I am just cracking up over this e-mail.??? I never could figure out ?how all those nicknames came about.????? I have to tell a little story.?????When I would visit my mother (she's in Shady Lawn Nursing Home), I would often see Bill McFarren there, visiting his wife,?Betty.??? When Betty died, I sent him a card and told him I had good memories of his wife.??? He responded with a note addressed to "Gwen & Cleo Meier".???? Just too funny!!!!!!!?
----- Original Message ---- From: jhdouglas59 To: dalton59@... Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:01:13 PM Subject: [dalton59] Re: no longer a yahoo virgin/nicknames
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Nickname genealogy:
Researched today.
From my memory (which may not always be intact anymore), here are my recollections of nicknames for several of our class members:
Weasel (me): On one of the back roads around Dalton (of which there are many), I spotted some kind of varmint in front of the car. I don't recall who was driving. Anyways, this beast darted in front of our speeding car (Ford, Chevy or some Mopar car) and I thought it was a weasel. Everyone laughed and hence the name--Weasel.
Schminck (John Hare):
I'm not sure about this name but I suspect it is in tandem with me being called Weasel. I think he was then called Mink which somehow got twisted into Schminck. This is just a guess.
Cash (Jerry Amstutz): He always enjoyed playing cards and seemed to always win and then he got the name Cash. Another guess.
Hebe (Herb Eberly): This must have been a variation of his first and last name.
Friction (Keith Goudy): Can't figure this one out.
Shook Up (Don Johnson): Sometimes got shook up--hence the name.
Lammy(Lanny Royer): A derivative of Lanny.
Cat (Harold Saurer): Cat like quickness.
Lymmie (Lynn Weikert): A derivative of Lynn.
If anyone else had nicknames, I don't remember them. If the stuff above is wrong, who cares?
It makes good conversation. Any error corrections would be appreciated.
John (Weasel) Henry Douglas
--- In dalton59@yahoogroup s.com, "Patricia Lee" wrote: > > Welcome to the group Weasel (and just where did that name come from?) I am > trying to remember some other nicknames... was there Slink and Cash and > Friction? I am sure many others so if any one can add to and tell how the > names came about that would be fun and interesting. Thanks for adding your > opinion regarding the timing on the reunion, that is a good point! Hope > that it will be read by the right people. > Check out the data base link at the left of the yahoo page click on it and > then click on group contacts to see all of the classmates email and etc that > I have up to date. > Oh and PS now that I have your attention: Does anyone know where to find > Norman Yoder. He is the only one I have no info
on. > > -------Original Message----- -- > > From: jhdouglas59 > Date: 5/12/2008 3:49:37 PM > To: dalton59@yahoogroup s.com > Subject: [dalton59] no longer a yahoo virgin > > Although I am an MSN user, I have now mastered the yahoo signup routine > (I think). Why does this message show 7:34 pm when it is only 2:34 pm > CST? What time zone is yahoo on? Must be the twilight zone. Another > computer mystery for me. > > So what's the scoop for the big 50 next year? For those of us outside > the Dalton metro area, I think some of us may have some conflicts with > the dates suggested (due to grandchildren high school graduations at > the same time as the reunion). > > I went back to Dalton last week for a few days and saw only
one > classmate (John Hare). I don't know if he is part of the yahoo group > but he did give me his e-mail address. Let me know if you want to > contact him by e-mail. > > Since I live in Texas where we get either drought or floods, I was > impressed by how green Ohio is in May. I have only mowed my lawn once > because of our drought, but the Ohio lawn freaks seem to mow their > lawns every other day because of the rain and good soil. Our soil is > mostly rocks and caliche so real grass is nonexistent. I used to be > meticulous about our lawn when we lived in Ohio or the frozen tundra in > Wisconsin (where we lived for 9 long years). > > That's all my humdrum news for the day. > > Glad to be part of the group now. Keep me posted. > > John (aka Weasel) >
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