Re: Confess yore nicknames

On Feb 19, 3:13 pm, "Bill Hileman" <discgolf...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dan Bretta" <nuda...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Feb 19, 1:04 am, Chris Bellomy <cbell...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dan Bretta <nuda...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 18, 11:44 pm, Unclaimed Mysteries
<theletter_k_andthenumeral_4_...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
C, CL, Doc (mercifully shortened from "Dr. Smith").

Uhh...in High school it was "Tony"....for those dimwits that thought
the TV show "Baretta" was my life.  I got to hear a lot of "Don't do
the crime if you can't do the time" or "How's your bird?"...the worst
came from my Math teacher who thought that was rsfcking hi-larious for
some reason.

Henceforth, you shall be known as Dan Tanna. Just so you can
change shows.

At some point in time from elementary up to high school I think I
heard them all...Dan Tanna was often used as was Trent's exclamation
of "Book 'em"...but none were used as often as "Tony".

For some reason, I can't see the original post in this thread, so I'll
piggy-back reply here, sorry.

Throughout elementary school, the easy variation on my name as a nickname
was "Heiny-man."  Then as we all reached the teen years and had sex-ed in
eighth grade, my newest "cool" nickname was "Hymen."  Yeah those kids were
clever.

I imagine that if I was growing up in the 40's I might have been called
"Heil-Hitler-man."

From what I understand from genealogy research, my family name has taken
various forms of spelling, but one supposed interpretation is that Heil
(original spelling of Heilman) meant "Healer."  Apparently a lot of my
ancestors were "doctors" of sorts.  Apparently one of my ancestors had
worked with Guttenburg (sp?) of the Bible printing fame, and another was
involved in an expidition to Venezuela and was awarded a coat-of-arms as a
result, which is on my genealogy yahoo group:


Supposedly my ancestors came from a smaller tributary of this river:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enns_River

The "Little Enns" or Ennslein.

Jon
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