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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #20 on: July 19, 2010, 08:51:30 PM »

So Suffolkboy has mutated into boring old Nick Hudis.  Everyone thinks the surname is Greek, but its actually Moldavian.  Anyone know any good tunes from Moldova?
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #21 on: July 19, 2010, 09:03:44 PM »

So, are we going to have a mass real name coming out party now?. ;D
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #22 on: July 19, 2010, 09:56:39 PM »

I always use oggiesnr in Forums (there are too many "oggies" around) and it distinguishes me from my son who is oggiejnr.  In real life I'm Steve Ogden but I have an alter ego who is Pedally Steve who is the show off who cuts names and earns me a living.

When I get comfortable with a forum I change so expect to see me appear soon.

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #23 on: July 19, 2010, 10:25:00 PM »

So, are we going to have a mass real name coming out party now?. ;D

It'd be a shame - one of the many nice things about this forum and its not as if it is used as an anonymous cover for abusive postings

Besides, we wouldn't know who the h**l we were conversing with if everyone started using their real names at once this topic is already confusing me :|||:

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #24 on: July 19, 2010, 11:18:53 PM »

You are right Andy, maybe we are getting unintended consequences.

(I do really really want to know the back story on Fungusface, though)  ::)

(Unless maybe I really don't need to know)

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #25 on: July 19, 2010, 11:29:07 PM »


(I do really really want to know the back story on Fungusface, though)  ::)

He has a beard,  that's all.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #26 on: July 19, 2010, 11:36:57 PM »

Here he is, aka HohnerMadJock, in the fungus, so to speak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCV9kSCE8zk&feature=related
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2010, 12:56:00 AM »

Here he is, aka HohnerMadJock, in the fungus, so to speak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCV9kSCE8zk&feature=related

Wow...had no idea that these were one and the same gentleman!

nor me. :o 8)

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #28 on: July 20, 2010, 01:04:48 AM »

So Suffolkboy has mutated into boring old Nick Hudis.  Everyone thinks the surname is Greek, but its actually Moldavian.  Anyone know any good tunes from Moldova?

I know a truly brilliant accordionist from Moldova, and he knows a lot of tunes!  Does this help?

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #29 on: July 20, 2010, 01:05:55 AM »

Is "in the fungus" a British-English phrase?  Not in my NTC or Schur's.  It's a good one, never heard it before.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #30 on: July 20, 2010, 08:36:34 AM »

ok, so I'm old. (this is an ageing society, they keep saying)

I'm tired of squeezing blackheads, my HA114 is black, so I changed a-couple of letters
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #31 on: July 20, 2010, 08:59:52 AM »

Is "in the fungus" a British-English phrase?  Not in my NTC or Schur's.  It's a good one, never heard it before.

Sorry, no. I just made it up for Fungusface as an alternative to "in the flesh".
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #32 on: July 20, 2010, 09:20:34 AM »

As this was the first and still only forum i use i just assumed that it was the done thing to use a pseudonym, anyway I've just changed it to Louise as that's who i am (:)

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #33 on: July 20, 2010, 09:31:02 AM »

As this was the first and still only forum i use i just assumed that it was the done thing to use a pseudonym, anyway I've just changed it to Louise as that's who i am (:)

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You are free to use a pseudonym, or your real name,  its entirely up to you. 
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #34 on: July 20, 2010, 10:05:33 AM »

I guess it doesn't really make much difference as I don't think the difference between Ziachmusi and Louise means anything to most people  especially if they don't know me personally. Although Ziachmusi indicates that i play a "Ziach" (Bavarian dialect for a accordeon/melodeon) but if i didn't I probably wouldn't be here any way. ;D :|||:

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #35 on: July 20, 2010, 10:44:51 AM »

I think pseudonyms are more interesting than real names.
I also think it's more fun to speculate on their origins than to actually find out.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #36 on: July 20, 2010, 10:56:26 AM »

I like intrigue too  8)

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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #37 on: July 20, 2010, 11:11:35 AM »

And if you don't know someone outside the forum it makes no difference anyway!
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #38 on: July 20, 2010, 12:35:03 PM »

And if you don't know someone outside the forum it makes no difference anyway!

How can you tell? There's some risk of meeting a fellow melnetter and not realising it, if they use a pseudonym, show an avatar that doesn't look like them, and don't give anything away in their profile either.

As for me, as Lester has already pointed out, Anahata is my real name and has been for more than half of my life now.
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Re: Forum names: Please solve the mystery
« Reply #39 on: July 20, 2010, 05:40:31 PM »

Well, I call myself "Marje", and by an amazing coincidence that is also my name. My only problem is whether to put an e on the end of it or not (ending with -j looks odd but then so does ending with -je).

Seriously, I can't be bothered with pseudonyms - it's bad enough having all the codes and passwords you need for banking, etc, without having to remember who you are every time you log on to a forum. In any case, it would be difficult to hide your identity completely on a forum like this where a certain amount of personal information is shared, so why not just be open about it and say who you are from the start?

And as Anahata says, it's useful to be able to recognise others when you meet them in real life. He and Mary were guests at our local folk club recently (and a cracking evening it was too!) and it was nice to recognise each other and have a quick chat, although we have met before.

I do draw the line at putting up a photo of myself, though. I think I must be either weird-looking or not photogenic (or possibly both) because I cannot find a photo of me that I'm prepared to display. If anyone wants to look out for me at an event, they'll have to identify me by my melodeon, which is both handsome and photogenic. The strange-looking woman with the grimacing "melodeon face" who's holding it - that's me!
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