BS: Origin of your mudcat handle

Subject: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST,LEJ
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:16 PM

What's the origin of your mudcat handle ? Is it a pet name, an anagram or a total secret ? Som really great names used by members. My own isn't very exciting. Lee Edward Jenkins

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:18 PM

Nickname of William Morris, among his friends.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:19 PM

I didn't like "Joseph" or "Joey."

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:22 PM

Recycling!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:23 PM

What handle?

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From: artbrooks
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:25 PM

Beats Arthur Chase Brooks III

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Wesley S
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:25 PM

My parents gave me the name. I was named after an uncle of mine. I shortened the last name because people don't always believe you when you tell them your name is Smith.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:27 PM

You got your name from recycling, Skipy? - a peanut butter jar?

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:29 PM

After a great friend sadly since gone who loved the open air views from the roof of Divis flats Belfast.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Bert
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:31 PM

Good job you explained that. I had you confused with our Lonesome EJ who sometimes signs as LEJ.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:33 PM

I spotted that as well, Bert!

Mine's easy. I am called Dave and I am tall, slim and handsome.

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:35 PM

I am a cat and I laugh...what more can I say?**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: gnu
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:36 PM

Rather than the long explanation, which may be found on several past threads on this subject... gnu and wildebeeste = Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

On the other handle, Gary Owens was my father's doing... a reference to Garryowen.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:37 PM

Hi Loe, must be a transatlantic thing, can't see it, or is it the Morland causing a problem?
Regards Skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:39 PM

Yes, it's the Morland, "Joe" hit the L!
Have got a bandage on my typing finger, small accident at work.
Skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:42 PM

Hi Loe? Is that the handle Johnny comes back to?

Possibly something to do with the Morland. Old Speckled Hen by any chance?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:42 PM

I went out on a limb with mine...my nickname is Becca and I was born in '72...

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST,mkebenn
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:49 PM

MiKE BENNett

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: ClaireBear
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:51 PM

Well, my first name is Claire. My father called me Claire Bear when I was small. And to clinch the deal, I was working for the Great Dickens Christmas Fair and Pickwick Comic Annual in the late '70s and thought there was something missing from the recreated 19th-c. London streets, so based on the painting on the cover on the 1975 Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (way-too-small picture here), I built myself a bear suit and became the Great Dickens Christmas Bear and Pickwick Comic Animal. (Ask Dave Swan if you don't believe me!) My partner rented me out for waltzes at 25 cents a dance, or 50 cents with the muzzle in place. He had me on a long chain, and whenever anyone wanted to whirl me around in a glorious Vienneze waltz -- and there were a few takers -- he'd have to run in circles around the happy couple in order to keep from entangling us with the chain. It was hilarious.

So there you go.

Topsie -- I was wondering if that was it. I am a lifelong Morris fan and undertook a pilgrimage to put a wreath of wildflowers on his grave a few years ago. That visit to Kelmscot is a jewel-like memory I will treasure until I die.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: harpmolly
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:55 PM

Well, my name is Molly, and I play the...er...melodeon? ;)

M

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:59 PM

No, not the hen, just the original.
Wife worked for the brewery for 13 years, until closure, so got lots & lots of cheap ale, usually Hen at 50p per bottle!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:05 PM

An abbreviated version of what's on my birth certificate:   Donald Richard Firth.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: danensis
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:09 PM

Mine's the ablative form of "danum",

John

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:52 PM

I don't feel like being a member so I am just a "guest".

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:56 PM

I am the only one that should be allowed to call myself Guest!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:58 PM

I am Guest!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Slag
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:09 PM

Nothing exotic. I have a Diablo II character, a barbarian named Slaag Heap. Maybe it does go back to my early days as a welder.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:17 PM

I have collected Georgian Silver for years as well as other antiques. Also my handle on Ebay.....

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: skipy
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 05:19 PM

DtG - no I am Guest
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 06:45 PM

Then we have the one we all know, Guest.
Graciously Undoing Every Sensible Thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 06:59 PM

I am Spartacas!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:00 PM

I am going to bed!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Severn
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:08 PM

I am often "second guest", but Severn is my real first name, named after a great grandfather.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Janie
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:11 PM

Lack of imagination.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Kaleea
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:25 PM

It's my Choctaw name-the nickname my family & close friends use, as opposed to my legal name which my mother did not choose. My father bent to his family's demand to name me after my great aunt, so he filled out the name for birth certificate purposes & signed his & my mother's names to the hospital form. My mother is still mad about it.
There's more than you wanted to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 07:41 PM

Oh, this is really tough, eH? Whaddya think?

