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Rivers:
I've been noticing lately some of the forum user names.
My personal favorites among the regular posters include:

In the totally 'out there' dept:

huge furry whippinstool. This one wins hands down, in all categories. Seems to live near Lyme Regis, that's pretty weird, from what I remember about LR
lastfirstface. I like it, but what does it mean?

In the 'why, specifically, did you pick that reference' dept:

Bunker Hill

I'm sure there are more, and some some good stories behind their genesis. I got mine, as they say, from a long gone internet site 'blues name generator'. My full name came out as "Blind Jailhouse Rivers" but I shortened it up since I've never been blind, or in jail, but have done a fair amount of freshwater fishing. Nobody's perfect.

Norfolk Slim:
At the risk of stealing Mr Whippingstool's thunder, the name would appear to be a bizarre and quite amusing pun on the name "Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall" who is a well known chefy / rural lifestyle sort of fellow in the UK, who lives and runs his "River Cottage" not too far away fro Lyme Regis.

Of course, he could actually be the man in question (certainly I have heard some very enjoyable deep south slide guitar on his tv programmes...) ;)  If so, I'd like to compliment him on said programmes and his series of books which present a lifestyle I totally buy into, but will sadly never attain.

Bunker Hill:

--- Quote from: Rivers on January 03, 2012, 11:15:44 PM ---In the 'why, specifically, did you pick that reference' dept:

Bunker Hill
--- End quote ---
You're gonna wish you never asked.

Bunker Hill was David Walker, a gospel singer with the Mighty Clouds Of Joy, who went crazy about rock'n'roll, after he met Link Wray and his Raymen in 1962.  Bunker, a master of lunacy, in 1963 recorded Hide And Go Seek, Part I / Hide And Go Seek, Part II a frenetic, shouted rhythm'n'blues outing which made the Billboard pop 33 chart as well as the r'n'b one at 27. The record was released the following year in the UK by Stateside and found fame with several  of the British pirate radio stations of the time. It had a kind of a cult following.

Gumbo:

--- Quote from: Bunker Hill on January 04, 2012, 03:49:38 AM ---It had a kind of a cult following.

--- End quote ---

It still does! What an amazing record  :D

Bunker Hill:
Haven’t played mine in at least three decades.

I wonder if it’s made it to the internet as a download?

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