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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 665012" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>My name doesn't really have any usual nicknames so I never had one. Where I worked though we had three older men, long-time employees, named Rabbit, Moose and Squirrel. All three had the nicknames since childhood and a lot of people didn't even know their real names. Rabbit was a little guy who always seemed to be in a hurry, Squirrel's real name was Earl and he had very large front teeth, and Moose had a very weird looking nose. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> The best though is an old family story about my dad's youngest sister who just died two years ago at age 93. My dad was the oldest of six kids whose ages spread over 17 years. This aunt was the second youngest so by the time she started school, my dad was a grown man and there were two other brothers in their late teens. And the older brothers all had rather colorful vocabularies that she had also picked up on when she was little. When this aunt was born, for some unknown reason, my grandparents chose to name her Bertha Laverne! That name was so hideous that the older four children flat out refused to call her that and nicknamed her Toodie. And she was called Toodie by the family for the rest of her life. Later, on official things she went by Laverne which wasn't quite as bad as Bertha. When she started first grade at the Catholic school, my grandmother had registered her as Laverne. But she had been called Toodie all her life and had no idea that it wasn't her real name. I don't know how much of this I should really tell here, but please bear in mind that this happened almost 90 years ago. So the first day of first grade (no kindrgarten in those days) and the nun was calling the roll while Toodie was looking around, playing with pencils, etc. The nun got to her and called out "Laverne?" and she kept right on looking around the room. Annoyed, the nun came to the front of the row she was in, glared right at her and said a little louder, "Laverne?", while she continued to look out the window. Really mad now, the old nun hovered over her, glaring daggers at her and yelled, "LAVERNE!". And totally confused, she looked up at that old nun and said, "Well who the h*** is Laverne?" What happened next is too awful to mention but that was the day she learned the hard way that her real name wasn't Toodie. And then it only got worse when my grandmother had to explain to her that Laverne was really her middle name, and that her first name was really Bertha!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 665012, member: 1883"] My name doesn't really have any usual nicknames so I never had one. Where I worked though we had three older men, long-time employees, named Rabbit, Moose and Squirrel. All three had the nicknames since childhood and a lot of people didn't even know their real names. Rabbit was a little guy who always seemed to be in a hurry, Squirrel's real name was Earl and he had very large front teeth, and Moose had a very weird looking nose. :) The best though is an old family story about my dad's youngest sister who just died two years ago at age 93. My dad was the oldest of six kids whose ages spread over 17 years. This aunt was the second youngest so by the time she started school, my dad was a grown man and there were two other brothers in their late teens. And the older brothers all had rather colorful vocabularies that she had also picked up on when she was little. When this aunt was born, for some unknown reason, my grandparents chose to name her Bertha Laverne! That name was so hideous that the older four children flat out refused to call her that and nicknamed her Toodie. And she was called Toodie by the family for the rest of her life. Later, on official things she went by Laverne which wasn't quite as bad as Bertha. When she started first grade at the Catholic school, my grandmother had registered her as Laverne. But she had been called Toodie all her life and had no idea that it wasn't her real name. I don't know how much of this I should really tell here, but please bear in mind that this happened almost 90 years ago. So the first day of first grade (no kindrgarten in those days) and the nun was calling the roll while Toodie was looking around, playing with pencils, etc. The nun got to her and called out "Laverne?" and she kept right on looking around the room. Annoyed, the nun came to the front of the row she was in, glared right at her and said a little louder, "Laverne?", while she continued to look out the window. Really mad now, the old nun hovered over her, glaring daggers at her and yelled, "LAVERNE!". And totally confused, she looked up at that old nun and said, "Well who the h*** is Laverne?" What happened next is too awful to mention but that was the day she learned the hard way that her real name wasn't Toodie. And then it only got worse when my grandmother had to explain to her that Laverne was really her middle name, and that her first name was really Bertha! [/QUOTE]
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