Yeah, you can't discount the rhyming factor...my husband thinks it was just the fact that "you knew me well enough to call me by a nickname" seemed everyone in the service had one...I've always thought it should have been "Pal" instead of "Al" every time even though that would mean it rhymed with itself.

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