I've wondered sometimes why the culture here on the yellow board is to use unrecognizable nicknames. On some lists I know, members are encouraged and expected to use their real names. The rule cannot be strictly enforced, but the habit of using real names is felt to induce a more responisble, honest style of posting.
On another recent thread, he who is currently called Bluebell P0lka was asked:
"run out of anagrams?"
I'm sure yer man thingummybob what's 'is name has his own reasons, but perhaps has been KML for boringly long.
Me, I like to change names at unpredictable intervals. It's noticeable that as most people of course don't keep track (what with me being the lowliest of minnows in the ITM pond, nay, mere minnow-fry) I get different reactions according to what name I'm using. Red Queen, for instance, got a better reaction than Father William. Those who don't know their Carroll probably thought the first sounded sexy and perhaps believed the second was really a priest (which made them prickly).
Some who take it all terribly seriously have wondered whether the habit of changing names is a sign of insecurity. Not so - I view it like not always going out in the same jacket. And, as my present label will tell you, I do it to annoy.
So why don't most of us call ourselves by our real names (as I used to when I was first here)?
my name is Jo but Joze was a name I used for a chatroom and newsgroups when I first went online, I subsequently became famous in my own teacup and it sort of stuck.
Several long-time members used to post under their real names, but went to screen handles not long ago. I used to "reveal" my last name in my profile, but when everybody around me started going incognito, I got the slightest bit paranoid and dropped the last name. What the eff? - it's McAbee.
The culture here used to be friendly most of the time. It went through some uglier times, when some of us got tired of seeing our names treated as lightning rods.
Lately, I've been tempted to go back to my real name, but the feline grin has sorta grown on me....
I quite like some people's nicknames (not going to single any out for praise) but I really wish people wouldn't keep chopping and changing. It makes for too much work to keep track of who is saying what. So please stick to your feline grin
What's really weird (in a pathetic, disturbing sort of way) is that I recognize many long-time members here by their numbers (waving my cursor over their screen name). Though usually their "voice" comes through loud and clear just in how they write.
Well, Rhod is my name... I use another name on Chiff & Fipple (Gododdin) but I don't know why really - maybe I'll change it to my real name. Got nothing to hide.
Actually, most people give themselves away eventually. Will usually says something sensible.
I changed mine for a wee while but all the "oldtimers" soon sussed me out.
Actually, I think Jeremy's rule about members only having one ID actually encourages this. On some sites, it's permissable to use more than one ID......I do that on Footstompin' where I actually use my second ID when I wish to say something which is "non controversial" or just wish to keep a low profile for a while.
I wouldn't abuse this privelege myself but I quite believe some would so Jeremy is perhaps justified in being strict.
On the "other site", it's not possible to change your ID without contacting the moderators directly so you don't get all these name changes...just people with more than one ID.
I don't know which is preferable?
You're right, Sneeze. I don't take it too seriously. The name changing bit that is. As for it being a sign of insecurity, what a load of twaddle. As for the content of the discussions some I do take seriously and others I don't.
Name changes are confusing, especially when changed as frequently as the person who started this discussion. If you go back to an earlier discussion, the name changes retrospectively,so someone could appear to be addressing a person whose name does not appear in that discussion. In my view name changes are unnecessary, and it would be much better if everyone stuck with the name they started with, whether their real name or an alias. I have nothing to hide, so I remain as ever,
Cathy Cook
Well my real name is Alistair as many of the members here know. I used to have my real name as my user name (surname and all) but changed it because I wanted to reduce my amount of Google hits - and hide away from the prying eyes of curious school kids! I have left my name in my profile though so that people can identify me.
Why "No Cause For Alarm"? Not sure really. I was trying to think of a name and couldn't come up with anything. "No Cause For Alarm" is a song by Dick Gaughan - and not even one I really like (sorry Dick!) although I am a big fan of him generally. I thought the title was quite catchy though and would do as a temporary name. It has been almost a year though and it has kinda stuck.
Cathy, what you said ' If you go back to an earlier discussion, the name changes retrospectively,so someone could appear to be addressing a person whose name does not appear in that discussion': that 's really a good point.
