Can't any one of your damn little Scooby club at least try to remember that I hate you all?

Spike ,'Get It Done'


Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Aug 03, 2019 5:54:34 am PDT #10068 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.

I should give some thought to that! I'll likely be a grandmother sometime in the next couple years.


-t - Aug 03, 2019 7:33:41 am PDT #10069 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

We are so boring about that in my family. My grandparents were just Grandma, Grandpa, and Babushka, and my niecephews call my parents Grandma Shirley and Grandpa Igor to distinguish them from their other grandparents. My great grandmother was called, you guessed it, Great Grandma.

When my basically next generation cousin was born Grandma decided she wanted to be called Nana and it was very confusing for me.


msbelle - Aug 03, 2019 7:57:52 am PDT #10070 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Yep I had Grandma/Grandpa and Grandmommy/Granddaddy. My parents both went the way of their parents so mac has a Grandma and a Granddad.

My Grandma became GG for her great-grands.

I think should I ever have grandchildren, I'll be Grandma Rebecca.


msbelle - Aug 03, 2019 8:06:05 am PDT #10071 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Ok just found out the Maternal Grandparents in that family are - Pops and Noni.

Not a Grandma in the bunch.

I know this is just bringing my own stuff to other situations, but my first experience with a Granparent not have a "grand" name was the grandmother of my cousins, the one we do not share. She famously announced that she was "too young to be a Grandmother" (nevermind that she became a mother before 18) so she went by Mommo. They were Mommo and Daddo. And while Daddo was a dear sweet man, Mommo was a spiteful parent and grandparent who chose favorite and was demanding and passive aggressive. So I always wonder what is behind people's choices. Of course usually it is just a family thing they are carrying on and not at all anything connected to my psychoanalyzing.


Jessica - Aug 03, 2019 8:36:33 am PDT #10072 of 30019
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

BooPaw is awesome.

My parents are Bubbe and PaBill (how 2 year-old Dylan said Grandpa Bill). Still wish we could have talked him into Zayde, but oh well.


Amy - Aug 03, 2019 9:19:01 am PDT #10073 of 30019
Because books.

BooPaw is definitely excellent. For a little while, S's dad was PeaPa, when Sara was really little. But they were always Grandma and Grandpa otherwise. My parents are Nana and Pappy.

My grands were MomMom and PopPop and Mimi and Goggie (courtesy of first grandchild, me).


askye - Aug 03, 2019 9:26:29 am PDT #10074 of 30019
Thrive to spite them

My nephew came up with Nina for my Mom and Bubpa/Buppa (I'm not sure how this gets spelled) for my dad. I was there when he first called my dad that. He was a wee little toddler and we'd gone for a walk/tow him in the wagon. Dad had not gone for a walk and when we rounded the corner and saw Dad in the yard E said, with a voice full of love and awe "Bubpa" and like flew to him as fast as he could on his chubby little toddler legs.

My dad is and has always been E's favorite person.

Instead of Daddy for the longest time he said "Deeda" I think when he finally hit pre schoool he switched to Daddy. My brother loved having his own special name.

I called my grandparents Grandma and Grandpa First name. Except my mom's mom who was Grandma First and Middle Name.

one set of cousins called my paternal Grandpa PawPaw but we never did. This Grandpa had nicknames for all the cousins - Little Missy, Little Beaver, Thumper, Sassafras and I can't remember the other one. I was Little Missy.


Sheryl - Aug 03, 2019 9:48:30 am PDT #10075 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

My parents are Grandma and Grandpa. Gary's mom is Nana Herfirstname. Gary's dad and stepmom are Saba and Sovta(guessing on the spelling, as those are hebrew words for Grandpa and Grandma).


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2019 10:54:14 am PDT #10076 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

My paternal grandmother was Grandma, and my maternal grandmother was Mammoo (thanks to the first child of my generation on that side being unable to pronounce Memaw corectly as a toddler; she fared better than his paternal grandmother, Ka-ka). Both grandfathers were long dead before grandkids entered the picture, so they were never really called anything.


Beverly - Aug 03, 2019 11:58:25 am PDT #10077 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I always expected and wanted to be called Nana, but our stepson already had a Nana, and I wanted him to call me the same as any other grandchildren, so I settled on Grammie. It does stand out against MeeMaw, Nana, and Grandma Shirley, and it was a sturdy stanchon in the welter of step-grands as their mother married five times and they were presented with a smorgasbord of grandmother names and a few grandfather names as well. H has only ever been Grampa. "You know the rule when you borrow the car?" "Yes, Grampa."