BS: I've Changed My Name

11 Nov 10 - 02:43 PM (#3029610)
Subject: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Just as Giok did, I have changed my Mudcat name so that nobody will have to guess how it's pronounced, assume that I'm associated with rap or hip-hop, etc.

All y'all are welcome.

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11 Nov 10 - 02:44 PM (#3029613)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

Thanks Bobert. I appreciate that.

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11 Nov 10 - 02:53 PM (#3029623)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Mrrzy

Mine is pronounced like the mersey river... but I'm keeping it!

I thought Giok was pronounced Jock. Was I wrong?

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11 Nov 10 - 03:01 PM (#3029632)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Joe Offer

AND...he changed his name properly, but going to Membership and updating only the information that needed to be changed. Far better and far less confusing than submitting a new membership.
(duplicate memberships are highly discouraged, name changes are fine if done for good reason, but please tell us when you change your name.)

-Joe-

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11 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM (#3029639)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

Not having to deduce what it was changed from would also be good.

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11 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM (#3029640)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

You went ape?

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11 Nov 10 - 03:06 PM (#3029643)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Was it the rising of the moon?

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11 Nov 10 - 03:20 PM (#3029652)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: katlaughing

Rhymes with Paree?**BG**

Thanks for doing it the correct way AND telling us about it!

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11 Nov 10 - 03:25 PM (#3029655)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

I still don't know how to pronounce it.

is it

Wrap are e?

Which syllable(s) have emphasis?

And why do we care since we are communicating in print?

JakdeSAYler

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11 Nov 10 - 03:26 PM (#3029658)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos

How ya gonna keep him
Down on the farm,
Now that he's Rapparee!!???
How ya gonna keep him
Away from harm,
Runnin' around
And painting the town?
How ya gonna keep him
Down on the farm
That's the mystereeeee!
He's gonna want to hear that jazz-band now!
He'll never want to touch that horse and plow!
Oh, how ya gonna keep him
Down on the farm,
Now that he's
Rappareeeeee!!!

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11 Nov 10 - 03:32 PM (#3029667)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude

I thought it was chongo ...

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11 Nov 10 - 03:32 PM (#3029668)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: John MacKenzie

Yes it is Jock.
I assumed that Rapaire was a fancy way of spelling repair, and that he was, as in Gilbert & Sullivan, a Wandring minstrel.
Ergo he was 'a thing of rags and patches', and in constant need of Rapaire!

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11 Nov 10 - 03:42 PM (#3029679)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

Thanks for letting us know, formerly known as Rapaire.

Are you now on a witness protection program?

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11 Nov 10 - 04:03 PM (#3029697)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

Yes, but the pronounce it 'witless projection'...

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11 Nov 10 - 04:09 PM (#3029701)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

If I were to change my name, I would go all out, and use one of the ones below:funny names

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11 Nov 10 - 04:34 PM (#3029710)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Joe Offer

Now, Mike, I think you told me at the Getaway, but I forgot: What is the meaning of "Rapaire"?? I keep thinking it's some obscure cultural reference....but maybe it's something Catspaw dreamed up.

-Joe-

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11 Nov 10 - 04:39 PM (#3029715)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: kendall

there is an Irish song about a rebel named Redmond O'Hanlon the gallant Raparie. That's how I knew how to pronounce it.

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11 Nov 10 - 04:40 PM (#3029716)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1

I'm confused..

Is Rappy now Bobert?

And if so, who and where is Bobert now?

Jock's prounounced Giok, which I thought was pronounced..duh...giok..

...but giok's now McKenzie anyway.

So...if Giok's Jock, who is now McKenzie, then is Rapairee...jock, or giok, or bobert?



Oh, Cripes!

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11 Nov 10 - 04:41 PM (#3029718)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1

And WHO is MIKE, Joe?

Is he related to Edmond? Or the brother of Redmond?

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11 Nov 10 - 04:44 PM (#3029722)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: WalkaboutsVerse

Minor repair.

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11 Nov 10 - 05:05 PM (#3029735)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow

When announcing a change names it might be a good idea to say what the old name was...

What difference does it make how people pronounce a name when we communicate through the "printed" word? How can we tell anyway?

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11 Nov 10 - 05:10 PM (#3029738)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

kendall... both spellings indicate an Irish "rebel" who wields a pike or sword.

At least I can still call Mike Rap. I am easily confused.

