BS: Name Change

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: khandu
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 06:45 PM

My real name is Tweed Splooz, but there is another Catter named Tweed who has a website called Tweedsblues, so I decided to use my real real name here which is khandu, tho I prefer "King khandu"!

ken

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 06:54 PM

Others have leapt to answer the trump, Leedle Hark!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 06:58 PM

My new Mudcatname is really, really close to my real name, but it's not an exact match. It is, however, the name by which my Mother called me when she wasn't irritated with me. I remember quite clearly, there was one time, when she wasn't irritated with me. I was quite young, probably no more than four or five or maybe two or three, and I hadn't yet discovered The Wonderful World Of Hammers And Saws. Ah, the memories....

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 06:58 PM

Lest we forget!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 07:27 PM

Well, Mike, I guess that technically you did it right, and I appreciate that. However, I've known you as "Rapaire," and it's going to take me a while ot get used to this new Mike character. I feel better with Giok's method of using both old and new names. I'm glad Giok added something to his name, because I was very embarrassed when I called him "Mary" by mistake, thinking he was another Mudcatter who has a similar user name.

Now, there's nothing wrong with using user names that are totally disconnected from your real name. It's just that it makes it confusing for Mudcatters to deal with you if you encounter them in real life. And if you're a performer, I would think it would generally be to your advantage to post with your stage name. But could you really imagine Catspaw and Micca posting as Pat and Michael Patterson?

Hey, do you think they're brothers? They both have a certain gnomelike quality....

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 07:33 PM

Better?

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 07:53 PM

well I, like Mike, used a name similar to mine own, but that felt more fraudulent than a hokey silly name, so then I used something else, but everybody thought I was an asshole so it didn't matter anyway, then I used something else but I don't have substantive folkloric knowledge anyway, but I do like BS and then I got stuck with this stupid-assed named that just happened to be in use when Joe said that we have to stick with the same stupid-assed names consistently, and then so I did, but I was still a stupid ignorant asshole and I realized well what the hell you know the universe is expanding or collapsing or whatever it's doom in the big picture so now, well I dunno I'll have to think of a name

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:09 PM

It's easy. Peruse the annals of Japanese medieval history, look over the names of famous Samurai, and pick one that you like.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:19 PM

Dear M-Rap-D, I'm getting whiplash. Don't let Joe push you around! Next thing you know, he'll want you to confess to something or he'll shove a hot poker up... oops - wrong thread.

Go ahead and change your name. It's fun to read old posts where people are talking to some guy named "Rapaire" and there's nobody by that name in the thread.

(I almost changed my name just to be a smartass and realized that if anyone tried to PM "Jeri" they were gonna get a "Jeri doesn't exist - try again" message.)

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:21 PM

Oh...I see he didn't metamophasize, he just budded.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Jeri
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 08:23 PM

No, he changed, I just went back to an old page. Sheesh. M.Rap, DON'T MAKE ME COME OUT THERE!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Cookieless Rapaire
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 11:34 PM

Ain't lettin' nobody push me 'round 'ceptin' me and my wife, and I ain't so sure I'm gonna let me push me 'round. Joe O. tries to push me 'round and he'll find out about pushin' 'round. Amos tries to push me 'round and he'll find out about pushin' 'round. Spaw tries to push me 'round and he'll find out about pushin' 'round. Tweed...aw, heck, you git the idea.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 19 Dec 03 - 11:37 PM

Chill, dude!! No-one wants to push you 'round!! We just want to join you in Finding Out Who You Are!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 10:09 AM

Who am I? A question I've been asking myself for years and years and years. Indeed, isn't life a search for self? Am I now the same person who carried an M-1 rifle those many years ago, trudging through the heat of a Ft. Leonard Wood summer? Or am I the same person who learned to read long before that? The same one who used to smoke a pipe? Or am I now someone else, defined by marriage/job/experiences unexperienced by those earlier "me's"? How has my travel and education defined and re-defined and re-re-defined me? Is it all real, or simply "sound and fury, signifying nothing"? I read and enjoyed Garcia Marquez's book "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" years ago; would I enjoy it if I re-read it, or have the intervening years changed the "me" that enjoyed it into someone who wouldn't enjoy it now?

