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My little sister has been called at various times "Little Bit," "Bit," and finally "Frank," although her name is Kelly. The reasons for Frank are not easily explained if you aren't a member of my immediate family. Just mark it down to my father's and my weird sense of humor.

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I used to be really skinny and bony as a child, and sometimes my dad would refer to me as "Bonerack." Sometimes my grandmother calls me "Sally," no idea why. I think it's a general-purpose nickname, though, because while I get called that most often, she has used it for my sister and my cousin.

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Sometimes my husband calls our baby Iris Matilda "Rainbow Warrior" because Iris means "rainbow" and Matilda means "strength in battle." DH's brother calls Iris "Fonzie" or "The Fonz" because of her hair. Sometimes I call her "Pookie," "Sugar Beet," "Sugar Bean," and "Sweet Pea," although those last ones might count more as endearments rather than nns. Before she was born she was sometimes "Banana."

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My cousin Conner used to be referred to as "Theobald" by my grandfather. Again, no idea why.

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Something else my dad and I came up with was the nickname "Houston" for my mom. My mom is the one who runs everything and keeps everyone on schedule and in the right place, etc. NASA's Mission Control is located in Houston, Texas. So we started calling her Houston because of her control-freak tendencies. My sister was in on the joke, too. For something like 8 or 9 years we called my mother Houston and she had no idea why. We just recently explained it to her, and we still call her that.

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