#56043
02/15/2002 7:05 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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I sometimes refer to my parents as "the rents".
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#56044
02/15/2002 7:32 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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"the rents"yeahbut® that makes you a rent girl  - better tear that one out!
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#56045
02/16/2002 12:25 AM
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Joined: Jan 2001
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#56046
02/17/2002 5:16 PM
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Joined: Jul 2000
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Carpal Tunnel
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Seems like the lease you can do. Which one was the evil of two lessors?
TEd
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#56047
02/19/2002 10:48 AM
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Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 163
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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.
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#56048
02/19/2002 10:57 AM
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Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 866
old hand
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old hand
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Friend of ours had twins......"Search" and "Destroy"
stales
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#56049
02/19/2002 12:26 PM
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Joined: Aug 2001
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Carpal Tunnel
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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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#56050
02/19/2002 4:19 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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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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#56051
02/20/2002 9:16 AM
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Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872
old hand
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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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#56052
02/20/2002 3:04 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
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Carpal Tunnel
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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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#56053
02/20/2002 7:20 PM
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Joined: Nov 2000
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Carpal Tunnel
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Which reminded me of one of my less glorious moments ... but since it's language-related: My first marriage started going pear-shaped from, oooh, about day 1. Shortly before the final curtain, my wife and I had an incandescent row not long before going to a friend's party. The car journey to the venue was accomplished in companionably poisonous silence, a fairly normal condition for us by then. There were some people there we didn't know, and I was introduced to them, but only after I'd had more than one drink. Well, more than several, actually. I then introduced my spouse as "This is ____, my ex-wife." She (naturally enough, and with a couple of drinks inside her as well) reponded, without thinking: "We're still married!", to which I replied "It's all a matter of timing." Whoops. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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#56054
02/20/2002 8:04 PM
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Joined: Dec 2001
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addict
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One of my nearest and dearest male friends, calls me "doll". It never fails to bring a smile to my face! But another of my male friends, has always referred to me as "darlin'". This too, I loved, until the day I overheard him say to another friend, "in Texas, when you can't remember their name, we call 'em darlin'!" Kinda took the sweetness out of it for me! 
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#56055
02/20/2002 9:45 PM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 322
enthusiast
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enthusiast
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Rouspeteur mentioned "Michaelmouse" for Michael, to which I add the German version: "Dreamaus" for Andrea
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#56056
02/23/2002 12:14 AM
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Since taking the name Keiva, I've taken to calling my wife-of-25-years my kalleh, which is Yiddish for my "bride". She says it makes her feel like a young girl.
To twenty-five more, my shayn kalleh!
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