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11 Nov 10 - 05:12 PM (#3029739)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Oh... hence my reference to ape (guerilla) and the song The Rising of the Moon... wi' pike upon yer shoulder by the rising...

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11 Nov 10 - 05:12 PM (#3029740)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Joe Offer

McGrath sez: What difference does it make how people pronounce a name when we communicate through the "printed" word? How can we tell anyway?

Well, Kevin, even though I've met you in person, I still am not certain how to pronounce your surname. So, every time I see a post from you, I'm profoundly confused.

Come to think of it, maybe profound confusion is just a natural state of life for me.

-Joe-

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11 Nov 10 - 05:18 PM (#3029742)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: SINSULL

Thought it meant swordsman but what do I know/
Hi Rap.

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11 Nov 10 - 05:27 PM (#3029749)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jeri

It helps to know how a name is pronounced when we talk about you. I thought "Rapaire" was "repair" too. You're still gonna be shortened to "Rap".

McGrath, when I heard him on Max's Mudcat radio show way back in the dark ages, was "McGraw".

For years, I thought "epitome" was "eppi tome" -- rymes with "peppapoem", because I only ever heard it in my head when I read it. The first time a thing like that come out of your mouth when you're in a group of folks who know better, you realize that it's good to know pronunciation.

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11 Nov 10 - 05:32 PM (#3029752)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow

You aren't alone there, Joe. I'm all too accustomed to having shop assistants correct me - "Oh, you mean McGrath - pronouncing it to rhyme with path, or maybe math.

The right way sort of rhymes with hurrah. But I answer to them all anyway. Can't blame people for having problems with a name with six consonants and only one vowel. Klingons and Poles tend to have the same experience...

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11 Nov 10 - 05:33 PM (#3029754)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos

"Rapaire" could only be pronounced "RahPAIRE" according to normal rules of spelling in English. He was tryin' to get away wit sompn, is what.


A

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11 Nov 10 - 05:36 PM (#3029757)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie

It's some time since we MacKenzie's gave up trying to get the Sassunachs to pronounce our name correctly. Back in the late 17th century the judge "Bluidie" MacKenzie was always pronounced MacKingie which is a close approximation to the original.

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11 Nov 10 - 05:39 PM (#3029759)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: WalkaboutsVerse

...I knew that one VIA the Australian cricketer - Glenn McGrath.

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11 Nov 10 - 05:43 PM (#3029762)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

MacKingie which is a close approximation to the original.

So the problem is with the spelling?

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11 Nov 10 - 05:58 PM (#3029773)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: catspaw49

Still too much confusion Rap....Why don't you just go with something more appropriate for you like "Fucknuts" and make it easy...........


SPaw

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11 Nov 10 - 06:03 PM (#3029779)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

Or just plain Nuts is that is too long.

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11 Nov 10 - 06:10 PM (#3029786)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1

Oh yes...Fucknuts is kinda cute. :0)

I'm Lizzie, with a Zuh, not Lizzie with a Zeeee 'cos Lizzie with a zeeee goes zeeeee not zuh...as Liza once sang...

Liza with a Zeee that is, not Liza with a Seeeeee 'cos Liza with a seeeeeee goes Lisa, not Liza..

Now I need to know who Mikerap is, and who the heck is Kevin!

Oh! My poooor head!
1 Across - 1 Down

:0)

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11 Nov 10 - 06:15 PM (#3029790)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

Are you Lizzie with a zuh or Liza with a zuh?

Because if you are the first that makes no sense at all to me.

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11 Nov 10 - 06:36 PM (#3029816)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow

Lizzie with a Zed I rather assume...

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11 Nov 10 - 07:27 PM (#3029854)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River

The reason that the "Fliphead from Poclatello" has flippin' changed his flippin' name is simple! He is a-scairt of me! He is tremblin' in his flippin' boots and has changed his name to try to, like, excape my dedely vengince, eh? This will not save the bolthole. I am not fooled so easy, eh?

Hey Rapoop! There is no flippin' excape from Shane McBride. When I set my flippin' mind on somethin' it is like a immovebale rock, man! Like a rock that cannot budje. You cannot get away by changin' yer name, retread. Just thought I wood let you know that you are doomed and don't have no hope anyways because of how you have inSULTED the hole McBride fambly and are gonna pay. Yup. No flippin' mercy for the likes of youse.

