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Just curious...

Is it a bug?

Is it a previous poster who is to cowardly to fess up to former mistakes?,

I know everyone on this site by name thanks to Brian Austin Whitney.

So please tell me...

What the :$)$;/-;$...,is a "Bugsy"???

Just wondering....Hi Ben! Did I word that properly?

Midnite.

I refuse to accept that your mother named you MidniteBob.

The reason you are confused is that it is "Bugsey" not "Bugsy". I am glad that I could come by and clear that up for you.

You are correct Kurt. My mother named me Kismet Jack.

It was at my band's debut in DC in 1999 when a drunk hollered out:

"The band should be called Midnight Bob and the Grease".

The band already had a name that we were happy with, but my bandmates decided to misspell "Midnight", and I've been called Midnite Bob ever since.

I decided to stop fighting it back around 2003.....I mean, I've been called worse:-)

Midnite(don't you wish you had such a cool nickname)Bob

P.S...If you called my cellphone, the voicemail message would say:

"It's Midnite, in the garden of good and evil."..Tell me you're not amused/jealous:-)

Thanks Kevin...I've been dropping "e's" for years. Probably oughta see a doctor about it...

Midnite

Unusual names are always interesting. I'm glad my parents gave me one.

John

The E distinguishes me from all the other Bugseys in the world.

She woulda called me Ralph but she didn't want me to be associated with vomit, some say it was destined to happen anyway.

I guess Bugsey just fit.

"The head nurse spoke up, to leave this one alone
she could tell right away I was bad to the bone"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyhJ69mD7xI

Don't know how I got dragged into this..but, after a few seconds of research I found out that the nickname started in the early twentieth century and basically meant that a person who is "bugs" is crazy. Hence the names Bugs Malone and Bugsy Siegel.

Do I think our own Bugsey is crazy? Not at all. He knows a lot about music and is very opinionated. He does tend to hit a raw nerve occasionally, but I've done that myself. I don't care about his past anymore. He contributes to the dialog here.

I've wondered a few times as to what names may be behind the pen name. I haven't a problem with it as long as someone's not using it for deception or an "alter ego" having their real selves co-existing in the forum with their real names. It adds a bit of intrigue which may actually motivate that person to step out of perhaps there ordinary personification. People do it for a reason obviously--some may be good reasons, others perhaps not, but "privacy" is a right I suppose.

I use a pen name "steady-eddie" but always include my real name--"my choice." I just do it for the fun of it as songwriting is just one facet of my life. The nick name "steady-eddie" was given first to me by my golfing buddies years ago, don't play much golf anymore and decided to use the nick name for my songwriting. "ED" just sound too much like that hyena from "Lion King." There aren't a lot of "ED's" anymore, but everyone knows a couple I suppose. My first name is actually "Carl," but only use that for legal signatures.

Happy Holiday all,

steady-eddie.

Wow....you mean I could sign up with an alter-ego and have a nice chat with myself and tell myself how great my songs are? Cool!

Colin,

Caught! Perpetrator always is first to comment or arrive at the scene in question.

I am not Bugsey! I think maybe Eddie was the first to mention an alter-ego.....

Well,

As one "nite" to another, I really have no idea.

Mine has always been there from being a night owl, and if I used my regular boring name on the Internet , the search engines would never find me, let alone anyone else.

cheers, niteshift

is an alter-ego, a breakfast alternative to ego pancakes?

I thank Alt Ego is a new music genre - #243.

"You thank?"

Well I thank you might be right. It can be confusing however with alt-id 406, which gets pretty deep.