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Grrl Power #1312 - Epiphonym
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"...that was about the hardest thing I've ever done and I've ________________"
• sat in a meeting with the joint chiefs without rolling my eyes.
• resisted the urge to punch out a sexist MTI* during basic.
• had to learn how to put on a bra in my adolescence with wildly fluctuating super strength. Come to think of it, just pulling up my jeans was often a real potential disaster until I learned how to control my strength and speed. I can tell you I learned very quickly to keep a few changes of outfits in my locker at school.
• didn't break one guy's hand who grabbed my boob during drills. Oh, wait, I absolutely crushed his hand. No, Sydney! Not with my boob! How would that even... Hmm. Maybe if I squeezed his hand between my boobs then maxed out my armor...
*Military Training Instructor, basically a Drill Sergeant.
I don't know how often first names are used in the military. I assume when there aren't any officers around and you're lounging in the barracks or out digging a ditch somewhere, people revert to first names for the squadmates they know. In a military hospital? I can see a doctor referring to a patient by rank, just cause it's easier than learning a bunch of last names, or maybe it's more formal, especially if the doctor is an officer. But I also figure there's an even chance that when you're convalescing in a hospital bed, someone might roll up with a gregarious bedside manner too. And probably a nurse or orderly might not be so formal, but then Peggy might not have wanted to correct a parade of hospital staff as they came through to check on her. I'm just saying, it might have been like a week or two between when she lost her leg and the first time she actually said "Peggy" outloud to anyone.
I think I've already done all the "Eileen/Irene/Peggy" jokes, so I'll leave that be for now. And I know I've said it before, but I myself didn't even realize naming my one-legged female character Peggy was a pre-existing joke. I think I named her Peggy because I had just learned that Peggy was shorty for Margaret, the same way Dick is short for Richard and Bud is short for Aloysius. Okay, obviously Bud is not short for Aloysius, but apparently people can just make up whatever shit they want when it comes to "X is short for Y." Dick isn't short for Richard, it's a shorter and completely different name. Same thing for Peg/Margaret. Hell, I could say Riboflavin is short for Dave, even though it's longer, because there are no rules and nothing matters.
Anyway, I thought the Margaret/Peggy thing was interesting, and I had to call her something, so here we are.
Comments
Christopher Upton
Okay, you asked for it (literally) Richard becomes Rich, then Rick, then Dick, because it rhymes. Margaret becomes Meg (or Meggy if you lived 500 years ago,) so you rhyme it into Peg and Peggy. A personal favorite of mine are Sally and Sarah, which are the same name. Probably shouldn’t get me started on Jonathan/John/Ian/Ivan/Jan/Sean/etc
eddi_TBH
Her train of thought went off the cliff.
eddi_TBH
She'd apply the Glare of Doom to PFC Scoville.
eddi_TBH
Plenty of good roughage if you catch it below the tree line. Careful of the flying non-flying squirrels for Sydney's sake.
eddi_TBH
Neither could she...
eddi_TBH
Don't eat the flying trees.
eddi_TBH
The whole Multiverse is holding it's breath in Panel 3.
Churchill (formerly TeaBear)
Yes, "Bud" is a catchall nickname for people (mainly men, but, no judgement) who hate their given name. My (former) BiL was called Bud because he hated his given name, Orville. (His grandfather's name). My karate sensei during college was called Bud because he hated his name, Elmer.
Ian Brown
In the movie "The Abyss", Ed Harris' character Bud Brigman's first name was "Virgil" Best quote - Lindsey Brigman: "Virgil, you wiener."
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
They're British: they don't pronounce the r in the first place. :) But the nicknames like Dick, Hick, and Bick for Richard, along with Bob, Hob, Dob and Nob for Robert, Ted and Ned for Edward, Mag, Meg, and Peg for Margaret, all predate Cockney rhymes by a few centuries. It was a fashion of alteration in nicknames a couple hundred years before Shakespeare, about the time Old English became Middle English. And Cockney dates back to only the 1830s or so, when lots of immigrants settled in East London.