And what is "now"? Is it...okay, dear, I'll go make breakfast. I was just trying to answer Amos. If it's possible to truly answer someone's question. After all we can't REALLY know all of the implications and such behind

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 10:23 AM

Ya notice how his ramble suddenly stilled and he seemed to vaporize into a cloud of Immaterial Will? That's what happens when you find out who you really are, man!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 11:13 AM

I too am going to jump on this bandwagon, having long regretted entering the Mudcat arena under a nickname - though the confusion it has caused in some quarters about my gender has brought some unexpected amusement.

What do I do to ensure that my previous posts and PMs follow me to my new, real, name? I know this can be done, because some of the more abusive PMs I've had from one member in particular now show up in my archive as having come from someone else.

Peter Kirker (aka Fionn).

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 11:15 AM

Rapaire, are you no longer feeling yourself?
JMfkaG

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 11:15 AM

Or maybe his wife just explained the concept of 'now' to him!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 11:19 AM

Peter/Fionn, just click on 'Membership' up at the top, type in a new Mudcat name and Click 'Submit'.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 01:04 PM

Jeri:

Wow!! Discovering now as a subordinate of a marriage partner puts a whole new cast on spirituality!! Like, wow!! (Sure you can go on a spiritual advenyure, dear -- just wipe your feet before you come back!!)



A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 01:55 PM

This is so totally cosmic. It's discussions like these that make me realize why I come here almost every day. I am, like, majorly drawn into this, eh? It's, like, almost addictive, know what I mean? Anybody got Pot Noodles?

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 02:38 PM

The thing is, that entering a community of people of goodwill, and communicating and building relationships all under a pseudonym is very liberating but not for the reason that the trolls think.   It is not liberating because you can be capriciously irresponsible and destructive and get away with it.

It is liberating because it parallels the Truth -- we are all building relationships and communicating under an assumed Identity, and the liberating feeling comes from not having to pretend otherwise! In cyberspace we _KNOW_ that the true Self is very different from the apparent identity. It's not a big secret to anyone! In 3D life most people pretend it ain't so!! LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,riverboat annie
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 03:02 PM

guess who?

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,paul dirac
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 03:05 PM

guess who?

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,sluefoot sue
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 03:06 PM

guess who?

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 03:49 PM

Oh, this is really fun!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 04:35 PM

You don't like yer current name? you want a new name? Have I got names for YOU!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 04:36 PM

Well, this is my real name...sorta, anyway. Its actually Art Brooks-and if you want to really get in trouble around here, try signing a message "Art". That is apparently a reserved privilege, since I got seriously jumped on the one and only time I did it.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 04:38 PM

Oh...don't get lost in that link I posted...it will do stuff to the brain cells. Set a timer and only do 10 mionutes at a time, maybe)

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Shallow Running Crankbait
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 04:41 PM

Hey Riverboat Annie et al.

Kiss my shriveled buckeyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 05:47 PM

Geeze, Art, if your name is Art seems to me you should sign it Art and let the phffffttts fall where they may!! We don't stand on formalities around here and it don't seem right somehow to bother a guy for using his own damn name!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:18 PM

Hey, Joe O don' want push nobody aroun'

But if Fionn and Lil' Hawk and Giok and Rapaire and Jeri all change names, I'll be hopelessly confused....

-Joe Offer, the person formerly known as Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:18 PM

Bill D:

That link is the funniest and saddest thing I have seen since the capture of Saddam Hussein!! ROTFLMAO!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:44 PM

Amos..several years ago I heard of a black family who followed a 'joke' suggestion and named their daughter 'Urethra' to compete with all the 'Keneshas' and 'LaTawnas' and such....I have no idea if it was truth or an urban legend...but after that site, it's just a matter of time.

