Sean,
I tried to interrogate Ursala during the ride you MISSED on Saturday but the woman is tough.  She started to get a bit agitated and I was concerned she might kick me with her big feet so I backed off.  She showed some documents but they were in German or German sasquatch or some language I couldn't read and plus the Euros (including sasquatch) use some odd date format so I wasn't even sure about the string of numbers.  It will take an interrogation team to get to the bottom of this!

As far as you "feeling much closer" due to my opening up....blah, blah, blah......a "true friend" would come out into the light and share their nicknames from the past in this open forum to improve the sense of team, brotherhood, and/or sisterhood.  Sadly, I've been left to stand alone with all showing to the world.  Ouch, it kind of reminds me of those high school dances or Saturday nights out in the bars during college.  Thanks, "friend", for taking my vulnerable side and kicking it to just make it all hurt a bit more.

BTW - if you can't share nicknames, can you at least add to the comedy group comparisons I started and who in our group you cast in each role.

Only one nickname for me - "spud" which transformed into "potato." The origin kind of makes sense. Comes from Oct 4, 1957 and the sputnik launch. My friends took that spooky event (you had to be there watching that thing blink across the sky at night, dreaming of Russians falling from the sky and invading your house), looked at my last name, and I eventually became "potato" or "potata."
So I shared... - Karl

Did I start this? Mercy on us all! BTW, other than Billy, which I went by through grade 6, my only other nicknames are Spilliam (it was college, ok?) and studmuffin (but you'd have to ask my wife about that, as it clearly doesn't translate to my bicycle riding). See you on the road!

I'm really feeling the sense of team now, let's keep it going.  Bill, I won't be referring to you as Studmuffin anytime soon though!  I am going to have to talk to my wife about the nicknames she uses for me.

I saw an old HS friend at a conference earlier this week and talked to another and realized "Scuzbum" was also often shorten to simply Scuz.  I also realized in the workplace I have a number of nicknames that all seem wrapped around the same 3 letter root word.  You know the one, it starts with an "a" and can be used alone, at the beginning of a word with "hole" or at the end when it starts with "jack."  Come to think of it I hear it at stoplights too.

Off to Cal State Northridge and maybe Pepperdine along tall son w/long hair aka Dscoz, Biggie D, and Big guy.  I should see you on Sunday...remember my ID, remember my ID, remember my ID.