A friend of mine dug up an old list of personal jokes from the college years and sent a scanned version around to our friends. I didn’t go on the particular trip, opting for a Spring Break in the Bahamas instead of Florida because it's a foreign country and you can get a passport stamp. But the list brought much hilarity none-the-less.
What was odd about my friend posting this list, was not that she posted it, not that she still had it, but that I had been talking about other lists my group of friends made a few days before.
We were out to dinner with friends and were discussing nicknames for co-workers. While I'm sure in my highly social first job out of college I also had nicknames for my co-workers, I have no recollection of any nicknames or even of the act of plotting nicknames with friends. I'm sure I was too busy talking trash about the girl with inappropriate cleavage or the guy whose office always smelled like a fart.
All I could contribute to the nickname conversation was The List. The List is a 4-page, double-sided list of 101 nicknames assigned to GW students by my friends and I in 1995. It is a wonder to behold.
Many names from the list I recall to this day. Half and Half Eye shadow Girl. Guido in the Morning. Rabbinic Turtle.
The list was broken into groups of friends to make sure we didn’t forget anyone. We put stars next to the names of the boys we liked.
My friends and I were fond of documenting things - nicknames, party invite lists, personal jokes. And I'm glad we did. Without our gnarled notebook papers and paper plates, our college years may have been lost. And who would ever want to forget FChinring?
4 comments:
Oh... My... G-d!!! I looooooove this blog entry, perhaps because I can recall drafting that nickname list in the laundry room of Thurston as if it were yesterday ;-) While I think half-and-half eye shadow girl and guido in the morning represent some of our best work, it's 13-years later and I'm still guilty of putting an "f" in front of people's names--don't pretend the rest of you don't still do that too! LML! ;-)
Someone answer this riddle-- who was the third member of this threesome: chocolate thunder from down under, tsunami and....?
OMG i'm crying over Half and Half Eyeshadow girl... too funny.
#3 was shamoo! we're awful.
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