Trip is a common preppy nickname for IIIs.
I went to school with a Trey, who was called this because he was Cumbersome Name the Third.
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Dana - Sep 07, 2007 10:33:31 am PDT #4631 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
beekaytee - Sep 07, 2007 10:34:37 am PDT #4632 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Did he ever read Catch-22 ?
Dunno, but I'll bet his parents did.
Typo Boy - Sep 07, 2007 10:43:14 am PDT #4633 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My full name is Garson.
I normally go by Gar, because I find about half the human race manages to have memfaults converting Garson to Gary, or Garfield or Garfish. If your name is even a little unconventional, one syllable is as much as most people can remember.
I did once get a comment on what an odd name Garson was from a man named Kookier (pronounce "quaker" he insisted).
Scrappy - Sep 07, 2007 10:55:25 am PDT #4634 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Are you named after the AWESOME Garson Kanin?
brenda m - Sep 07, 2007 11:00:46 am PDT #4635 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
Trip is a common preppy nickname for IIIs.
And Skip for seconds.
megan walker - Sep 07, 2007 11:03:51 am PDT #4636 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
And Skip for seconds.
Or Chip.
Analysis: "ip" very popular amongst the prepster crowd.
Sparky1 - Sep 07, 2007 11:08:34 am PDT #4637 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
"ip" very popular amongst the prepster crowd.
One of my BiL has a nephew named Phillip. We were given stern warnings by his mother never to call him Phil. She'd over-emphasize and say, "phil-IP". So, of course, we all started calling him "Ip."
Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2007 11:09:04 am PDT #4638 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Analysis: "ip" very popular amongst the prepster crowd.
My cousin Phillip (who has the same name as his Father) was briefly "Flip". Thankfully, we all got over that quickly.
JZ - Sep 07, 2007 11:11:22 am PDT #4639 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Random name notes:
Garson is a terrific name; I, too, went to school with a Trey who was really Cumbersome the Third; there is no conceivable way anyone not both legally blind and criminally insane could possibly think of addressing ND as Andy, is there?; Annabel is such a lovely name that it'd never occur to me to attempt to nick anyone who carried it; and I'm sure I've told the story of the fellow named Gareth whom I once met who grew up in the cornfield heartlands and got sent to the principal's office on his first day of kindergarten because the teacher thought he was defying her and telling her a made-up name instead of his real name, because everyone knew there was no such name as Gareth.
That's all I got.
Kathy A - Sep 07, 2007 11:12:27 am PDT #4640 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My brother's name is Kip, but that was so unusual back in the '60s and '70s that it was just viewed as strange, not preppy. His band director kept mistakenly calling him "Skip" for four years, and the little old lady who lived next door always called him "Kippy," which he detested but never corrected her due to respecting her age.