- Shane

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11 Nov 10 - 07:27 PM (#3029855)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude

Spaw
Priceless ... can't stop laughing

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11 Nov 10 - 07:34 PM (#3029859)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie

The zed in MacKenzie is actually a yogh. Zed was only found in foreign words such as zeal in the 16th century, and the surname Menzies has the same problem, which is why Charlie's ancestors changed the spelling to Mingus. In later Scots, the spelling was changed to "y" apart from proper names. The Gaelic spelling is MacCoinneach, pronounced (approximately) mac Kunyoch.

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11 Nov 10 - 07:37 PM (#3029863)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bobert

Ahhhh, what's up, Rap???

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11 Nov 10 - 07:37 PM (#3029864)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude

Ahhh Ok Dave ....

   can I have a drink of that also

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11 Nov 10 - 07:42 PM (#3029870)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

I had considered "Jo Offer" or "catspaw48" or "Amuss" but decided not to confuse things any more than they are. "Rapaire" is a fairly obscure Irish Gaelic variant of "Rapparee" -- other names used in the early 18th Century were "Highwayman" or "Tory" (!). It is pronounced "rap-a-ree". I remember back when I first signed on the name "Rapparee" was taken.

As for Shame McBride, I invite him to come visiting. Come heeled, though, 'cause I won't wait. I know about your immovable, rock-like, brain so I'll just gut-shoot ya and leave ya fer the coyotes and cougars. I just don't hanker to his back-shootin', dry-gulchin', cattle poisonin' ways, so I'll jist shoot him outa hand and be done with it. Rewards will be graciously accepted.

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11 Nov 10 - 07:48 PM (#3029877)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

♫"Now, Mr. McGrath", the Mudcat said,
"How would you like your elegy read?
With some scarlet prose and your name said wrong..
Mr. McGrath, we should write a song.."♫

That's how I've always pronounced it...

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11 Nov 10 - 07:49 PM (#3029881)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

This here's the story of Raparie
Who changed his name to Raparee
He posts like a barfly and stings like a flee
Just ask around Mudcat, and they know who he be

Say,Raparie
Say,Raparee,

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11 Nov 10 - 09:20 PM (#3029953)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

My rifle's rusty, my sword is bent
My flume is choked with dirt
And the thistledown and the barley beards
Mix well with my sweat and dirt.
But my purse is as empty as it ever was
I'm weak in the arms and knees
So I'll fight for whoever pays the most
And my name is Rapparee
And my name is Rapparee.

So lift your glasses friends with mine
And get your hand off of my knee!
So I'll fight for whoever pays the most,
I'm an awkward Rapparee
I'm a clumsy Rapparee. .

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11 Nov 10 - 09:41 PM (#3029963)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bobert

Okay, that's it.... I'm changin' my name, too... Ahhhhh, what's left??? Hmmmmmmm??? I undedstand that "rapaire" ain't taken... Lemmne think on it... Sounds familiar thou???

B~

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11 Nov 10 - 09:46 PM (#3029965)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude

What was wrong with wienerap or raponrapoff theycallmetherapper
or rapsodee

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11 Nov 10 - 09:48 PM (#3029968)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: olddude

That's it, I am changin mine ... gonna put my apostrophe in it just to piss off the TSA agents o'lddude

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11 Nov 10 - 09:49 PM (#3029970)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos

Try "Bubba", Bobert, baby!! Boy!! Big Bobert a Bubba!! Bambalam!!


A

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11 Nov 10 - 09:55 PM (#3029972)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Bobert, change it to "Amis". Means "friends" in French and it'll annoy Amos to no end. Or you could use "Amiss" like in "Something's amiss here!" Or Amo (means "I love" in Latin; "amas" means "you (singular) love"; "amat"   means "he, she, or it loves."

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11 Nov 10 - 10:25 PM (#3029981)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos

Or "Gaudeamus! Or ipse loquat! Or Quod Erat Demonstrarum!! Or in res ipse!

The world is your oyster!


A

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11 Nov 10 - 10:42 PM (#3029993)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Don't get carried away. Actually, "Bobert" is just fine.

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11 Nov 10 - 11:11 PM (#3030001)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Gurney

Shane McBride back from the dead?

That's only been done once before.

Where's a St. Paul when you need one?

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11 Nov 10 - 11:12 PM (#3030002)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

He never died; he just smells that way.

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12 Nov 10 - 12:13 AM (#3030021)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Janie

Still confusing. Rapaire or Rapparee - neither look like they should be pronounced "Old Goat."

