Mon Nom de plume

[topogigo]

Does anyone out there know who or what my name Topogigo is about?
I do by the way

[dundurn]

Topo Gigio is a little Italian mouse

[Kim A]

Didn't he used to be a little cartoon Italian mouse in the 1960's?

[jno]

Topo Gigio was a puppet mouse. topogigo I don't know - perhaps he's really typogigo?

[Kim A]

Now that's funny!

[mikeymike99]

Interestingly, the phrase 'nom de plume' is usually forbidden by most style guides as it's not a French phrase at all (the recommended alternative is the genuinely French 'nom de guerre').

[topogigo]

What the hell has what i say got to do with a"Style guide"?
And, i was asking about Topogigo, not Topogigio.

[xmanfe1999]

Hi! Maybe the question you asked has no point at all, given the fact you seem to know the answer... Is that a kind of test, "un rite de passage"? By the way, I'm French and "un nom de plume" is a French phrase (a pseudonym for a writer) while " un nom de guerre" would rather be a name someone takes to act secretly in serious circumstances like the "resistance" during ww2 or in totally futile plots like clandestine love affairs... or on the net!

[Kingaroo]

I'm pretty sure topo is the italian for mouse, hence the little puppet guy in the striped shirt on the Ed Sullivan show (Geeve me a kees, Edddeeeeee), who only appeared sporadically, but for whom I waited and watched all the way through, every week, no matter how many dumb grown-up singers and incomprehensible comedians I had to endure.

I assume Gigio is a nickname like Joey or Johnny. I hadn't caught the different spelling of Our Correspondent's name (Gigo not Gigio), and have no guesses on that part. Is the monicker perhaps an acronym? Programmers use the shorthand GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out.