- Shane

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: mack/misophist
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 08:51 PM

This has been done before but here's a shorter form of the answer. Mack's my name. Misophist meqns 'thought-hater'.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:19 PM

Let's see:
My name IS John
I live in California
The SUN SETS into thePacific Ocean off the California COAST
(well thats true too for Oregon, Washington, Baja California, but I live in California...did I say that?)
I could be John on the Left Coast, but that's too political, and I'm more right than left anyway.
Then, again, I could be from Ghana and be on the left coast of Africa.
Or I could be from Wales, on the left coast of Britain, however am from California.
But you know that because I told you that three times before.
I could be John on the Sunrise Coast if I lived in, say New Jersey or I could be John on the Sonrise Coast if I were a Born Again Christian (but I'm not).
Well, I think I've flogged this post to death. ;>]

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:45 PM

I took all the possible combinations of the Gettysburg Address and after 49 attempts came up with "catspaw." Later I found out the acual Gettysburg address was 945 Pickett Lane, Gettysburtg, PA..... but I was stuck with catspaw. This was way back in '98. Another member at that time who is also still around called himself "The Shambles" and I later learned this was slang for "broke-dick, pain in the ass, mook."

Now the site owner here has a really creative handle. His name is Max Spiegel and his handle is Max. Really cool huh? See, though what you don't know is that Max is an American Indian word meaning "guy who gets kicked in the balls by Spaw".......either that or "River of Death." But then again all Indian words seem to translate into "River of Death."

You probably noticed that I wasn't to PC there with the "American Indian" reference but we've run a load of threads about that very subject and we never reach any agreement, so I gave up. If you hear I've been found with a tomahawk in my skull, well, you figure it out.

We've run about 97 of these threads in the past 8 years so I hope ypou didn't mind me fuckin' around some with this one......All except for the part about Shambles which is true, at least to the best of my knowledge......although I could well be wrong, in which case I apologize.....a little..............

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Azizi
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:51 PM

'Azizi' is a Kiswahili name that means "rare & precious", or at least so I was told by the male friend who gave me this name when I was 20 years old.

I've used this name as my first name ever since.

I've been told that the Arabic version of this name "Aziza" means "powerful" and "dear". And those meanings work for me too.

:o)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 09:56 PM

LOL!

Thanks, Spaw! It's nice when you come along and set these things into their proper context.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Mudlark
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 11:58 PM

Potter + singer...seemed a natural.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 12:27 AM

Oh, my. I hope, Spaw, that all the people you have deeply offended with those thoughtless comments just hound you and pester you about it unmercifully until you can't bear to go on anymore and do yourself in by eating too many nachos, followed by a wild ride down the River of Death, at the end of which you will have your sorry ass kicked into oblivion by a mob of the aforesaid offended people whom you have, no doubt, deeply offended. Yes, indeedy. You're in deep shit now, man.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:21 AM

The Fooles Troupe

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:25 AM

John on the Sunset Coast

I thought you lived in Weatern Australia on the Sunset Coast!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Slag
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 01:30 AM

Mudlark, have you ever heard the phrase, "In Hell the mad lark sings"? Anyone? I don't know the origin and I don't think I'm really creative enough to have invented it myself.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:26 AM

No worries Spaw, they probably just want to bury the hatchet....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:39 AM

Is that an invitation, Foolstroupe? Forgive my ignorance, but is there much there?

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: jacqui.c
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 11:00 AM

Same as Janie - no imagination. My first name is Jacqui and my surname when I joined Mudcat was Clark....

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Deckman
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 12:22 PM

I've been a builder most of my life. For the last 15 years, or so, I've specialized in building decks and all kinds of garden structures. My business name is "THE DECKMAN." You might get a kick out of my business slogan: "YOU SHOULD SEE WHAT I SAW! Cheers, Bob Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Crane Driver
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 12:32 PM

I never believe in being informative if I can be confusing, so -

Do I operate heavy lifting machinery? No.

Do I round up long-legged birds? No. (Not now I'm married!)

So, what is it?

It's a clue, that's what it is.

