[Meme] The names meme ...

[dancefloorlandmine]

If you call me ...

Si - you are going to get on my nerves in the next forty seconds
Simon - you are almost anyone
Stuart, Steve, Daniel (?) - you are one of the many people who can't quite recall my name
Mr Stacey - you are probably official, sending me a bill, or taking the rip
Mr Landmine - you are Sean from The Ship in Croydon, and I claim my £5
Dancefloorlandmine - you know me online
d_floorlandmine - you know me from LJ, and have worked out how to pronounce "_"
Motorbreath - you know me from the Jorvick bulletin board in York¹
Spanner - you are probably either minusbat or velvetfox (or, apparently, ellenscult), as I appear to have outrun the others who used to use that nickname [grin]²
Dad-man - you are one of my munchkin colleagues, who have apparently decided that my workplace mannerisms are deserving of a pipe and slippers
Hairy bloke - you are almost certainly littleangel_103
Sweetie - you are probably doja35, although there are a couple of other possibilities
You, you, you ... did you go to York? - you are probably at Wendyhouse, and haven't seen me for about ten years. The next approved statement is "Thought so. You haven't changed!"
Mate - you're the bloke who runs the local SPAR, who refers to everyone as Mate, in a very odd migrating accent
Dude - prime suspects would be lproven and Dan WINOLJ, but there are probably more
The Right Honourable Herbert J Pilkington Esquire - you think I'm someone completely different, and you're so wrong

Great, and now I've got Blondie's Call Me in my head, trying to contest with Skyclad on the headphones ...

¹ It's the song I was listening to when first asked for a username, and in any case I'd just eaten a chicken kiev ...
² Explanations may be forthcoming, but I wouldn't rely on it!

And one of my colleagues has just discovered that she can whistle (quietly) through her nose now that she has a cold ... you see what I have to put up with?

Comments

[medains.livejournal.com]

The one that goes...

After several descriptions of you and still not getting it, some person (who in particular I forget) eventually realized who they meant and exclaimed 'oh, that useless tool!'

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Nope. Close, but still wrong.

Actually, minusbat and I were reminiscing over the real reason, which involved Back To The Planet, Credit To The Nation, several hippies, and a kettle ...

[medains.livejournal.com]

It's certainly the one that perpetuates in York-anecdote-lore.

[blue-condition.livejournal.com]

makyo's "Is that Spanner with one 'n', or two?" has to be the best understated one-liner ever.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Arse. Looks like I might need to promulgate the truth, if only because it is longer and slightly more involved than that ...