My so called name.
I'm walking across the quad (Hey! Look! I'm in college now. I can say quad) and my roommate walks past and says "Sup, Q-money". This really isn't as strange as it sounds and typically I don't worry about a name people call me, unless its asshole or idiot (I despise you Ty Rogers). I'm pretty much cool with any name as long as it's in good fun. I figured I should record these names somewhere and what better place than live journal. Here goes...
Quinton- we'll start with the basic. Family name, it's what my dad goes by. My middle name and generally the name I introduce myself with. There are tons of people who call me this.
Arlynn- My first name. Some people say it's my "real name", as if Quinton, my middle name is just some sort of fake crap. No one has ever called me Arlynn for a prolonged period of time with the exception of my sixth grade gym coach, Coach Riley. He was a huge Miami Dolphins fan. He was also a fan of cocaine (or crack or some other illegal drug). Maybe I'll write a rambling live journal entry about him one day.
Tintin- This is what my little sister Stephanie called me until she got speech therapy. She couldn't pronounce her Q sound. God does have some sense of humor to give a speech impediment that keeps someone from saying their Dad and brother's name. I have a friend, David Beachaump, who called me tintin all the way through elementary school, either as joke or because he too couldn't pronounce his Q sounds. In any case no one in the last 8 years has called me tintin.
Augustus- So you know how there was a time in your life, at least a moment, where you didn't want to say your middle name cause you were embarrassed (you know, cause your a guy and it's Francis or something like that). Well, for me it was my first name. A lot of people knew that it started with an A but that was all. This guy at my church, Scotty Bayer, decided he was going to make one up. He picked Augustus and it sorta stuck for a while, long enough for me to make it my screen name at least. This one is pretty random but I can live with it (plus Augustus means 'ruler', which is pretty cool).
Ed- The great John Moseychuck (spelling?) came up with this name for literally no reason. He just told me that I looked like an Ed and that he was going to call me that from now on. This fits perfectly with John's character seeing as how when I was a freshman in high school on the first day he asked me whether or not I was wearing adult sizes, or was I still in child sizes. It sounds like an insult but I think he was just curious. To his credit John called me Ed forever after deeming that to be my name. John wasn't alone. Nathan Zetabrini also called me Ed for as long as he knew me (I'm not even sure he knew my real name).
DJ Qualls- One day at lunch, junior year, Paul Hulsberg decided that I looked a lot like DJ Qualls, the kid from road trip. This one never really stuck except for with Lauren Lippes who called me Qualls for months afterwards.
Q-Diddy- my RA calls me this and to be honest I'm not really sure why. It could be because of my awesome blackness but somehow I doubt it.
Koala- Once again this derives from my looking like something else. Apparently to Thomas Nyguen i look just like a koala. Don't get me wrong, Koalas are cute, but couldn't I have looked like a ferocious, laser eyed, golden retriever or something.
That’s really all I can think of. If anyone does remember that they called me so and so back in 7th grade, be sure to tell me and I'll drop whatever I'm doing and get to the nearest computer to add it in.
Quinton- we'll start with the basic. Family name, it's what my dad goes by. My middle name and generally the name I introduce myself with. There are tons of people who call me this.
Arlynn- My first name. Some people say it's my "real name", as if Quinton, my middle name is just some sort of fake crap. No one has ever called me Arlynn for a prolonged period of time with the exception of my sixth grade gym coach, Coach Riley. He was a huge Miami Dolphins fan. He was also a fan of cocaine (or crack or some other illegal drug). Maybe I'll write a rambling live journal entry about him one day.
Tintin- This is what my little sister Stephanie called me until she got speech therapy. She couldn't pronounce her Q sound. God does have some sense of humor to give a speech impediment that keeps someone from saying their Dad and brother's name. I have a friend, David Beachaump, who called me tintin all the way through elementary school, either as joke or because he too couldn't pronounce his Q sounds. In any case no one in the last 8 years has called me tintin.
Augustus- So you know how there was a time in your life, at least a moment, where you didn't want to say your middle name cause you were embarrassed (you know, cause your a guy and it's Francis or something like that). Well, for me it was my first name. A lot of people knew that it started with an A but that was all. This guy at my church, Scotty Bayer, decided he was going to make one up. He picked Augustus and it sorta stuck for a while, long enough for me to make it my screen name at least. This one is pretty random but I can live with it (plus Augustus means 'ruler', which is pretty cool).
Ed- The great John Moseychuck (spelling?) came up with this name for literally no reason. He just told me that I looked like an Ed and that he was going to call me that from now on. This fits perfectly with John's character seeing as how when I was a freshman in high school on the first day he asked me whether or not I was wearing adult sizes, or was I still in child sizes. It sounds like an insult but I think he was just curious. To his credit John called me Ed forever after deeming that to be my name. John wasn't alone. Nathan Zetabrini also called me Ed for as long as he knew me (I'm not even sure he knew my real name).
DJ Qualls- One day at lunch, junior year, Paul Hulsberg decided that I looked a lot like DJ Qualls, the kid from road trip. This one never really stuck except for with Lauren Lippes who called me Qualls for months afterwards.
Q-Diddy- my RA calls me this and to be honest I'm not really sure why. It could be because of my awesome blackness but somehow I doubt it.
Koala- Once again this derives from my looking like something else. Apparently to Thomas Nyguen i look just like a koala. Don't get me wrong, Koalas are cute, but couldn't I have looked like a ferocious, laser eyed, golden retriever or something.
That’s really all I can think of. If anyone does remember that they called me so and so back in 7th grade, be sure to tell me and I'll drop whatever I'm doing and get to the nearest computer to add it in.