BS: People called Bill

Subject: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:30 AM

Number one of course: Bill Shatner.

Number two: Bill Clinton.

Who else?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: el ted
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:31 AM

Bilbao.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: freda underhill
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:34 AM

Bill Bailey.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:39 AM

Billabong, Telephone Bill. Gas Bill, Electric Bill. Ducks Bill. Top of the Bill, Bill poster.
Stuff your bill up your ....! should I go on?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:42 AM

Bill and Ben, Flowerpot Men!

And there was the Aussie play 'Bill Stickers Will Be Prosecuted'

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Cluin
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:47 AM

Now how `bout a round of Kids In The Hall's "These Are Some Daves I Know"?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:52 AM

Eh?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 May 04 - 08:56 AM

Postman Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Cluin
Date: 27 May 04 - 09:00 AM

KITH

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: JennyO
Date: 27 May 04 - 11:42 AM

So what did pore ole Bill Stickers do?

Bill Posters and Bill Collector don't get treated very kindly, either.

And how about the famous Bilbo Baggins?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Bill D
Date: 27 May 04 - 12:03 PM

???!!!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: pdq
Date: 27 May 04 - 12:18 PM

Hundred Dollar Bill

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Kim C
Date: 27 May 04 - 01:09 PM

Wild Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Morticia
Date: 27 May 04 - 01:18 PM

Wild? He was furious!!!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 04 - 01:19 PM

Bill Uvaduck, Bill du Pigeon, Bill Onnacrane, Bill O'Macaw, Bill O'Lading, Bill Uvma Teerials, Bill O'Particulars are all to be remembered. But Little Hawk, I really have to ask why you found it of interest, or necessary, to start such a lame-brained thread? Not up to your usual standards.

A

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 27 May 04 - 01:23 PM

There must be a lot of Williams in this world and I get all their mail!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Wesley S
Date: 27 May 04 - 02:09 PM

Bill Wilson

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: pdq
Date: 27 May 04 - 03:29 PM

Duck Bill,

or maybe that's Duck, Bill

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 04 - 03:36 PM

I do these things now and then for one purpose and one purpose only, Amos...to make fun of the lame-ass threads that jOhn from Hull starts. I want to show him that when it comes to sheer idiocy he shouldn't think he has the field all to himself.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Amos
Date: 27 May 04 - 03:38 PM

I see, LH. That's good, covering both ends of the spectrum like that. If there aren't any openings among the smnart set you can always find employment dragging the average down...

A

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 May 04 - 03:39 PM

Bill Sables!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 May 04 - 04:48 PM

Noone's mentioned Bill Jones. There are some very pleasant samples of her singing on that link. She's the only female Bill I've come across - but I'm sure there are some more out there (no names are safe...)
.................

I had a horse and his name was Bill...

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST
Date: 27 May 04 - 05:11 PM

I had a horse and his name was Bill. Da doo ron ron ron da doo ron ron

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 04 - 05:22 PM

Buffalo Bill.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 27 May 04 - 05:57 PM

Mythical creature that was half animal/half man...was that Buffalo Bill????lol

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 May 04 - 06:21 PM

No, it was Crocodile Dundee.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 28 May 04 - 02:11 AM

There was an old-timer in Bonners Ferry called Chicken Smith. He said it was because he 'didn't have no feathers.'

is this what they call "thread drift?"

clint

does it matter?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Hrothgar
Date: 28 May 04 - 09:01 AM

This sort of thread gives me the willies.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 28 May 04 - 10:50 AM

Hrothgar...your appetite for male organs is of no interest to us!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: el ted
Date: 28 May 04 - 11:15 AM

Wash your mouth out with soap young man! Jokes at the expense of differently sexed men are not allowed on PCworld, aka mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Once Famous
Date: 28 May 04 - 12:30 PM

Tell old Bill when he comes home.

