 07:48 PM

I used to be AlistairUK here in the cat because the system wouldnt let me be just Alistair. Then after I had forgotten my original password I joined as AliUK because I couldnt be plain old Ali. I sometimes answer to Oy. Fat bastard!! Or get yer arse over ere you slime, but you can call me Ali. *G*

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 02:33 PM

no!...you mean there IS no lama at RCA?

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: lamarca
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 02:03 PM

Actually, my real name is LaMarca, but since I'm not a very good typist and don't like having to use the shift key...(not to mention all the HTML required to get the bolding and underlining...)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 12:58 PM

Chipbigr?...tsk! *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Chip2447
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 12:10 PM

I'm nicknamed so nice, I use it twice. Check the numbers out on the phone dialing thingamajiggy, touch tone for most of us, ancient dial zip clickclickclick for some of you... Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 11:24 AM

I use "DaveO" as a nickname for the humanitarian purpose of excusing everyone from spelling "Dave Oesterreich", I almost always sign my posts with the whole schmier.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 10:35 AM

Linda

If I follow suit and revert to a version of my real name, do you think that Les' suggestion of "Sir Roger de Beverley" would sound good?

R

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 10:04 AM

I use my "real name" in all of my e-mail addresses -- boring but practical, sort of, since everybody misspells both my first name and my surname. (Linn Schulz)

I think I sign half of my Mudcat posts as "Linn" anyway and refer to Curmudgeon as Tom. Anybody confused?

Linn Goddess aka Bat Schulz

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Amos
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 09:02 AM

So fire-cat, your real name is...Wet Cat? Ash Cat? Cat Ash? Ummmm.... where did you say your parents met? Like, which commune?

LOL!

I am always just Amos this lifetime.

Will let you-all know when planning is complete for next one.

Regards,

A.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Gervase
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 06:42 AM

Hang on, I'm Spartacus!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: CarolC
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 06:18 AM

Aaaaaauuuuuggggghhhhh!!!!!!

I'm being assimilated!!!!!

The_one_and_only_CarolC

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: The_one_and_only_Dai
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 06:10 AM

We are Dai of Borg. Real names mean nothing to us. We are collective and unified.

You will be assimilated.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 06:09 AM

From now on, following a dispute with my mining company, I wish to be known as the Gnome formaly known as Dave. I will change it to squiggle as soon as I can sort it out in html....

GFKAD

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: GUEST,Firecat
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 06:01 AM

Well, I kinda use my real name, if you put the flame out!

Work it out for yourselves!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 09 Nov 01 - 01:49 AM

Don't explain your jokes Kendall! Some of us get them in their original raw beauty.

Doug R

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 10:47 PM

Well, Linda it is. You told me in Whitby you were thinking of making this change. Great meeting you there, BTW.

Best,

chanteyranger

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 09:54 PM

Linda is not Bob Zimmerman. There is currently a BOB posting frequently to Mudcat who, I am convinced, is the real Bob Zimmerman.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: DougR
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 09:46 PM

From now on, I'm gonna be Rick Fielding.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 09:40 PM

Congratulations, Linda! Although there are several men who use their (presumably) real first and last names as their Mudcat name, you are the first woman, as far as I know, to do so. I say "presumably" because, of course, no one requires us to prove our identities when we sign up, and you might really be Bob Zimmerman for all I know. So your privacy is just as well protected as it always was.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 08:59 PM

if she can become Linda, I can switch to "Jootminsky Swigminor Warfle"...just to keep things in balance. Good idea,,,hmmm?

(my first cat was named "Mickey"., after the mouse...by little brother picked it, and he was 3 years old and it was hard to explain to him)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Noreen
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 08:38 PM

And Chairman Linda IS? *lol*

No, sorry, you're already "Ickle" on our CD cover, can't change it now!

Noreen

(who was never imaginative enough to think of a nom de souris, and whose first cat was called Pussy...)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: kendall
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 08:07 PM

I want to be called "Loretta" from now on. (Life of Brian"

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 08:02 PM

Wait a bit. Does Hull ever use its real name?
& which county is it in? North Humberside, East Thirding or Just plain ordinary East Yorkshire?
Well if I used my real name would anyone believe it was my real name?
My pre-conception of an Ickle Dorrit was way off beam, but then I have a terrible name for faces!
Monsieur Rouge

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:57 PM

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From: John Routledge
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:53 PM

Thread Subtitle "Dissertation on Indian Cooking in NW England"

Korma is a little sweet for my palate but a proper vindaloo slips down a treat. You can try some of mine if you do not want a whole plateful.!!

