What is your first name?

[Iconito]

Scorecard:

mahler10th = John

Sforzando = Poco

Wendell_E = Karl

erato = Odd

Gustav = Walter

knight = Mike

Jezetha = Johannes/Johan to his friends

(This list does not include the obvious or the humorous)

How about the obviously humorous? 

[маразм1]

It's in a lot of Schosty's music. 

[Opus106]

I wonder why many members on this board have the habit of typing others' names in bold. I always imagine them responding/asking a question normally, and then, when the say the name, their eyes pop up and they have this big smile on their face.

Why do they do it, Dave? (Well, not that scary. )

[Gurn Blanston]

I wonder why many members on this board have the habit of typing others' names in bold. I always imagine them responding/asking a question normally, and then, when the say the name, their eyes pop up and they have this big smile on their face.

Why do they do it, Dave? (Well, not that scary. )

Well, opus67, it is because that fashion pacesetter, always on the cutting edge Karl Henning started doing it years ago, and since then it just slowly spread, much like Schubert's Disease...

[PSmith08]

I think it's been used here several times, so it's probably safe to say that my first name bears some resemblance to the fellow whose feast day we celebrate by wearing green and getting positively hammered.

[Sergeant Rock]

It's Odd.

Great name...Abbott and Costello would have a field day 

It's Odd.

What's odd?

I am.

Yes, I know you're odd, but...

[Joe_Campbell]

Joe

[Sergeant Rock]

Sergeant to my subordinates, but my friends can call me Sarge.

Sarge

[Don]

Greta, George and I would like to keep our first names confidential for reasons of Internet privacy, if you don't mind.

If you also keep your forum names confidential, your privacy will be further enhanced.

[mahler10th]

Scorecard:

mahler10th = John

Sforzando = Poco

Wendell_E = Karl

erato = Odd

Gustav = Walter

knight = Mike

Jezetha = Johannes/Johan to his friends

(This list does not include the obvious or the humorous)

Thank God this was posted.  I need to print it so I can see who is who with all these first name terms going on, so I don't have to trawl through this post to see who Bruce, Dave or Mike is talking to when they say something like:  "Yes John, I agree, Mahler did write a good 10th."

[mn dave]

I wonder why many members on this board have the habit of typing others' names in bold. I always imagine them responding/asking a question normally, and then, when the say the name, their eyes pop up and they have this big smile on their face.

Why do they do it, Dave? (Well, not that scary. )

Karl H. started it. Ask him. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Karl H. started it. Ask him. 

Don't you mean, Karl H. started it. Ask him.

Sarge

[mn dave]

Don't you mean, Karl H. started it. Ask him.

Sarge

Indeed.

[Brian]

Don't you mean, Karl H. started it. Ask him.

Sarge

Who's "him"? 

[George]

Who's "him"? 

That's Karl Hedy! 

BTW I think the reason for the bold is so if one is scanning the text, the name pops out.

That Karl is fashionable and practical. He's our Eddie Bauer. 

[mn dave]

Scorecard (updated):

mahler10th = John

Sforzando = Poco

Wendell_E = Karl

erato = Odd

Gustav = Walter

knight = Mike

Jezetha = Johannes/Johan to his friends

PSmith08 = Patrick

JCampbell = Joe

Marzipan = Dmitri???

(This list does not include the obvious or the humorous)

[DavidRoss]

I think it's been used here several times, so it's probably safe to say that my first name bears some resemblance to the fellow whose feast day we celebrate by wearing green and getting positively hammered.

You mean this guy?

[M forever]

Call me M.

[springrite]

We really should be asking for "given names" instead of "first names". In many countries, such as most of Asia and many of the Eastern European countries, the last name is the given name, while the first name is the family name.

My given name is "pu", which means uncut jade -- a piece of stone that looks common until you cut it open and see the inside. My English given name is Paul, simply because it is phonetically closer to "pu".

[Kullervo]

They call me Mister — oh, it's Corey.