Andrew

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 03:01 PM

I've been called one.
Alexei Sayle article "Return of the Fat Bastard"
I like it
All The Best from Charlie Stenger.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Mudlark
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 04:18 PM

Slag...That phrase doesn't ring any bells, but on the other hand, if you DID originate it, I'd like to read some of your writing! I think it will stay with me for a while...

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:42 PM

andrew plays a crane duet concertina.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:46 PM

and Dick looks like he should be selling fish fingers!

(It wasn't REALY you was it?)

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 05:50 PM

well I found out that I was called Captain Birdseye behind my back.I must say I dislike fish fingers, But any donations of wild salmon or caviar would be appreciated.apparantly I look a bit like the Captain, Anyway he seems jolly, so I figured their could be worse nicknames..

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Cool Beans
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 08:32 PM

My daughter used to say "Cool Beans" a lot when she was 14, which is when I first signed on to Mudcat. Now she's 21. It means "good, really good." I use the same handle on Talkin' Broadway.
Best,
Marty

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Troll
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 10:43 PM

A young lady on whom I had improper designs told me that she could never get serious with someone who had the disposition of a troll with a toothache.
This in the mid-sixties and the Lord of the Rings had just come out paperback, hence the troll reference.
We got married two years later but the troll thing stuck. Troll was my handle in the days of CB radio and simply carried it over to the internet.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:59 AM

I work in a Federal Government agency & introduce my self to interstate colleagues as

Sandra in Sydney

but I won't change my Mudcat name when I retire in February!!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: scouse
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:47 AM

Well,I come from Liverpool,what else could I call m'self..??
As Aye,
Phil.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 06:07 AM

Thank God it's not Sidney in Sandra !

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From: GUEST,Sapper in Saltburn Cybercafe
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 06:34 AM

Sapper? I was one for 11½ years; 82? Last two.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 08:48 AM

http://www.sunsetcoast.com.au/

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST,Scarecrow
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 10:51 AM

"Scarecrow" is a song by Syd Barrett, who had more musical influence on me than almost anyone else. RIP Roger Barrett, and thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Michael in Swansea
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 12:19 PM

My name is Michael and I live in Swansea South Wales. Boring.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Bagpuss
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 02:17 PM

Most americans think my name is something vile, but the Brits know I am just a saggy old cloth cat; baggy and a bit loose at the seams...

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Severn
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 02:33 PM

Troll, your lady wasn't Ancient Yultide Carol, was she?

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: JennyO
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:56 PM

My Christian name and the first letter of my surname - original huh? Most of my friends call me JennyO anyway, including a lot who don't know me from Mudcat.

Handles? We don't need no steenkin' handles....

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 12:23 AM

Love Handles!

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From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 09:47 AM

I had a handle but it fell off...
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 11:40 AM

When a shipmate saw an entry in my second dischage book, SS Golden Hind, he said "wow Dave you really are the ancient mariner" ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: fogie
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 12:55 PM

I thought it would be nicer than Fogey -as in old fogey. here I rest,sitting behind a mahogony desk with my three piece tweed suit(buttoned trousers of course), while the spiders weave webs in the darkness of my oak panelled study. I note from my pocket watch that it is soon time to have my milk and whisky, and settle down to read the Times, before retiring to my four poster, that has been neatly turned down by my valet! Strange- he doesnt turn down much else I note. Wish they'd spell it with a capital F!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Raedwulf
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 04:31 PM

Rædwulf - Rede + wolf - Wolf Counsel

"Cunning" really is my middle name.

(The modern version is Ralph, after my maternal g/f. The full name translates as "The god-like cunning son of the mighty army" & explains 3 of the 6 names that currently belong to me)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 07:28 PM

That's fascinating.......I always thought Raedwulf meant "sillyass who lost American Express card in Abu Dhabi." I'm glad to be wrong about that, but are you sure?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Joybell
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 08:10 PM

My family (my mother, my father, and my father's wife) were shunned by my father's sister. Her daughter - my cousin, found out about my birth but was never allowed to meet me. (she was 11 when I was born) She wrote "Joybell's birthday" in her birthday book. It took her 56 years to find me but she still had the old birthday book. I liked the nickname.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Rockhen
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 08:21 PM

Rockhen as opposed to Rock chick (am FAR too old...)
Folk hen didn't sound that good if you said it fast, and folkysortof bluesyrockypiano-yhen just didn't work...
Hey you never get any warning...'they' just say ...write your'nickname' and you have to just write-it-straight-away-and-then feel-a wally-and-wish-you-had-thought-of-something-really-deep-or intelligent-before you had that extra glass of vino...