Sometimes your posts appear for all the world to see when your name is googled, and you may not particularly want to be associated in such an open way with your posts on a message-board. Once, and only once, I changed my name temporarily in an attempt to dissociate myself from a post I wished I hadn't made. I'm not talking about Glee Club Commandant by the way - that was done just to annoy, nothing else. The solution is simple - only post things that you don't mind anyone in the whole world reading! Something deeply irrational inside my brain makes me respect people who use their real names far more.
Pen names are an old and honourable tradition.
Flan O'Brien's name was really Brian O'Nolan.
Zane Gray was really Pearl Grey.
Joseph Conrad was something completely unpronouncable.
No one discovered who PortnabPucai was ....
The main reason behind using pseudonyms on a message board is so one's employers/partners/kids can't see (by googling or whatever) how much time one is wasting when one is supposed to be working, is it not?
I've been called Bren since I was a kid , I'm too disorganised to be a good liar so I just use my own name
The internet is not supposed to be taken tooooo seriously. By now I think I know who we are (and anyway llig did it), sooooo ... clear drops is just an anagram of old scraper. I'm the same, whatever the name )
I always feel I can take the mick out of people's adopted soubriquets in a way I can't with their real names. Even so, I've been b0ll0cked for doing it!
I was known as GP back in "the old days" as a folkie, so old folkies recognize me instantly.
And it's as accurate a name as, Brixton Bert, for instance.
I used to bet the kids at school a million dollars that they wouldn't be able to find my photo on the internet, and noone has tg, but I looked it up myself a while ago and was horrified how easy it is now-a-days so I don't bet anymore. Just keep my name out of it so it doesn't happen..
OK!
One's real name is:
The Rt. Hon Lord Ultan Tristran Mohammed Shirley “Rockin’ Mojo Boy” Selvarajahthavasandringham-Lowestoft KGB MBE VC MSc LSD MD CDM
Personally I liked Lord of the Flies. But whatever you want of course.
I think I’ll stay with fidkid, even though it doesn’t seem to be that unique of a username -- there are several of them on the net.
• I have absolutely nothing to gain by having a gooogle search of my name turn up a bunch of hits on this board.
• The people that know me know I post here under this name.
• I’ve never had an alias before and it’s kind of fun.
Clear Drops referenced the key (from memory):
"Speak harshly to your little boy
And beat him if he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases"
Bizarrely I sneeze more than anyone else I know, particularly under the influence of a sudden increase in light level (I understand it to be a leftover reflex useful at birth to help us start breathing, but in most people the reflex fades within a few days or weeks), but the point is
a) I change my name often to annoy people like Cathy Cook and Dick Miles
b) I leave a heavy trail of clues. Almost every alias I have used (Charles Dodgson, Red Queen, Bellman, Father William and more) has a direct connection to Lewis Carroll, obvious to anyone who has read the Alice Books and the Hunting of the Snark. So I'm only pretending to hide.
How is your dog, CD? Didn't I see it on a video? (Or am I muddled by shifting identities?)
There's a flicker of her ear in one of the videos as she sleeps on the sofa, but then someone went and stole my movie camera - so the videoing sadly is no more. Bluudy rotter! (some people might say 'gladly' instead of sadly - but I am missing that video camera like hell).
My Mum used to quote that verse, except she had it a bit different:
"Speak harshly to your little boy
Especially when he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases."
I am so not clever at that kind of thing myself, but today I was sitting next to helping a student who was sneezing all over the place, very annoying, and with only 4 days to go before the winter school hols. I'm so not wanting to come down with anything to spoil the hols.
it’s hereditary and occurs in less than 25% of the population. My whole family has it. My wife doesn’t. Recently we walked out of mass and stood on the front steps in the bright sunlight, and my year and a half baby and I sneezed in unison. My wife just laughed and laughed.
I love your name yhaalhouse, or should I say:
The Rt. Hon Lord Ultan Tristran Mohammed Shirley “Rockin’ Mojo Boy” Selvarajahthavasandringham-Lowestoft KGB MBE VC MSc LSD MD CDM
I'm also impressed with your credentials, much more hallucigenory than 'backer' - jest kiddin' sorry backer.
