The Stationary Haddock

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Category: Culture

Nicknames

Aug 08

6:21 PM

You know, writing about those delightful nicknames given me by my disowned sibling and my former friend yesterday, I realized something. I've never had a nickname. Ever. Except when I was a baby, of course. But growing up, no one has ever thought to call me anything except my given name.

Everyone else has nicknames- why can't I? At my former job, there were three of us that were close- "LB", "Val", and me- "Haddock." In the office I just moved out of, there was a "Thelma", a "Cookie", and "Chief." I was called, um, "Haddock." In the new office space, one of the girls calls another one of the girls "Chicken Wing." How cute is that? So she tells me she must think up something for me, but so far- nothing. So I thought up an equally cute food nickname for myself today. I decided I want to be called "Butter Bean." That's cute, right? But like George found out in Seinfeld, you just can't choose your own nickname. It just doesn't work that way. Okay, but if they start callin' me something like "Crabapple," I'm SOooo going to be complaining!

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Submitted by Snowfire11 on Fri, 08/15/2008 at 10:22 am.

Man . . . the Pilot comment police even managed to come over here and delete the continuation of my post from below (since as posted, it was over 750 - so I had cut and paste the rest into a new post). I figured that for the individual blogs, there would be more leniency about the arbitrary restrictions. that if the blog owner had a problem, they would delete the post, etc.

Grrr.

Not to mention, in reading comment to news stories I have run across very, very many "continuation" posts posted immediately or shortly after the posters original post.

Okay . . . rant, done.

Happy Friday anyway.

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The thing about nicknames

Submitted by Snowfire11 on Thu, 08/14/2008 at 1:16 pm.

is that, once branded with one, you basically have to enter the Witness Protection Plan, to rid yourself of it. So, if you're going to have a nickname (or allow others to call you by a nickname) and you don't plan on leaving everything and everyone you know behind at some point, you better be ready for having that nickname for a very, very long time.

When I was in the 7th or 8th grade, I had just moved to a new school - my name is unusual and is almost always butchered when people try to pronounce it. So, somehow, I ended up having to give in to the nickname of Rose, which I really didn't like then and absolutely hate now. Thankfully, at least for this matter, my parents and I moved at the end of my freshman year in high school to a whole new state with all new people, so I was able to revert back to my real name, which I much prefer.

Fast-forward ten years to me meeting my boyfriend. He and his bestfriend, decided th

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