What does your session name mean and why do you use it?
Me?
Key Maniac Lad?
Simple - anagram of my real name. Also it is kind of fitting...the Maniac bit, sadly no longer the Lad bit.
Next please?
That's a question an interesting question for an ignoramous like myself. I used to go by Celtic Fiddler. You can probably imagine the flack I got from that. I just started using my own name.
Interesting how much damage you can do to search engines by using your own name. On one hand, you risk identity theft. On the other hand, your old friends tend to find you which I found to be immeasureably cool.
ahh, mehitabel23, I always figured you were just saying "me hittable", it's like wearing a sign that says "kick me" (j/k)
Reverend Pete is my nickname that materialized in the early 1990s when I was a DJ at a popular alternative rock station. The radio station was doing an advance listening party for the band Ministry's album Psalm 69 (they're speed-metal industrial, for those of you that don't know). The listening party was taking place at a nightclub I owned at the time, so naturally, I was the "air personality" that was going to be at the event. The promo gal at the time wrote up an on-air promo for the DJs to read about the event, and she tried to get cute... Ministry... Psalm 69... "and we're sending our own 'reverend', Pete". Well, needless to say, all the other DJs started calling me Reverend Pete, and the name stuck.
KML, much less pot stirring with this thread - good thinking
I'm actually curious how many long-time members here have never changed their moniker. Most of you have. I can think of a couple who haven't <raising hand and waving>
The explanation for my moniker is in my details file. However, now when I go to a session, they no longer say "jusa nutter eejit" - they say - "learn some new tunes fer feck's sake." That's a bit too wordy for a moniker...
Much nicer anagram of what I really am, just a bluudy 'old scraper' (my old monicker) from out the back of beyond, way behind the proverbial black stump, who yearns the taste of some 'clear drops' of the good stuff. The stars in the night sky are bluudy perfect tonight, just so you know, and I've got a lovely clear view.
I just thought that Screetch would be a funny name for a fiddler...no real reason for it actually. Had to come up with something, and that was the best I could do at the time.
When I first started attending sessions I tended to play to fast and after a while when I would take off people would say, "Look out he's flyin' again!" and the name "Flyin' Fiddler" stuck.
I have gotten much better at paying attention to tempos but from time to time when someone kicks into the likes of Paddy's trip to Scotland, Splendid Isolation, Julia Delainy or some such fun one I just can't help myself.
My screen name more or less describes my general attitude towards life, the universe and everything – which a physicist would probably describe as an example of the Principle of Least Action. It's not an uncommon screen name, so I haven't been able to use it as such on one or two other websites.
Steve - if you want to hijack this thread in the direction of 'armonicas, feel free.....when you mentioned it, the words Monica and Lewinski and mouth and organ all sprung to mind, but fortunately for the lifespan of my membership on this family site, I couldn't think up anything witty enough by which to string all those words together.........
Mine is the anglicised version of a celtic toponym from my neck of the woods (neck of the marsh, actually) meaning Reed Head.
Being a free reed aficionado, it suits me just fine.
Well, Danny, if you were really looking hard for anagrams, you could also have picked 'maniacal dyke', 'lacked any aim' (ouch!), 'ace kid layman', 'malady in cake', 'daily cake man' (a personal favourite), 'leaky acid man' (well, I wouldn't deal with you) and several others which are rather revolting. Any chance of that review you promised to write?
My own name is a tribute to a character in 'The Third Policeman' and all things related to bicycles.
Half of it's my given name, half where I came from.
A bit like Brixton Bert, for instance.
And some people have remembered me from more than 25 years ago, so it's been useful.
CBC used to have a well-loved radio host called Peter Gzowksi - pronounced "Zoski". Naturally, when Greg was taken, the Gz thing leapt to mind. .gz is also my favorite file extension (a version of .zip), as it allows me to sneak attachments past my employer's email filters.
My son is Jeremy. My nickname for him (btw, I'm the only one who calls him this) is "Jem." "Jem" is the name of the brother in To Kill A Mockingbird - Jeremy Finch (Scout's brother). It's one of my favorite movies and books.
There are many ravens where I live.I watch them most days.I needed a name when i changed ISP.I was reading an excellent and fascinating little book by Bernd Heinrich titled "Mind of the Raven - investigations and adventures with wolfbirds" The raven was once called wolfbird in Scandinavia and by Native Americans
because wolves and ravens cooperate and communicate.Both species are highly intelligent with astonishingly sophisticated behaviour that very few people are aware of.Communication between species is something that I like to study.Okay?
