Friday, July 20, 2012

What's in a name?

This morning as I was walking Augie I started thinking about nick names.  Not like Katie for Katherine or Billy for William.  Yes, they're nicknames but I'm talking about the ones that don't resemble the "real" name, like Buzz.  You know that's not on his birth certificate.

My pal, Tomas the Magnificent, (that's not really a nick name because Tomas is Thomas in Spanish and besides, he gave it to himself so that doesn't count) stopped me on my walk this morning and said that Buzzy was looking for me; he wants to talk about my blog.  The old people from the Class of  '62 are having their 50th reunion this weekend and Buzz is a classmate that has lived away for many years and came home to hang with the AARP/Medicare crowd.

Anyway, that's what led me to the topic of nicknames.  That was probably a longer explanation than you needed, right?

I started to rattle off the nicknames of people that I personally know:  Skip, Chip, Thumper, Biff, Bink and, of course, Buzz.  Some of these guys I don't even know their real names.

And speaking of guys; I thought it was a guy thing at first.  Then I remembered the girl that lived down the street from us when I was a kid - Winky.  And then I remembered another woman here in town - Chick.    Oh, yeah, the lady that lived up the hill - Spot - who happens to be Bink's mother. No clue to their real names either.

Now, I'm sure you're wondering if I have a nickname.  I have a few but the one I like the best is . . . .
wait for it, wait for it . . . . EB BEAUTIFUL.  It doesn't really count, though, because it's my initials and I gave it to myself.  Well, what was I going to do? - no one gave me a coolio nickname so I had to give it to myself.  Just like that Spanish dude, Tomas the Magnificent did.

It's your turn now.  Whatcha got?

9 comments:

  1. I am hurt that I was not mentioned!!! Afterall, if you don't know my maiden name you have no idea where Dilly came from!! LOL Love you anyway....Dilly.....Sandy Schafer.

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    1. Dill - it's not that I didn't think of you. You were definitely on the list until I started qualifying. And, of course, since I know your maiden name - I threw you off!

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  2. When you were small your nickname was "ya but" 'cause that was your response to being corrected about anything!

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    1. I remember that and that many of mom and dad's friends called me "Eller."

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  3. Fairy Princess Julianna Loveness McLotteryWinner

    Just sayin'. ;)

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  4. I always wanted a nickname but never got one. Maybe that is why I like going by Bliss online...?

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  5. My nickname Jules doesn't qualify because it's part of my name, but I love it. Only a select few call me that and it makes it special. In college my advisor called me JJ from day one, liked that too. But I always wanted a cool nickname, something different. Now you have me thinking...

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  6. Spot, Bink's mom, was Dorothy. Her sister, my mother, whose real name was Helen, was Howa to her mispronouncing younger siblings. When my mom got to college she was called Spike (think tall, slender flapper with a round mop of hair). Spike married Pom (Leland Pomeroy); Spot married Bing (Ray Blake) and together they had Bink (Blake), and a couple other swell cousins of mine. I had a teacher who told me my name must be Sarah because Sally was a nickname for Sarah. Wrong. I was always Sally until my camp counselor name of Bugs followed me to college and everybody called my roommate (Nancy) Bunny. I love nicknames and the stories of them.

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  7. ...and of course, Scottie Irwin. The deal was when my mom was in school(with Scottie), Dorothy was a very popular name. So they all came up with different nicknames that stuck!

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