So, what does your screen name mean?

Whistle
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My first name is Babooska but Tony just sounds better…

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LOL! :smiley:

The short version is that I got my nick from Jenny Mayweather. Nobody wants to hear the long version again…

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My screen name is my father’s name.

Cheers,
Paul, Jr. :smiley:

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Well, every time I went to visit Mr. Roarke this little guy in a white suit would start hopping around screaming “Boss! De Crom, de Crom!!!” . . .

:wink:

Dana

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I adore Arthurian legend, and I’ve always had an affinity for Elaine of Astolat, since I read “The Lady of Shallot” as a child.

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Robin Williamson wrote of the ancient Irish, “Their word for it was feadan (modern Gaelic feadog) and feadanaigh, or whistle players are mentioned in the earliest Irish laws as being amongst those who played at fairs, games and gatherings”. Feadan was also a brand of whistle made in Ireland many years ago.

Cheers,
David de la Barre

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Speaking as one for whom God created calculators, I can’t pretend to any meaning in my moniker; it came to me while letting a screen-name composer engine do the work --nice, with usually surreal results, but somehow unsatisfying. Then: Eureka! From the swampy murk of my wetware it arose, and its absurdity was just the ticket.

I envisioned some kind of hypospatial geometry…a nanohedron being a bombastic term for a point, as it were. And the point? There is none, but in theory. :sunglasses:

BTW, is anyone noticing a substantial slowdown on ths page, or is it just me and my neolithic dialup connection?

N

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I wanted another one, so Cranberry was the obvious choice, because, it just was.

And I thought it meant you were from Cape Cod too… :laughing:

Cheers,
David :wink:

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Well, let’s see…Celtoid would represent someone who is Celtic in the way that a spheroid approaches being a circle. Nearly half my genes are Bretton French via Canada, and many Irish, Scots and Welsh got mixed up with the English on my mother’s side…so Celtoid (sound better than Heinz 57 variety) :slight_smile:

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I take my lunch to work in a paper sack… :roll:

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Anna Martinez is my name, but I used to be Isadora Dumpling. Does that count? :roll:

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I once was a bird, and now am a bird once again… can you guess who I am? :confused: :stuck_out_tongue: :laughing:

Ah, sweet mysteries of life…

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OK, Carol, that was just too funny! I would try to come up with some equally creative explanation for my screen name, but, well, I’m feeling about as creative now as I was when I came up with the screen name. Sigh!

:roll:
Steven

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And here I thought you were really a refugee from the Uilleann Pipe forum :stuck_out_tongue:

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I guess mostly it means I’m not very creative and I don’t want to bother the moderator to change it…so short for David is…

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Oh yes we do! It’s a _spell_binding (cough) tale!

http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=2916&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=28

–cskinner

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If you’d like to read it, the link is: http://www.bartleby.com/129/index.html. Don’t ask me why I chose this name.

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Whooo Hooo hoo hoooooo!!! That’s some very fun readin’! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Bloomfield, you’ve got talent!!! (And a very strange past…) :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

C&F folk: click on the link up there in the quote, it’s probably even worth a re-read… :stuck_out_tongue:

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Why, thanks, LimuHead. :slight_smile:

Here is an admission: I wanted to say that the story isn’t quite completely true. I made up the part about the Klezmer musician. Abrahamson was actually an accountant, but that sounded too dull.

Best,