bza was acting under extreme duress, after all.
And it wouldn't be done even to reveal bza's grad school nickname, since it would be identifying to those in the know.
I don't think you can go back to lurking, though.
I'm curious as to how it was pronounced. "The Meatman, Magic Matt Weiner"? Or more in a rush: "The Meatman Magic Matt Weiner"? Or another possibility altogether?
I was hoping it would have something to do with Oscar Meyer.
I do sympathize, however, because my last name sounds a lot like, but is spelled differently than, the name of a common food item.
I was thinking Bacon
Aren't we all always thinking that?
On what basis do you assume that I post under initials that correspond to those of my real name?
I thought "eb" was your first name. "Eb Burrito" had a pleasing ring to it.
Soundex Code for bacon = B250
Other surnames sharing this Soundex Code:
BACON | BASCOM | BASHAM | BASKIN | BAUCOM | BAUGHEN | BAUGHN | BEACHAM | BEASON | BECKHAM | BEECHAM | BEESON | BEGGAN | BEZONA | BICKHAM | BIGHAM | BISSON | BOGAN | BOGGAN | BOJSEN | BOYKIN | BOYSEN | BUCHAN | BUGIN |
Soundex Code for Burrito = B630
Other surnames sharing this Soundex Code:
BAIRD | BARADA | BARD | BARRATT | BARRET | BARRETT | BARTEE | BARTH | BARTO | BEAIRD | BEARD | BIRD | BIRT | BOARD | BORT | BOURDEAU | BOWARD | BRADDY | BRADT | BRADY | BRATT | BREED | BRETT | BRITT | BROAD | BROADAWAY | BROADWAY | BRODIE | BRODY | BROTT | BURAT | BURD | BURDUE | BURT | BYARD | BYRD |
Soundex Code for banana = B550
Other surnames sharing this Soundex Code:
BANNON | BAUMAN | BAUMANN | BEAMAN | BEEMAN | BENHAM | BENYON | BINYON | BOHANNAN | BOHANNON | BOHANON | BOMAN | BONHAM | BONIN | BONINE | BOWMAN | BUHMANN | BYNAM | BYNON | BYNUM |
the soundex codes kind of suck.
Fair enough. But even if they are my initials, which may or may not be true, why assume that they are the first and last ones?
I did have a real name in mind when I chose them, by the way.
eb, if 100 people choose a two-initial handle, how many of those 100 would pick the first letter of the first and last name? A very high percentage, I would think.
I'd think so too. But that doesn't mean that I'm one of that high percentage, though I might be.
This is similar to the w-lfs-n principle of pseudonymity, but initialized.
To 3: I agree. Peccavi.
To 4: I'm comfortable being outed to that extent.
To 5: Say it all at once, no pauses. You don't have to rush it, though. It's more about using the flow to try to capture Matt's grandeur. (Actually, I think part of the point of long, phrasal nicknames is that using them instead of a short nickname prolongs the moment of discomfort of the bearer of the name. Sadistic, true, but that's largely the point of this sort of thing.)
my last name sounds a lot like, but is spelled differently than, the name of a common food item.
Uhhh, Mulva?
I did have a real name in mind when I chose them, by the way.
Ernest Borgnine?
Say it all at once, no pauses.
So you couldn't say for instance, "and in the left corner, the man who puts the philosophical rigor in rigor mortis, the one, the only, the Meatman, Magic Matt Weinnnnaaaaah!"? Where "Meatman" would be a bit lower than the preceding and following words, and "Magic" higher than the rest?
Not the name of a person who lived in the 20th century. (This eliminates E.B. White, too.)
Don't even get me started on that #$%#! French Revolution. I can't believe they let things go that far.
Um, no, actually it's not Burke. It's not someone many people have ever heard of.
Guess that eliminates Emily Bronte.
I'm having enough trouble with R.A.B. right now.
Yay, it's outing the pseudonymous day! I'm Sidney Biggles-Jones.
Actually, I'm here to ask ogged why he gots to be like that. Why you gots to be like that, ogged?
19: is this true? A pearl is a lynx is a blog!
Like getting all escalatory with the Weiner-humiliation.
Once I knew that there was a grad school nickname and that someone was in a position to tell us, I would have been derelict, SB, not to find out and share.
It's an acronym, if you know what I mean.
I would have been derelict, SB, not to find out and share.