Richard Riley
That depends on the environment.
Raymond Dannelly
Every natural disaster is edible if you try hard enough.
Erin Halfelven at BigCloset
Everyone in the military gets a nickname. The hairy guy who ran to the latrine in only his skivvies was "Dancing Bear" or just "Bear". The guy who stayed up late reading manuals was "Midnight Oil" or just "Earl". The kid who drew cartoons in the topsecret logbooks was "Sketch".
ShanaraCinderfall
Anyone else think that Peggy looks amazing with her natural brunette hair? Still love the pink but her natural color looks amazing too.
Playwars
Oh my god Maxima's face in the third panel I can't XD
Tom Weatherly
When I was in the Army we often used last names or nicknames for each other. Only those we were really close to used first names with each other.
Richard du Maine
Ahem... Dick IS short for Richard...
Anton Schleef
I hadn't thought of that before, and now the thought won't leave. It's just to believable with her.
Anton Schleef
You're not the only one.
Mark Magagna
When I was very young a neighbor's daughter had the nickname "Tuppy", who babysat me and my sister a couple of times. I don't know what her actual name was (they moved when I was about 6). I've tried to figure out what her real name was and can only conclude it likely had no relation to "Tuppy". Nicknames may have little relation to actual names. This likely dates back at least to the Romans. Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was generally called "Africanus" because he won a famous battle in Africa. Nothing to do with his other names. And then a lot of his descendants got the name "Africanus" as well. Roman history can be pretty confusing.
Marc Vun Kannon
Never mind. I was thinking rock avalanche not snow avalanches.
Robert Headley
Richard-Rich-Ric-Rick-Dick
Jacob Bissey
I had a professor named Edward who went by Ted. Like, I knew Theodore could be shortened to Ted, and apparently names that can be shortened to Ed can become Ted for some reason, but I wonder if your coworker Ted had a middle name that could be shortened to Ted, or perhaps a childhood nickname of Teddy after Teddy Bears or something that became Ted as he got older, because I just can't see how Paul gets there.
Jacob Bissey
Margaret is also often shortened to "Meg", so that might be the rhyme with Peg, which then gets extended to Peggy. I'm honestly a little unclear where the r goes when Margaret is shortened to Meg/Maggie.
Marc Vun Kannon
What's the joke about avalanche being edible?
Marc Vun Kannon
I can't believe I never got the joke with Peggy's name until now.
Mike
OMG that panel of Max trying not to laugh!
Andrew Copsey
Panel 3: *Must. Not. Laugh. First *
Bill Porter
I had a short girlfriend who had to have her foot amputated due to diabetes. She was off her feet for a few months recovering. Once she healed and was fitted for a prosthetic she stood up next to me and said "When did you get so tall?" I couldn't help myself and said, "Well, you did lose a foot."
Justaguy
Waiting for the first time they're hanging out laundry and someone is "Pass me a Peg" and Sydney starts tossing around team-mates with the Molestorb. :P
codesurfer
I think Dabbler has probably broken someone's something with her boobs before. Even succubi have limits on the amount of skeve they can take
Cha0sniper
The Richard/Dick and Margaret/Peggy shortforms come from Cockney rhyming slang. Richard is shortened to Rick, which rhymes with Dick; Margaret is shortened to Maggie, which rhymes (kinda, I assume it's closer in a lower-class English accent) with Peggy. The More You Know(TM) xD
Michael Obert
Musn't . . . Violate. . .HR protocols. . . And, to be fair, if your name is Aloysius or Engelbert, or something, I think you can claim anything as being short for that. I once worked with a guy named Paul who went by Ted
James C
"Peggy" / "Dick" are more 'nicknames for' than directly 'short for' (Richard -> Rick -> Dick | Margaret -> Maggy/Meggy -> Peggy)
You_With_The_Face
Max's face is everything