(she said as she ducked and ran for cover:^)

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12 Nov 10 - 03:18 AM (#3030079)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Lizzie Cornish 1

"The zed in MacKenzie is actually a yogh."

No, stop, stop, STOP! :0)

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12 Nov 10 - 05:17 AM (#3030135)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Patsy

People write my name wrong often so I'm tempted. I've been called Pastey, Pastie, Pasty, Pastie and Patsie. No-one could get Trish wrong can they?

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12 Nov 10 - 05:38 AM (#3030144)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Get "Trish" wrong? Ahhhh, somebody else?

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12 Nov 10 - 05:40 AM (#3030145)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow

"The zed in MacKenzie is actually a yogh."

In the same way, a true Scot will always insist on spelling curdled milk as "zedart" rather than "yoghurt".

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12 Nov 10 - 07:47 AM (#3030205)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: John MacKenzie

Zeu got that one right Kevin :)
John MacYoghurt [probiotic]

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12 Nov 10 - 10:09 AM (#3030301)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: fat B****rd

Welcome, Rapparee. I shall maybe change my Mudcat name to Featherstonehough, just for the daftness of it.

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12 Nov 10 - 11:58 AM (#3030411)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

...I see 'Rumplestiltskin' isn't taken...

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12 Nov 10 - 01:48 PM (#3030504)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: McGrath of Harlow

Pronounced "Fanshawe".

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12 Nov 10 - 02:26 PM (#3030543)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: John MacKenzie

Cholmondely

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12 Nov 10 - 02:37 PM (#3030554)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Gurney

A well-hung artist, Chumley.

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12 Nov 10 - 04:42 PM (#3030631)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: IWTATBM

I can see where you're coming from Rapparree, occasionally people mispronounce my name too. It's just lack of effort.

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12 Nov 10 - 04:49 PM (#3030640)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

Superman used to have a comic book foe called "Mr. Mxyzptlk" that would be a great name to switch to...except in Hawaii.

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12 Nov 10 - 04:50 PM (#3030641)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

Please pronounce this rap-ear!!

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12 Nov 10 - 04:51 PM (#3030643)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

This ability is so wrong!

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12 Nov 10 - 05:15 PM (#3030658)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Ahhhhh... who are you Rapaire?

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12 Nov 10 - 05:26 PM (#3030665)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

Why not try a three letter name. There is less opportunity for error...right Gnu?

Or better, how about two, FU?

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12 Nov 10 - 05:30 PM (#3030669)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

I have no ear for rap....I prefer music..

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12 Nov 10 - 05:31 PM (#3030670)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Indeed, Ed T. I even went for no caps. Suits my mentality... simple.

Coulda gone with one letter but there was no story to tell in that. I mean, g, eh?

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12 Nov 10 - 05:37 PM (#3030672)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

Raparee<

Have you ever considered using the name "Little Johnny fucker faster?" If you do, I have a good joke for you to use in your com'in out party :)

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12 Nov 10 - 06:56 PM (#3030731)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

I'm going to change it again to Amos.

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12 Nov 10 - 07:02 PM (#3030737)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

It'll have to be Amos²

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12 Nov 10 - 07:04 PM (#3030739)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Maybe Bill Dee...

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12 Nov 10 - 07:10 PM (#3030743)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

hey

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12 Nov 10 - 07:15 PM (#3030745)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

arrrgghhhh....that'll teach me

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12 Nov 10 - 09:37 PM (#3030832)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

However, Joe Offer said back up there..

"..please tell us when you change your name."

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12 Nov 10 - 09:48 PM (#3030834)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Little Hawk

Dubya was seeking the destruction of Bill Dee some time back. I think Bill had better not change his name.

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12 Nov 10 - 09:50 PM (#3030835)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

Bill tried a cute & clever name once....many years ago. It..um...didn't work well. Dubya wouldn't even have gotten the joke.

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12 Nov 10 - 11:03 PM (#3030856)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amergin

Maybe we should call you Reacharound Rap, so no one gets confused....

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13 Nov 10 - 05:52 PM (#3031343)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

A few odd band names. Just because I want to post them :)



Funny Band Names

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13 Nov 10 - 06:00 PM (#3031348)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Reacharound Rap??? You are in danger of being stuck.

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13 Nov 10 - 06:12 PM (#3031359)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Genie

Rapparee, ya didn't say who you wuz or whatcher name usta be afore ya changed it?

