{"id":332,"date":"2022-10-12T22:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thejollygerman.com\/wordpress\/?p=332"},"modified":"2022-10-12T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:46:59","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejollygerman.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/12\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In A Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"332\" class=\"elementor elementor-332\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-182cad4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"182cad4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-810c5cf\" data-id=\"810c5cf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12a94f6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"12a94f6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What's In A Name?<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67b5477 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67b5477\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-535d8a5\" data-id=\"535d8a5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c99489 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"5c99489\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.23.0 - 05-08-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>A question I am asked quite often is &#8220;why did you get the nickname &#8220;Hook&#8221;. Well I&#8217;m going to set the story straight so everyone knows the origin of this kind of funny nickname and why I chose to keep it, or had to!<\/p><p>Sometime back in the late 1970&#8217;s, a friend of mine that had been nicknamed &#8220;Bunyan&#8221; by a number of his friends, bestowed the nickname on me. It seemed a ritual of sorts in our particular neighborhood. Everyone had a nickname. I wasn&#8217;t to be excluded. And because of my funny last name to begin with, for a few years I had to endure such names as Fuzzy, Fozzy, Fuzzbucket, Fuzzbutt and even Fuzznuts to my less cherished friends. However none of them really stuck and I might be called any of them by the same person any given day.<\/p><p>Actually in some ways, I kind of came up with my own nickname because I once called my good friend &#8220;the Bunyan&#8221; Hook just because it sounded kind of funny at the time. One day I was at the Bunyan&#8217;s house standing next to a wall leading into his kitchen, and on that wall was a picture of Jesus Christ. In the corner of the picture was a signature, &#8220;R. Hook&#8221;. It seems this R. Hook artist has many Jesus themed pictures to his credit.<\/p><p>From that day forward, the Bunyan began calling me &#8220;Hook&#8221; and it wasn&#8217;t long after that, everyone of our circle of friends was calling me that on a regular basis as well. As I mentioned before, everyone in the neighborhood had a nickname; there were such names as &#8220;The Bear&#8221;, &#8220;The Munch&#8221;, &#8220;June&#8221; (for junior), &#8220;The F-Man&#8221;, &#8220;Waldo&#8221;, &#8220;Tedrow&#8221;, &#8220;Woody&#8221;, &#8220;Harv the Mark&#8221;&#8230;.you get the idea. All harmless fun.<\/p><p>I knew it was to become a permanent name for myself when one fine day, there were a bunch of us hanging out in a garage and the Bunyan starts patting me on the head like a dog, exclaiming to the rest of the bunch, &#8220;our Hook&#8221;. The word &#8220;our&#8221; replacing the R entirely. I still get a chuckle over that and people telling me, &#8220;what up Hook?&#8221;<\/p><p>Looking back I suppose it was a time of fun and frivolity and a lot of well-known musicians were taking names; &#8220;Sting&#8221;, &#8220;Slash&#8221;, &#8220;Flea&#8221;, etc. So it just seemed logical to hang on to the name for myself and playing music. Besides, Hook is a lot easier to pronounce for many people than &#8220;Pfalzbot&#8221;. More on that name at a later date!<\/p><p>Gary<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s In A Name? 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