While I'm at it, and purely speculatively:
is yhaalhouse a jailhouse, gaolhouse or an alehouse?
Crikey, must be having a PSR (Pre-holiday Silly Reaction).
Sorry, will just sneeze off here a shoe, a shoe, a shoe!
I have that too. Also, I sneeze immediately if I put a mint in my mouth. This has no relevance to anything but I'm putting off painting the bedroom ceiling.
Well I didn't even know photic sneeze reflex had a name, but I can lay claim to having this benign and slightly amusing affliction! The things you learn here!
Back in the day we all used our real names here. I think Brad Maloney started the nom de guerre thing when he changed his to Mad Baloney and no one ever took him seriously again.
And Will, quite a lot of the old guard used nicknames, not just Mad B. What about Golden Keyboard, milesnagopaleen to mention a couple off the top of my head?
Yer right--I shouldn't have said "all." But many of us did go without costumes or smoke-and-mirrors in those days.
Thanks to using my whole, real name back then, I've been recognized 3,000 miles from home, isolated from any musical context, based on nothing more than my name tag at a conference. "You're not the 'Will Harmon' who posts at the session dot org, are you?" It's happened more than once. Not that I usually mind--met some very nice people this way. But some folks mistake your online persona (or their misinterpretation of it) for the sum of all you are, and that gets tiresome.
It's all about what people call themselves on the interweb, and how once upon a time people were people but then bad people came along and made them hide, so they became pseudo-names.
And then *some* of the pseudo-names were *still* nasty to the other pseudo-names.
But since nobody was real, none of it mattered at all, and so, the people ...
I'm not much of a contributor myself, but as for my screen name, my wife's chocolate lab, Trevor, had his chin nestled on my lap when I joined TheSesh in 2004. Thus my less-than-clever moniker.
(These days, sadly for me, Trevor has been adopted by my nephew, since my job has kept me out of the country for too long. Even if we get a new yellow or black lab upon our return home, I'll prolly keep the name for sentimental reasons.)
It's to do with this website. It's called fostering a sense of online community. Anyway it's perfectly harmless to talk about things other than strictly the music, as we do talk about that a-plenty anyway. If the moderator of this site doesn't think something is relevant he gets rid of it. If something doesn't interest you don't have to continue to read it.
names can be intimately involved with music-i'm thinking bach and shostakovitch in particular.
that said,this thread is n't exactly in that vein.
there are a lot of threads/posts/discussions which have little or nothing to do with music on here.some of them are very diverting and entertaining - and some of them are n't.
if i encountered a real life session where there was nothing but wall to wall tunes and no space for a chat etc i would consider it missing something.
that's just my view of course.
but if i were on here just to look at threads specifically to do with music i would be more selective with the threads i view.
in other words if this is n't yr cup of tea just give it a miss...
Amen on the chat vs. wall-to-wall tunes, Biggus. Sometimes I go off by myself and play stream of consciousness tunes for an hour or so, but it would be tedious all By the way, does your name have anything to do with a certain Monty Python movie set in the Middle East of long, long ago????
hello windybaer
"Excuse me, but what has any of this to do with music?"
In my opinion the conversation might have nothing to do with music but the people having the conversation all have a common interest in music here lies the link and the beauty of this site.
OK... I'll provide a serious response this time. There's no mystery as to who I am because all you need to do is click on the name to look at my profile and my real name is clear. I always thought the imaginative monikers were fun, and I like fun, so I decided to join in with the fun. I do think it would be a good idea if people identified themselves in their profile though so we can be certain of whom we're talking to regardless of the funny monikers.
Jack, you remain a man of mystery; your name isn't really in your profile. Tsk. Are you the handsome fellow with the long ears on the Tipsy House site?
OK, I own up. My pseudonym is Steve Shaw. I was christened Bantam Futon in the days when new, trendy boys' names were coming to the fore. Like Darren, Scott and Wayne. My mum just wanted to go one better, that's all. All I ever wanted was to be called Trev.
