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Author Topic: OUR NICKNAMES. Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 03-25-2003 09:44 PM                     The guy from CLACO...with a soundtrack containing a little echo chamber and heavy reverb while you don your cape in search of DP 70's I have had several nicknames....Bitchard was my mother's favorite term for me for obvious reasons...RichRalph which is what my old, sweet, confused grandmother called my brother and myself so she could be 50% right....Dick by an old German boss who could not pronounce Richard....TV Boy, when I worked in television production as a teenager...mustache guy, in high school ( they air brushed it out in the year book - got away with it due to quiet nature and dating the vice principal daughter ).... today, Richard or Russ depending who knows me at what time of this life journey Richard Fowler Kinoton America  |  IP: Logged Mike Fitzgerald Expert Film Handler Posts: 224 From: Castle Hayne, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-25-2003 11:01 PM                     My nickname has been Fitz since I was little. My father was a Fitz and I am carrying on the tradition.  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-25-2003 11:23 PM                     I have used two nicknames for an extended period of time. Dexter Caldwell was used after I appeared in a tv show that was done by some classmates at school. The name of the character was Dexter Caldwell. The one I use now is Jimmy Cinnamon Roll. It was born in the summer of 1998 on a local radio program here in Houston. A friend named Stephen and I stopped by the radio station where his friend Jeff did the show and while he was announcing everyone who was at the station, I was eating a cinnamon roll from the vending machine. Stephen called me Jimmy Cinnamon Roll and Jeff made it stick. At first I did not care for the name, so I didn't use it. He always referred to me by the name regardless. This past summer, he introduced me to some of his friends as Jimmy Cinnamon Roll, and they kept calling me that as well and it had a nice ring to it, so when I got tired of Dexter Caldwell, Jimmy Cinnamon Roll took over and that is what I use now. I now use that name on all message boards (except here) and I sometimes skip my real name and introduce myself to people as Jimmy Cinnamon Roll.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-25-2003 11:35 PM                        You can use that name also by introducing yourself as Jimmy C. Roll. People will be all the more surprised when they find your middle name is Cinnamon.  |  IP: Logged Barry Martin Expert Film Handler Posts: 203 From: Newington, CT USA Registered: Jul 2002 posted 03-26-2003 12:10 AM                        For the most part the only nickname I have (and still use) is GuvnA (the Boston pronounciation of Governor). The origins go back to when I was 16 and working at this laser tag place called "Laserquest" (actually a really fun game, recommend to anyone that has one near by). Well, the employees all go by "codenames" to create that "fun" environment. I can't even remember what I chose for my first name, but for the first two weeks I worked there one of the other guys always greeted me with a "ello, Guvna!" (with poor British accent). Eventually I grew to like it and it has stuck. I still use it when I play the international tournaments Laserquest holds (yeah, that's right, it's my "sport" ) and for email/message boards. Other than that, there are some childhood nicknames I will NEVER reveal and my daughter calls me "Da", I think she really did get the full Irish infusion from my side.  |  IP: Logged Daniel Boisson Expert Film Handler Posts: 157 From: Buffalo, NY, USA Registered: Oct 2001 posted 03-26-2003 02:02 AM                     well everyone in the Dorms here calls be Danman.........  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-26-2003 02:14 PM                        My student orchestra has a thing where everybody gets a nick name. I got mine from being extremly drunk (before I was even in the orchestra) and introducing myself. Being from the south of Sweden some people thinks it sounds a bit danish and/or unclear, and a my first rehersal somebody asked me if my name was Curt, which sounds a bit like Gunnar, at least in Swedish. I and they wanted to get rid of it, because you can actually be named Curt, but it stuck. It´s important that it´s with a C. I´ve talked to older people who used to be in the orchestra, and they totally understand how Gunnar can turn in to Curt. My name is Curt, but my parents sometimes calls me Gunnar... Then a few I don´t care to menshion. Some from my american friends who couldn´t quite get the swedish version of the name to sound even close. //Gunnar, ehrmmm Curt  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-26-2003 02:18 PM                        What kind of orchestra do you play in? What instrument?