noms-de-Plum

[ffoulkes]

is there a list anywhere of the Wodehousian aliases on this newsgroup?

[Ian Michaud, TWS]

Post by ffoulkes
is there a list anywhere of the Wodehousian aliases on this newsgroup?

Not really, although I suppose you could go into the google archives and
do a search for noms list from four or five years ago. Or you might
even have to go back farther than that.

Young Bonzo Travers was the Keeper of the Noms in the Olden Days and
published an updated list every month but when he retired nobody else
stepped forward to take on the job. As a result nowadays it's more or
less Liberty Hall.

The Mixer

[Ken Miner]

Post by Ian Michaud, TWS

Post by ffoulkes
is there a list anywhere of the Wodehousian aliases on this newsgroup?

Not really, although I suppose you could go into the google archives and
do a search for noms list from four or five years ago. Or you might even
have to go back farther than that.
Young Bonzo Travers was the Keeper of the Noms in the Olden Days and
published an updated list every month but when he retired nobody else
stepped forward to take on the job. As a result nowadays it's more or
less Liberty Hall.
The Mixer

Aha, I had been wondering about that myself. The good ones were all taken,
but at one time I was determined to take on a nom, even if I had to be a
second footman, or even somebody's dog. Then the updates ceased to appear,
so I gave it up.

Ken

[Ann Avery Hunter]

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Post by Ann Avery Hunter

Post by Ian Michaud, TWS
Young Bonzo Travers was the Keeper of the Noms in the Olden Days and
published an updated list every month but when he retired nobody else
stepped forward to take on the job. As a result nowadays it's more or
less Liberty Hall.
The Mixer

The Cat Augustus here. I happen to have a copy of the December 2002 list,
Abbott, Bart., Sir Buckstone-David Wonnell
Adair, J. Sheringham-Oystein Johnsen

etc...

Post by Ann Avery Hunter
Wooster, Green Swizzle-John Coo
Worplesdon, Lord Percy-Alex Foan
Wotwotleigh, Lord - Randy Cartwright
Yaxley, Lord-David Duffey

I, too, have wondered, and thought that mine was sufficiently obscure
to have not been taken. Never could have imagined that much activity
here! However, I do see a "Rocky Rockmettler" on the list... I've been
meaning to look into some of Freddie's co-worker's histories, but
haven't got around to it. Could it be that Rocky is my doppelganger?

Is there any interest in maintaining the list? I recognize many of the
noms, but how many have left the fold? New list, perhaps?

[Ian Michaud, TWS]

I, too, have wondered, and thought that mine was sufficiently obscure to
have not been taken. Never could have imagined that much activity here!
However, I do see a "Rocky Rockmettler" on the list... I've been meaning
to look into some of Freddie's co-worker's histories, but haven't got
around to it. Could it be that Rocky is my doppelganger?

Well there is a Long Island poet called Rockmetteller "Rocky" Todd in
the Bertie Wooster short story "The Aunt and the Sluggard". He isn't
known for his high work-rate though, so I wouldn't think Rocky could be
the doppelganger of a gung-ho dog biscuit salesman.

The Mixer

[s***@gmail.com]

On Oct 3, 2:17 am, Bream Rockmetteller

Post by unknown

Post by Ann Avery Hunter

Post by Ian Michaud, TWS
Young Bonzo Travers was the Keeper of the Noms in the Olden Days and
published an updated list every month but when he retired nobody else
stepped forward to take on the job. As a result nowadays it's more or
less Liberty Hall.
The Mixer

The Cat Augustus here. I happen to have a copy of the December 2002 list,
Abbott, Bart., Sir Buckstone-David Wonnell
Adair, J. Sheringham-Oystein Johnsen

etc...

Post by Ann Avery Hunter
Wooster, Green Swizzle-John Coo
Worplesdon, Lord Percy-Alex Foan
Wotwotleigh, Lord - Randy Cartwright
Yaxley, Lord-David Duffey

I, too, have wondered, and thought that mine was sufficiently obscure
to have not been taken. Never could have imagined that much activity
here! However, I do see a "Rocky Rockmettler" on the list... I've been
meaning to look into some of Freddie's co-worker's histories, but
haven't got around to it. Could it be that Rocky is my doppelganger?
Is there any interest in maintaining the list? I recognize many of the
noms, but how many have left the fold? New list, perhaps?
--
Bream Rockmetteller
Donaldson's Dog Joy
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Let me add mine lest ot be thrown in the dustbin of history.
' Swordfish'--a.k.a. Sudheer Tambe

[Frank R.A.J. Maloney]

Post by s***@gmail.com
On Oct 3, 2:17 am, Bream Rockmetteller

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Post by s***@gmail.com

Post by unknown
Is there any interest in maintaining the list? I recognize many of the
noms, but how many have left the fold? New list, perhaps?
--
Bream Rockmetteller
Donaldson's Dog Joy
509-450-0301- Hide quoted text -
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Let me add mine lest ot be thrown in the dustbin of history.
' Swordfish'--a.k.a. Sudheer Tambe

It occurs to your humble prestidigitateur that since the old system of
registering one-off noms has gone the way of Aunt Dahlia's girlish
complexion it is pretty much Liberty Hall in a.f.w.

[unknown]

Post by s***@gmail.com
On Oct 3, 2:17 am, Bream Rockmetteller

Post by unknown

Post by Ann Avery Hunter

Post by Ian Michaud, TWS
Young Bonzo Travers was the Keeper of the Noms in the Olden Days and
published an updated list every month but when he retired nobody else
stepped forward to take on the job. As a result nowadays it's more or
less Liberty Hall.
The Mixer

The Cat Augustus here. I happen to have a copy of the December 2002 list,
Abbott, Bart., Sir Buckstone-David Wonnell
Adair, J. Sheringham-Oystein Johnsen

etc...

Post by Ann Avery Hunter
Wooster, Green Swizzle-John Coo
Worplesdon, Lord Percy-Alex Foan
Wotwotleigh, Lord - Randy Cartwright
Yaxley, Lord-David Duffey

I, too, have wondered, and thought that mine was sufficiently obscure
to have not been taken. Never could have imagined that much activity
here! However, I do see a "Rocky Rockmettler" on the list... I've been
meaning to look into some of Freddie's co-worker's histories, but
haven't got around to it. Could it be that Rocky is my doppelganger?
Is there any interest in maintaining the list? I recognize many of the
noms, but how many have left the fold? New list, perhaps?
--
Bream Rockmetteller
Donaldson's Dog Joy
509-450-0301- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -

Let me add mine lest ot be thrown in the dustbin of history.
' Swordfish'--a.k.a. Sudheer Tambe

I have to say that I laugh out loud whenever I think that someone would
have "always wanted a butler named Swordfish." Plum is a true genius.

[b***@gmail.com]

Post by ffoulkes
is there a list anywhere of the Wodehousian aliases on this newsgroup?

I haven't posted to this group in more
years than I care to think about, but
it's a rum thing (albeit gratifying,
if that's the word I want) to see my
nom Eustace, Claude N., still on the
list.

I think I'll post my parody again. Hell,
it's been fifteen years or so.

-- Bill Cleere

[Corky Haddock]

I say! Same here- haven’t posted in this group since, oh, around 1998, give or take a decade. And there I am, with that rusty old surname that went the way of Bertie’s favorite checkered trousers. It’s heartening. And rummy at the same time.

This old group kept me afloat. I even made some in-person chums from among its ranks.

Bunging a nostalgic bread roll, (only a little bit stale)
Pip-pip and a yo-ho-ho,
Corky Haddock