This morning, this evening, so soon.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 May 04 - 01:17 PM

"differently sexed men"???? What the hell does that mean? Would Howard Stern qualify? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST,Clint Keller
Date: 28 May 04 - 01:51 PM

In the old crude days, that would have been "Three-Dollar Bill."

clint

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 May 04 - 04:04 PM

Billy the Kid
a horse named bill
bil abong
I Bill Eve, for every drop of rain that falls

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST
Date: 28 May 04 - 05:37 PM

The old Bill

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 May 04 - 06:00 PM

Especially among a bunch of folkies, I'm surprised we go this far without Railroad Bill.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 May 04 - 04:58 PM

Bill Wyman
Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas
Billy McKenzie
Bill Barclay
Bill Wordsworth
Bill Burroughs
Don't let me Bill only tonight (James Taylor)

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST,M'Grath of Altcar
Date: 30 May 04 - 02:15 PM

My Dad

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 30 May 04 - 07:04 PM

Bill Shakespeare who wrote twelth night, or wot you Bill!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST
Date: 31 May 04 - 04:34 PM

"Ma, there's a man at the door with a bill"
"It's probably just a duck wearing a hat, son"

biddum! chuuuurrrrrr!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Rasener
Date: 31 May 04 - 05:22 PM

Bill Whaley


William (Billy) Taylor

The batsmans Holding the bowlers Willey (sounds better than Billy)

Bill Er Ricky

Bill Ston

Bill Ding

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 04 - 05:24 PM

Bill Haley and the Comets

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: bflat
Date: 31 May 04 - 05:48 PM

Bill Bojangles Robinson

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 04 - 05:49 PM

Bill the Cat! Oop! Ack! (Hairball!)

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Little Hawk
Date: 31 May 04 - 07:07 PM

Bill the Butcher of the notorious Five Points slum in New York City, circa 1850's. Played by Daniel Day-Lewis in "Gangs of New York".

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST,ednaelk
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 10:29 AM

How about "Tell old Bill when he comes home...." Anyone got the chords for this? Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 11:07 AM

There's Bill Lee (the Kid)? that I think I've heard mentioned.

John

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: bankley
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 11:07 AM

Bill Eve
Bill E. Yurd
Bill E. Us
Bill Lowe
Bill Ingsgate

I better get back to work and pay the....

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 12:03 PM

Following the category of 'lame', has anyone questioned why only "Bill" and "Bob" partake of their proper cognomens? As in Billiam and Bobert. Not true of Kenneth or James or Marvin or David...

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: PoppaGator
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 12:23 PM

Bill Withers!

Bill Summers!

I was going to add Bill Wyman, but he's already been mentioned.

Someone refreshed on old thread about the song "Tell Old Bill" earlier today ~ must have been in response to this freshly-refreshed old thread...

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: GUEST,Zen
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 01:27 PM

Bill Hooks

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Severn
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 02:50 PM

Here's some unmentioned Bills that should be paid (full attention and back royalties where applicable) of note to Folkies, 'cause they themselves all paid their dues.......

Big Bill Broonzy-famed for blues, hokum, folksinging and the "I ain't never heard no horse sing one." quote.


Bill Staines-(Should he call his eventual Box set "Indelible Staines"?)


"Big Bill" Heywood-Founder of "The Wobblies" which generated The Little Red Songbook


"Whispering" Bill Anderson-Country singer and songwriter


Bill Monroe-Father Of Bluegrass


I assume that the Wild Bill reference was to Wild Bill Hickock, but there's the celebrated "Wild Bill Jones' sung of by countless Old Tome and Bluegrass singers


Bill Clifton-Autoharp player and bluegrass singer, often partnered with Red Rector


Bill Boyd-Not "Hoppy" of Western film fame, but leader of the popular Western Swing band The Cowboy Ramblers


Bill Basie-the "Count" that counted


Bill Grant-Bluegrass songwriter andlongtime singing partner of Delia Bell



Bill Bolick-singer of duets with his brother Earl as The Blue Sky Boys


Bill Morrisey-singer and songwriter


Bill Hicks-original fiddler for The Red Clay Ramblers



......Are Billys, like McComisky or Novick, a seperate club?

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 03:37 PM

BillD
Bilbo!

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Aug 08 - 09:33 PM

Bill
As performed by Mike Cross
(partial)

I went to old Bill's funeral,
One of the multitude.
They asked if I'd be kind enough
To say a word or two.
I didn't want to tell a lie
In anything I said;
But how could I avoid it
And not speak ill of the dead?

CHORUS:

Well if Heaven is glad
When sinners cease to sin
If the devil is glad
When another soul comes in
If the earth is glad
To be rid of a knave
Then everybody's happy
'Cause Bill is in his grave.

***

(A brief "biography" of this Bill is given in additional verses.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: People called Bill
From: Willie-O
Date: 09 Aug 08 - 12:16 PM

Um...me.

BTW my daughter has informed me that in her generation (she's 21) no one is called Bill. If they are named William they are probably called Will. Sometimes even William, which I have never tolerated.

Can't say as I blame them, although it's always worked fine for me.

Bill