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April 5, 2006

on the name “fucking amy”

I explained this once, but it was five or six years ago, so for the three people who were reading back then, I apologize for the repeat. I'm sure you noticed.

"Fucking Amy" was not, of course, always her name. Nor was the prefix attached immediately. It didn't become necessary until I met Amy Amy, my friend and euchre partner. Suddenly there was confusion about which Amy I was referring to. Then one day, someone suggested that since the f-word seemingly always preceded the the original Amy's name anyway—"John used to be such a thoughtful guy...until fucking Amy came along"—why not just make it official? And thus did I init-cap the F, and a nickname was born.

posted by john at 6:23 AM  â€¢  permalink