'By the way, does your name have anything to do with a certain Monty Python movie set in the Middle East of long, long ago????'
well,Batlady - you are right - i'm known as bigdave and that indeed was a former nom de guerre of mine on this very site.but i changed it back to violadave just to please a certain warrior princess and when i wanted to resume the bigdave moniker someone had taken it.
and as christian calls me biggus i decided to be biggus dave on here.
btw,'biggus' refers solely to my build in general and not to any appendage in particular.
more's the pity...
but the python film is in my top five of any genre.
Contributors names
Contributors names
I've wondered sometimes why the culture here on the yellow board is to use unrecognizable nicknames. On some lists I know, members are encouraged and expected to use their real names. The rule cannot be strictly enforced, but the habit of using real names is felt to induce a more responisble, honest style of posting.
On another recent thread, he who is currently called Bluebell P0lka was asked:
"run out of anagrams?"
I'm sure yer man thingummybob what's 'is name has his own reasons, but perhaps has been KML for boringly long.
Me, I like to change names at unpredictable intervals. It's noticeable that as most people of course don't keep track (what with me being the lowliest of minnows in the ITM pond, nay, mere minnow-fry) I get different reactions according to what name I'm using. Red Queen, for instance, got a better reaction than Father William. Those who don't know their Carroll probably thought the first sounded sexy and perhaps believed the second was really a priest (which made them prickly).
Some who take it all terribly seriously have wondered whether the habit of changing names is a sign of insecurity. Not so - I view it like not always going out in the same jacket. And, as my present label will tell you, I do it to annoy.
So why don't most of us call ourselves by our real names (as I used to when I was first here)?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Lingpupa
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OMG, shame, shame - it should be "Contributors' names" of course!
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Lingpupa
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My first name is Joe, and always has been. Really and truly. As for the last bit, you'll never know...
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Joe CSS
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ya and this would sort the bullies on this site I'm all for it
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Saint
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Ahem, so that would be "Saint............"?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by oldstrings
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My name is Bob and I am myself, so ...
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Bob himself
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my name is Jo but Joze was a name I used for a chatroom and newsgroups when I first went online, I subsequently became famous in my own teacup and it sort of stuck.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Joze
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Several long-time members used to post under their real names, but went to screen handles not long ago. I used to "reveal" my last name in my profile, but when everybody around me started going incognito, I got the slightest bit paranoid and dropped the last name. What the eff? - it's McAbee.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Bob himself
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run! hide!
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://thesession.org
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by gravelwalks
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The culture here used to be friendly most of the time. It went through some uglier times, when some of us got tired of seeing our names treated as lightning rods.
Lately, I've been tempted to go back to my real name, but the feline grin has sorta grown on me....
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Will CPT
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I quite like some people's nicknames (not going to single any out for praise) but I really wish people wouldn't keep chopping and changing. It makes for too much work to keep track of who is saying what. So please stick to your feline grin
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Donough
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My Mother thought Shylock was a nice name, she had two names in mind Shylock and Seamus, changed her mind at teh last minute....
Warm Regards
Shylock
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Shylock
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Changing your name in the Session shoud be punished with exclusion ! It is impolite and confusing.
Discuss.
regards,
member 1623, known right from the start as Henk Bos. Like in real life. Ha.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Henk Bos
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Though I must admit it is very satisfying to discover who's behind a new nick. But you feel fooled nevertheless. :(
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Henk Bos
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No intent to fool, just to disarm.
What's really weird (in a pathetic, disturbing sort of way) is that I recognize many long-time members here by their numbers (waving my cursor over their screen name). Though usually their "voice" comes through loud and clear just in how they write.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Will CPT
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I am who I am my name will not change
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by bazouki dave and the real tooty flutey
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Well, Rhod is my name... I use another name on Chiff & Fipple (Gododdin) but I don't know why really - maybe I'll change it to my real name. Got nothing to hide.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Rhod
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Actually, most people give themselves away eventually. Will usually says something sensible.