I wuz wundrin' if this new "ruh-PER-ry" person wuz the artist formerly knowed as "Rapaire."

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13 Nov 10 - 06:14 PM (#3031361)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name to Rapparee
From: Genie

BTW, Rapparee, if you change your name to "Chrysler" or "General Motors," there's prolly more $ in that.   Tom Paxton thinks so anyway.

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13 Nov 10 - 06:32 PM (#3031371)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

Watch it. Or, he may hit you with his pike. And, i don't mean the fish.

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13 Nov 10 - 06:35 PM (#3031374)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

The Outlaw Rapparee

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13 Nov 10 - 07:03 PM (#3031385)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

1. Yes, Genie, that is correct.

2. So, Ed T., what else is new? I like the Clancy Brothers version better, but that one is still good.

3. Pike, hell! I've got a double clamshell, swept-hilt, rapier as well as a fully functional small sword (mid-18th Century version) and I know how to use them. Also a main gauche, a rondel, and various other such things.

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13 Nov 10 - 07:09 PM (#3031394)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

This is fairly new, old dog:
Rapparee Kennels

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13 Nov 10 - 07:13 PM (#3031397)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos

Hunted from out our father's home, pursued by steel and shot
A bloody warfare we must wage or the gibbet be our lot
Hurrah! This war is welcome work, the hunted outlaw knows
He steps unto his country's love o'er the corpses of his foes

This charmin' verse is the thin disguise
Of Rapparee, librarian wise
A man not widely known for looks
But masterful in reading books
His blade is not of rusted steel
But of gray-painted foam,
And he sleeps not in any limestone cave
But in a large warm home.

But give him a hand, good Mudcats all
And let these trifles be
For all is well now he's learned to spell
The name of Rapparee!
The name of Rapparee.

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13 Nov 10 - 07:21 PM (#3031405)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

"It has been observed, and with truth, that the Irish Rapparees seldom indulged in the habit of intoxication or intemperance, and this is not at all to be wondered at. The meshes of authority were always spread for them, and the very consciousness of this fact sharpened their wits, and kept them perpetually on their guard against the possibility of arrest. Nor was this all. The very nature of the lawless and outrageous life they led, and their frequent exposure to danger, rendered habits of caution necessary—and those were altogether incompatible with habits of intemperance. Self-preservation rendered this policy necessary, and we believe there are but few instances on record of a Rapparee having been arrested in a state of intoxication. Their laws, in fact, however barbarous they were in other matters, rendered three cases of drunkenness a cause of expulsion from the gang."

Illustrated Stories and Tales of The Irish

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13 Nov 10 - 07:22 PM (#3031407)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

...But my rifles are a bright as my dear wife's eyes
My arms are strong and free,
What care have I for your strictures, laws?
I'm an outlawed Rapaire, I'm an outlawed Ropaire!

The mountain fastness is my home,
Way up in the crystal air,
With a bed of gneiss on the Rockies' rim
And the green sage smellin' fair.

(Steel, Amos. Good, well-made, high-carbon steel. 37 inches of it in the small sword's blade, with a small clam shell guard and a knuckle bow to use as a knuckle duster, the grip well-wrapped in twisted brass wire and pommel to deliver a pummeling.)

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13 Nov 10 - 07:36 PM (#3031419)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Ed T... quoted... "... the Irish Rapparees seldom indulged in the habit of intoxication or intemperance..."

I beg to...

GARRYOWEN

Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
But join with me, each jovial blade
Come, drink and sing and lend your aid
To help me with the chorus:

cho: Instead of spa, we'll drink brown ale
And pay the reckoning on the nail;
No man for debt shall go to jail
From Garryowen in glory.

We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun,
We'll make the mayor and sheriffs run
We are the boys no man dares dun
If he regards a whole skin.

Our hearts so stout have got no fame
For soon 'tis known from whence we came
Where'er we go they fear the name
Of Garryowen in glory.

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13 Nov 10 - 07:47 PM (#3031425)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Amos

Oh, Raparreee, I've faced your vile "steel" and it was painted foam.

But I am pleased with your spelling now, so that;s something...



A

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13 Nov 10 - 07:54 PM (#3031433)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Oh, vile pedant! Cease and disist. The sword is mightier than the pencil.

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13 Nov 10 - 07:55 PM (#3031435)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Terry?