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: cptsnapper
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 02:39 AM

I was in a group & apparently had a reputation for being slightly tetchy especially in the morning!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST,jOhn from Hull
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 06:28 AM

I can,t remember.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Janie
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 07:06 AM

Hi Joybell! I been wonderin' where you were. Maybe we've just been on different threads. Happy early spring.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Raedwulf
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 02:41 PM

Spaw,

Never had an AmEx, never been to Abu Dhabi. I'd think of something witty to round it off, but you really aren't worth the effort, dahlink! (miaow)

R

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 04:39 PM

I think we still have a nursery colony of Little Brown Bats under our roof. Before we stuffed up the opening in the front of the house (forcing them to use the opening on the opposite side of the house, the side with the very uneven slope making lousy footing for a tall ladder), they lived above the bedroom. The "adolescents" would go out on their own around the first week in July (here in New Hampshire, at least, get confused and sometimes end up in the bedroom. Now they live above the guest room, I think. I should probably put the little ceramic "bat room" bat-shaped plaque on the guest room door, but that might REALLY confuse guests as the BATH room is just to the left.

And I LIKE bats...

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Joybell
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 07:24 PM

Thank you Janie. And a happy early Fall to you. Been off smelling the Tree Violets and the wattle. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:28 PM

Longstanding love for/association with all things early modern generally and Shakespearean particularly; plus I used to have an insanely and unjustly jealous partner!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 11:50 PM

fogie...love your writing!!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: JennyO
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 09:30 AM

the BATH room is just to the left.

No no NO Bat Goddess! That can't be. Everybody knows that "there is a bathroom to the right" :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 11:56 AM

Lee

To paraphrase Sandy Denny "we'll meet on the 'LEJ'". Plenty of room for two. Though usually when somebody has referred to me by the LEJ monicker it gets pronounced "Leige" for some reason, giving it a medieval spin.

Last year at the Getaway, I was called Leige and Ernie as well as the full Lonesome EJ. I woke up with a grin when Amos pulled his car up at 5:30 am in front of my cabin for the returning airport ride,leaned into the dark room, and intoned in a quiet and somber voice "Lonesome?"

LEJ (also)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Scoville
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 12:20 PM

Sayers & Scoville Hearse Co.

(I'm a vintage car nut with a slightly morbid sense of humor, and I'd just gotten back from the Museum of Funeral History, which I highly recommend if you ever find yourself in the North Houston vicinity.)

I also once knew a horse named Scoville (because he was black and worked part-time pulling an antique hearse at reenactments . . . ).

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 02:15 PM

That's who I am 'cos that's what I play!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: The Vulgar Boatman
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 06:41 PM

'Cos I live and work on the inland waterways. (No sh*t Sherlock)

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: ella_tall
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 06:58 PM

As a belated introduction:

My name is Helen (and if you've ever seen a British guy called something like "Pat Whistler" on this site, I'm his daughter FYI), but Helen is a sucky name, and I get called everything from Nell to Hen.

Oh yes, and I'm tall. Very tall. 'Tall' is almost an understatement. However, it's good for playing the 'cello.

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: snarky
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 09:21 AM

because that's my bottom nature. PCer's expect me to be sunshine and light but that's a load of crap! The world is a dark place! Face it, you wingers!

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 02:27 PM

"I woke up with a grin when Amos pulled his car up at 5:30 am in front of my cabin for the returning airport ride,leaned into the dark room, and intoned in a quiet and somber voice "Lonesome?"

hahahah I would never have guessed it, Amos!


E B, also from the Sunset Coast

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: Raedwulf
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 03:14 PM

Helen has always been one of my favourite feminine names, actually. There again, I hated Ralph before I hit my teens (Happy Days & Ralph Malph were on TV in the UK at the time). Then I found out what it meant & why it was one of my names. Liked it ever since, though I still prefer my chosen variants!

Different perspectives, I guess...

Subject: RE: BS: Origin of your mudcat handle
From: moongoddess
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 09:06 AM

My name Diana means Goddess of the Moon. It is a better handle than using what my uncle used to call me - "Moose"!