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Mary Pittelli's avatar

My mother’s brothers were: Beefy (Frank), Bubby (Anthony), Sudgi )Joseph). And other Uncles had similar “names.” I think I was in my teens before I knew their real names! I’m convinced it was to distinguish them from all the others in our family with the same name. lol. Thanks for the memories ❤️

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Dawn's avatar

Cute!

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Barry David Kluger's avatar

thank you!!!

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C.L. Steiner's avatar

Very funny, BK. My wife is Lillian, but accepts Lil. I am known by many names.

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Barry David Kluger's avatar

are you ever called, C.L.?

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Emily Schuster Wachsberger's avatar

Hilarious! Thanks for the chuckle!

On the serious side, women do get nick names, unfortunately, they can be for calling out something negative about their bodies, e.g. fatso, big boobs and the like. The nick names we tend to get are objectifying us in ways we may not wish to be.

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