Tell us about a silly name.....yours or someone else's.--Al

-- Al Schroeder (al.schroeder@nashville.com), August 24, 2000

Answers

My parents are hippies, still trapped in the 1970's. I love what some of their hippie friends named their kids-Celestial, Donovan, Star.

-- AJ (joijoijoi@hotmail.com), August 25, 2000.

My second grade teacher's name was Miss Dickie. She was a meanie and we didn't find out until almost the end of the year that her first name was Candy. Candy Dickie, I kid you not! Too bad we didn't know sooner, we might have been able to use it against her. Though at 7 years old I'm not sure how far we could have taken it.

-- Kim (K_nelles@hotmail.com), August 25, 2000.

H D is short for Heavy Don its a nick name i picked up while working at a plant Hurlante I picked up when the magazine Heavy Metal first came out back in the 70s In the bio of the mag it had said it was basd on the French magazine Metale Hurlante

-- H D Hurlante (hdhurlante@yahoo.com), September 19, 2000.

My nickname which took me years to outgrow. The small group of boys I ran with had the habit of word play with each other and all our nicknames came from that activity. My nickname ? "Double Ugly' derived from Douglas. I guess I served time for, "Let The Punishment Fit The Crime."

-- Denver doug (ionoi@webtv.net), September 19, 2000.

My middle name is Danielle, is that not screwed up? Oh, but it's ok it's ok, my mother thinks it's 'beautiful'!

-- Rachel Daniel (rdaniel82@aol.com), April 09, 2004.