Pickles by Brian Crane for February 22, 2014

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 10 years ago

    Up until he was 96 and I 23 in 2007, I’m sure I always called my maternal grandfather (who I grew up knowing; paternal grandparents died before I was born) “Grandpa.” Now I call my grandparents by name when talking about them.

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    Crabbyrino Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Be glad Nelson is around, Earl. There comes a time when the gkids are only seeking funding. Sad but true.

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    pelican47  over 10 years ago

    My dad insisted that his grandkids call him “Grandfather.”

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    pelican47  over 10 years ago

    My mother’s father was known as “Granddad.”

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    Zanere  over 10 years ago

    my granddaughter call’s me pawpaw

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    mdcdjg2008  over 10 years ago

    My paternal grandparents were Deeno and Papa. Now that there great grandkids it Deeno and Big Papa, and my parents are referred to as Nana and Papa.

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    Pretzelcoatl  over 10 years ago

    I grew up in a school where many of the students had Dutch ancestry; they often referred to their grandparents as Oma and Opa.

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    clucky  over 10 years ago

    Wonder if Earl was kid in “Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation” ??

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 10 years ago

    My first nephew looked me and said, “Bear.”(It was a reasonable assumption and not bad for his first word.)His parents insisted he change it to “Uncle Bear”, which was foolish as there were no other bears around needing to be distinguished from.

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    cdward  over 10 years ago

    My dad got the grandkids to start calling him “Grandfather Sir” when they were wee tots. Though they are all grown now, that’s what they still call him. He’s pretty laid back and thinks it’s funny.

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    flyertom  over 10 years ago

    In our Polish family, we used the term dziadzie (JAHD-jee), a derivative of dziadzius – old man.Our grandmothers were babcias (BAB-chia).

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    chizzel  over 10 years ago

    What are you called? Jesus Christ?

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    KEA  over 10 years ago

    I still don’t know what to have my grandchild call me. Sir, perhaps, to distinguish from the all the people trying to sell me something that call me by my first name.

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    Chris Kenworthy  over 10 years ago

    I never really had a grandpa, on either side, they both died before I was around. My two grandmothers were Gabba and Granny

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    Sojourn  over 10 years ago

    he seems to be reminiscing wistfully about good old boompa

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    BlackFrostWarrior  over 10 years ago

    When speaking to him, or to people who know him, I always call him “Grandpa”. As a children, all his grandkids called him “Papa” (including me).But whenever I’m talking about him to someone who hasn’t met him (mostly online), I refer to him as my “Grandfather”. I dunno why I do that.

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    goweeder  over 10 years ago

    I called my maternal grandfather "Bigdad, and my maternal grandmother. “grannymom.”Now my grandhildred call me “Nana.”

    Don’t know why I mentioned that I guess these comments just brought back memories..

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    PapaBishop  over 10 years ago

    I am “Papa.” My wife is “Nana.” We have 13 grandchildren and 13 Great grandchildren so far.

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    otahans  over 10 years ago

    My Austro-Hungarian grandparents were Oma and Ota.

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    beezel  over 10 years ago

    I’m Sue-Sue to my grandbabies (first one named me). My husband is Paw-Paw (a southern moniker, I believe), and my parents are Big Grandma and Big Grandpa.

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    leester39 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Two of my grandkids call me GrandPaw… & one calls me GrandDad. I only had one living grandfather when I was kid & I called him Pop-Pop, which I always thought was because he liked Popcorn :)

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    Number Three  over 10 years ago

    I never got to meet my grandpas so I didn’t get to try out any cute variations.

    xxx

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    gmasj  over 10 years ago

    For a short time, my oldest called his grandpa Boompa, then it morphed into Crappaw before becoming Grampa.

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    thomas.hviid.thorn  over 10 years ago

    Quite interesting!

    In Denmark we use the term farfar/farmor (Dad(s)Dad and Dad(s)Mon) for the fathers parents and morfar/mormor (Mom(s)Dad and Mom(s)Mom) for the morthers parents

    Which makes it sometime confusing for my parents, who have a daugther and two sons :-)

    Else the terms granddad/-father/-mom/-mother is also widely used – but as ‘bestdad’ (bedsteforældre – as in my best parent).Great grandparents parents is named ‘oldeforældre’. Olde refers to the fact that they are old… :-)

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 10 years ago

    But how could I live without her?

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 10 years ago

    (or “it”, as the case may be?)

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    Tin Can Twidget  over 10 years ago

    She/he has been flagged many times before — hasn’t done anything yet.

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    K M  over 10 years ago

    An acquaintance of mine has a vanity tag that reads “BOOPY.” Seems it was a very young grandchild’s inability to pronounce anything close to “grandpa.” I just hope that didn’t become a problem in his day gig — as a judge… (“Court is now in session, the honorable Judge Boopy presiding!” Yeah, might have been problematic.)

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    Dani Rice  over 10 years ago

    I was blessed with all four grandparents until I was an adult. (At one point there were five living generations on my mother’s side.) My dad’s parents were Nana and Pop (or Pop-pop) and my mother’s folks were Grandmother and Grandfather.

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    Ettabetta  over 10 years ago

    I have a question for Brian Crane. Where did you come up with the name “Boompa”?The reason is that our grandsoncame up with that exact name for his grandfather when hewas not yet two years old. The names we had been usingwere “Oma” and “Opa”. He called me Oma but decided allon his own to call his grandfather “Boompa”! Up until today we had never heard it before and since a child made it up allon his own without hearing it from anyone or anywhere else!!It would be very interesting just to hear how you got the name “Boompa”! Thank you. :O)

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