Is Stevie Nicks dragging Fleetwood Mac's tour around?

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by bushesandbriars

. . . but she is ostensibly the reason we're on her message board, yeah?

No - we're here to be lectured by you

[iamnotafraid]

Instead of calling her "Mama" or La' this and that, how about

MEOW CLUCK?

That's unique. Certainly better than "mama" or "old woman".

[David]

Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

Instead of calling her "Mama" or La' this and that, how about

MEOW CLUCK?

That's unique. Certainly better than "mama" or "old woman".

I like Old Woman. But I'm going to keep calling her Big Mama ... or Bella Zaftig.

[jannieC]

Originally Posted by carrie721

"liddy" or "liddy buck"?

That bugs me too. :P

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by jannieC

That bugs me too. :P

Touché

[David]

Originally Posted by jannieC

That ("Liddy Buck") bugs me too. :P

At least in this case, the name was penned by John Stewart for a song. That's where the fans got it.

But I really hate 'Linds.' These obsequious nicknames are phony-chummy. The really curious thing is that the fans who use these nicknames the most are typically younger & newer to the Mac fan dodge.

But I'd have to add that, all in all, this business is pretty trivial. I mean, Fleetwood Mac fans are starving in Third World countries even as we speak. Stevie Nicks's footwear is a lot more important than this, too.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

But I really hate 'Linds.' These obsequious nicknames are phony-chummy. The really curious thing is that the fans who use these nicknames the most are typically younger & newer to the Mac fan dodge.

I think Linds is a natural truncation of "Lindsey" and I can see doing that, just as some people might call you "Dave" even if you had a keen aversion to that moniker. They think it's "normal" to use that nickname. Same with Chuck, Bob, Bill, etc. I see Linds in the same vain.

Now, with Christine, even if I didn't know she would answer to "Chris" I would call her that, unless I heard she detested it. What I don't like is to have her called Christy or Chrissy. That just sounds like an imposition. It's not an abbreviation the world expects; it's a candied term that I feel you're really taking liberties to bestow without permission. With Stephanie, I'd never say Stevie on my own, if I didn't know that was preferred. I would say "Steph" though. I feel, in general, you shouldn't have a name with 3 syllables in it and not think people are going to shorten it.

Now, while I have one aunt who insists on calling me "Shelly" or "Shelly Bell" I don't normally think that "Michele" needs to be abbreviated or substituted in any way, shape or form.

As for the Macsters, I like to call them various things, the 3 songwriters anyway, but none on an incessant basis.

Michele

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by jannieC

That bugs me too. :P

being bugged isn't quite the same thing as dredging up some contrived rationale so that you can be "offended" by something. THAT's what bugs me.

[gretchen]

Originally Posted by michelej1

I think Linds is a natural truncation of "Lindsey" shape or form.

Michele

'Linds' is really natural...and at several of his solo shows, Brett called Lindsey 'Linds' and it was like hearing 'Phil' instead of Phillip or 'Rick/Rich' instead of Richard...natural.

I think 'Steph' works for Stevie.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

you people need to lighten the fukc up

Amen. Everyone go buy a surgical mask so you don"t catch the swine flu.

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Amen. Everyone go buy a surgical mask so you don"t catch the swine flu.

and a tin foil hat.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by carrie721

and a tin foil hat.

Hey now - I wear mine often!

As for the flu - I hear if ya drink enough tequila - you'll ward it off!

[bushesandbriars]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

No - we're here to be lectured by you

In your case, I doubt it would produce much effect anyway.

As for my "contrived rationale"--I've always been fascinated by the hypocrisy of some members of this board. You're all in the racism thread declaring how you just can't abide political correctness, but any time someone disagrees with the majority opinion of the popular kids, especially if it's someone outside the Ledge clique, here comes the pile-on to make sure his or her opinion is beaten down. Seems all your open-mindedness only applies to yourselves, hunh?

[David]

Originally Posted by gretchen

'Linds' is really natural...

Yes, it sounds very natural. Nobody called him that out here in Fandom until the past several years. I think it was one of those phonily chummy nicknames that one of Lindsey's "shipper" fan-fiction-writing fans started calling him.

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by David

Yes, it sounds very natural. Nobody called him that out here in Fandom until the past several years. I think it was one of those phonily chummy nicknames that one of Lindsey's "shipper" fan-fiction-writing fans started calling him.

Listen, if a fan fic writer can't do anything more original than call someone named Lindsey, Linds . . . what's the world coming to?

I think shippers would rather hear him called Angel. In the X-Files world, you say "touchstone" and people are weak in the knees, panting softly. It doesn't take much, but it takes a little more than dropping an "ey" from the hero's name.


Michele