About a month ago my sister from Georgia was visiting for my nephews baptism. We went to the Red Baron Showlounge that Saturday night where she told me she wanted an Edgerton nickname. I should have explained to her that it’s actually a Fulton thing, but I didn’t want to get into small details after so many Miller Lites had been consumed. Now I should explain that I know people who answer to Buck, Nubby, Slewfoot, Pogie, Jughead, Long Rod, Buckshot, Woolite, Spike, Short Crotch and last but not least Crud. This is just a small example of the Fulton nickname at it’s finest. So we thought as hard as three drunks can on a Saturday night. Levi asked what do you have a lot of in Georgia? Now the obvious answer would have been peaches, but Bridgette and I came up with Waffle Houses. We just don’t have Waffle Houses north of the *sweet tea line. That’s how we dubbed my sister Andrea Waffle Head on a drunken Saturday night.
*Sweet tea line= the area of the United States where you quit asking for iced tea and refer to it as sweet tea. I think it starts around Southern Illinois.
Jen said,
June 11, 2009 @ 8:54 am
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting a few of those nicknames!
Waffle Head works. Well done.
At work I’ve dubbed someone Swifty and a customer Mumbles. Nicknames seem to be much more common in our neck o’ the woods rather than in my current pocket of England. But dammit, sometimes these nicknames cannot be avoided!