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–rakkity
rakkity
What’s significance of June 30, 2008? The 5th anniversary of the Mainecourse blog. Put that on your calendar! We’ll have Google send some congratulatory emails back from 6/30/03.
Jen
Nice try Rakk.
By the way, what is the signif of your sig? And an out of place place to comment, but I believe that your handle should be capped. You are proper after all.
rakkity
Back in times of yore, I played many fierce racquetball against my son Patrick and a guy I called “The Dominator” (who shall remain nameless) I wrote a number of tall tales for the blog about those games, and someone (El Kib?) called me “rakkity”. I still play racquetball, but my partners have become disabled in various ways…. (I should write another story about that).
jennifer
You know, I either had no idea, or I completely forgot. I’m one of those who thinks the short form for “Jacqueline” should not be “Jackie”, so … how about “racquetty”? Admittedly, it IS harder to decide how to pronounce it.
And Jen, I’m lower case so as to further distinguish myself from you. Shoot, why didn’t I just go with “Nif-nif”? (Did I ever tell about the “Fer” club? In college, I had friends who called me Jen, and family called me Nif (, Niffy, Nif-nif, and McNiff), so some decided I needed a Fer contingent. It never quite caught on.)
rakkity
Jen, with a capital J,
I didn’t realize what the fuss was about capitalization until I responded to “Jennifer”. Belatedly, I realized I should have written “jennifer”, but was over-politely using the capital “J”. So I guess I’m most comfortable with “rakkity”.
Jen
I only had one group who called me ‘nifer. I didn’t like it. I asked them to stop, they didn’t, and I promptly dropped them. It wasn’t an endearment term, it was a taunt. I’m over it. That was 25 years ago. Sticks and stones.
I find it difficult to navigate the gramatical/cap waters on this site! Sometimes it’s OK – sometimes it’s not. People, you can’t have it both ways! If a proper noun (or proper handle) can be flexible, then so can we all with all we write. Ahhh!!! The freedom! It’s like taking off tight shoes at the end of the day. Glorious!
jennifer
As to nick-names — I think what we like/hate MOSTLY comes from how people intend us to take it. Although what is sweet in one group can become problematic. One sister was Ka-Ka until the oldest sister went to school and found out what that meant to classmates; she was appalled my parents hadn’t stopped it earlier, and she did get us all to stop in time. (We called the other thing “number 2” or “BM”, so we didn’t know.)
As for teasing about spelling/punctuation/grammar: You, Jen, we let take off your shoes, because you want to. But El Kib I’ll tease when he makes an error because, well, have you seen how he writes? If we didn’t tease him, he’d think we weren’t paying attention. But yeah, you kind of have to keep track. I’m still avoiding politics.
'nifer
Walken for president.
el Kib
Whatever.
michael
Grousing, you want a nonsequitor?
Living In The Future
A letter come blowin’ in on an ill wind
Somethin’ ’bout me and you
Never seein’ one another again
Yeah, well I knew it’d come
Still I was struck deaf and dumb
Like when we kissed, chasing blood on your tongue
Don’t worry Darlin’, now baby don’t you fret
We’re livin’ in the future and none of this has happened yet
Don’t worry Darlin’, now baby don’t you fret
We’re livin’ in the future and none of this has happened yet
adam
Bruce for President!
Alone I limp through town
A lost cowboy at sundown
Got my monkey on a leash
Got my ear tuned to the ground
My faith’s been torn asunder
Tell me is that rollin’ thunder
Or just the sinkin’ sound
Of somethin’ righteous goin’ under
rakkity
Seems like all the action,
Where the dudes are getting traction,
To grow the blog a fraction,
Is down here Back in Time.
'nifer
rakkity for president! Nicely done!