Names

[Wickerman]

I’ve often wondered where some posters names come from? Some are obvious - my own, Wickerman, Dupin, Fisherman for example but some aren’t.

Does anyone want to enlighten me/us without giving anything away that you don’t want to of course?

This is a thread I must have missed until tonight.

I can explain 'Wickerman' ..honestly, "there's nothing to see here"...

I used to post under my own name back before 2004, from that time I took a hiatus for 4 years from Casebook until about 2008 which is why 2008 is part of my thingy at the side, as opposed to 1998 when I first joined.

So, during those 4 years I was away from Casebook we got a new plant manager at Westinghouse where I worked, and it went around the office that he was looking up employees on the net and following their posts and basically sticking his nose in for god knows what reason.
In this time the old classic Wickerman movie had just been (poorly) remade, but as the old one was a bit of a classic favorite I just decided to use that for an online name instead - because of prying eyes.
I've tried to change it back a couple of times but I guess Ally (or Admin) have been otherwise engaged.

I'm retired now the name doesn't matter anymore.

[Wickerman]

I saw something on here about a former poster (sadly no longer with us) who had a toy cat called Diddles. I thought that you may have known her.

Mike.
Would you be referring to Jules?
It's just that Jules was a guy from Oz, he kept referring to his cat Diddles, the name of Praters cat.
You may mean someone else, if so my apologies.

[Pcdunn]

Bingo Abbey!

No reference to a previous poster.

Just an excuse to use a picture of my cat as an avatar and a general love of animals.

I was fostering some ex racing greyhounds at the time I signed up, so I did toy with Ms Burgho or Ms Barnaby, but in the end, I went with the feline reference and my much loved siamese!

My avatar picture is of my much loved tortie cat Emma, who passed away the summer of 2019. I miss her and still feel guilty. I have two longhaired'cats now, but of course their personalities are different.

[Pcdunn]

I’ve often wondered where some posters names come from? Some are obvious - my own, Wickerman, Dupin, Fisherman for example but some aren’t.

Does anyone want to enlighten me/us without giving anything away that you don’t want to of course?

Just my initials combined with an espionage television show I'm old enough to recall watching, and which I had rediscovered in the 2000s or so.

[Azarna]

May I just say thank you to Herlock for starting this thread. I am enjoying it very much :-)

[Abby Normal]

Startled by a dog that didn’t bark?

im thinking more likely by something going on downstairs

[Herlock Sholmes]

Ahhhh! I see.

No, there's no connection.

I saw that post too..

She seemed like a lovely person.

I never knew her but she certainly did appear to have been well loved.

[Ms Diddles]

I saw something on here about a former poster (sadly no longer with us) who had a toy cat called Diddles. I thought that you may have known her.

Ahhhh! I see.

No, there's no connection.

I saw that post too..

She seemed like a lovely person.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Not at all, Herlock!

See answer above.

Do I have a similarly named poster proceeding me?

Were I to choose a name based on a previous poster, I would have instantly won friends and influenced people as Ms Pierre!!!

Joke!!!

I saw something on here about a former poster (sadly no longer with us) who had a toy cat called Diddles. I thought that you may have known her.

[Ms Diddles]

Ms D, is your name something to do with a former poster?

Not at all, Herlock!

See answer above.

Do I have a similarly named poster proceeding me?

Were I to choose a name based on a previous poster, I would have instantly won friends and influenced people as Ms Pierre!!!

Joke!!!

[Ms Diddles]

hi hs
i think it has to do with a certain cat that woke up in the middle of the night

Bingo Abbey!

No reference to a previous poster.

Just an excuse to use a picture of my cat as an avatar and a general love of animals.

I was fostering some ex racing greyhounds at the time I signed up, so I did toy with Ms Burgho or Ms Barnaby, but in the end, I went with the feline reference and my much loved siamese!

[MrBarnett]

hi hs
i think it has to do with a certain cat that woke up in the middle of the night

Startled by a dog that didn’t bark?

[Abby Normal]

Ms D, is your name something to do with a former poster?

hi hs
i think it has to do with a certain cat that woke up in the middle of the night

[Herlock Sholmes]

Indeed! That falsetto voice on Davis Suhrkamp is a bit marmite!

Pampered Menial was one of my favourite albums when I was a teenager. It always brings back fond memories of house-sitting in Berlin with a pal, blasting it out on the balcony whilst smoking Gitanes, drinking red wine and thinking we were terribly grown up and bohemian!

Pretentious twats!!!

Hahaha! That concert sounds fairly typical of Yes.

I'm with your brother on that one!

I picked up Tales from Topographic Oceans at a record fair (again as a teenager), but it wasn't really my bag so much.

Ms D, is your name something to do with a former poster?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Damaso Marte was a professional baseball player in the mid-2000's, he had a great season in 2003 and earned my admiration. I picked him for this forum because Marte sounds a bit like Mitre.

There was actually a player Sergio Mitre around the same time, but he played for a team I didn't like.

Cheers DM