I know. Very infrequently, when the decorum gap here grows to a goatly widness, so large it could swallow a goat, I recall what it is to be decent to your brethren and sistren, and contemplate such a mode of being with wistful resignation.
It's not as if the manner in which you found out allowed for you not to share.
You're taking this much harder than Weiner.
I just endured some intense vicarious mortification watching Freaks and Geeks, so my sensitivity to this kind of teasing is abnormally high.
Hey, Ogged said "harder than Weiner."
21: I've been thinking that if I ever participate in one of those APA invited Symposia I will try to get the chair to play intro music for each participant, the way baseball teams often play little musical tags as the batter steps to the plate. Mine would be the intro to "Showdown," by the Sugarhill Gang meets the Furious Five. My opponent's will be "Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down."
Wouldn't your opponent get to pick his music?
Also, IJRLS "Punks jump up to get beat down."
bza gave you permission to reveal his nickname, you know.
"Cash money," 'cause he's cold and hard.
I'm glad to see that the speculation has turned elsewhere.
You're not out of the woods yet, Eva Braun.
You've found my identity! What gave it away? My tendency to sing songs like "Adolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer" every Christmas?
Huh. Single-token pseudonyms are pretty good at deflecting certain name-centric putdowns (catanyms?), which for reasons of tradition or prosody seem to require both first and last names.
Compare:
Ben "nougating my analness" w-lfs-n
*Ogged "nougating my analness"
Also:
The Lamentable Analness Nougating Ben w-lfs-n
*The Lamentable Analness Nougating Ogged
In each case, the second, asterisked example feels essentially incomplete, cut short of its surnominal climax. I've often wished ogged had a provisional last name reserved for use in these circumstances.
Single-token names are riper candidates for titular disparagement, though:
His Nougating Analness Ogged
Ogged the Anal Nougat
It's wierd that the word in #55 that's grossing me out is "nougat."
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
Nope.
Frederick Barbarossa's little-known younger brother, Ernie.
Single-token names are riper candidates for titular disparagement, though
You may have something there. Unfortunately for you, "B-dub the Anal Nougat" can be sung to the tune of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", while your ogged-centric version runs afoul of our distaste for clumsy melisma.
Was Barbarossa a name, an epithet, or a use/mention problem?
clumsy melisma
Is it |oggd| or |oggéd|?
No, it just provides an excuse to pronounce it "Oggéd," which is something that should be done more often anyway. In fact I'm surprised that there isn't already a specimen in the Museum of Bridgeplatica.
64 to 61, and 63 beat me. 62: Red beards are genetic, duh.
Was Barbarossa a name, an epithet, or a use/mention problem?
I can't remember how this discussion went last time out, but Wikipedia thinks it's a nickname.
No wait, I'm not engaging this. 60 is funny as it stands.
The problem is that the name is of someone I've come across in my research, and I'm not sure I want to give that away. This seems foolish, though, because I doubt anyone here could ID me based on that (and there's probably enough on my blog for people who do know me to ID me anyway) but the fact is that not a lot of people have worked on what I was working on.
In fact I'm surprised that there isn't already a specimen in the Museum of Bridgeplatica.
For whatever reason, oggéd doesn't do it for me.
Well, tell us your real name, and then we'll find out what your research is on and we can guess who it is.
Or just tell us your grad school nickname.
We've been over the question in 63.
When you do that, is it purely informational, or is there an element of meliorism in it?
Everything I do, slol, is aimed at the improvement of the lot of humanity.
Man, I got nuthin' today; any blogging topic suggestions?
Ha, I have read those eb, but have refrained from blogging about them. It's so unpleasant to be in the middle of quarrels like that. Of course, there's the issue of the violence that writer's do to their subjects, but I'm quite conflicted about that, and don't know what to say.
Yeah, I was considering blogging it, taking the Times article as fiction and evaluating it as a story (so as to try to put aside the whole quarrel), but then realized that I didn't have much to say that wouldn't seem like a bunch of snark.
There's something in there to be said about fiction and history and reliable/unreliable narrators, but I'd rather try to say it about a different piece of writing. Don't know if I ever will, though.
There's something to be said there for the virtue of pseudonymity, and the inexplicable and I think inexcusable violence of not deploying it when it would so obviously do no harm and so much good.
Well, if you want to go for really depressing, there's this.
Jesus. It's so strange to have that country run by religious nuts. It would be like making Roy Moore king of Chicago.
re 81: That too. I can't believe the names weren't changed.