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-26-2003 03:21 PM                        I've been called the "Father of LAD". And because of many projects related to keeping film clean, "Doctor Dirt".  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-26-2003 03:32 PM                        Michael: I´m in an orchestra called the Alliance Orchestra of Gothenburg. We dress up in talis (or what used to be tails after a couple of years) and run around while we play march music. A lot of Sousa, swedish marches and some of the really good german marches (under the Double Eagle). We are actually celebrating our 55th anniversary this saturday, with a show, a party and a new record out. Our balet celebrates 40. I play Euphonium or Barytone or Tenorhorn, depending on what country you come from. Remember Brassed off (Awesome film) "It´s a bloody euphonium!". But the orchestra isn´t the best there is, so I started trying to learn a lot of other instruments, so now I play trombone, tuba, sousaphone, trumpet, banjo and percussion... //Gunnar  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-26-2003 03:39 PM                        quote: I play Euphonium or Barytone or Tenorhorn, depending on what country you come from. Actually I think these are all slightly different instruments, even though the denomination in different countries is a bit mixed up. But it is even more complicated than historical sound formats... I play the Horn (the orchestral variation known in England as French Horn), and the double bass, mostly in orchestras. I have tails too, but haven`t worn them for a long time. Wearing tails in a marching band is very unusual, but maybe a good idea, it makes the band look less fascist than in uniforms.  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-26-2003 04:03 PM                        I know that in each country they are different instruments, but when you cross the border they magically switch... Never understood that, or why a B is called an H in Sweden. What´s wrong with ABCDEFG? Now we have AHCDEFG!? And people calling B and B flat, and people saying H and B (which is what B flat is called). Maybe it´s a swedish thing. I actually played trombone and the the trombone arrangement on euphonium in the Swedish Youth orchestra a couple of years ago. But there´s something special about marchmusic... And the Euphonim gets all the best parts. Sucks to play the clarinett. Can´t even hear it when the brass gets going... The tails is something about students, some orchestras wear coats or t-shirts, but we like to think we have class (until someone smells them). Got some good tails to for formal occasions, which comes around every so often for us poor, hard working students. Trust me, we look anything but fascist (anarchistic if anything, not a political comment) The double bass as in the brass instrument or as in the string double bass? For anyone wondering if we are off topic, I think not, we´re finding friends... (Edit)(sorry, wrong thread, but still pertaining to the topic in some way...)(/edit) //Gunnar  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 03-26-2003 04:20 PM                        The string instrument. I have never heard of a wind instrument called double bass! Originally the scale tones were named ABCDEFG everywhere. When musical theory became more complex, the first note to be altered regularly was the B as it is the leading note to C, traditionally the central note in music theory. Some theorists started calling the low B "square B" and the high B "round B" after the way they were written (with a square or round symbol respectively). Other schools chose the next available letter, H, to denote the high alteration. When theory became more complex and involved harmony changes, they started to use the flat and sharp symbols to alter other notes. But the name H was already very widely in use, and that is why some theorists retained it.  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-26-2003 04:24 PM                        Thanks, been thinking for years about that. No I never heard of it either, but I figured i could be like a F-tuba or something. Unusual combination: French horn and double bass, but you get to see (and hear things) from at least two angles. Two really cool instruments. Oh, and being a rodie/runner/rigger I of course play electric guitar, but then again who doesn´t... /Gunnar  |  IP: Logged William Leland III Master Film Handler Posts: 336 From: Charleston, SC, Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-26-2003 04:26 PM                        When I was a little kid, I carried around a little green chainsaw. My cousins called me chainsaw. When I put my CB in my truck I needed a handle and so I used Chainsaw. So all my friends call me Chainsaw.  |  IP: Logged

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