I'm halfway there at getting the music right - everytime I think I've made progress, I realize the road has gotten longer, so I'm still halfway there no matter how much I know.
I've been training in aikido for many years, and learning to play the fiddle for almost a year. Good thing both are so much fun, as they both seem to require a great deal of practice for incremental improvements
Well, my name is Greg, and I am a piano tuner in addition to being a middle school band/orchestra director. I first joined the Yellow Mustard in the summer of 2005. From time to time I am active, but I have been in a lurking mode lately, especially when the subject of music notation comes up.
KML, the problem with threads like this, while they may be a bit less controversial than some other threads, is that people post in them in a drive-by way. They post, then they never come back and read the thread... There's no discussion happening here, even though, I've tried. Besides you and me, only 2 other people posted multiple times, and both times it they were back to back posts, like they forgot to say something...
So tomorrow's thread should be something halfway in between your last two threads... Something stimulating, but not controversial. Interesting, yet not going to turn into a flame-war (or discussion of the merits of sheet music)
Mine's kind of my real name (Greg O.) Never changed it
Not like some buckos: Key Maniac Lad, for example - who has the attention span of a fruit fly, and needs to be banned from this site for all his windups. And Reverend: "speed metal industrial????" That's not the type we need loitering around here. Bet he secretly learns everything from sheet music, with the chords included...
Huh! And how original is that? Greg O. Couldn't you try at least rearranging the letters or something...maybe Oregg or something? And what's wrong with fruit flies anyway? At least they don't play banjos.
Monkey's just been a derogatory nickname since college. One day I just started referring to f**king idiots as monkeys instead of f**king idiots. Kept me out of trouble at the office for a while.
If you yell at me I can always reply that you obviously have a penchant for spanking...
Just plain 'monkey' was already taken so I needed a suffix. 440, is of course the frequency of an A.
I'd rather not deal with spam, identify theft, insane people and sore losers. So I don't use my real name anywhere on public sites, especially forums. The monikers are more fun anyway. This site has some of the most colorful. I seriously thought that some were really Scottish Gaelic or Irish names the first week or so...
I thought it would be vaguely entertaining (at least to me) to use a tune name as a screen name. Someone beat me to "The Rambling Pitchfork," hence "The Silver Spear" was the only one coming to mind at that point that didn't sound overly trite or just dumb.
If I had to do it again or could be arsed to change my screen name, I think I'd go with the "Unfortunate Rake."
it's part of the horticultural influence upon the tradition,b d and the r t f,similar to 'the Hilarious Trowel','Dismal Wheelbarrow','Outrageous Watering Can',and others too numerous to mention
the moniker is just the name my dad gave me and the only thing that ever held my attention for more than 2.2 seconds. ; - )
Been using this username for about the last 6-7 years and I agree with others, it's kind of a hoot to do a web serch on the handle and see what pops up. Some site registrations I'd forgotten about (and a few posts that I wish were forgotten...)
Why your monicker?
Why your monicker?
What does your session name mean and why do you use it?
Me?
Key Maniac Lad?
Simple - anagram of my real name. Also it is kind of fitting...the Maniac bit, sadly no longer the Lad bit.
Next please?
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
So what was the reason for Orpheus and all the others?
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Johannes J
Re: Why your monicker?
http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/12623/
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by feardearg
Re: Why your monicker?
Yes feardearg, and this time won't be the last time either!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
I really enjoyed that thread. I hope those who didn't participate in that will in this.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by feardearg
Re: Why your monicker?
Mehitabel is a cat in one of my favourite poetry anthologies (archy and mehitabel) http://www.donmarquis.com/readingroom/archybooks/coming.html
2 is a good number: everything God created is a duality, heaven and earth, sea and land, male and female.
3 is also a good number, being the number of the holy trinity, also as it is written in ecclesiastes "A three-string cord is hard to break"
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by mehitabel23
Re: Why your monicker?
That's a question an interesting question for an ignoramous like myself. I used to go by Celtic Fiddler. You can probably imagine the flack I got from that. I just started using my own name.
Interesting how much damage you can do to search engines by using your own name. On one hand, you risk identity theft. On the other hand, your old friends tend to find you which I found to be immeasureably cool.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Mark Cordova
Re: Why your monicker?
ahh, mehitabel23, I always figured you were just saying "me hittable", it's like wearing a sign that says "kick me"
(j/k)
Reverend Pete is my nickname that materialized in the early 1990s when I was a DJ at a popular alternative rock station. The radio station was doing an advance listening party for the band Ministry's album Psalm 69 (they're speed-metal industrial, for those of you that don't know). The listening party was taking place at a nightclub I owned at the time, so naturally, I was the "air personality" that was going to be at the event. The promo gal at the time wrote up an on-air promo for the DJs to read about the event, and she tried to get cute... Ministry... Psalm 69... "and we're sending our own 'reverend', Pete". Well, needless to say, all the other DJs started calling me Reverend Pete, and the name stuck.
