Why Me Name What Me Name
Campfyah wrote an interesting question on her blog recently… what is the reason why people choose the names they do for their blogs? Unfortunately she didn’t really give the reason why she chose Campfyah for her name, but in an effort to encourage her to do so, I am going to post the source of the name “The Mad Bull’s Blog” here… I had done so previously on my old blog, but as it was just a part of a post, I decided to post it again, in an entry all its own!
So, y’all have a theme song? I have a theme song… at least, I have a theme song for my blog! Its the song I took my name (Mad Bull) from, ““Charge” by Machel Montano and the Xstatik Band! I just love that song! It was from back in 1998, and Shaggy provided some of the songs vocals and appeared in the video. That year, Machel produced the Road March winner, “Footsteps”, but I preferred “Charge” still… Oonoo remember it? It started out with a little spanish melody and the lyrics at the beginning went something like this:
Come join the mad bull fever
Come join the mad bull fever!
Come join the mad bull fever!!
C H A R G E !!!
Toro, Toro!
C H A R G E !!!
I can still remember charging around the place and bouncing up into people, and when it was people you didn’t like, you just bounced them down complete… bwoy, I had a lot of fun with that song at plenty, plenty fetes! What does it have to do with my name though? Well, you know how it is? Sometimes you want an email address to use which nobody will link to you…
Maybe you want to tell your boss about his RASS (Jamaican badword). We all want to do that from time to time, nuh true?
Maybe you just want to write a love letter to someone via email, but you don’t want your name on the email (maybe you’re in another relationship).
Maybe you have a friend who has really bad body odor, and you know he needs to be told about it, but you don’t want him to know who is telling him. Have you ever been in a situation like this? You feelin’ me or wha?
Whatever the reason, sometimes we all want an anonymous email address, right.
At the time, Machel’s song was tearing up the place, and so thats the name I used for my email address.
When I was putting up this blog, Natty told me she would be uncomfortable with me posting up her name and information about her on the web, so once again, anonymity was desirable. They say the new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows all the corners, so rather than come up with a new anonymous name, I drew for my old email address name… I know y’all wondered how I came up with the name… There you have it. From Mad Bull Fever to The Mad Bull’s Blog!
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That song used to have people going real crazy.I think they charged through a fence at some Trini show during the carnival.
Cool for 2 reasons: 1. Because I think I’m one of the coolest persons alive 2. I’ll explain with Destiny
Destiny: I believe in destiny and hope for mine to be “cool”. Very simplistic, no musically inspired as yours but … ok I think.
That’s a good tune - I still go crazy when I hear it playing.
I just thought that Mad Bull was the chosen name cause it portrayed how you were behind closed doors (ie the bedroom! )
Dah song deh did crazy still, mad!
Using aliases is useful when you want to say what’s on your mind without people a malice yuh off.
Mine’s simple… fyrfli is a bastardization of firefly… which is a creature to which I have many … *ahem* ties to… The firefly brings heatless illumination to it’s surroundings and I’ve been known to help people see what they may not have seen on their own.
On the flipside, I was once associated with someone whose nick was Ice due to his immovable temperament. Due to my OWN fiery temperament, “Fyre” was borne out of firefly.
So… Fyr it is.
Story come to light.
Hi Mad Bull-Ditto Yamfoot-LOL
bredren is you send me all dem rass anonymous emails ?lol
yea toro toro was the tune boy, even nowadays at fetes you still see how that brings about craziness. would have never thought thats where you got the name though bredren. me a little suprised a yardie a pick a name from a trini calypso cause most of the jamaicans i know just doan deal wid calypso at all.