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Steve C.

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Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« on: July 19, 2010, 05:25:05 PM »

After a year in the forum, I feel like I have, at least a little, come to know the participants here.

What I would still like to know, though is the sometimes mysterious etmology of forum participants' names.

Bob Ellis, Rees, Theo, Chris Ryall, Miklos, Lester, no problems here.

BCC#er, Whatsamelodeon, HallelujahAl, Boxlad, DTN, no problems either.

But, please enlighten:

Anahata:  4th Chakra?
Burnt nial?
Bananayogi?
Fungusface?
Dazbo?
GbH?

Many thanks, GCFGuy (not too hard to figure out)
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2010, 05:42:38 PM »

what about ladydetemps??? dont get that one...
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2010, 05:55:13 PM »

Got my own name wrong.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2010, 05:55:45 PM »

It's my initials.  

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2010, 06:15:07 PM »

At the time I joined the forum I was exploring my Suffolk heritage: hence Suffolkboy.  It didn't occur to me at the time just to use my real name. being in cyberspace makes you do odd things sometimes.

But the truth of the matter is that although I was raised in Suffolk (and love the place), I am of mixed Cockney and Eastern European descent, have lived all my adult life in the North and my main musical interests are French, Scandi, Slavic and Gypsy.  So all in all Suffolkboy is a singularly inappropriate name! Too late to change it now. I'd loose my regular debater status.

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2010, 06:17:26 PM »

Mine is from the doctor who forums I'm on/was on, particually the 'role play' one. Lady de Temps is a timelady from gallifrey and a big fan of the doctor. ;)

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2010, 06:22:54 PM »

At the time I joined the forum I was exploring my Suffolk heritage: hence Suffolkboy.  It didn't occur to me at the time just to use my real name. being in cyberspace makes you do odd things sometimes.

But the truth of the matter is that although I was raised in Suffolk (and love the place), I am of mixed Cockney and Eastern European descent, have lived all my adult life in the North and my main musical interests are French, Scandi, Slavic and Gypsy.  So all in all Suffolkboy is a singularly inappropriate name! Too late to change it now. I'd loose my regular debater status.

Nick



Not at all. It's easy to change your name. Go to profile --> account related settings and change it there.

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2010, 06:25:51 PM »

Good name, trips off the tongue nicely.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2010, 06:37:46 PM »

Having watched the forum for a while before joining it appeared that the protocol was to adopt a pseudonym.

I was born and live in Broadland, sometime after I was born I became a boy, at 52 I'm still resisting the pressure to grow up any further than that (although continuing to grow outwards) hence my alter ego.

Oh and the 'avatar' is one of Arthur Rackham's Nibelung - some humourless thug stuck a copy of this on my Pokerwork many years ago, claiming it was the spitting image of yours truly bashing hell out of some poor unyielding bit of Victorian steam operated mechanism - thinks, might be considered representative of my playing in this parish...

I have also been intrigued with the derivation of some other melnetters names and perhaps this is the time and topic to ask LdT (if it is not considered impolite so to do), please, what is an emote wizard ?
(I know what a librarian is, its covered in ginger hair, leathery hands and feet, oh hang on, whoops,
no that sort is associated with one who spells it Wizzard  >:E >:E >:E )

Richard, who always keeps asbestos undies close to hand, practice makes perfect - except with a melodeon......
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2010, 06:45:56 PM »

you see those little melodeon playing yellow emotes...I made them.

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #10 on: July 19, 2010, 06:53:50 PM »

I just don't understand why  people have to hide behind weird & wonderful pseudonyms. What terrible fate is going to befall them if they just use their reel name ( unless they are one of the unfortunates to be christened john thomas or emma royd or something similarly inviting of  a touch of mirth!)
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #11 on: July 19, 2010, 07:15:41 PM »

you see those little melodeon playing yellow emotes...I made them.

Brilliant  :D

Double thanks ;D

Richard
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #12 on: July 19, 2010, 07:17:02 PM »

Some enlightenment

Dazbo is Darren Bottoms hence Dazbo
Anahata is Anahata like I am Lester. http://www.treewind.co.uk/anahata.html

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #13 on: July 19, 2010, 07:31:57 PM »

In view of this I am starting to feel rather mundane! :(
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #14 on: July 19, 2010, 07:41:39 PM »

Summerstars is a pseudonym I have been using on forums for a very long time - the name was taken from the title of a piece of music from a favourite thrid rate rock band in the late 70's
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #15 on: July 19, 2010, 08:05:22 PM »

Hi,
My name is nothing special. I'm just trying to disprove the old notion about old dogs (me) trying to learn new tricks (Melodeon and Concertina). So far, I seem to be successful.
Regards,
Paul N.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #16 on: July 19, 2010, 08:17:08 PM »

I just don't understand why  people have to hide behind weird & wonderful pseudonyms. What terrible fate is going to befall them if they just use their reel name

I think more and more people are using their real names online as the internet becomes more mundane and increasingly woven into everyday life, no longer a novel and slightly daunting unknown quantity inhabited chiefly by pornographers and Star Trek fans.

My own pseudonym here was the most common response I got back when I told people I'd just bought a melodeon but I've been thinking about ditching it for a while and now seems as good a time as any...
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #17 on: July 19, 2010, 08:24:26 PM »

My name is very much my name - it's what I've been called for years (well, that and a few other non-repeatable things  ;)). And it so happens that I like it as well. I have no problems with people having usernames and forum ID's - it's fine. However, if like some members of the forum I were in the melodeon business I'd be stupid not to use my real name as I'd want people to know who I was and what business I was in. Having said that, most of you do know who I am and what business I'm in! Things rarely remain secret for long in a community like this - and I like that as well.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #18 on: July 19, 2010, 08:24:49 PM »

Too late to change it now. I'd loose my regular debater status.

Just go to your profile, click 'account related settings' and set a new name - which is displayed when you post.   All other profile info remains the same.  Your status won't change.  You still use your original username to log in.

You can if you wish also put your real name in your signature.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #19 on: July 19, 2010, 08:32:46 PM »

For what (little) it's worth, John is what my parents called me, Jones is the surname, and many years ago, a friend at university, discovering that I had a rare ability to bark like an alsatian, coined the moniker 'Johnjo the Wonderdog'. Thankfully, only the first bit stuck.
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