KML, much less pot stirring with this thread - good thinking
I'm actually curious how many long-time members here have never changed their moniker. Most of you have. I can think of a couple who haven't <raising hand and waving>
Pete
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Reverend
Re: Why your monicker?
Now why did I choose Welshman? Now .. let's think. Tricky - could it be because. Nah - that would be waaay too easy.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Welshman
Re: Why your monicker?
The explanation for my moniker is in my details file. However, now when I go to a session, they no longer say "jusa nutter eejit" - they say - "learn some new tunes fer feck's sake." That's a bit too wordy for a moniker...
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Jusa Nutter Eejit
Re: Why your monicker?
Much nicer anagram of what I really am, just a bluudy 'old scraper' (my old monicker) from out the back of beyond, way behind the proverbial black stump, who yearns the taste of some 'clear drops' of the good stuff. The stars in the night sky are bluudy perfect tonight, just so you know, and I've got a lovely clear view.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Clear Drops
Re: Why your monicker?
Saint Vincents is a local GAA club who do great work with kids in a built up area and any member is known as a saint.
regards
Eddie Hennessy
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Saint
Re: Why your monicker?
I think mine speaks for itself really.... maybe I should come up with something a little more original... NAH!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by session savage
Re: Why your monicker?
My monicker is a fiendishly clever, completely unbreakable code for my real name, because anonimity (read "deniability") is important to me.
OK, it's just a spoonerism (look it up). Which would be more fun if my name were Forrest Tucker.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by mickray
Re: Why your monicker?
At last! A thread about 'armonicas!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Steve Shaw
Re: Why your monicker?
I just thought that Screetch would be a funny name for a fiddler...no real reason for it actually. Had to come up with something, and that was the best I could do at the time.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Marklar
Re: Why your monicker?
When I first started attending sessions I tended to play to fast and after a while when I would take off people would say, "Look out he's flyin' again!" and the name "Flyin' Fiddler" stuck.
I have gotten much better at paying attention to tempos but from time to time when someone kicks into the likes of Paddy's trip to Scotland, Splendid Isolation, Julia Delainy or some such fun one I just can't help myself.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by flyinfiddler
Re: Why your monicker?
I like to use my own name whenever possible on any site I join. When I came here, Alan was already taken, so I use the Celtic spelling, Ailin.
Never have changed the name I've used on any site.
Cheers.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Ailin
Re: Why your monicker?
I have no imagination...
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Char B
Re: Why your monicker?
Mine is self explanatory.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by granama
Re: Why your monicker?
My screen name more or less describes my general attitude towards life, the universe and everything – which a physicist would probably describe as an example of the Principle of Least Action. It's not an uncommon screen name, so I haven't been able to use it as such on one or two other websites.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by lazyhound
Re: Why your monicker?
Steve - if you want to hijack this thread in the direction of 'armonicas, feel free.....when you mentioned it, the words Monica and Lewinski and mouth and organ all sprung to mind, but fortunately for the lifespan of my membership on this family site, I couldn't think up anything witty enough by which to string all those words together.........
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
Rama Rama! Hare Rama!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Presumin Ed
Re: Why your monicker?
My friends call me Lolly or Lollypolly, my parents are the only people who call my Lorna. Its sad i know!! Not very complex really!!
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Lollypoll
Re: Why your monicker?
Mine is the anglicised version of a celtic toponym from my neck of the woods (neck of the marsh, actually) meaning Reed Head.
Being a free reed aficionado, it suits me just fine.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by pennhorse
Re: Why your monicker?
boh hod aachaa........."very good" in hindi
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by bodatcha
Re: Why your monicker?
It's my favorite comic series, and I'm a reporter.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Tintin
Re: Why your monicker?
a non too subtle play on my real name, felino
Darn!! trripped again
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by I_Fel
Re: Why your monicker?
Well, Danny, if you were really looking hard for anagrams, you could also have picked 'maniacal dyke', 'lacked any aim' (ouch!), 'ace kid layman', 'malady in cake', 'daily cake man' (a personal favourite), 'leaky acid man' (well, I wouldn't deal with you) and several others which are rather revolting. Any chance of that review you promised to write?
My own name is a tribute to a character in 'The Third Policeman' and all things related to bicycles.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Floss the Tethers
Re: Why your monicker?