Ah well - Back to the meaning of life.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:52 PM

Micca -I will look forward to hearng it at Stoney -we've also got a bottle of wine to see to!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Micca
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:49 PM

Linda, also since, of course when Jeri announced "Sparehand" at the Getaway, she said, " a song I got from Linda Kelly" not Ickle Dorritt, so you should be recognised as you for your great song, I listened to the recording of her singing it again today.. WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Just you wait!! ( I know, you sing it beautifully, but a 3rd party singing it is a different dimension)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:46 PM

Indeed Mr Broon -so are you a vindaloo or a korma man?

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: John Routledge
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:44 PM

Better than Chairman Bush surely

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:41 PM

Yes John, but don't tell the others! When world domination has been achieved I did not feel that Chairman Ickle was a suitable title for a world leader!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:37 PM

Ickle, Sorry I mean Linda, Is the name change part of The World Domination Plan?

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:22 PM

Spaw -more bromide less tea I think.....

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:01 PM

Oh you're such a nice nellie........Be rude, crude, and lewd!!! (and if you do, send me pictures....especially the "lewd" part)

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 07:01 PM

*LOL*

I dunno....there are already rumblings of discontent, I think, about Hull's separate, independent status....*G*

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:55 PM

To me you will always be Micca my sweet,Actually, one of the main reason for changing is the frequency with which I now seem to meet other Mudcatters in the flesh, which in Hull is an awful lot. It seems daft to speak to Mudcatters at a folk session using one name and to refer to myself by my proper name to non mudcatrers -it is also a little discourteous to both sets of people -but this is purely my own choice .

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Lepus Rex
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:50 PM

I like the fake names, myself. 'Real' names are hard for me to remember, especially all those 'Fred_B' and 'Betsy_G' type names.

I'm actually changing my real name to Lepus Rex, just to be an ass, so I guess I'll be in that club, anyway. >:)

---Lepus Rex/Will_A, ewww.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Micca
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:48 PM

wellcome Linda, to hark back to an old TV ad the manager has come out of the closet??? welcome, as you, just to boring, I am actually known widely as Micca.. It is my "real" name ( or a variant that has been used in my family since I was about 4

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: GUEST,Chicken Charlie
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:38 PM

Alas, poor Ickle; I knew her well.

But Clinton, how do we know that that's your real name?

Still Chicken Charlie for the time being

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:30 PM

Paul from Hull -computer is definitely on its way out and I am negotiating a replacement as we speak. Perhaps we realnamers can form a splinter group? Never boring Mr E, and I couldn't possibly consider No Name -that's Wilkie Collins as you well know!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Matthew Edwards
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:23 PM

Dammit... I was working through Dickensian names to use. Picnic Paupers, Olive Twist, Great Expectorations, Our Mutual Fred, etc etc...Now we've all got to be our boring everyday selves.
From Matthew Edwards, being his boring everyday self.

Couldn't you just be No Name?

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 06:08 PM

You'll never catch me using my real name!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:51 PM

Okay Lickle Delly if that's what y..........wait a minute, that's not it...........Lori Dickle, yeah, that has it..................wait.......still not right..............Lindor Ickly?.......no.....damn, what is that.....................okay, I went and looked again and it's.............uh............well nuts!!!.......................just a second ...........Okay, LINDA KELLY...............Geez, I'm havin' a tough time but Lickle I'd like.........ah crap................just skip it...........you can be anyone, I'll get it sooner or later...........not all that hard........Litney Dorkle....................................dammit..........................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:51 PM

*GRINS* Nice one John!

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:38 PM

Since when is it a trend to use ones real name online?

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:38 PM

Im already using my real name.

Mr J.i.Hull

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: heric
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:30 PM

I'm inspired to follow suit, and it feels good! 'Course, my last name is mispelled a little bit, but a lot of people like to call me Kelly anyway, so it's good enough. My surname is unique, so that Google will pull up bad jokes I told on forums eight years ago. I need to protect my freedom to say stupid things (without it showing up in a job interview, or something.)

You can all feel free to treat me as you would any other Guest. ;)

Dan K.

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:28 PM

I loved the name 'Ickle Dorritt'

Oh well, everything comes to an end...

All the best to you, Linda (somehow you sound older now - no offense intended)

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:21 PM

I'm told you've been having some computer problems, Ickle Linda...everything ok with it now?

Subject: RE: BS: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: John Routledge
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:08 PM

Hi Linda - Didn't know that you were an attention seeking Trendsetter :0)

All the best in 3D. John

Subject: Names changed to protect the innocent???
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 08 Nov 01 - 05:00 PM

Have decided to join the real world and use my real name as my Mudcat name -so Ickle Dorritt is no more! Of course, many of you may wish to continue to call me Ickle or in Micca's case Dorritt -I will not ignore you -for indeed, I have been known to answer to anything!!!