MetaChat - Books with titles which are also metachat usernames, No.s 1-3

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25 July 2006

Books with titles which are also metachat usernames, No.s 1-3 T.A.Z.; Ethylene; and Matilda Ben (I saw the last of these mentioned in a Swedish newspaper yesterday).

post by: misteraitch at: 04:50 | 40 comments

#4 Amber Glow; #5 Boring Postcards; #6 Shane.

posted by misteraitch 25 July | 05:18

heh.

#7 Mud Puppy; #8 Wolf Dog... thinking, thinking...

posted by taz 25 July | 05:44

#9 You Can Call Me Al; #10 Ooga Booga; #11 Deborah; #12 Miko...

posted by taz 25 July | 06:11

#13 Moonbird; #14 mosch

posted by BoringPostcards 25 July | 06:27

#15 mischief; #16 Occhi Blu

posted by misteraitch 25 July | 06:32

17. Tangerine

posted by Wolfdog 25 July | 06:37

If there's a book out there with my username on it, I'll eat my office chair.

posted by deadcowdan 25 July | 06:42

18. Sciurus

posted by misteraitch 25 July | 06:42

And the author of the "Mud Puppy" book has got to be using a pseudonym.

posted by deadcowdan 25 July | 06:43

Awww. Thanks, someone remembered my book. Which I wasn't named after. My grandmother had some kind of dream or intuition or something and told my Mom she had to name me Shane. Hey, it's a weird family. Ol' "Gam" could always tell the sex of a baby before it was born, too.

sciurus, did you read the book Sciurus: The Story of a Gray Squirrel when you were a a kid?

posted by shane 25 July | 07:29

deadcowdan: me too

posted by altolinguistic 25 July | 07:39

This is clearly NOT about me.

posted by richat 25 July | 08:00

The funniest "miss" I got was the search for mygothlaundry.

posted by BoringPostcards 25 July | 08:03

Fuzzy Monsters,

Fuzzy Monsters everywhere!

posted by Fuzzy Monster 25 July | 08:08

When I search for iconomy the first return is Fucked Company.

posted by iconomy 25 July | 08:20

The best I can do with my own username is a stage-play (that I don't know was ever printed as an individual book) written by Charles Lamb (the essayist, and friend of Coleridge & Mary Shelley) entitled ‘Mr. H----’ which was ‘a farce in two acts.’ It was also a flop—the Theatrical Examiner wrote of it:

“Mr. H----, thou wert DAMNED. Bright shone the morning on the play-bills that announced thy appearance, and the streets were filled with the buzz of persons asking one another if they would go to see Mr. H----, and answering that they would certainly; but before night the gaiety, not of the author, but of his friends and the town, was eclipsed, for thou wert DAMNED! Hadst thou been anonymous, thou haply mightst have lived. But thou didst come to an untimely end for thy tricks, and for want of a better name to pass them off——."

posted by misteraitch 25 July | 08:25

My original internet name was given to me by a co-worker. I love nothing more than to complain, and she says to me "well, you're just the grumblebunny aren't you?" Yes, thank you. Yes, I am.

It isn't my metachat name (although I wish I had used it here), it is from a book.

posted by getoffmylawn 25 July | 08:41

Creepy!

posted by rainbaby 25 July | 08:51

The mygothlaundry one is good. . .I got a miss on anyone else I tried, and I don't have time to play right now. . .

posted by rainbaby 25 July | 08:52

On an unrelated note, this weekend I enjoyed a beer from the Central Waters Brewing Company called Mudpuppy Porter. It was yummy, too.

posted by Miko 25 July | 09:23

*snicker*

She is a sorceress--indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual--who possesess incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero of THE NINJA.

-Dustjacket blurb from Eric Lustbader's The Miko.

posted by Miko 25 July | 09:42

Well...brujita and ninyabruja come from Francesca Lia Block's Witch Baby.

posted by brujita 25 July | 09:59

I know gaspode comes from a Terry Pratchett book (only because gaspode herself told me so!). Also, my username does come from the book(s, plural- there are three volumes) misteraitch linked above.

posted by BoringPostcards 25 July | 10:07

Whoah, cool, thanks for finding that!

posted by matildaben 25 July | 10:16

Yup:

Gaspode is a small terrier-like dog featured in seven of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. He possesses human-level intelligence and the ability to speak, as well as an extensive collection of diseases (including 'Licky end' which is only found in pregnant sheep). However, since everyone knows that dogs can't speak, people tend to interpret his speech as their own personal thoughts, a tendency which Gaspode regularly uses to wrangle food from passers by.

posted by gaspode 25 July | 10:35

Sweet! That book is so me - hell, I even have a bastard son! (He's still a bastard even though I did eventually marry his dad, right?)

posted by mygothlaundry 25 July | 10:45

No books, but there is this.

posted by sisterhavana 25 July | 10:49

I got nuthin'.

posted by tommasz 25 July | 10:57

First Amazon result: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

posted by box 25 July | 10:58

Huh. No books with my name, but I did discover that Christopher Null uses me as a demonstration of how there aren't any obvious film critic website names available anymore.

posted by goatdog 25 July | 11:09

Not the first match, but certainly the coolest.

posted by PinkStainlessTail 25 July | 12:21

Heh. I got an oddly fitting result when searching for myself.

posted by eamondaly 25 July | 14:00

OmieWise, Ikkyu2, Hugh Janus (author, not book), Triode(s), Small Ruminant...

posted by Miko 25 July | 14:34

Hugh Janus.

posted by Miko 25 July | 14:35

Mudpuppy Porter

There's got to be a word for how appropriate that is, but I'm not coming up with it.

posted by mudpuppie 25 July | 14:54

27. Panopticon (panoptican), 28. By the Grace of God,

posted by knave 25 July | 18:04

cmonkey

posted by cmonkey 25 July | 18:08

Cmonkey, I think I speak for everyone who knows you when I say "Bravo, old boy, it's about time."

posted by mudpuppie 25 July | 18:21

Attention, Wolfdog! Here's one for us!

though I don't know who "Rag" is...

posted by redvixen 25 July | 19:40

And this has my name backwards, but what the heck. (Author's name)

posted by redvixen 25 July | 19:43

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