Ben: I didn't ask for any of this. I just want to be normal. Gronx: I wanted to be an underwear model. We play the hand we're dealt.

'Touched'


Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Nicole - Apr 03, 2006 9:12:22 am PDT #7030 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!

I do favour the abbreviation Nic.

Me too. Some friends started calling me Nic in high school and it just sort of stuck.

But not Nicky. The English language lacks terminology of sufficient force to do justice to the strength of my emotion on this point. NOT Nicky. Or Nikki. Or Nicki. Or any variation thereof. Nic. Yes. Or Nichola. Or Hey You, or Bitch, or Whatzername, or what you will. But not, oh a thousand times not, Nicky.

What she said. Except for the Nichola part. I was call Cola for about a year but, thankfully, that one didn't stick.


brenda m - Apr 03, 2006 9:12:39 am PDT #7031 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

My parents deliberately gave us un-nickable names.

That's why JZ's name is my middle, and not first, name.


amych - Apr 03, 2006 9:14:15 am PDT #7032 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

One of my earliest (i.e., going all the way back to infant playgroup) friends was a Jenny-not-Jennifer. She ultimately had an easier time convincing people to call her by her full first+middle, than to stop calling her either Jen or Jennifer.


§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 9:14:18 am PDT #7033 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There is no such thing as an un-nickable name in Jamaica, and even so, many of my family nicknames have nothing to do with the sound of the original name. My parents just laid down the law, and as a result nowhere in our childhood did a nickname pop up. It's only since I left the force of their will that people have tried, and it annoys me sorely when people do it because my ire amuses.

You can nick me with something that's not based on my name. I'm good with that. Just don't fuck with the two syllables, three letters of ita.


Volans - Apr 03, 2006 9:17:07 am PDT #7034 of 10001
move out and draw fire

Honestly, I never abbreviate someone's name if I haven't seen them accept the abbreviation from someone else, and even then only if I consider myself on the same social footing as the person who used it.

I think forced nicknames are arrogant and contemptible, and will therefore never call someone something they've asked me not to call them, even in jest.

A thousand times yes.

My parents deliberately gave us un-nickable names.

Yeah, my parents tried that. It worked until I started at the English-speaking school, where Rachel was immediately shortened to Roach.

No one in my Spanish-speaking world shortened Raquel until I was in high school...and then it stuck like a tongue to a lamppost.


juliana - Apr 03, 2006 9:19:02 am PDT #7035 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

I feel the same way about Stephie. My father, and sometimes my mother may use it. THAT'S IT.

Same here with Juli. My blood family may use it. Z used it, but now may not. Anyone else? Nuh and uh.


P.M. Marc - Apr 03, 2006 9:20:46 am PDT #7036 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

My parents deliberately gave us un-nickable names.

There are two syllables in your name. It's nickable. (And, randomly, a differently-spelled version of a name I tried to go by when I was 14 and sick of people mucking up my real name.)


erikaj - Apr 03, 2006 9:20:56 am PDT #7037 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

My mother also picked my name so it could not be foreshortened. Only to have my grandmother say "You could call her Ricki." Which I'm glad she didn't. Today sucks...total sucktastic Monday.


Topic!Cindy - Apr 03, 2006 9:22:24 am PDT #7038 of 10001
What is even happening?

Same here with Juli. My blood family may use it. Z used it, but now may not. Anyone else? Nuh and uh.
We can still call you Incredibly--and we mean strikingly so--beautiful one, right?


Volans - Apr 03, 2006 9:22:46 am PDT #7039 of 10001
move out and draw fire

My oldest and closest friend has pronunciation difficulties with her middle name, but it's just going to happen. It's Kali, but pronounced Kylie. Her parents were trying to synthesize some late-60s hippiness and their Irish heritage.