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Asclepius' aunty Artemis
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:56 PM

Bring em on down here, Shallow Running Crankbait! I dare ya!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:56 PM

I forget where I am...I am on the INTERNET. After I posted that, I said "I'm gonna do a seach.." so
literary reference

and Nov 12th in this blog

maybe more...that's enough

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 06:59 PM

It may be ArtBrooks, but is it really Art? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: GUEST,Washtub wannabe
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:00 PM

yeah, I dare you!

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:08 PM

Bill D:

I can hear it now:

"My boyfrien' and me decided on a name for our baby girl, Dad. We named her Urethra cuz it sounds so nice, an' we made up our minds and we ain't changing it now!!"

"Oh, boy. Urine trouble!!"

(Cymbals and drum roll here....)

Come to think of it, why not Placenta Oceana for a girl, and maybe Vasly Deferens for a boy? This is one of those boundary areas where you can't believe what you're seeing as bizarre fantasy gradually unfolds as reality. Hooooooeeeee!!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:17 PM

Hey! I have always been known as Dave and I have always been a Gnome!

Any problems with that?

Cheers

DtG

(in real life Dave Polshaw, of Swinton Folk Club, Manchester. UK)

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:24 PM

I don't know much about Art Brooks, but I do know what I like.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 07:38 PM

The Fooles Troupe, in their efforts at Panto style stage stumblings, came up with the pseudo-Shakespearean name Climidea...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 09:18 PM

There was a hunchbacked servant in some old comic in National Lampoon named "Smegma"! I always got a good laugh out of that. Oh, yeah, the comic was: "Dr Colon's Monster" Smegma was usually attempting to secure a brain or some other less valuable body part to animate the monster. Very amusing.

Amos, your comment at 2:38 today was absolutely on the mark and brilliant! Yes, we are all here (in this life, I mean) under an assumed identity, with a temporary, assumed name. And isn't it great fun? I mean, unless you don't want to have fun. Then it isn't. Everyone gets exactly what they want...even if NOT getting what they want is what they want!

Amazing system...only a god could have come up with anything so clever, IMO.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Amos
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 09:33 PM

Well, LH, your kind remarks certainly merit a packet of Pot Noodles!!

And yes, it is a hoot.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 09:45 PM

pot noddles are a big rip off.john

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 10:14 PM

CURSE YOU SMEGMA!

Spaw...Religious Lampoon Reader
"He told me he was God, but he never done a trick." Bode's Orphan girl speaking of my hero, Cheech Wizard

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 10:23 PM

My mother grew up with a girl named "Pellegra." Her parents thought it sounded great.

I dunno. Naming kids after body parts..."My son, Spleen, age 4; my daughter, Pancreas, she's 7; and here's a picture of the baby, Bursa -- just 7 months old!"

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Dec 03 - 11:11 PM

I always thought that Tony Orlanando & Dawn song 'Candida' was a hoot.
A woman named after a yeast infection. Guess she sort of grows on you.

Someone once told me he knew of a child whose name was pronounced Ah-SHOW-lay and spelled 'Asshole'. I think he must've been full of it (because I'd consider it child abuse), but he seemed sincere (they all do).

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 12:09 AM

I will for once leave Vaugn Bode alone...

Other great comics in National Lampoon:

One Year Affair (which became Two Year Affair) (which became Three Year Affair) (and so on)

The one with the girl who looked like Little Orphan Annie and had a brunette friend, and a spaniel who talked, named????

The one with the very badly drawn little people who would make the sounds of passionate lovemaking while sitting on opposite park benches and reading the paper.

Dirty Duck!!! Possibly my absolute favourite. The raunchiest, vilest cartoon duck in history. He had a little crow companion too.

Check out my Chongo Chimp story. It's going nicely. No thanks to you, Spaw! :-)

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Name Change
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Dec 03 - 12:48 AM

Lil Arf & Nonnie?

...and who can forget "Underwear for the Deaf"?

I was an avid collector of National Lampoon for 10-15 years and have 'most' of the issues of that era...including most of the special releases, paperbacks and parodies. It all started when I walked into a bookstore in Lawrence, Kans. in about 1971? and found Issue #1...I bought copies from newsstands for years, until I finally got a subscription about 1982 or so...after the glory years.