Fake names and silly words 2

[ESquared]

This is only peripherally language-related, but it is so amusing to me that I had to share.

I find it tedious and silly to have to provide my name, address, or phone number when I return something to a store, if they're not going to check my ID or a major credit card or something. I didn't have to supply my name to buy it! So I routinely sign obviously false names to these things, on the principle of the thing. Tonight I returned something I bought for my wife (no, the one with wings, dummy) and got the dratted form again. So I filled in:

Binkerbonk Monkeynoggin (Monkeysomething, anyway. I can't remember now.)
123 Monkey St
Orange Squishers CA 97111
831-697-7777

I have so much practice inventing random syllables or silly non sequiturs that I don't even hesitate. I even signed my name this way. (I think it all started with the Mad Lib games when I was a child. I absolutely adored those things and I've never been normal since.)

Does anyone else do anything like this? Do you fake-speak in any languages? I do, in Chinese. Can you talk in gibberish, sort of like Comedy Sportz entertainers do??

Erik

Note: I have never once been challenged when supplying one of these fake names, which sort of supports my point. And I have a plan in case it ever happens. I'll break down crying, and sob about the person making fun of my name and it's a really painful subject and can't he just leave me alone and boy he is sure cruel like everyone else in the world, and now that I think about it can you recommend any books on how to commit suicide? But if they actually press me, I will certainly then produce my ID and sign my real name and address!

 

[Welshbird]

Wasn't that Turkey Ken? (or maybe chicken...)

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[KenCunningham]

Yes, Fee, it wss just my feeble attempt at a joke.

I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.

 

[Welshbird]

OR duck maybe.... fades off into insignificance....

Fee

The question should be [red]Is it worth trying to do?[/red] not [blue] Can it be done?[/blue]

 

[KenCunningham]

Don't - you'll be back at rabbit before we know it (circular reference there methinks).

I don't mind people who aren't what they seem. I just wish they'd make their mind up.

 

[MallardVHS]

I've yet to see an honourable historian postulate that the "Donner Party" was no more than a typo for the so-called "Dinner Party." The original Tail Gate Party (you know, before the big GAME!)

Perhaps with "Duck a l'Orange." Served with disparigus.

Yeah, yeah, stalking is against the slaw...

DON



[green]Tis far easier to keep your duck in a row if you just have the one.[/green]

 

[chiph]

Reminds me of the "Far Side" cartoon where 3 men and a dog are sitting in a life raft, and have just drawn straws to see who is invited to become dinner. They're all (including the dog) looking at one man: "Fair's fair, Larry. We all drew straws, and you picked the short one"

Chip H.

FYI: US Interstate 80 goes through Donner Pass, between Sacramento California and Reno Nevada. There's a memorial at a rest stop near the top of the pass.


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[chiph]

Here's a map.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...42,-120.267034&spn=0.024036,0.059352&t=h&om=1

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[Gooser]

back on task... I like to use Hugo B. Forme as a fake name.

Once, out of disgust for the digital signature collector machine thingy at the WalMart checkout, I wrote in big, bold letters, Ballsack. Nobody ever said nor did anything about it. Why do they bother with collecting a signature at all?



v/r

Gooser

Why do today
that which may not need to be done tomorrow --me

The Universal Model

 

[MicroZealous]

My real name and my handle here sound the same out loud. . .

 

[MCuthill]

¿ Mike Rozelos ?



Mike
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"It Seems All My Problems Exist Between Keyboard and Chair"

 

[MicroZealous]

Mike:

Close. "Mike Roselius".
But pronounced like "Mike Ro-ZEL-us".

 

[MallardVHS]

Good try, My Crow.

Reel names are a bait, er, a bit, fishy.

>> My real name and my handle here sound the same out loud. . . <<

May we call you "Pike"?

Don, a large-mouth by all accounts...

[green]Tis far easier to keep your duck in a row if you just have the one.[/green]

 

[elanor]

Kelly was a very popular name for girls in my neighborhood and I had several friends of that name. One of my friends married Michael Green, so she is now Kelly Green. Another married Brian Kelly. She is Kelly Kelly.
That's true love.
Thanks!
Elanor

 

[grande]

I use

Fake Name (fake.name@email.com)
123 Fake Street
Not A Real City, Ont
A1B 2C3

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Call me barely Impressive Captain.

 

[MallardVHS]

MicroZelous:

Hey, Mike. I have only the faintest recollection of what I was going for above.

I suspect the capitalized "ZEL" snagged my golf-ball sized brain and redirected it to a childhood fishing memory. My brothers and I had "Zebco" reels and enjoyed fishing a lot.

Fishing a lot is not nearly as productive as fishing, say, an actual pond. And people look at you funny. We caught much dirt, and scraped many worms...

I personally don't like large groups.

If you like really large groups of like-minded people, then I invite you to ignore me.

Best wishes!
Don

[green]Tis far easier to keep your duck in a row if you just have the one.[/green]

 

[RegistrationMark]

Actually "twunny" is my dialect. It seems strained to pronounce the second "t", like pronouncing the "o" in actor. I talk like that when I'm putting on a voice.

 

[ESquared]

The difference is that the "actor" is correctly pronounced "acter" but "twunny" is just flat-out wrong for "twenty." It's twen-tee or twuhn-tee.

In any case, I say twenty without drawing it out strangely. I bet that if you heard me throw the word into my casual speech, you wouldn't trip up on the second tee.

 

[RegistrationMark]

ESquared, true enough the sins of omission!
I also use "Ima go now" for " I am going to go now" in informal speech.
I 've never thought much about my funny speech pattern before. Hmm.
I do believe I stray off topic though, apologies.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I've often heard (and used) twenny, but have never heard twunny.

Bleedin 'ell, you peepawl gotta lern ta speak proppa!

[Cheers]

 

[MallardVHS]

ELANOR,

We must be neighbors!

In high school I knew this totally cute girl named Kelly Dean Denton. She met and married a (totally fortunate) guy with the last name of Dean.

Therefore, (NO LIE!), she went from Kelly Dean Denton to Kelly Denton Dean!

Don



[green]Tis far easier to keep your duck in a row if you just have the one.[/green]