Tonite in my basketball league, we had ten players, seven former Washington University alumni with ten national championship rings between us, we have all played together at various overlapping points in our careers, and we scored 29 points in a full length game, un believably sub par,... but we only gave up 23...
Even though we didn't make a stellar showing, it was still good to play with the girls again, Shiny, Ange, Neety, Mary, Sparty, Sue-bear and me, L-dawg..
In college, almost all of us had nicknames. They were usually terms of endearment: Thumper, Sully, Super Hoots, Crowbar, Captain Stuby of the Crossover brigade, Sloth, Swiss Cheese, The Retarded Rabbit, POY, POY squared, POY cubed, Lester B. Hopps, Willard, Bam, Kiefer (as in Kiefer Sutherland of the Lost Boys), Mach 10, Mach 13, Shine, Shinifer, Shinerbach, Spoonerbach, Spoony, Rudy, Schmabby, Nuby Eyeburger, (yes these are ALL real...), Ottner, Bolan, E-Ha, E-nookie, Feckster, Linz-Linz, L, Beltones, Hook-in-the-ear, Blobbin, Harvard, Mona, The Special Olympian, KJ, Spoo, Nanner, BC...
People at my job don't have nicknames. It' s a tragedy really, But maybe I'll give them some. Long face, Halletosis, MIT/NHL, Jeff the Chef, The "B", Short Cute Phillipino Girl, Everything-on-my-desk-is-at-right-angles-man, 'Bama, Silent Smart Engineer Guy(that would go to multiple people), Everyones Favorite Canadian, The Whitest Black Guy I know, Grumpy, Grandpa, Never in the office man, hmm probably couldn't make them stick....
3 comments:
What? You left off Basket Changer. Was that a nick or just a drill?
OH yeah, Gasmaster, was a nickname, but Basketchanger, that was more of a 'special' adjective.
I thought that was an emergency drill...like a fire drill, ya know. Let's see how fast the girls can run if someone throws a mustard gas bomb...only mustard gas is awfully expensive, so we had our substitute.
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