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13 Nov 10 - 07:56 PM (#3031438)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie

I've never changed my name - but sometimes it's gone out for a drink with Harvey and come back as somebody completely differnt.

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13 Nov 10 - 08:57 PM (#3031471)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Amos, you gave up. The swords I brought (or rather Jeri brought for me) to Getaway were not the ones I am speaking of -- these I would have had a problem getting on an airplane. However, if you want to face them next year I'll ship them on ahead. Or perhaps, less dangerous to your continued living, I'll send on a pair of mensur sabers and you can return to mellow SoCal with a nice fresh scar on your cheeks (those of your face, unless you turn and run).

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14 Nov 10 - 11:54 AM (#3031893)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Jack the Sailor

Pens schmens! Swords schmords!

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14 Nov 10 - 11:59 AM (#3031899)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

Did Rapparee work at a libraree?

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14 Nov 10 - 12:01 PM (#3031901)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Yupee, hee didee.

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14 Nov 10 - 12:04 PM (#3031906)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Blind DRunk in Blind River

Have you thought about changin' yer flippin' face?

- Shane

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14 Nov 10 - 12:14 PM (#3031920)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

Well, no, Shame. It's just that I am required by law to wear a mask when I go out because if I don't women become instantly aroused by its display of masculine good looks. Then they either crawl all over my body or swoon. When I was just a lad I could break up marriages of fifty years standing just by being glimpsed as I walked down the road. Ladies young and old, rich and poor, threw themselves at me, begging me to "pleasure them".

I understand you have the same standing legal order, to wear a mask when you go out. I understand that it started the moment you were born and it's going to continue after you're dead. The difference is that you have to wear it all the time because if you don't clocks stop, mirrors break, and if you look at a train it derails. People have to be admitted to hospital because of violent gagging and non-stop vomiting. And I've heard that even the masks are starting to reject you, just like a facial transplant would.

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15 Nov 10 - 04:37 AM (#3032445)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Patsy

>Have you thought about changin' yer flippin' face?

- Shane<

Many times Shane, many times. Costs a fortune though.

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15 Nov 10 - 11:30 AM (#3032731)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Les from Hull

My name is pronounced Lez. Just though I'd let you Mercans know.

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15 Nov 10 - 11:46 AM (#3032749)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie

"My name is pronounced Lez" - is that as in French, Spanish or Polish?

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15 Nov 10 - 11:47 AM (#3032751)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Dave MacKenzie

or German or ........

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15 Nov 10 - 01:34 PM (#3032813)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Ed T

Last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and decided to change my name to TEd, because it made a lot of sense then.

But, it was one of those middle of the night decisions, ya know, the ones that do not seem to make much sense in the morning. So, in the morning I decided leave it as it as it always has been. So, its now off.

I did not tell anyone. But, if you happened to dabble in "telepathic communication" you may have gotten wind of this very temporary name change, "thingie".

This is to confirm I am still Ed T and I am sorry about any confuson that my early morning mind TEd wanderings may have caused.

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15 Nov 10 - 02:00 PM (#3032831)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Doug Chadwick

When people changes their Mudcat names, all their past posts are updated with the new name. This can be quite confusing if the original names have been used within discussions as the names in the text no longer match the names heading the posts.

Is it be possible to have a directory, accessible through the Quick Links, which would cross-reference the changing identities of members ?

DC

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15 Nov 10 - 02:48 PM (#3032865)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: gnu

Good point, Doug, but it seems a long shot. Of course, I dunno squat about how things work; just glad they do.

I was considering changing my name to g as it takes 66.7% less time to type but I thought, hey, I don't have to type it and anyone who wants to can just type g and I'll know who they are talking about.

Ed T... I hope you never change ya crazy bugger.

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15 Nov 10 - 03:45 PM (#3032915)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Bill D

It's sort of a good idea, but several folks have 'messed' with the name bit so often that it would take forever to sort them out.

Names are for **ID**, not for game playing.

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15 Nov 10 - 08:31 PM (#3033108)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: robomatic

I blame it all on the Dems losing the House.

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15 Nov 10 - 08:36 PM (#3033112)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: Rapparee

No, it's all Reagan's fault. Not the dead president, King Lear's daughter.

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16 Nov 10 - 08:46 AM (#3033440)
Subject: RE: BS: I've Changed My Name
From: GUEST,Patsy

I am so indecisive it would take me forever to come up with a new name.

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