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#1 2010-07-21 01:58:21
- Kingstonian
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Yanks called 'Trip'
Anyone know if it is a short nickname for something else, like 'Chuck' means Charles ?
Is it supposed to be posh ? (Oh yes. all our Tristrams are known as 'Trip')
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#2 2010-07-21 02:02:44
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
I'm not sure that I know anyone called 'Tristram'. Although I do know someone called 'Jethro'.
#3 2010-07-21 02:11:04
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
I always thought: Trip(le) - as in Loudon J. Wainright III
Explains why you never heat the name elsewhere.
#6 2010-07-21 02:32:23
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
Trip sounds like one of those names the police give to John Does of the kind who may have stumbled off the platform in front of a train.
Like in one of Ian Rankin's Rebus novels, where a character hurled from a window and impaled on railings is christened 'Spike'.
#7 2010-07-21 02:39:37
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
Very conservative chaps, these Americans. My despised oil executive brother in law, known as Mick to every family member except his Mummy has to be Mike when drilling and pumping around Dallas.
#8 2010-07-21 11:44:34
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
it does indeed mean "the third". very posh, never met a midwesterner, even a posh one, who goes by it. used sarcastically to refer to prep school/OPH wannabe types, much like muffy, skip, buffy, etc.
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#9 2010-07-21 12:50:11
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
^sounds like winthorpes gang from trading places.
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#10 2010-07-21 12:58:09
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
I know a couple guys with that handle. Not entirely sure if it's a "III" situation, although I do know a kid who rejoices in the nickname "Quad," for that reason.
I don't think it means much, if anything.
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#11 2010-07-21 21:46:02
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
id always heard that "flip" was the fourth, not that ive ever met one, or a trip for that matter.
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#12 2010-07-24 02:23:21
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
They do exist. Unfortunately.
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#13 2010-07-24 02:31:06
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
There is a footballer called Big Ben Burgess who plays for Blackpool.
He used to be known as 'Triple B'.
#14 2010-07-24 04:34:51
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Re: Yanks called 'Trip'
Contrary to lies of FNB and Woofboxer, I (and most of the other "Buff Bastards") have been banned from posting on this forum. There are only a few posters left so don't waste your time on here. This forum is dead and nobody cares.