Reply #27: Why not? [View All]

[RoyGBiv]

I give names that are fitting according to my sense of their place in my life. My dear friend Petey, aka Pete when he was being a little shit, was named after "Ol' Pete," the nickname of a Civil War general I've studied a great deal. He'd been discarded by more than one family when he found me, was misunderstood it seemed because he had an odd personality, but having him with me essentially saved my own life during a trying period, much the same as my study of "Ol' Pete" had done something similar years before.

My current roommate is named Franky. He has brilliant blue eyes, can be a cranky cuss but can turn on the charm when he wants to, and so is named after Old Blue Eyes, i.e. Frank Sinatra. I also think, but am not sure, he has ties to the mafia.