I changed mine for a wee while but all the "oldtimers" soon sussed me out.
Actually, I think Jeremy's rule about members only having one ID actually encourages this. On some sites, it's permissable to use more than one ID......I do that on Footstompin' where I actually use my second ID when I wish to say something which is "non controversial" or just wish to keep a low profile for a while.
I wouldn't abuse this privelege myself but I quite believe some would so Jeremy is perhaps justified in being strict.
On the "other site", it's not possible to change your ID without contacting the moderators directly so you don't get all these name changes...just people with more than one ID.
I don't know which is preferable?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Johannes J
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You're right, Sneeze. I don't take it too seriously. The name changing bit that is. As for it being a sign of insecurity, what a load of twaddle. As for the content of the discussions some I do take seriously and others I don't.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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Name changes are confusing, especially when changed as frequently as the person who started this discussion. If you go back to an earlier discussion, the name changes retrospectively,so someone could appear to be addressing a person whose name does not appear in that discussion. In my view name changes are unnecessary, and it would be much better if everyone stuck with the name they started with, whether their real name or an alias. I have nothing to hide, so I remain as ever,
Cathy Cook
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by cathycook
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Well my real name is Alistair as many of the members here know. I used to have my real name as my user name (surname and all) but changed it because I wanted to reduce my amount of Google hits - and hide away from the prying eyes of curious school kids! I have left my name in my profile though so that people can identify me.
Why "No Cause For Alarm"? Not sure really. I was trying to think of a name and couldn't come up with anything. "No Cause For Alarm" is a song by Dick Gaughan - and not even one I really like (sorry Dick!) although I am a big fan of him generally. I thought the title was quite catchy though and would do as a temporary name. It has been almost a year though and it has kinda stuck.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by No Cause For Alarm
Re: Right, Cathy !
Cathy, what you said ' If you go back to an earlier discussion, the name changes retrospectively,so someone could appear to be addressing a person whose name does not appear in that discussion': that 's really a good point.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Henk Bos
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Sometimes your posts appear for all the world to see when your name is googled, and you may not particularly want to be associated in such an open way with your posts on a message-board. Once, and only once, I changed my name temporarily in an attempt to dissociate myself from a post I wished I hadn't made. I'm not talking about Glee Club Commandant by the way - that was done just to annoy, nothing else. The solution is simple - only post things that you don't mind anyone in the whole world reading! Something deeply irrational inside my brain makes me respect people who use their real names far more.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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Pen names are an old and honourable tradition.
Flan O'Brien's name was really Brian O'Nolan.
Zane Gray was really Pearl Grey.
Joseph Conrad was something completely unpronouncable.
No one discovered who PortnabPucai was ....
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Ottery
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Point taken. I did say that I was irrational.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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The main reason behind using pseudonyms on a message board is so one's employers/partners/kids can't see (by googling or whatever) how much time one is wasting when one is supposed to be working, is it not?
I've been called Bren since I was a kid , I'm too disorganised to be a good liar so I just use my own name
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Bren
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The internet is not supposed to be taken tooooo seriously. By now I think I know who we are (and anyway llig did it), sooooo ... clear drops is just an anagram of old scraper. I'm the same, whatever the name
)
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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I always feel I can take the mick out of people's adopted soubriquets in a way I can't with their real names. Even so, I've been b0ll0cked for doing it!
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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I was known as GP back in "the old days" as a folkie, so old folkies recognize me instantly.
And it's as accurate a name as, Brixton Bert, for instance.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
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I used to bet the kids at school a million dollars that they wouldn't be able to find my photo on the internet, and noone has tg, but I looked it up myself a while ago and was horrified how easy it is now-a-days so I don't bet anymore. Just keep my name out of it so it doesn't happen..
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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OK!
One's real name is:
The Rt. Hon Lord Ultan Tristran Mohammed Shirley “Rockin’ Mojo Boy” Selvarajahthavasandringham-Lowestoft KGB MBE VC MSc LSD MD CDM
One's given it away now, what!
