A friend of mine calls his parents HOD (Hunk of Daddy)
and LOM (Little Old Mom).
Candice
--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> My mother used to speak of my father as 'Yerfarth',
> short for 'yer farther',
> when speaking to me and my bro and sist. Very useful
> when we got old enough
> to be a bit embarrassed with 'Daddy' but didn't
> really solve the problem of
> how we might address him. Now that he's 93 we've
> gone back to 'Daddy',
> sensing that he'd like that.
>
> joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:20 AM
> Subject: Re: The cat's mother (was Re:
> Constructivist Poetics)
>
>
> > My mother also used that phrase, so thanks for
> clearing that up. Mother
> > called Father 'Adie' as his name was Adrian, and
> Father called Mother
> > 'Jonesy' after her maiden name. My bad sense of
> humour comes from himself.
> > E.g., he used to stand at the front door and yell
> out, 'Are you carmen,
> > Jones?' It weren't the cat's whisker, that one ...
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > On 28/02/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks very much for clearing up "the cat's
> mother."
> >> It never occurred to me that it was/is a
> dehumanizing
> >> gesture. As for Himself, my Irish
> great-grandmother
> >> always called her husband "Mr. McAlister."
> Obviously,
> >> one couldn't call him "the cat's father" without
> being
> >> insulting, though insulting a woman was okay.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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