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Originally Posted by aturnis
I have a couple of buddies, first names Kenny and Billy. They went by these names until they hit about 23. At this point in time, apparently, their wives/fiances decided to shorten their names to "Ken" and "Bill". I'm guessing they thought it was time for these guys to think about getting ahead in life and to be taken seriously.
One night, out drinking, I said my buddies name "Kenny" in order to get his attention. His Wife/Fiance looked at me and said "It's Ken..." fairly rudely. I just said..."You can make everyone else call him whatever you want, that's cool...but we grew up together...so it's Kenny to me". Luckily she just said, "ok" and shut up as she can be pretty ruthless at times.
I just thought this was a really weird thing to do. Has anyone here just up and changed their name on their friends b/c "it's time to grow up"?
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Didn't work that way in Cleveland.
My cousins were Johnny, Frankie, Timmy, Eddie, Tony, Ernie, Jimmy (There were another dozen or so names like that. I had 30-some first cousins on my father's side.)...
All of their friends would have called them by their last name.