“Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
Now, of course, it wudn’t me that came up with the name of Chicken Whisperer...
Millyrose told the story of our neighbor who loves the chickens to our son who is sojourning in Saudi Arabia for the winter ‘n he came up with the appellation, which is just another name for nickname...which I right away appropriated ‘n will use as I see fit since I can...
Back a few months or maybe a little longer, we had a young(er) friend of ours do some painting for us...He hates chickens so he definitely cudn’t be a chicken whisperer...he p’ticklarly hated this big old white rooster that wuz hanging around the homestead...now, the white rooster wuz ackshully hiding out here cuz he’d got his butt kicked bigtime by this ferocious red fighting rooster that I nicknamed Badman Jose (after an old song)..
Well, our young(er) friend’ud get all frusterated ‘n go outside ‘n chase the big old white rooster which tickled my funnybone sumwhat ‘n I nicknamed the white rooster MacFail which teed off our young(er) friend so much he stopped speaking to me ‘n only communicated with me thru Millyrose...(life gets so complicated with those artistic types)...
Back in those long-ago daze of my youth, people had nick-names ‘n they came from all kinds of places, sum of ‘em a little on the dark side but the thing about nicknames is that all of ‘em pretty much are temporary...they c’n be affectionate or mean-spirited or anything in between...
Some of ‘em, like my good buddy, ‘Pig’ Phillips who acquired his nickname from his Uncle Bob while he ‘uz still a baby ‘n has hung on to the appellation his whole entire life tho’ I’m quite sure that he wud have been just as happy if it had never happened...I think that’s prob’ly true of most Juniors in this world also...
‘Cept maybe down south where the more common form of Junior is Sonny or Buddy ‘n seems to stick with a body their whole livelong life...
“You ain’t allowed t’give y’rself a nickname; this’s true in life as well as in poker.”
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