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by yhaalhouse
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OK, I've just made a wee subtle change to my name here...just to see if I can entice Zina back.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Johannes J
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Sneezing little boy, are you expecting people to "speak harshly" to you on the yellaboard? I hope not. Hows the flute going anyway?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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I like how on the internet no one can tell if you're a dog ... <woof>
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by dogbox
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Zina...... where are you?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Henk Bos
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someone mentioned searching for your name, if I search for my real name my very real details are the top of the hit list.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Joze
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I am Showaddydadito, for the reasons outlined below.
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/2767/comments#comment54545
A search on google shows that I am probably safe in my claim to be the only showaddydadito in the world.
I don't like people changing names. It's not at all like going out in a different jacket, its like going out in disguise.
The only person who should be allowed to change name is Danny.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by showaddydadito
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Danny who?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by ceolachan
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Never heard of him. And why should he get special privileges?
(Then again if look at my Details, click on the History tab the first tune you see is Danny Mackay's - bit of a giveaway that one.)
But it baffles me that anyone could take the whole thing seriously. Sorry if that sounds dismissive.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: much to be sneezed at...
quite agree.
this is only the internet and an effective way of wasting time.
btw i can usually recognise people from their posting style - unless it's only a one-liner.
i think i've always been a dave of some kind or other on this site but i reserve the right to call myself anything i want!
i'm reading a book about temujin at the moment so look out for my possible transformation into 'genghis dave'.
and before anyone starts,don't bother me with the 'it should be chingis...' stuff.
not that anyone could be bothered of course..
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by biggus dave
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It's what I do, sometimes, not who I am.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Backer
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Personally I liked Lord of the Flies. But whatever you want of course.
I think I’ll stay with fidkid, even though it doesn’t seem to be that unique of a username -- there are several of them on the net.
• I have absolutely nothing to gain by having a gooogle search of my name turn up a bunch of hits on this board.
• The people that know me know I post here under this name.
• I’ve never had an alias before and it’s kind of fun.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by fidkid
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Clear Drops referenced the key (from memory):
"Speak harshly to your little boy
And beat him if he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases"
Bizarrely I sneeze more than anyone else I know, particularly under the influence of a sudden increase in light level (I understand it to be a leftover reflex useful at birth to help us start breathing, but in most people the reflex fades within a few days or weeks), but the point is
a) I change my name often to annoy people like Cathy Cook and Dick Miles
b) I leave a heavy trail of clues. Almost every alias I have used (Charles Dodgson, Red Queen, Bellman, Father William and more) has a direct connection to Lewis Carroll, obvious to anyone who has read the Alice Books and the Hunting of the Snark. So I'm only pretending to hide.
How is your dog, CD? Didn't I see it on a video? (Or am I muddled by shifting identities?)
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Lingpupa
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There's a flicker of her ear in one of the videos as she sleeps on the sofa, but then someone went and stole my movie camera - so the videoing sadly is no more.
Bluudy rotter! (some people might say 'gladly' instead of sadly - but I am missing that video camera like hell).
My Mum used to quote that verse, except she had it a bit different:
"Speak harshly to your little boy
Especially when he sneezes
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases."
I am so not clever at that kind of thing myself, but today I was sitting next to helping a student who was sneezing all over the place, very annoying, and with only 4 days to go before the winter school hols. I'm so not wanting to come down with anything to spoil the hols.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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Artist once Known as Saint
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Saint
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..... and during the plague, it was "atishu atishu they all fall down"
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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SLB –
Sounds like you have a case of Photic Sneeze Reflex (PSR)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex
it’s hereditary and occurs in less than 25% of the population. My whole family has it. My wife doesn’t. Recently we walked out of mass and stood on the front steps in the bright sunlight, and my year and a half baby and I sneezed in unison. My wife just laughed and laughed.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by fidkid
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My name is spoon and always has been.
I do not suffer from the Photic Sneeze Reflex, but I have a friend who does.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by granama
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I love your name yhaalhouse, or should I say:
The Rt. Hon Lord Ultan Tristran Mohammed Shirley “Rockin’ Mojo Boy” Selvarajahthavasandringham-Lowestoft KGB MBE VC MSc LSD MD CDM
I'm also impressed with your credentials, much more hallucigenory than 'backer' - jest kiddin' sorry backer.
