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• Some clarifying questions & nicknames!!! by shinyinflorida on 31 Dec, 2008 21:39
• Hello all and Happy New Year!!!! 
  
  I have a couple of clarifying questions that hopefully someone can answer for me. 
  1) What does 'mpb' stand for?  I've seen it throughout some of these posts.
  2) SLY?  Do the letters stand for something? 
  
  Since I was so young in loosing my hair, I quickly received some nicknames.  Mostly, good.  I would like to compare notes...
  
  I've been called... ShinyDome 2 (the 2 because my dad is bald too and he is ShinyDome1...my brother gave me that nickname, but "revenge" is sweet because he is not ShinyDome 3. I've been called Shiner, ChromeDome.
  
  
• #1 by J.J. on 31 Dec, 2008 22:03
• Quote from: shinyinflorida on 31 Dec, 2008 21:39

  
  1) What does 'mpb' stand for?  I've seen it throughout some of these posts.
  
  
  

  
  mpb = male pattern baldness
• #2 by GASlick on 31 Dec, 2008 22:12
• To be honest, I don't have any nicknames.
  
  SLY is an attitude.  It doesn't stand for anything.
• #3 by TheSlyBear on 31 Dec, 2008 22:23
• Sly as in "clever enough to beat Mother Nature at her own game".
• #4 by BaldMark on 31 Dec, 2008 23:41
• Yes mpb= male pattern baldness,   Sly is all us Chrome domes!   I  like that over the bald guy.   I think it's because Bald has a negative stigma. 
• #5 by Brkeatr on 01 Jan, 2009 05:33
• Nope, no nicknames here either....
• #6 by nomad on 01 Jan, 2009 06:53
• the only nickname I get is "The Show" because everyone thinks I look like the the Big Show from the WWE. I don't get any bald nicknames
• #7 by SLYinKC on 01 Jan, 2009 07:31
• I think I recall Tyler saying that he picked SLY because it is "roguish and playful".  The spirit of a SLY guy.
• #8 by Mikekoz13 on 01 Jan, 2009 08:39
• Nobody really calls me by nicknames anymore.... but "Koz" is a play on part of my last name.
  
  In the "good old days" my buddies called me "The Cat" because they said I could spot a beautiful woman in the dark from 100 feet away.
• #9 by Sooner Steve on 02 Jan, 2009 10:54
• In court recently, I had a defendant call me "cueball".  Not really the way you want to address a judge but I took it as a compliment.  He ended up in jail for a while but not because of his remark.    He was drunk as a skunk and a deputy got him before he left the room. 
• #10 by GASlick on 02 Jan, 2009 21:29
• I wouldn't call a judge that I was standing in front of anything except "Sir" or "Your Honor"  LOL
  
  Our local county Magistrate Judge is a good friend of mine and she says you would be surprised to hear what people say to her.  I think I would be most respectful. 
• #11 by buuckkweet on 03 Jan, 2009 04:43
• Around town everbody calls me "Deano" or "Deaner."
  
  No biggie, as long as I'm not called "late for supper" everything is all good. 
• #12 by hammerdrill376 on 03 Jan, 2009 05:16
• I get called Big John alot...maybe being 6'2" 266 lbs has something to do with it...don't know
• #13 by Papa Don on 03 Jan, 2009 07:30
• My nickname is Don.  As a child, I really hated my real name.  My parents had a wierd sense of humor.  So, I refused to answer when called by my real name.  My parents asked what I wanted to be called, the first thing out of my mouth--Don.  It stuck.  Few people even know my birth name.  Thank God!
• #14 by TheSlyBear on 03 Jan, 2009 10:58
• I've been called Bear for so long -- it's what just about everyone calls me, and what I've published my books under -- that sometimes I forget that that's not what's on my birth certificate.