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Originally Posted by August
I dunno, Drummer Dude looked pretty stiff. At yeast he should quit loafing around and rattle them bones a little harder.
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My mom & dad are African/Caribbean (with traces of various European mixture) - in our culture it's bad luck to call a child by his/her real name, so almost everyone has a nickname that's nothing like their real name.
And on top of that, people often have a 3rd name that makes fun of some characteristic - for example, a friend of mine with a big head is called "Headless". Kind of mean but funny. It's an old African tradition brought over to the New World by slaves & their descendants.