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All posts tagged

nicknames

November 16, 2006

Potential Nicknames for the Star Player on My Son’s Soccer Team

by Wendi Aarons
September 28, 2006

Poets’ Pet Names for Their Privates

by Adam Wasson
April 12, 2006

Page Six By Jared Paul Stern

by Ben Greenman
April 8, 2005

Dispatches From a Public Librarian: Dispatch 16: Jeffica

by Scott Douglas
November 10, 2004

Cruel Nicknames for Overweight Vampires

by Marty Sems, Nathan Chandler, Cal Clinchard, and Amy Cassner-Sems
August 2, 2004

The Exploding Boy

by Nick Parker
July 16, 2003

Nicknames for Jesus

by Ed Page
January 21, 2003

Nicknames I’ve Been Called by My Family

by Gregorian Von Vermouthian
November 21, 2002

Nicknames for the Nuns at My Catholic Girls Boarding School

by Heidi Bullard
July 29, 2002

Coach Sean’s Interlude

by Jeff Johnson

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My Favorite Controlled Substance Is Daycare

by Sarah Suksiri
June 17, 2021

What Your Favorite ’90s Rock Band Says About the Type of Bored Suburban Dad You Are Today

by Talia Argondezzi and Jared Bilski
January 14, 2022

What Your Favorite Sad Dad Band Says About You

by John Moe
June 16, 2022

How to Give Directions Like My Dad

by Charles Stayton

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by Lucy Huber
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Sure, the Supreme Court Is Making Some Bad Decisions. But at Least the Rest of Their Decisions Are Also Bad

by Eli Grober