Yeah, I knew this connection, but in 1964, we all at age 9 or 10, had no
idea of the connection; and we were hardly cherubic innocents. But I
daresay that at an all girls school -- St. Trinian's -- the connection
might well be fraught.
The Ronald Searle images, of course.
It was funny -- I remember it 55 years later -- how suddenly the nickname
went away when I chipped my incisor.
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:33 AM Kiley Demond <khdem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I went to an all girls school founded in 1884 whose mascot is the beaver,
> as the animal embodiment of industriousness. That went sideways somewhere
> in the 1980s or 90s. I remember trying to use “what was your high school’s
> mascot?” as a security question and entering “beaver" and having the site
> reject it as unacceptable.
>
>
>
>
>
> On May 27, 2020, at 7:01 AM, Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My nickname until sometime in my 10 year was "Beaver" because of my big,
> gleaming "Maxilary Central Incisors". The name stopped after I chipped the
> left one: 1964 or so, age 9, skateboards new, friend had one, placed it on
> the concrete driveway, thought it brilliant to run and do belly flop on
> board, overshot, true story. But I have no animus against beavers; they're
> rather interesting beasts ("beast" is a standard classification term),
> certainly more interesting than kittens and puppies.
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:31 AM EricP <epericmpl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> .... As for platypus - well, unfortunately, that was my elementary school
>> nickname when being picked on. Since then have never liked the word.
>> Nothing against the animal, or the proposed bike. But the name alone would
>> be a no-go. <embedded image>
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