one of my favourite goon show lines is eccles' joke on the subject
'i've got a nickname, you know'
'what is it?'
'nick'.
doesn't look so good written down but heard over the wireless in ecclesian tones it's hilarious.
i was musing on the theme of nicknames this morning as i thought of how many mutations of names i use for my nearest and dearest: the kids each have at least 3 or 4 nicknames as do the animals and everyone at some point gets called goober and has 'alicious' tacked onto some contraction of their name - billalicious for example.
billthedog is also known as b, billy, mr b and mr b kidney. this last evolves from other nicknames thusly: bill -> billythekid -> billythekidney -> mr b kidney
4 comments:
Ceiling cat can has whiskas? k thx bye
You know, both my children have one-syllable names and in fine Aussie tradition their nicknames are actually longer thanks to the addition of "ie" at the end. which actually I love now, although I wasn't impressed when people first started doing it.
Ceiling cat is lovely, don't think I've met her before en blogge.
oh my god you are just like us and we add alicious to names too. so the dog, tiggy is tigalicious and the cat, nobby is nobb alilicious your not in our famly till you have a nickname.
Our old girl Meg was known as Meggie Moo, while the Burmese cat Cooper was usually known as CooperCat or SuperDooperCooperCat.
The dog came to us already named and his name is so odd to us (for a dog) that we don't do anything to it apart from add Boy to the end. Sailor Boy.
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