The athleticism and Izzo-ness of the Spartans are starting to rear their ugly (or beautiful) head, and the Valparaiso Valpos (that's their nickname, right?) might be heading into treacherous waters.
"Is that Mr Panda?" I asked, "or Panda Someone?" But he actually scowled – that's the first time anyone has done that outside an Enid Blyton book – and said: "'Smy nickname right?" And, well, sorry for my cheek, but these people – honestly – they seem as similarly unacquaintanced with humour as they obviously are with soap.
The company donated a cubicle -- nicknamed Right Field -- for him to use for the project in his off hours.
Of the 70 cartoon characters he created, he selected about half to form an all-star lineup, then put them on a postcard-size handout challenging people to match each character with the right nickname.
He even had the right nickname, "the Two-Ton Gorilla".
Finding the right nickname for yourself isn't that hard.
Kumaritashvili was approaching the end of Curve 16, a sweeping turn to the right nicknamed Thunderbird, and was just moments from the finish line.
Harry Lee Dickey, according to the legend, at least, was a star ballplayer in his own right, nicknamed Horse, who, in 1974, received an offer of two thousand dollars and a bus ticket to join the Cincinnati Reds' farm team in Plant City, Florida.
He has a star with a nickname, Mondy, on his right forearm, a circle with another nickname, El Bufalo, on his left, and a small rendering of a buffalo on his back.
And in the Manhattanville housing project in Harlem, a 21-year-old man named Cgod Godallah, better known by his nickname, Can't Get Right, somehow finds fault with the police for arresting him yet again.
That's right, their nickname is Soccerroos, like the kangaroos of soccer.
