I'm one of the many cases who grew up "nicknameless". No shortening of "Alan" to "Al". No cool nick such as "Flash" or "Bud". I'm also cursed with the name I go by, "Alan", not being my first name. It's actually my middle name. "Philip" is my first name and this has doomed me to a lifetime of uncertainty. Am I "Philip A. Johnson"? Or perhaps "Philip Alan Johnson"? Maybe "P. Alan Johnson" which I adopted as my legal signature.
So if I was ever going to have a nickname, I decided I'd have to do i…
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Posted on November 15, 2008 at 4:31pm — 3 Comments