Freddogg Off The Chain

" If I couldn't be Long Dong, I'd be Long Gone." Marvin Gay


Cheeta, the very same chimp that starred in the Tarzan movies, just celebrated his 74th birthday. He holds the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest documented living primate.
I covered a high school baseball team that had this little speed demon base runner named Thomas but everyone called him Cheeta that is everyone but me in print because Thomas was and still is black and named Cheeta but I ain’t calling him that, no way.

I was covering another sport and everyone kept referring to this athlete as Stiff. I ask a teammate, ”Do I want to know why he’s called Stiff," and the athlete replied, “no you don’t.”

I can think of a football player they called Captain Hook and again I was told to stay away from the nickname.
Some nicknames are obviously trouble like the baseball guy teammates called “Beer Can Dick” whatever that means to adolescent boys.
And do you remember the accusation of Anita Hill during the Supreme Court nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas charging he sexually harassed her and once asked if she saw a certain porn movie starring Long Dong Silver? Imagine the stenographer entering that into the congressional record? What is short hand for Long Dong? Or as Marvin Gay sang, ”If I couldn't be Long Dong I’d be Long Gone”. Remember Marvin’s last hit? “I Heard It Through the Carbine.”

Send me the most favorite nickname you’ve ever heard and tell me the derivation or where you think the name came from.

Peace Freddogg