kudzurunner
3362 posts
Jul 09, 2012
3:54 PM
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Membership in the MBH forum is a privilege, not a right. We make it easy to join, but your continued membership is contingent, among other things, on your willingness to be honest about who you are and how you can be contacted via email.
We require that you provide your real name--first and last--and a real email address when you register.
If we discover--or strongly suspect--at any point that you have failed to provide us with truthful information on those two counts, we reserve the right to immediately terminate your membership.
We consider people who fail to provide real first and last names and working email address to be trolls. Trolls are not permitted to be members.
Moderators are already on the lookout for spambot registrations. I'll urge them here to make a point of occasionally checking the registered names and emails of random members.
We don't ask for much, but we do ask for basic honesty at the moment you walk in the door here, with the understanding that we will keep your real name and email confidential, and we require that you maintain that honesty for the duration of your membership time here.
Last Edited by on Jul 09, 2012 3:55 PM
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Buzadero
988 posts
Jul 09, 2012
4:15 PM
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"We don't ask for much, but we do ask for basic honesty at the moment you walk in the door here...... and we require that you maintain that honesty for the duration of your membership time here."
NOW, I'm uncomfortable.....
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~Buzadero
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ReedSqueal
303 posts
Jul 09, 2012
4:49 PM
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<--- Keepin' it real.
I have to, as I am anticipating on having to give my forum handle name when I attend the Gussow/Shellist deal in San Jose this September.
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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mandowhacker
173 posts
Jul 09, 2012
5:26 PM
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Not too much to ask at all.
On the Mandolin Cafe we almost all use our real names as our "usernames". However, that might get confusing around here. ;-)
There needs to be a way to control abuse of the forum, an ocassional rant from a member is quite different that frequent personal slams.
Adam doesn't ask for much.
Greg
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eharp
1873 posts
Jul 09, 2012
5:45 PM
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what about folks that go by a nickname since being a kid, like red?
or got tagged with initials like ej or junior?
or, maybe, they are in witness protection?
or was given a name like felony. (dont laugh. she was in the news a few years ago. for a crime, naturally. and her brother, also in the news, had something just as bad!)
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Buzadero
989 posts
Jul 09, 2012
6:26 PM
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"what about folks that go by a nickname since being a kid, like red?"
Or... a military call-sign. (no thanks) Like most nicknames, you don't get to pick it.....
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~Buzadero
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eharp
1876 posts
Jul 09, 2012
6:56 PM
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had a buddy that kept trying to pick out his own nickname all thru high school.
we started calling him anything that came to mind, sometimes something that really would be a cool nickname, but we would never repeat.
drove him crazy!
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GMaj7
48 posts
Jul 09, 2012
7:10 PM
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I just want to add that there are two (2) Greg Jones dudes on the forum..
As opposed to one (1) guy not using his real name.. There are two guys using the same.. ha.. we are separate folks, though...
Thx Mr. Adam for hosting this little neighborhood bar for us to tell and re-tell war stories..
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1623customharmonicas.com
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Rick Davis
494 posts
Jul 09, 2012
7:55 PM
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<----- you know who I am.
With my workout face on...
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-Rick Davis
Last Edited by on Jul 09, 2012 8:35 PM
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nacoran
5941 posts
Jul 09, 2012
9:01 PM
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Wow Rick, you look kind of grumpy in that second pic, kind of like the mean doctor on Scrubs, only with glasses!
It's funny, a few people have friended me on Facebook and I've had to try to figure out who they are on here. I might only have half as many friends in the world... some friends I have on here and Facebook might in fact be the same person!
One Christmas, or at least Christmas season, I decided that I was going to give one of my friends a nickname and not tell him what it meant. Looking in the fridge I saw some eggnog. That would have been too obvious. Instead I started calling him Nutmeg. It stuck! One of my friends let him in on the joke a few months later, but we still called him that until he moved out of the area.
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Rick Davis
497 posts
Jul 09, 2012
9:18 PM
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LOL Nate, ya I think that 2nd pic is pretty funny. Believe it of not, I enjoy working out.
I just wanted to give a face to the name, even if it is grumpy.
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-Rick Davis
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Hobostubs Ashlock
1859 posts
Jul 09, 2012
10:45 PM
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well ill be honest my real name is'nt Hobostubs its David I hope I havent breached any bouderies;-)
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isaacullah
2058 posts
Jul 09, 2012
11:17 PM
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Steamrollin Stan
477 posts
Jul 10, 2012
1:23 AM
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Just call me Brucie boy then.
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BronzeWailer
704 posts
Jul 10, 2012
1:52 AM
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G'day Brucie boy!
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arnenym
59 posts
Jul 10, 2012
2:16 AM
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I Have to let the bomb fall.
My first name is Göran and second name is Arne.
I'm not arnenymous anymore. It's scary...
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paulbunyn
25 posts
Jul 10, 2012
6:38 AM
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My name is really Paul! The Bunyan comes from being tall, a wood worker, and a 3/4 ton blue pickup.
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Rick Davis
500 posts
Jul 10, 2012
6:50 AM
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Paul, how tall? I am 6 feet 7 inches tall -- 2 meters for our metric friends.
(wow, my 500th post...)
