Talk:Mr. C

Disambiguation

should this be a disambigous page rather than a page? or maybe even wiktionary if it is found that the articles cannot be expanded.

Personally, I'd like to see them expanded, but I don't know if this is possible.

-amyanda2000

I've redirected this page to Mr. C (DJ). He is a leading figure in the British dance music scene and a member of the very successful band The Shamen, and has approximately 10 incoming links from article space (I've not got an exact count yet as I haven't finished link disambiguation). Mr. C (TV character) has one incoming link only, from the TV show itself (The Letter People). For now, I've let Mister C redirect to the TV show character.

However, on closer inspection I wonder if the Mr C TV show character should really have a page at all. Seems he's just one of a string of similarly named characters from the show. He's not special in any way, hence the sole incoming link. I will propose a merge for all the characters. --kingboyk 18:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

I'll just check there are no double redirects and leave it for now. I should be an admin within a couple of days at which time I can reverse move Mr. C (DJ) into here. --kingboyk 19:58, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Done. --kingboyk 19:12, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Mr Cunt!

Might be useful when this page comes to be written:

Mr. C, he of The End nightclub, End Recordings, the Shamen fame, and pioneering dance music individual, has a few different stories about what the “C” in his moniker stands for, particularly since his given name is Richard West.

“The truth is the most boring one, would you like to hear that first or last?” he asks patiently. 15 years in the business of music, and this question has become tired and old, but he is still a good sport about it. “The most shocking one is cunt. It’s what I tell glossy magazines. It’s an affectionate term for my friends because I’m a piss-taker and I like to wind people up. It’s often been met with the response of, ‘Ah, you cunt, leave me alone.’ A story I like to give to more religious people would be c as in the constant measure of the speed of light, and with c equaling light, that would make me the prince of light who has vanished into darkness—which is a always a fun one. And the real reason is when I was a kid, I used a CB Radio and it was totally illegal, you have to have a handle. I called myself Chelsea Boy because I was a Chelsea supporter. As a kid you do those things. As I got to 16 and I started to rap, I became an MC and I really needed a name as an MC. My name is not a ‘rap name,’ ‘I’m Richard West/and I rock the best,’ doesn’t really work. I was Chelsea Boy, I’ll shorten it to ‘C.’ It’s a very rap-sounding name, rhymes with lots of things, it’s easy to fit lyrics, so Mr. C was born, the coming of age of a rapper.” [1]

We can't use all of it course, but I'm pasting it here in case the website/article should go down. --kingboyk 16:14, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Genres

Should Tech House be in the genres since he is a "leading proponent" of it? Panserbjorne51 (talk) 07:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Page name

Do we feel this page should be "Mr C (DJ)", "Mr. C (DJ)", or something else?

My understanding is that "Mr. C" is technically/linguistically correct, but "Mr C" is the normal form in this case? --kingboyk 17:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

The End website calls him Mr C, but on the Change album he's billed as Mr. C. Sigh. I'm sure Mr C is his usual form but I think we'll have to just leave it here. --kingboyk 19:24, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed! Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 08:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Brilliant writing!

"Superfreq took a summer off last year in protest at the way the authorities we treating the good people that were bringing the commerce to the island"

What a brilliant sentence. You whoever you are are genious. I will fix the typo right after writing this (we -> were). — big_fan

Year of Birth?

First line states 1964 and infobox says 1968. '64 would make him closer to the ages of the rest of The Shamen (born 1961 - 1964) but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. Silas Maxfield (talk) 09:06, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Radio?

Mr. C had a show on KISS FM in the late 90s and was involved, I believe, in some of the pirate stations around London from the late 80s to mid?-90s. I don't have the information on these shows. In fact., I stopped by to see if there was some! I'd suggest a section on his work as a Radio DJ... Possum61 (talk) 05:50, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Straight or gay?

Is he straight or gay? married or not? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.113.98.137 (talk) 18:48, 20 October 2016 (UTC)

Married. Ceoil (talk)

Mr. C (Happy Days) hatnote

The hatnote should stay. There are plenty of major newspapers refer to Tom Bosley's character as Mr. C:

• https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=50500033&itype=CMSID
• http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-tom-bosley-mr-c-of-tvs-happy-days-dies-at-83-com-172817
• https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/10/19/tom-bosley-star-of-stage-and-mr-c-of-happy-days-dies-at-83/
• https://www.metv.com/stories/tom-bosleys-real-wife-played-his-bowling-buddy-on-happy-days
• https://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2010/10/20/Obituary-Tom-Bosley-Tony-winning-actor-played-Mr-C-on-TV-s-Happy-Days/stories/201010200129
• https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304510704575562360261973030
• https://www.eonline.com/news/206389/tom-bosley-happy-days-dad-dead-at-83
• https://www.npr.org/2010/10/19/130674925/rip-tom-bosley-one-of-tvs-great-dads
• https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/arts/television/20bosley.html
• https://www.courant.com/sdut-tom-bosley-mr-c-on-happy-days-dies-at-83-2010oct19-story.html
• https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/tom-bosley-father-figure-happy-days-cast-including-ron-howard-henry-winkler-don-article-1.190635
• https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/happy-days-beloved-dad-tom-bosley-dead-at-83/

I don't see why it is "unlikely". AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 22:29, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I'll agree that The Letter People character mentioned in the previous thread in 2006 is not notable enough for a hatnote, but the Happy Days character is much more notable as a television sitcom dad. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 22:40, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

I've replaced the hatnote with an {{other uses}} instead since there are even more Mr. C's out there, enough for disambiguation. AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 23:01, 14 February 2021 (UTC)