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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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How are you with a bad bourbon?
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Not sure what you mean by "full stop", but I had a high school classmate (Barbara) who stood about 6 ft tall with a full frame. She was impressive. Anyway, we were playing volleyball in P.E. one day when a guy on the other side of the net said something to her that she misheard. All we saw was her left hand raising the net and her right catching him square in the jaw. Dropped him cold! Once he regained consciousness and she found out what he'd actually said (it was a compliment), she felt TERRIBLE. Didn't help that poor guy one bit. But Barb did have trouble getting dates after that.
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'Bob' is a great name. A college friend had two roommates, both named Bob. One was cool, the other a semifunctional moron. We called cool Bob "Bob with one 'o'". We called the other Bob "Bob". He never got it.
I knew a guy named Bob that called their dog Bob-o. At meal time when Bob was called, they both came running.
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An uncommon name doesn't mean you get a nickname to distinguish you from someone else at work. It means coworkers will find a nickname for you anyway.
No such thing! 
I plead guilty as charged, yer honor. Morri has got my lazy [self] pegged! (Though I prefer to think of it as efficient use of air and vocal muscles! Plus I like to make people feel at home, like they's amongst friends, ya know?) My daddy always made up the absolute silliest nicknames for his big family and they all loved him for it! My brother and I were "Fudge" and "Jug", ... interchangeably. We still call each other those names, with a smile! We all knew they were "terms of endearment" without being too "mushy".
But I have been accused of being "overly familiar" by some people. I even have a son who makes a point of being unresponsive to the name Joey, by which his entire family called him for at least 25 years. For some reason he now responds only to Joseph! Must be all them roll calls at school and his "higher learning" degrees, er sumpin'.
I think it's more the rhyming, or similarly spelled, ugly nicknames that most people rightfully object to. Of course, no one likes to be called Fatty Matty or Smelly Shelly and the like. So, I do strive to avoid that kinda stuff.
So, what nicknames would you share, either fondly or otherwise?
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Not remotely close, but funny anyway! Now that I think of it, none of my names are the sort that can be "informalized" with a "y" on the end. I wonder if that was a deliberate calculation by my folks as well...
Or, if attempting to curry favor, perhaps "Mo' Money."
I've always had a hankering for one a dem 3-wheeler Morrighans...
I mentioned, earlier, about my high school friends calling our "gang" the Freaks. Well, we's all got names, too, none of which are presentable around here.
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La Contessa is the name that spontaneously rose following an entirely
innocent night at a radio station in Geneva. It is upon learning of this nickname, but not of its origins, that @Fat Freddy pronounces it to be appropriate enough for TB. And into my sig it goes. Many, many epochs have passed since that, um, transmission. But I did hear from Georges this very day. <shrug> Forgot until now a set of nicknames from the same time that @Jeff Scott alludes to. They had to do with interests we freaks shared
My grandaddy used to call all his many sons and several grandsons "Grady" or just "Grade"??? All his daughters and several granddaughters were just "Baby". Presto! Myriad brain cells saved trying to remember bunches of names, some rhyming or very similar!! Like Uncle Troy and his twin Aunt Floye, or my twin cousins Joe & Roe, or cousins Mary Kathryn and Kathryn Mary (not twins).
Of course, if more than one of either was present they'd all point at each other and say, "he's talkin' 'bout you" if it was unflattering or for an errand. Or pointing at themselves and saying, "he's talkin' 'bout me" if it was something complimentary. It was a laugh a minute when we all got together!
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File this under why I wouldn’t want to go to Beijing. Was watching a show today, someone was looking for an apartment. Squat toilets and combination showers are seemingly popular.
This is a public washroom, I’d hate to use it when crowded. You have to hold your pants up while squatting, you don’t want them hitting the ground. They have the same in the apartments only a shower is in the same cubicle.
They also have regular sit down thrones but those are for the well off.
This is a public washroom, I’d hate to use it when crowded. You have to hold your pants up while squatting, you don’t want them hitting the ground. They have the same in the apartments only a shower is in the same cubicle.
They also have regular sit down thrones but those are for the well off.
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These are neither common nor uncommon in Europe, and it's memories of the tiled variety that flow through my memory. Rails are typically part of the deal. All are part of the extremely common minimally heated WC. Notes from the field: be certain to travel with your own TP.
Well, maybe your not supposed to wear pants. Maybe one of these would work, but I am fussy about who I share the "facilities" with. And another thing, where is the TP?:
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