While I'm at it, and purely speculatively:
is yhaalhouse a jailhouse, gaolhouse or an alehouse?
Crikey, must be having a PSR (Pre-holiday Silly Reaction).
Sorry, will just sneeze off here a shoe, a shoe, a shoe!
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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I have that too. Also, I sneeze immediately if I put a mint in my mouth. This has no relevance to anything but I'm putting off painting the bedroom ceiling.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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Steve, but the end result could be quite artistic.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Clear Drops
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's that Artex?
No. 's'not.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by showaddydadito
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Well I didn't even know photic sneeze reflex had a name, but I can lay claim to having this benign and slightly amusing affliction! The things you learn here!
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by RichardB
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Back in the day we all used our real names here. I think Brad Maloney started the nom de guerre thing when he changed his to Mad Baloney and no one ever took him seriously again.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Will CPT
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I chose my screen-name because it's fairly self-descriptive
. And I like dogs.
My photo appears in a small number of ITM-related web sites.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by lazyhound
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I have that photic sneeze thing. I always thought everyone had it.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Dow
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"Photic sneeze"? I though it was called the photosternutatory reflex when I wasn't at medical school.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by lazyhound
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Dow - Photic Sneeze Reflex might well affect everyone in Northumberland, but they'd never know, would they?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by granama
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You do not annoy me . why do you wish to annoy me.
I have not contributed to this thread before,and am surprised I am mentioned.Dick Miles
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by dickens metrognome
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In my case it is like marking an X for no publicity on the pools/lottery coupon.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by bodhran bliss
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The price of fame.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by bodhran bliss
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Dick, I think the Sneezer is just being a naughty little boy. Don't take him seriously.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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And Will, quite a lot of the old guard used nicknames, not just Mad B. What about Golden Keyboard, milesnagopaleen to mention a couple off the top of my head?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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Yer right--I shouldn't have said "all." But many of us did go without costumes or smoke-and-mirrors in those days.
Thanks to using my whole, real name back then, I've been recognized 3,000 miles from home, isolated from any musical context, based on nothing more than my name tag at a conference. "You're not the 'Will Harmon' who posts at the session dot org, are you?" It's happened more than once. Not that I usually mind--met some very nice people this way. But some folks mistake your online persona (or their misinterpretation of it) for the sum of all you are, and that gets tiresome.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Will CPT
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Oh, I know.
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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In my case they probably recognise me righ enough but steer well clear.....
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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Well, David ...
It's this thread, see ...
It's all about what people call themselves on the interweb, and how once upon a time people were people but then bad people came along and made them hide, so they became pseudo-names.
And then *some* of the pseudo-names were *still* nasty to the other pseudo-names.
But since nobody was real, none of it mattered at all, and so, the people ...
... they all lived happily ever after.
----------------------------------THE END--------------------------------
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by benhall.1
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eh?!!? what?!!? who?!!? where?!!? and, not least, why?!!?
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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Hup!
# Posted on June 18th 2007 by benhall.1
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I'm not much of a contributor myself, but as for my screen name, my wife's chocolate lab, Trevor, had his chin nestled on my lap when I joined TheSesh in 2004. Thus my less-than-clever moniker.
(These days, sadly for me, Trevor has been adopted by my nephew, since my job has kept me out of the country for too long. Even if we get a new yellow or black lab upon our return home, I'll prolly keep the name for sentimental reasons.)
Nothing to hide, tho', name-wise... Brian Kessler
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by browndog
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I asked my mom why she named me this once, and she said it was my great grand-uncle's name.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Phantom Button
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It's true - there really are a few bullies in this playground.
But you guys seem to enjoy the vibe, so .......
happily ever after, I guess.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by morning star
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Excuse me, but what has any of this to do with music?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by windybaer
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It's to do with this website. It's called fostering a sense of online community. Anyway it's perfectly harmless to talk about things other than strictly the music, as we do talk about that a-plenty anyway. If the moderator of this site doesn't think something is relevant he gets rid of it. If something doesn't interest you don't have to continue to read it.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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My mum named me after the bed I was conceived on.
