What's In a Name?

Uncle Donnie grew up in a family that loved to nickname or re-name certain individuals.
My dad was re-named Fritz,and sometimes referred to as Teddy. What kind of name is Fritz, anyways? Seems like an odd name to me. My daughter, nicknamed Heimy, had a guinea pig once named Squiggey Fritz... Maybe it was a gerbil?... I don't know.
I have a brother whose nickname was Fang, another of my brothers was called Pood. My baseball coach called me Rabbit.

I had an uncle named Freck, another named Short and a cousin we called Timmy Highstuff. My grandfather everyone knew as Pappy. Pappy's wife, my grandmother, was referred to as The Old Lady, mostly by Pappy himself.

Uncle Donnie learned at the feet of the best nicknamers ever! I guess that's why I love to give people new names....I am a nicknamer at heart.

So, I have three daughters: Hal or Ernie (reference: What's Eating Gilbert Grape?), Katrina Katrina Kabutski, and Bug (formerly introduced as Heimy). I have a sister-in-law named L.Pooh and her two daughters, my two neices, are Schmooglie Pearson
and Fern, or sometimes, Fernie. I have a relative I call The Relative, a son-in-law named Braindead (formerly introduced as Bryon Shitzel)and a young friend I call the Chameleon because he changes a lot.

Bug/Heimy, my youngest, has two friends who now have nicknames: Smiley Johnson and Funky-Eye Spears, and there are many others who can't be mentioned due to propriety and better judgement. However, in closing I might mention my golf/cribbage/canasta partner Takashi (He ain't no Fugazi) Woods who is sometimes affectionately referred to as Tyrannosaurus Sex.
Whaddya gonna do?
I just calls 'em as I sees 'em.
Ciao,
D