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uncle f said:
I love when my 3 y.o. calls me dadtee. He can say dah, duh, doh and die but not dee.
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I haven't been in GD much so I am getting caught up on some. I liked this even though uncle f(ranklin) is banned.

And I love it when my granddaughter calls me "pop-pop". She came up with it all on her own. My wife wanted her to call me Opa and her Oma, due to our german connections, but she started calling me Pop-pop and it stuck.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I haven't been in GD much so I am getting caught up on some. I liked this even though uncle f(ranklin) is banned.

And I love it when my granddaughter calls me "pop-pop". She came up with it all on her own. My wife wanted her to call me Opa and her Oma, due to our german connections, but she started calling me Pop-pop and it stuck.
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Yes! My dad and stepmom are Oma and Opa to my kids. My dad’s mom and his stepdad were Oma and Opa for me.
 
My great-nieces and great-nephew are being taught to call their great grandmothers "Grandma Great." It sounds annoyingly weird, and my mom isn't thrilled either.
 
I'm going by Nano (pronounced "Nah'-no"), as one of my great-granfathers was called. CharityBrow goes by "Granny".
 
JazzGal said:
My great-nieces and great-nephew are being taught to call their great grandmothers "Grandma Great." It sounds annoyingly weird, and my mom isn't thrilled either.
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All of my family's grandkids called my grandmother "grandma great". She was the great grand mother, and it just got started by one of the great-grand-kids because they were too young to get what we were telling them, so they said "grandma great" and it stuck.

Another one in our family is that my mother is called "honey" by all of her grandkids. Again, it was organic. My 2nd oldest nephew (now he is 30...holy crap) was like 3 and my parents were watching him one day. My dad was on the couch with him when my mom walked by and my dad called to her to come talk to him, calling her "honey". She sat down and my nephew called her honey right after that. And it stuck. All of the grandkids call her honey. It is so ingrained that me and my siblings call her honey when we are talking about her and my dad together (it is HoneyAndGrandpa...all one word :)). It has even spread out of our family, people in her church ward know that her grandkids call her honey, so 2 other women instructed their grandkids to call them honey because they thought it was the greatest thing. Then a good friend of ours announced one day when we were out to dinner that she has chosen "honey" as her "grandma name".

Is choosing your grandparent name a thing? I guess imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but really? Telling your grandkids to call you something like that. Now if it happens organically (like it did with my grandma-great and my mom being called honey, or me being called pop-pop) then it is cute and endearing. But hearing that someone else was called something by their grandkids and instructing your grandkids to do the same is kind of creepy or something. Just feels weird. I hear my friend's grandchildren call her "honey" and it grates like fingernails on a chalkboard. That's just weird.
 
One Brow said:
I'm going by Nano (pronounced "Nah'-no"), as one of my great-granfathers was called. CharityBrow goes by "Granny".
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My birth-mother has her grandkids call her "granny" because the family she married into was already established and as the step-grandmother they already had 2 "grandmas" so she had them call her granny.
 
My parents are Papa and Bobo. My mom’s name is Colleen and she wanted to be called Coco, but when the oldest grandkid started talking it came out as Bobo. That’s what stuck.
 
I think it is appropriate that if there isn't a cute, organic name for a grandparent or great-grandparent that the grandparent should get a say in what they are called. My mom really dislikes Grandma Great, but it has been used in photos and such and she doesn't want to make a fuss about it. But it is sad she doesn't get to be called by something she likes.
 
bigb said:
My parents are Papa and Bobo. My mom’s name is Colleen and she wanted to be called Coco, but when the oldest grandkid started talking it came out as Bobo. That’s what stuck.
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I called and got my daughter to call my bellybutton a bobo when she was really little. Like 1. The whole double b thing. Just some silly crap she doesn't remember.
 
Kicking the *** of the prosecuting attorny on trumped up b.s. charges against my wife and I. He was very nice and so was the judge, but the "oh ****" vibe in his demeanor when I started reading the Utah Code to him was priceless. They aren't used to people who know how to read the law and I blindsided him with a great bluff where he didnt know what he was prosecuting for. I still have a legal case on other law, but whatever, job got done and all parties seem happy.

The small things in life.
 
idestroyedthetoilet said:
Kicking the *** of the prosecuting attorny on trumped up b.s. charges against my wife and I. He was very nice and so was the judge, but the "oh ****" vibe in his demeanor when I started reading the Utah Code to him was priceless. They aren't used to people who know how to read the law and I blindsided him with a great bluff where he didnt know what he was prosecuting for. I still have a legal case on other law, but whatever, job got done and all parties seem happy.

The small things in life.
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Please share full details, charges and your's and their's version of it post haste.


*grabs popcorn*
 
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