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HarpNinja
2558 posts
Jul 10, 2012
9:29 AM
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I think the issue is more with registration than in posts. I've always felt that a large part of "trolling" on this forum came from the ability to go totally anonymous.
I don't mean you need to see people's pics and names in posts, but mods should have working contact info. I am sure there are people on this forum with more than one handle for not-so-positive reasons.
I understand why people don't want too much identifying info out there as a means of protection (I do it too), but it is helpful to all to have an idea where people are coming from and how to contact them if there are issues.
A lot of advice is shared here, but that doesn't make it good advice. Also, as someone who was targeted by a troll a while back, we don't all go asking for it.
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Mike
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laurent2015
314 posts
Jul 10, 2012
10:13 AM
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"I am 6 feet 7 inches tall -- 2 meters for our metric friends"
Don't you have problems for playing harp, because of oxygen's rarefaction in high altitude?
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oldwailer
1914 posts
Jul 10, 2012
1:03 PM
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I'm 6'7" too--I find it liberating--but I usually sit down to play harp--I don't know how you short guys stand it--blowing rocks into your shoes when you fart. . .
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lumpy wafflesquirt
596 posts
Jul 10, 2012
1:30 PM
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you may be surprised to learn that my name is not really Lumpy Wafflesquirt :^)
I think I put my real name somewhere on the original registration though.
Robin Shaw
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HawkeyeKane
1057 posts
Jul 10, 2012
1:52 PM
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As a number of you who've become facebook friends with me in the past year already know...Hawkeye is my nick/stage name.
My name is Timothy. I'm a man....and I can change....if I have to....I guess....
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Hawkeye Kane
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Jehosaphat
264 posts
Jul 10, 2012
2:39 PM
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Jeez two of us (at least) are 2 metres tall!
What would our average height be as a group?
(I'd lower it a bit ;-))
Real name is Rick,don't know how i came up with Jehosaphat..
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nacoran
5946 posts
Jul 10, 2012
2:45 PM
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Hawkeye, lol! I didn't know you were a member of the Possum Lodge!
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dougharps
218 posts
Jul 10, 2012
2:46 PM
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The introductions are great, but I think that the OP is referring to honesty when you join the group, so that the forum has your real name. It is not necessary that every one who reads the forum (which can be read by non members) know your name.
Hi, I'm Doug, and I am addicted to playing harmonica.
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laurent2015
317 posts
Jul 10, 2012
3:02 PM
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"I don't know how you short guys stand it--blowing rocks into your shoes when you fart". . .
Cause it's funnier standing up than sitting down when it happens?
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eharp
1878 posts
Jul 10, 2012
3:11 PM
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hi, doug.
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isaacullah
2062 posts
Jul 10, 2012
4:00 PM
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@Doug: That's too funny! I always read your username as "dough" "harps"! I figured you had a day job as a baker or something! Lol! :) My mild dyslexia gets me again!
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laurent2015
318 posts
Jul 10, 2012
4:21 PM
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Rick Davis
501 posts
Jul 10, 2012
4:56 PM
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"Don't you have problems for playing harp, because of oxygen's rarefaction in high altitude?"
Nope, but when I play stages with low ceilings it sure seems like I get hotter and sweat more than the other guys in the band. It is really hot near the ceiling.
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HawkeyeKane
1062 posts
Jul 10, 2012
6:30 PM
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@ Nate
Lifelong member man, lifelong! Keep your stick on the ice!
Quando omni flunkus, moritati!
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Hawkeye Kane
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nacoran
5950 posts
Jul 10, 2012
6:38 PM
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Yeah, as a clarification, we ask that you register with your real name and a real email address (try to keep it current too. If you change your email address update it (the private one, you don't have to make your email public). It helps keep out the trolls and helps us sort out any issues that come up. You won't get spam from us, and we won't be singing you up as organ donors. You don't have to post your real name for everyone to see, although you are certainly welcome to do so, but we want everyone to update it so it's there. It helps keep people from sockpuppeting and lets us contact you if there is a full moon related problem.
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Buzadero
990 posts
Jul 10, 2012
7:13 PM
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Nate, you are the most diplomatic dude I've encountered on the Webs. I've told Gussow to double your pay.
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~Buzadero
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kudzurunner
3366 posts
Jul 10, 2012
7:33 PM
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I agree. He's a born diplomat. Smart crazy guys like me keep sane guys like him around.
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12gagedan
226 posts
Jul 10, 2012
10:03 PM
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6'6", and one half. I suppose they'll start calling me "shorty".
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BronzeWailer
712 posts
Jul 11, 2012
12:58 AM
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Wouldn't it be funny if a mad dictator made us change our names to our usernames? T'would be interesting to be a mail delivery person...
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laurent2015
319 posts
Jul 11, 2012
1:52 AM
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"Nope, but when I play stages with low ceilings it sure seems like I get hotter and sweat more than the other guys in the band. It is really hot near the ceiling"
I hadn't thought of that!!!
I now have some pity for very little guys who play harmonica: they likely blow and draw the floor's dust!
Last Edited by on Jul 11, 2012 5:25 AM
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Johnny Charles
26 posts
Jul 11, 2012
9:05 PM
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Charles is my middle name
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KingoBad
1142 posts
Jul 11, 2012
10:59 PM
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I'm only 6'3", but that means I can help you 6'7" guys home from the bar...
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