A point for Ryan, I have to admit.
I was fussin' about being left out of the "nicknames" article, which looked at the evolution of names for my opponents.
In particular, I noted that I was willing to use "Mike" as a way of shortening my name, if it meant that I could be included in even the last line of articles. I don't need equal time, but (as Glenn Close put it in "Fatal Attraction" )"I won't be IGNORED."
Ryan Teague Beckwith responded, in an email, that I was obviously confused. The story was about HOW MANY nicknames candidates had. And, since I had sent him my email from an account that identified the sender as "Mungowitz," it brought me up short. The story would have to be pretty long.
He's right. A partial nickname list for me would include:
To my family: "Mikey"
High school: "Mole" (Dutch Boy and Bayou Jack, can I hear an amen, in comments?)
College: "Mungey"
Grad school: "'I'm Really Good at Putt-Putt' Boy"
Austin, TX (at UT): Grease (The original Killer Grease Mungowitz lives in Austin)
Duke: El Jefe / Killer Grease Mungowitz
Now, sure, I go by "Mike," though my wife calls my "Michael" when she's in a good mood.
If you asked me what I would LIKE to be called? "Governor."
5 comments:
Mole it was, in high school. Nobody recalls why though. It wasn't as if he had any extra special tunneling skills or anything.
(On another note, I don't know why it says "zach says", on this comment thing. My son must have sabotaged my computer)
-Bayou Jack
LOL, you had better nicknames than that in grad school Mungowitz! You want me to call up the paper and give them a sampling?
What about "el jefe"...or was that just my pet name for you
Tommy the Englishman
Mole it was in high-school and, like Bayou Jack (aka a 'Mr. Zach Says')I haven't a clue as to why and because Mole and I spent most of our time on the baseball team listing out the reasons why we'd never see an inning of play, I never bothered to ask. I figured one of the rednecks at school had dug up some wild rumour of some sort and tagged 'Mike' with 'Mole.' Governor though fits Mole much better.
Dutch Boy
Wow -
"'I'm Really Good at Putt-Putt' Boy" is what I'm called in grad school too.
-William E.
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