An entire lifetime has passed me by, yet no one calls me Spike. Tragic? Probably not. But still … how hard would it be?
I don’t have a nickname. I don’t have a ‘fun’ “play” name. Not even a proper shortening of my given name. Nor do I have a middle name on which i could fall back when my lack of “nick” fails me. As others dream of dancing and singing to a million adoring fans, I just wanted someone to call me Spike.
“Hi, Spike! How’s it going?”
“Hey, George. And you?”
Nothing fancy. A simple one-syllable name that tells the world under all this blooming, aging, and sagging femininity, there’s a tough gal. Maybe tough enough to be called SPIKE.
Is that too much to ask? Well, is it?
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Hey, Spike–great post!
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Thanks, Lo!
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Spike, huh?? You’ll always be Fishface to me! – but i’m much too much of a gentleman to ever say that out loud 😉
Who gets to pick their own nickname anyway??
love. (aka Bob The Builder)
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Fishface is just my MOB name. Spike is my TRUE name, Mr. B. Builder 😀
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Ahhhhhh… I ceee…. 😉
Thanks for clearing that up, Spike 🙂
love.
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Howyagoin Spike!
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Right good, friend!
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I think we should all have mob nicknames. You know, Tony “Two Toes” or Jimmy the Chin.
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Marilyn “Spike” Armstrong? Yeah, that works for me!
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Yeah, let ’em guess what gender, Right?
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Hey, Spike! You have a nickname!
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Oh goodie! It’s been a very LONG wait!
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Lol, I live that you wanted a nickname. There’s something uniquely different about it. I had one, I hated it.
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Spike it is!
Leslie
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I wasn’t a half bad volleyball player, either 😀
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Yup, I was pretty good at volley ball too. I could really direct the serve and that got a lot of points.
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Wass hapnin’ Spike?
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Oh, just the same old, same old 😀
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Spike, you’re hilarious! Love your posts.
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Thank you. I try.
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“Spike Armstrong” I like the sound of it.., now we have to figure one out for me?
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Problem is that sounds more like Spike Armstrong, All American Boy!”
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I know. All the good nicknames are for guys. It’s not FAIR.
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I have a friend that I stop and visit on the fly, sporadically, and always manage to show up around dinner time. It’s accidental.., really. But they were looking for a nick name for me and I came up with my mob name “Benny da Mooch.”
Wow! it’s hard to come up with a mob name for you. Maybe we should just hold on to “Spike Armstrong”, or just “Spike” until a better one shows up. Funny, there was a guy I used to call “Joey the Spike” cause he carried a shiv, or ice pick, alla time.
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Yo, Spike!!!!
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No problem SPIKE! Ask and it shall be done.
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