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Beta Pi:
IS BETA PI BLOG without any redeeming social or artistic merit?:
YEA . . . . or
NAY?
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So, out
of the blue, just when inspiration seemed illusive . . . Buck sends me an
excellent piece he has written about our culture of nicknames. And, you’ll see after you read it why it is a
perfect vehicle for the latest . . .
BETA PI BLOG CONTEST . . . but first, here is what Buck sent me . .
photo by Clark Thomas
NICKNAMES
By
Frank J. Biller
At the
insistence of our friend from New York "everybody's gotta have a
nickname".
Some of
us arrived with our own nicknames. When I landed in Nashville I realized
that no one knew my real name and just decided to use an obscure nickname that
3 or 4 of my high school friends occasionally called me. Thus Joe Biller
became Buck Biller. Buck Paden told me at a reunion some years ago that
he thought my real name was Frank Buckbiller.
The Classic "prepackaged" nickname was "My real name is Bill but my friends call me Lunchmeat.”
Matt showed us some of his old home movies from freshman year and beyond at reunion a few years ago and there was a guy in them called "The Tool.” I cannot remember who Tool is?
So I thought it might be kind of fun to throw out some nicknames and see if everyone can remember the person's real name. Here are some of my favorites as I remember them in class order (I can't remember them all so please add others I forgot):
The Boss
Aber
Cheeks
The Heme
Cleve
Stimpy
The Steak
Fotch
The Greek
Nate
Tee
Dee
Stubbs
The Rat aka Ratso Rizzo
The Wimp
Droopy
Vinegar Vin Vinny
Bozo
Harpo
X Neal
Ogelsby
Too Tall
Fur Reema (sp?)
Dom
Arms
Leapin’
Gene
Dung
The Mole
The Roach
Tony The Toe
Dub
Birdman
Link (as
in The Missing...)
Lunchmeat
Marty
Son of Dub
Marlon
Ralph
Pretty Boy
Stuff
Opie
Squat
Boy
Dirt
Boo Boo
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TO
BUCK: thank you old friend, the
nicknames you listed brought back more than a few great memories, and I thought
up a few to add:
Young Ann
Stoner
Son of Wags
Bum-jam
Scummings
Lurch
Donuts
Young AnnStoner
Son of Wags
Bum-jam
Scummings
Lurch
Sweet Face
Waz
Itchy
Bugs
Doctor
Phibes
Funky
Love-Man
SmootyTit-Head
Alex and Laura
You
inspired another contest, Old Topper, thanks again for sending in this great
piece. I love and respect all of my ATO
Brothers and Sisters. So, without further
“to-do” . . .
ANNOUNCING THE “TICK-A-LOR NICKNAMES” ESSAY CONTEST
Rules:
1.
Write a short
essay, 300 words or less.
2.
The topic
should be about anything to do with any NICKNAME from Vanderbilt, either one of
the ATO “nicknames” listed above, or any other nickname not listed, yours included. The nickname may be of an ATO, or ATO Social
Affiliate, or ATO Gal-Pal, or Vanderbilt Professor, Vanderbilt Football Player,
etc., or ATO side-kick.
3. No profanity
or politics. The only exception is if the actual nickname itself is
profane. For example, a few years ago, Dr. Phibes sent me photos and
an essay he wrote about a few of his New York friends who traveled to visit him
for a weekend during Freshman Year, and he had brilliantly nicknamed one of his
side-kicks “Dogshit.” This essay is posted at "Beta
Pi Blog, Vol.2008, No.05 - Abominable Dr. Phibes, Unplugged" (January, 2008). The use of
“Dogshit” was clearly an exception to our “no profanity” rule, as the story
would have been worthless if we had censored the name.
4.
E-mail your
essay to me, in e-mail or Word format - to lasimons4law@aol.com
.
5.
Deadline for
submissions is April 30, 2017.
6.
Awards:
First Prize – Dinner on
the Three Stooges at Rotier’s Restaurant - at the next Reunion (for you and
your spouse/significant other, no limit to how much beer you can drink,
spouse/significant other limited to one Long-neck).
Second Prize: A nice set
of Steak Knives.
Third Prize: you’re
fired! (you have to watch “Glengarry,
Glenross” to understand this joke).
7.
Judges:
Frank J.
Biller, Lawrence A. Simons and Steven Blair Starr. All decisions final.
8.
The three
winning entries will be published in the next blog
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KEEPING TABS:
Here is
a reminder of the Brothers we have lost.
EDWARD G. “TED” STEPHANY, died January 20, 2016.
Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2016, No.01, Archive: Jan. 2016
J. NEAL CRENSHAW, died November 12, 2014.
Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2014, No.08, Archive: Nov. 2014Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2014, No.10, Archive: Dec. 2014
MILES WALSH, died in July, 2013.
Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2013, No.05, Comments Section (over 50 comments),
Archive: Aug.2013
DAVID HOWE, died November 30, 2006.
Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2006, No.68, Archive: December, 2006. Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2007, No.30, Archive: May, 2007
KURT WAGNER,
died in July, 2002.
Beta Pi Blog, Vol.2016, No.02, Archive: Jan. 2016
ALEXANDER WILSON, died in 1977.
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THE ARCHIVES
If you
have never explored the “Archives” in this Blog – it is toward the top of the
latest “blog issue”, on the right. You
access it by clicking on the Month and Year, and it will drop down with
choices. For example, if you click on
December, 2006, it will drop down and list all issues that were published that
month. If you want Issue No. 68, you
click on that, and it takes you to that issue.
You can then post a comment to that issue. It’s never too late to post a comment, right?
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VTL,
Larry Simons
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