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')
Last edited by Kingstonian (2010-07-21 02:12:11)
I'm not sure that I know anyone called 'Tristram'. Although I do know someone called 'Jethro'.
I always thought: Trip(le) - as in Loudon J. Wainright III
Explains why you never heat the name elsewhere.
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'.
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.
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.
^sounds like winthorpes gang from trading places.
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.
id always heard that "flip" was the fourth, not that ive ever met one, or a trip for that matter.
They do exist. Unfortunately.
There is a footballer called Big Ben Burgess who plays for Blackpool.
He used to be known as 'Triple B'.