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Thread #161318   Message #3833031
Posted By: Mr Red
16-Jan-17 - 05:03 PM
Thread Name: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
Subject: RE: BS: presidential nicknames - suggestions
Trumple Thinskin - getting close to the Bull (sic)

nicknames have been the staple of human discourse since tribes got to be larger than "mother - father - grandad/pop/granpy - grandma/gran - aunt etc". ANd don't the Welsh have fun - "look see".

When Billy the Bastard claimed all of England and realised he didn't know what he had got, his henchmen had to document people. So John here and John there had to be nominatively distinguished. So if John was a woodcutter he got to be John Forrester (and his decendants today might be Forster or Foster) but poor old John with a crossed eye would be John Cox which wasn't that complimentary even then.

Anyway we have to single out Presidents from any other poor sod with the same appellation. We are having fun, it won't be fun much longer.

Trump's litany of refusing to pay so many creditors must earn the nickname "Old can pay, won't pay" some day. Since "His Fraudulency" has already been taken.