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#56043 02/15/02 07:05 PM
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I sometimes refer to my parents as "the rents".


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"the rents"

yeahbut®

that makes you a rent girl - better tear that one out!


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Well, as many of you know, my younger son is usually called "Foul Spawn of Satan," or "Foul Spawn" for short; in public, I often address him as "Bucket." My older son is "Benners" more often than not. For a while, he wanted to be called "Basket" as a companion name to "Bucket," but I think that he realized that the implications of the nickname were uncomplimentary. (like FSOS is laudatory)


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Seems like the lease you can do. Which one was the evil of two lessors?



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#56047 02/19/02 10:48 AM
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Well for my beloved there is Chérie, or if being silly, chevreuil.

For the children: minou or petit chou are the most common.
One of my nephews (age 3) is referred to as Dr. Destructo.

My parents: Aged P (works for both)

Others I remember for my siblings were:

Michaelmouse (Michael)
Lillybets (Elisabeth)
Mugwumps (Marguerite)
CathCath (Catherine)

I don't think my oldest brother ever had such an appellation and, of course, mine is classified.


#56048 02/19/02 10:57 AM
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Friend of ours had twins......"Search" and "Destroy"

stales


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One of my now-grown children Hi, CJ! would never forgive her dad for letting it be known that she was called, as an infant, our chubby-cheeked chickadee.


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Dr. Sereno (from the "cusp" thread) commented, "My mother nicknamed me "Buddha" for my serene composure as an infant."

[and added: "That nickname was quickly forgotten after ... the start of a troubled career in public school." Kids!]


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Back before the steam engine I made up a word of endearment. Well, me and Pal Al Saunders did, Tank and Major Hate were there but they were passed out in the back seat. What we needed was a suitable disdainful term for "girl". What we were was the best dancers and the best dressers on the beach and we could hardly be seen mouthing yesterdays lame terms like Chick, Broad, Split-Tail, or Bitch. Could we?
Finally, in sync with the last can of beer we decided on "Squench". Yeah, somehow demeaning but not too much.

We were the coolest of the cool so soon after, bopsters in Atlanta, Birminghan, and Panama City were calling their squenches "Squenches". And rightly so because they were.

Time passed, the steam engine was invented and last year in an enviornmental Newsletter a former squench of mine came back to haunt me. She wrote...

"...back then Milo had a special name for me. He called me a Squench. I think that it was a contraction of Squaw and Wench, but I didn't mind."

So there you have it, spelling, definition, origin. But alas, after the last bopsters bipped their last bop the term fell into disuse, so much so that you hardly hear it anymore.



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On just one occasion I introduced the Late Great Captain as "John, my second husband." He smiled and seemed to take it in good part. However several days later introducing me he said : "This is Ann, my first wife."
We both, at once, stopped using those phrases!


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