Re: Salli (bunnytiner)

[Guest guest]

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> I hope you don't mind me asking but how did Putter come by his

nickname? I am always interested in such things

Oh, Salli, tell her about all of your family's nicknames including

Bunny Tiner. I love your stories and this is a good one! Leggs

[Guest guest]

>

> I hope you don't mind me asking but how did Putter come by his

nickname? I am always interested in such things

Oh, Salli, tell her about all of your family's nicknames including

Bunny Tiner. I love your stories and this is a good one! Leggs

[Guest guest]

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> I hope you don't mind me asking but how did Putter come by his nickname? I

am always interested in such things

>

I don't mind you asking at all. And those who have read this already can

just delete it!

When Putter was born, Lou began calling him Ox after a friend of his who was

named Xavier and had Ox as a nickname. I never leave names alone so I

called him Oxy, and sometimes Oxymoron and Oxytocin, but at last I settled

on Oxy-Pooh, and then Oxy-Pood.

Somehow, in the strange way that nicknames have, and much to Lou's dismay, I

left the Oxy behind and began call him Putti, which some people seemed to

think was a rude name, but which I considered to be just the plural of those

little cherubs in Italian paintings.

Then, around two, started calling him Putt Putt after Putt Putt

Golf and Games, because, as he said, he was always putting around, and that

shifted into Putter because as I said, he was always puttering with stuff

and then it never worked again. Putter seemed to fit him and so there he

stays with many variations: The Evil Mr. Putt, Puttman, Puttmandu (and

usually immediately afterwards someone will say " But Puttman don't! " ) the

Puttmeister, Mr. Putt, Mr. P.

As for bunnytiner, Bunny was Enrique's toddler name. Bambi, short for

Bambino was his baby name, followed by Bamber, followed by Bunny because one

of his favorite books was Margaret Wise Brown's Home for a Bunny. And

was Tiner because Enrique, at two, called him " The Tine Tine

Baby, " for the tiny tiny baby. Later picked up the name Bootsie

from a favorite cat book.

Sophie has mostly been Sophie, but she has also been Sophonisba, Sofa

Pillow, Soaphead.

And Robbie has been the Robcat, the Robber Baron, Roberooski, Robalisk the

Tormentor. Because he could not pronounce a " b " sound, and it came out like

a " d " he is also called Rod, Roddy, Roddy of the Potty, Rod the Podracer,

and Rod the Pod You Know He's Kind of Odd.

Salli