What Happened to Nick Names?
- Alan Turner
- Apr 12, 2020
- 1 min read
So far as I can ascertain
Nick names were never my domain.
Others have blessed me with a few,
Nothing at all had I to do.
Icky, who but a parent
Could that name patent?
No explanation was ever given.
At least it’s only known in Heaven.
From Carolyn and Shotsie
Came the next, Yumpy,
Two girls who lived across the road
Also sometimes called me a toad.
Captain Al was the last
And I got it extra fast.
No one else in the fraternities
Wanted the job looking after the pledges.
But the really last nick name
From my children came.
It was Dood and for the life of me
Its origin I cannot see.
( Note, with regards to Captain Al, there had to be a pledge captain to look after the new members of the fraternity I choose, Psi Upsilon, and no one else wanted the job so I was the patsy. There was retribution, however. I organized all the Pledges not to return to college for pledge week as I couldn’t afford to quit my summer job early enough to get to campus and got all of them to stay away also. Many of us were paying our own way through college and just needed that extra money to survive. )
Alan Turner, 4/4/2020