Freddie’s Naturalization Papers Found

runner_70 wrote:

Thes Sebastian guy wants to look clever by calling Freddie Frederick

It's got nothing to do with looking clever or not. I just choose to call him by his name, rather than the shortened form of his name.

runner_70 wrote:

when NOBODY called him that not even his mother.

Not having ever witnessed a moment between Frederick and his mother, I've no idea. But then again, I'm sure at least a few people called him 'Frederick' at least once, namely whoever typed the Trident contract, the Neptune contract, the Trident severance, his naturalisation papers, his death certificate and Frederick himself.

runner_70 wrote:

He is just an attention whore.

No, I'm not just that. I mean, of course I'm an attention whore, proud of it, but I'm also other things. For instance, I'm bald :)

runner_70 wrote:

Did it ever come to your small mind that a person has a nickname because he likes it??

Of course, but, again, I'm not choosing to call them 'Frederick' or 'Robert' or 'James' based on what they like, but based on what I like.

runner_70 wrote:

Or is it too much for your non existing intelligence?

If it were, then why bother writing this to me, if I wouldn't be able to understand it?

runner_70 wrote:

DO you call your friends (if you have any) also by their "official" name you idiot?

I do.

oligneisti wrote:

He has a preference. You don't have to like it but you can also just ignore it.

Exactly!

oligneisti wrote:

I would never call Freddie Frederick but Sebastian has never tried to coerce me to use that name.

Unlike some people who have tried to coerce me to use 'Freddie' instead of 'Frederick'.

Farrokh is what his mum called him, Freddie was just a name he used as a persona,

I just lurk here most of the time, and Seb’s knowledge is one of the reasons why.

But his argument in the Frederick/Freddie argument ceases to hold water when you take a proper look at his signature, and the composer, or not, of Innuendo.

In his message to the fan club in 1991, Freddie ends the recording by saying “This is Frederick Mercury signing off, bye, bye”

NickiP wrote:

But his argument in the Frederick/Freddie argument ceases to hold water when you take a proper look at his signature

A signature has nothing to do with one's official name. He could've chosen to initialise everything and, in that hypothetical case, that wouldn't mean his name was 'F'.

NickiP wrote:

and the composer, or not, of Innuendo.

What's the connexion?

The connection is that you describe Roger as Rog...

True. If I remember correctly, there's a character limit, so I had to shorten that one and others.

If people can say 'Freddie and Roger' (and they can - there's absolutely nothing wrong with that), then 'Frederick and Rog' is also valid (or 'Rog and Frederick', which I'd personally prefer in that case).

Same for Zeppelin: 'Jimmy and Robert' is valid, so is 'James and Bobby'.

Can't believe people get wound up because somebody on a forum calls Freddie... Frederick. Like... how great can your life be if that's a problem that is causing you so much stress?

Yep pathetic nitpicking Queen fans they are the worst.

This reminds me of the confusion i create when referring to Jimmy Osterberg and Mickey Morganfield.

Supersonic_Man89 wrote:

Can't believe people get wound up because somebody on a forum calls Freddie... Frederick.

Well... people have killed each other for centuries over who's got the best imaginary skydaddy.

At least Frederick existed at some point...