I have a web site called Santa Barbara Hikes. Not much to do about sessions.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by sbhikes
Re: Why your monicker?
'Lacked Any Aim' has a nice ring to it.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Phantom Button
Re: Why your monicker?
>>>'Lacked Any Aim' has a nice ring to it.
sure, you can say that when you're "That Button Phenom"... Hey, you should write a tune called the "Ad Clerk Jig"
Pete
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Reverend
Re: Why your monicker?
Lacked Any Aim....yeah, sounds about right.
Your sincerely,
Aidan McKealy
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
Half of it's my given name, half where I came from.
A bit like Brixton Bert, for instance.
And some people have remembered me from more than 25 years ago, so it's been useful.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Guernsey Pete
Re: Why your monicker?
I was going for the most generic, boring username ever: Location, instrument. All I'm missing is rank and serial number.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Why your monicker?
...which is "Grand Poobah, Loyal Order of the Shamrock Fiddlin' Fools, SWFL Chapter" and "42".
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: Why your monicker?
Brixton Bert? Isn't it Brixton John? ...as in Grantham Maggie? Edinburgh Tony...Texas George....Austria Adolf...and so on....
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
I consume crawling, legless, brainless creatures on a regular basis.
Or at least, that's more interesting than the real story.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by wormdiet
Re: Why your monicker?
I will leave my answer as an exercise for the student......
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by AlBrown
Re: Why your monicker?
Not that difficult really, I used have an other one but I can't remember it. But that's only a third of the truth.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Backer
Re: Why your monicker?
CBC used to have a well-loved radio host called Peter Gzowksi - pronounced "Zoski". Naturally, when Greg was taken, the Gz thing leapt to mind. .gz is also my favorite file extension (a version of .zip), as it allows me to sneak attachments past my employer's email filters.
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Gzeg
Re: Why your monicker?
so, is that pronounced "Zeg" then?
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by Reverend
Re: Why your monicker?
I went to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, home of the Tar Heels and became a huge college basketball fan there.
My brother attended a nearby, lesser institution (UNC-G) and liked to call me "Dirty Heel"
i got my first Yahoo! account that way, and it's pretty much been my online moniker for the past 12 years.
most people don't get it and think it's somehow "dirty" in another sense.
oh bother.
Kevin
# Posted on November 8th 2007 by dirtyheel
Re: Why your monicker?
Lifelong insult to McDowall, thought I'd put it to good use
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Why your monicker?
Jemsmom93-
My son is Jeremy. My nickname for him (btw, I'm the only one who calls him this) is "Jem." "Jem" is the name of the brother in To Kill A Mockingbird - Jeremy Finch (Scout's brother). It's one of my favorite movies and books.
93 is the year my Jem was born.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by grumblingoldwoman
Re: Why your monicker?
Because if it was FiFiddle people might think it was OK to call me FiFi as if I was a poodle, Bob Geldof's daughter or something even worse...
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by FiddleFi
Re: Why your monicker?
I am a geneticist who works on fruit flies.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by flutefry
Re: Why your monicker?
There are many ravens where I live.I watch them most days.I needed a name when i changed ISP.I was reading an excellent and fascinating little book by Bernd Heinrich titled "Mind of the Raven - investigations and adventures with wolfbirds" The raven was once called wolfbird in Scandinavia and by Native Americans
because wolves and ravens cooperate and communicate.Both species are highly intelligent with astonishingly sophisticated behaviour that very few people are aware of.Communication between species is something that I like to study.Okay?
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by wolfbird
Re: Why your monicker?
"Bren" - dunno. It just came to me in a dream
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Bren
Re: Why your monicker?
I'm halfway there at getting the music right - everytime I think I've made progress, I realize the road has gotten longer, so I'm still halfway there no matter how much I know.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by halfwaythere
Re: Why your monicker?
I've been training in aikido for many years, and learning to play the fiddle for almost a year. Good thing both are so much fun, as they both seem to require a great deal of practice for incremental improvements
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by aikifiddler
Re: Why your monicker?
Bren, what were you on the night you had that amazing dream.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Donough
Re: Why your monicker?
Well, my name is Greg, and I am a piano tuner in addition to being a middle school band/orchestra director. I first joined the Yellow Mustard in the summer of 2005. From time to time I am active, but I have been in a lurking mode lately, especially when the subject of music notation comes up.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: Why your monicker?
Me- I've never heard a rendition of 'Morning Star' I didn't like. Hence the name.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by morning star
Re: Why your monicker?
My name is Bob, but I'm not your uncle. And, most days, I am myself.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Bob himself
Re: Why your monicker?
