So I apparently insulted some family members by inadvertently leaving them out of my previous post. So I am hereby amending "What's In A Name" to include the following:
1. My sister, Stephanie, probably has the best example that I could have given to Ryan a/k/a Bub, but it completely slipped my mind. She has been called Nee or Nee Nee by our family since she was a child. The kids even call her Aunt Nee Nee. Once I was telling Sam something about "Stephanie" and didn't realize I was totally confusing him until he said to me in a very exasperated tone "I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT."
2. In one of the most bizarre stories I've ever heard, my Father-in-law, Peeps (yes, you did read that correctly, it is Peeps, like the Easter marshmallow things), told us that he was actually named Henry at birth, and sometime in his first year his mother decided to rename him Peeps, and went down and had it legally changed. This was apparently in honor of an Uncle whose last name was Peeps. I'm thinking that even the Uncle was like "What the Hell"?
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