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> > > Fuck that.
> > > I don't even use my real name.
> >
> > No, but your real name is 'Mike Cunningham' and we wouldn't want to confuse
> > people, would we now?
>
> No, we wouldn't..
> I do sometimes feel, however, that when the newsgroup was formed and it
> emerged that there were no less than sixteen of us called "Mike Cunningham"
> who would have to change our names in order not to confuse the innocent, I
> drew the short straw. What the fuck sort of name is "Joe Horowitz" anyway?
> Is that Portuguese or something?

Look, we both know that the really short draw was 'Stephen Colligan' and
Mike Cunningham got that one.

I agree, you could've done better, but you could just as easily have done a
lot worse, Joe, a _lot_ worse.

> I wanted to be called "Vicky Conlan" or "Ben Nunn", or something else cool
> like that. But no. "You have to be Joe Horowitz," you all said., "on account
> of your high archive potential". Bastards. Ffs, it was me who thought up the
> name "Vicky Conlan" in the first place, and to see it going to that twat
> Mike Cunningham instead of me, well, it'd be an understatement to say I was
> disappointed.

To be fair to him though, Mike went to the effort of living up to his new
identity.

*the Modest, but not uncomely, breast implants.
*the Traditional 'Merseyside Slapper' wardrobe.
*the Hysterical screeching voice.
*a Timeless womanly sensuality
*baking skills.

When you put it all together, he's made a better fist of the Conlan role
than you ever would've.

BTN