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« on: 21:08:35, 08-07-2008 » |
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I was having a very nice telephone conversation with one of our esteemed company the other evening and we were discussing our real names....
My real name is Jan.
How did I become Janthefan? Well.....about a hundred years ago I went to my first concert to hear the Monteverdi choir, it was a Prom performance, and I had travelled up from Cornwall especially to hear them, as I'd become a big fan through hearing their recordings.
I was so exhilarated and excited that I wrote a postcard to JEG raving on about how wonderful they and he were, and this began several years of me corresponding with him. It was very much a one-way thing, I never had a reply or anything (miserable sod!)My letters were pretty mad, hopefully fairly funny and in Green Ink of course,as a joke.
Eventually during the Bach Pilgrimage year I finally managed to meet him after a concert, he was completely delightful, and said "Ah ! You're Janthefan, I wondered when you would surface".
We are on double Mwah terms these days, although of course it is very rare to have the chance to meet face to face...and I have stopped the mad letters mainly because Lady G gives me the evil eye ! (Silly Billy! she's a Babe, not a country bumpkin like me).
Anyway, that is how I became Janthefan
How about you?
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Andy D
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« Reply #1 on: 21:27:21, 08-07-2008 » |
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I'd always wondered Jan  There's nothing to tell about my MB name. I originally signed up for the BBC boards with my full name, but when I started posting a lot I thought I ought to be a bit cautious so I dropped all of my 2nd name except the first letter ie I really am Andy D- I do appear elsewhere as Eric the Aardvark though   |
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« Reply #2 on: 21:45:54, 08-07-2008 » |
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That's a great story, Jan. My nickname came about as a result of exasperation with TOP plus inspiration from a Member here (who was there at the time). I originally registered with my real name at TOP but the system kept bouncing me back when I logged on. When it bounced back the fourth variation of my real name I gave up. Until I noticed the poster Wednesday Addams (you know who you are/were  ) 'Aha', I thought, 'I'll give Morticia a whirl'. The rest is history.If the coin had landed differently, I would be Uncle Fester |
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« Reply #3 on: 21:48:24, 08-07-2008 » |
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Sweet, all three of you! Like Andy, my name is quite close to my real one. In fact, it's an incomplete conflation of my first and second names, inspired by a slightly different conflation accidentally coined by an American friend years ago, which sort of stuck, then spread. |
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« Reply #4 on: 21:59:12, 08-07-2008 » |
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Chafing Dish was a handle I used for a while to comment anonymously on a weblog devoted to cooking. It somehow stuck. The handle, not the cooking.
Then it (the handle) became unstuck when I briefly left these boards for paternal reasons. Upon my return (a few hours later, I think), I decided to have a fresh start with Turfan Fragment, which was a handle I used for a while to play chess on an online chess playing site. I got the name from an orchestral piece by Morton Feldman (The Turfan Fragments), but why I made it into my handle which I used for a while is a tidbit lost to history, or at least to the vortex of an imperfect memory. Ok, I'll make up a story. There was another character on that chess playing site who called himself B-Frag-Buster. Since I once worked at an antique carpet shop, I immediately thought of those shreds of fabric which so inspired Morty way back when. Wait, that's what actually happened, isn't it.... OK. It can't possibly be a lie, I mean, who would make up a name like B-Frag-Buster? Only a chess player, which certainly doesn't describe me.
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Antheil
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« Reply #5 on: 22:02:27, 08-07-2008 » |
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That's a great story, Jan. My nickname came about as a result of exasperation with TOP plus inspiration from a Member here (who was there at the time). I originally registered with my real name at TOP but the system kept bouncing me back when I logged on. When it bounced back the fourth variation of my real name I gave up. Until I noticed the poster Wednesday Addams (you know who you are/were ) 'Aha', I thought, 'I'll give Morticia a whirl'. The rest is history.If the coin had landed differently, I would be Uncle Fester Ahem. And as the one who supplied your Avatar I could easily change you to Gomez or Fester at the flip of a raven's wing! My name came about because of stupidity. There was a Composers variously Eated, or Plated, or Microwaved Thread or something on the old R3 MB and I said "My companion, Ethel the Aardvark, will have the Antheil" I remember George laughed at the time. I thought it was brilliant too. I think I would quite like to change my name now to something more prosaic. |
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #6 on: 22:03:16, 08-07-2008 » |
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Mine doesn't have an interesting story behind it at all - it's almost (but not quite) my mother's maiden name.
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« Reply #7 on: 22:06:00, 08-07-2008 » |
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Mine is a sort of old joke, coined by a student friend many years ago. It reflects the unusual combination of having had both a passionate enthusiasm for Wagner and having been in those days heavily involved in left-wing politics; it is of course the title of George Bernard Shaw's Socialist interpretation of the Ring.  I did post briefly at TOP under my real name and then, rejoining after a period away, I decided to preserve some sort of anonymity and this popped back into my mind. I've sometimes thought about changing it, but I'm kind of used to it now. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #8 on: 22:07:32, 08-07-2008 » |
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My nickname came about as a result of exasperation with TOP plus inspiration from a Member here (who was there at the time). Mort, I seem to remember you registered at TOP as 'Anastasia' for a little while, before the balloon went up. Uh?? |
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« Reply #9 on: 22:10:35, 08-07-2008 » |
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My nickname came about as a result of exasperation with TOP plus inspiration from a Member here (who was there at the time). Mort, I seem to remember you registered at TOP as 'Anastasia' for a little while, before the balloon went up. Uh?? Martle the Minx strikes again! Indeed, that was me. Still is sometimes |
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« Reply #10 on: 22:14:59, 08-07-2008 » |
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My nickname came about as a result of exasperation with TOP plus inspiration from a Member here (who was there at the time). Mort, I seem to remember you registered at TOP as 'Anastasia' for a little while, before the balloon went up. Uh?? Anastasia Mart? I used to be Anastasia Sapphire! Did Mort steal my identity? I do remember we met up once at The Schizophrenia Cafe, I said "I'll have what we're having" She said "You'll have what I am having" |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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« Reply #11 on: 22:15:52, 08-07-2008 » |
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I think I've mentioned it before that I sang Mabel many moons ago. And was too unimaginative to disguise my real name Jane any better! There's a pic of my youthful Mabel somewhere on this board but since posting it a while ago I no longer seem to have it in Photobucket - I looked there the other day but it's vanished.  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Morticia
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« Reply #12 on: 22:18:45, 08-07-2008 » |
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Did Mort steal my identity? She said "You'll have what I am having" Oh no we didn't! |
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Antheil
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« Reply #13 on: 22:21:29, 08-07-2008 » |
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Did Mort steal my identity? She said "You'll have what I am having" Oh no we didn't! Oh Yes We Did!! Twilight Zone again. |
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« Reply #14 on: 22:31:39, 08-07-2008 » |
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Blimey. Convent girls, eh?  |
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