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why mcmuffin, why?
Well mystery bug is getting a lot more interesting. I've been up a couple of hours and have spent far too much time in the bog. I reckon I've got a bit longer before the fatigue hits again, so I have decided to answer those queries I usually get when posting on other blogs, as to whether McMuffin is our real name.
Of course it isn't! Mr McMuffin has a proper Scottish surname, not one of those pseudo Scot names so beloved of the Aussies and the North Americans. We decided to go anonymous after feeling a bit uneasy about the excellence of google searches, and my paranoia that a disgruntled client might track me down (it's happened to colleauges).
McMuffin was an easy choice as Mr McMuffin's brother organised our wedding, and kept calling it 'The McMuffin Wedding,' to our mutual amusement. He also calls us Ian and Myra due to a dodgy photo he saw, so you can see why McMuffin was preferable.
I haven't taken Mr McMuffin's surname as I have a perfectly good one of my own. We sometimes double barrel as we like the enormousness of the name, but hardly ever use it. I never call myself 'Mrs' in real life, so it seemed a sweet idea to do it online. We also thought it gave the right sort of formica/gingham/tupperware impression that we craved! I also think it makes me sound very 'respectable' and less likely to attract the attentions of online nutters...and that's how the McMuffins were born.
mr mcmuffin on 31 Mar 2004 @ 12:04 PM ✲ Permalink
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So all is revealed. (I almost didn't read on after the "too much information" of the first sentence. It is, after all, lunch time! :-S
Posted by: steve | 31 Mar 2004 12:39:10
I know, but let's face it, if I can write about Vagisil and Tena lady, then bog loving bugs should be a piece of cake.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 31 Mar 2004 12:43:18
I so love McCmuffin, it does have a distinct 1950,s cuteness about it.
And what exactly do you mean by 'not one of those pseudo Scot names so beloved of the Aussies and the North Americans'? Hmmm. lol.
Would you be referring to the horrid bastardization they did with my Mom's family name?
From MacLachlan to Claflin. Horrid I know.
Posted by: jo | 31 Mar 2004 14:41:42
I was referring to the tendency some people have to put a 'Mc' or 'Mac' in front of anything, eg Mc Crystal. Although I supppose this could be ok if you were a Scottish child of Billy Crystal.
Anyway, who am I to judge. We're not even sure if my great grandmother put an extra 'e' in my surname! I certainly shan't judge your ancestors for (presumably) trying to make things easier.
Some people of Welsh heritage have been trying to return their surnames to what they think is the origional Welsh eg Jenkins=Sienkins. This is a bit silly as Jenkins was a surname picked up from the Dutch (magpies those Welsh) so was never Welsh anyway!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 31 Mar 2004 16:32:25
Oh dear "Claflin". Now that really does sound as if its a pharmaceutical treatment for Mr MacMuffin's mystery bog bug. Mmmm "bog bug". Do you think the 'Bog Bug' is related to the Bog Man?
And while we are on mystery bugs, apparently I have 'pityriasis rosea', according to the man in the white coat. The 'pity' bit sounds as if its sympathetically giving flowers to the 'rosea' bit....
In reality its an unslighty but not too troublesome rash/bloom on arms and trunk caused by a virus. Or 'Scabby' as a certain unnamed person who claims some sort of attachment to me says. Hmmm.
Posted by: single cookie | 31 Mar 2004 16:38:14
...and he might very well be right! You poor old sausage, but tell us, how unsightly is it? As nasty as those coldsores I used to get when I was younger (still get them, but NEVER as big as then)? I am being a bit morbidly curious today.
I was thinking of you, as I've got to go to some bloody stupid party in your neck of the woods on Sat, and lo and behold you turn up like the prodigal Cookie.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 31 Mar 2004 17:03:22
Yuk! I've just googled it, and trust you to get a skin condition that 'mostly affects teenagers and younger adults'. Stinky showoff!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 31 Mar 2004 17:05:35
Actually, I thought of your names as giving you a "Nick and Nora" 1950's/Fred and Ginger ambiance. Well done! Cheerio!
Posted by: Loretta | 31 Mar 2004 17:40:16
I think the whole name/design/approach thing is spot on, in that it gave me precisely the desired effect, it seems. The contrast with the picture of the 'Hole' album, once the first-time visitor scrolls down a little, is slightly bewildering, though, yet very intriguing!
'Who are the people in the photo (top right)?' is what I want to ask. At first I presumed they were your good selves, all dressed up fancy, but on second thoughts that wouldn't make sense, given the anonymous cake names...
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 31 Mar 2004 22:13:39
The people in the photo are in fact us. Well, not really, but we could look that good if we wanted to. Although, Mrs McMuffin may need to work a little harder than me to achieve the desired effect! I took the couple from a 1950s advert for soap or something like that. I thought they looked suitably wholesome with a touch of glamour. The photo of the house on our 'about us' page really is where we live though.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 31 Mar 2004 22:21:22
Re: 'your' house. Oh really, Mr McMunster? What a quaint design 'your' ever so typically English dwelling has!
Put up another photo of it, in colour, and with today's newspaper (with its date showing) firmly in view, and I might believe you! :-)
Posted by: David (TEFL Smiler) | 31 Mar 2004 22:32:37
It was changed from MacTavish. My family thought it made the family sound sharper.
What's in a name anyway? Look at Courtney Love? Could there be anything more ironic? Or the neighborhood in SF where the summer of love began, Hate (ok, its Haight) Ashbury.
A rose by any other name still smell's as sweet, as that compendium of old blokes we know as Shakespeare once wrote. Oh, your turd smells beautiful (T'wood if t'were a rose, my dear.)
Que' lastima! The MacChete' is rambling...
Posted by: MacChete' | 1 Apr 2004 19:22:02
Machete' you are bonkers (in a good way) and you're also of Scottish heritage. Bad luck!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 1 Apr 2004 19:29:05