This post will make even less sense when I change my name back to Steve Shaw.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Re: the price of fish...
names can be intimately involved with music-i'm thinking bach and shostakovitch in particular.
that said,this thread is n't exactly in that vein.
there are a lot of threads/posts/discussions which have little or nothing to do with music on here.some of them are very diverting and entertaining - and some of them are n't.
if i encountered a real life session where there was nothing but wall to wall tunes and no space for a chat etc i would consider it missing something.
that's just my view of course.
but if i were on here just to look at threads specifically to do with music i would be more selective with the threads i view.
in other words if this is n't yr cup of tea just give it a miss...
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by biggus dave
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Do you think Jeremy is Jeremy's real name?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Jessicamaryhall
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Nah, that'd just be stupid.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Joe CSS
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Amen on the chat vs. wall-to-wall tunes, Biggus. Sometimes I go off by myself and play stream of consciousness tunes for an hour or so, but it would be tedious all By the way, does your name have anything to do with a certain Monty Python movie set in the Middle East of long, long ago????
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Batlady
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Well. That certainly got garbled. "...tedious all of the time." Or something like that.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Batlady
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Jeremy's real name is of course Adactio.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
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so is benhall1 really Ben Hall or using a bushranger pseudonym http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Hall ?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Bren
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Oh my. He certainly came to a bad end. He should have used a pseudonym, and possibly a false nose and glasses.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Batlady
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An infamous rogue to be sure.
Did you know that Groucho's mustache was only grease paint?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by morning star
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hello windybaer
"Excuse me, but what has any of this to do with music?"
In my opinion the conversation might have nothing to do with music but the people having the conversation all have a common interest in music here lies the link and the beauty of this site.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Saint
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OK... I'll provide a serious response this time. There's no mystery as to who I am because all you need to do is click on the name to look at my profile and my real name is clear. I always thought the imaginative monikers were fun, and I like fun, so I decided to join in with the fun. I do think it would be a good idea if people identified themselves in their profile though so we can be certain of whom we're talking to regardless of the funny monikers.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Phantom Button
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Jack, you remain a man of mystery; your name isn't really in your profile. Tsk. Are you the handsome fellow with the long ears on the Tipsy House site?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Batlady
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OK, I own up. My pseudonym is Steve Shaw. I was christened Bantam Futon in the days when new, trendy boys' names were coming to the fore. Like Darren, Scott and Wayne. My mum just wanted to go one better, that's all. All I ever wanted was to be called Trev.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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"Jack, you remain a man of mystery; your name isn't really in your profile."
Uh... then how did you know my name?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Phantom Button
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Steve... you need to adjust your profile... sir.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Phantom Button
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OK Jack. I've made a minor adjustment.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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Of *course* my real name isn't 'Ben Hall'. that would be absurd!
My real name is Robin Hood. I've always been known as being good with a bow.
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by benhall.1
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That makes me Friar Tuck. You should SEE me with a plate of grub...
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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Is that a Spoonerism Steve?
# Posted on June 19th 2007 by benhall.1
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"Triar F....?" Not as often as once upon a time, mate!
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Steve Shaw
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Ah well, at least your instrument's getting a regular ...
... no, on second thoughts, I won't go there ...
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by benhall.1
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'By the way, does your name have anything to do with a certain Monty Python movie set in the Middle East of long, long ago????'
well,Batlady - you are right - i'm known as bigdave and that indeed was a former nom de guerre of mine on this very site.but i changed it back to violadave just to please a certain warrior princess and when i wanted to resume the bigdave moniker someone had taken it.
and as christian calls me biggus i decided to be biggus dave on here.
btw,'biggus' refers solely to my build in general and not to any appendage in particular.
more's the pity...
but the python film is in my top five of any genre.
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by biggus dave
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Back to a saint .Jayus I enjoyed the break from my other personality.............................
# Posted on June 20th 2007 by Saint