KML, the problem with threads like this, while they may be a bit less controversial than some other threads, is that people post in them in a drive-by way. They post, then they never come back and read the thread... There's no discussion happening here, even though, I've tried. Besides you and me, only 2 other people posted multiple times, and both times it they were back to back posts, like they forgot to say something...
So tomorrow's thread should be something halfway in between your last two threads... Something stimulating, but not controversial. Interesting, yet not going to turn into a flame-war (or discussion of the merits of sheet music)
Work on that, would ya?
Pete
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Reverend
Re: Why your monicker?
Mine's kind of my real name (Greg O.) Never changed it
Not like some buckos: Key Maniac Lad, for example - who has the attention span of a fruit fly, and needs to be banned from this site for all his windups. And Reverend: "speed metal industrial????" That's not the type we need loitering around here. Bet he secretly learns everything from sheet music, with the chords included...
flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war flame-war ......................
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by grego
Re: Why your monicker?
I like winding up Yanks
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Hugo Chavez
Re: Why your monicker?
Huh! And how original is that? Greg O. Couldn't you try at least rearranging the letters or something...maybe Oregg or something? And what's wrong with fruit flies anyway? At least they don't play banjos.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
Ok Pete, I'll try to think up something that will test members' anger management skills ....trouble is they've all been done.....
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
Mine is a combination of my region (Sliabh Luachra) and my personality (a "looper" generally implying a nutcase)...
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Sliabh Looper
Re: Why your monicker?
I spin (wool), I'm an astronomer, I'm a sci-fi fan
- nothing musical in it though, but I like to keep it across different forums
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by spindizzy
Re: Why your monicker?
I think that Turlough, unlike me, wrote some nice tunes that I enjoy playing.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by ocarolan
Re: Why your monicker?
Another easy one--- I live in Arizona...I play fiddle... .azfiddle.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by azfiddle
Re: Why your monicker?
I was on the bed Donough.
Your moniker is interesting - an anagram of "no dough" perhaps? Noice, different.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Bren
Re: Why your monicker?
Hi again Bren. After a recent trip to Ireland and Dubai you are not too short of the mark.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by Donough
Re: Why your monicker?
short, simple, easy to remember, like my favourite tunes.Jigs.
# Posted on November 9th 2007 by jig
Re: Why your monicker?
Where's Illig when you need him?
# Posted on November 10th 2007 by mcknowall
Re: Why your monicker?
Monkey's just been a derogatory nickname since college. One day I just started referring to f**king idiots as monkeys instead of f**king idiots. Kept me out of trouble at the office for a while.
If you yell at me I can always reply that you obviously have a penchant for spanking...
Just plain 'monkey' was already taken so I needed a suffix. 440, is of course the frequency of an A.
I'd rather not deal with spam, identify theft, insane people and sore losers. So I don't use my real name anywhere on public sites, especially forums. The monikers are more fun anyway. This site has some of the most colorful. I seriously thought that some were really Scottish Gaelic or Irish names the first week or so...
# Posted on November 10th 2007 by monkey440
Re: Why your monicker?
I thought it would be vaguely entertaining (at least to me) to use a tune name as a screen name. Someone beat me to "The Rambling Pitchfork," hence "The Silver Spear" was the only one coming to mind at that point that didn't sound overly trite or just dumb.
If I had to do it again or could be arsed to change my screen name, I think I'd go with the "Unfortunate Rake."
# Posted on November 10th 2007 by TheSilverSpear
Re: Why your monicker?
why name yourself after a gardening tool ?
# Posted on November 10th 2007 by bazouki dave and the real tooty flutey
Re: Why your monicker?
it's part of the horticultural influence upon the tradition,b d and the r t f,similar to 'the Hilarious Trowel','Dismal Wheelbarrow','Outrageous Watering Can',and others too numerous to mention
# Posted on November 10th 2007 by wolfbird
Re: Why your monicker?
constipated composter?
# Posted on November 10th 2007 by Key Maniac Lad
Re: Why your monicker?
My name is Suzanne, when I post a comment, you can't see me and you can't hear me. All you get are my Thoughts.
# Posted on November 11th 2007 by SuzThoughts
Re: Why your monicker?
the moniker is just the name my dad gave me and the only thing that ever held my attention for more than 2.2 seconds. ; - )
Been using this username for about the last 6-7 years and I agree with others, it's kind of a hoot to do a web serch on the handle and see what pops up. Some site registrations I'd forgotten about (and a few posts that I wish were forgotten...)
LV
# Posted on November 18th 2007 by lvjmusic