On "swanny"

First and foremost, on the topic of the nickname "swanny." I'm unsure of the number of generations this goes back, but I know my dad was called swanny in his day. I got mine from a high school coach who went to school with the ol' pa. Then for whatever reason, after a variety of nicknames from some of my closer friends (which shall remain confidential so as to prevent poser nickname-callers), the name popped up again when I started my current teaching job. I don't mind it. In it's proper context, that is to say, natural syntax, "swanny" does quite well as far as nicknames are concerned.

Recent thoughts of have placed doubt. The name was given to me, as most nicknames are, and was not something I necessarily asked for. Yet, I made this stupid blog and called it "blog of swanny." I realize something like "my blog" is too vague, not to mention stupid, but does the creation of this blog; the concious creation of a webpage with said name, give a sort of fake legitamicy to "swanny"? I guess the question I seem to be wrestling is this: In creating a "blog of swanny," has the term 'swanny,' which used to be, as mentioned, a perfectly acceptable name, become one of those self-proclaimed nicknames that turns into a "look i'm cool and macho, cool mr. crazy fun guy!"? You know, like this:

Setting: A man with a six-pack (of beer . . . probably MGD) named Karl (the man, not the six-pack), gets out of a car, walks toward some party scene where David, Jeff and Mary are hanging out.

-David: "Hey, look who it is . . . it's Karl."

-Jeff: "Haven't seen him around lately."

-David: "I wonder what he's been up to?"

-Mary: "I think he's working for his uncle . . . driving trucks or something . . ."

-Karl: "WHOOOAAA MAAANNNNN, check it out! check it out! It's KILLER . . . KILLER KARL!!! WHOOOAAAA MAANN!!!

-Jeff: "what?"

-Karl: "HHHAAAAAA Jeffy boy!! You were always the funny one! Well, THE KILLER's here man, ready to rock-and-roll!!! Party Man!!!!"

-David: "your three hours late . . ."

-Mary: "yeah, actually we were all just about to leave . . ."

-Karl: "WHOOOOAAA MAAANNN!!!! No way! THE KILLER'll keep this going AALLLL NIGHT!!! WHOEW!! ALL NIGHT!!!! YYYYEEAAAHHH!!!!

-Jeff: "what?"



Know what I mean?

I certainly hope "swanny" has not turned into "Killer Karl". I would never have thought of this before, but out of curiosity, I googled "swanny" and sure enough, there are like a million people out there that call themselves SWANNY!

My only solution is to set some ground rules . . . First, I will not refer to myself as "swanny," although there was a time when I did like "The Swanny" because it was kind of like "The Swammi", which is a Hindu wise man, and very cool. Second, others should only refer to me as "swanny" if that is indeed the nickname that comes natural; again indicated by proper context (syntax).

Of course, if things get out of hand, I'll have to change course, although I really don't think it will come to that. It's not that bad. I mean, it's not as cool as Kyle "the yellow dart" Smith or Leroy "the legend" for that matter, but it sure beats "lardo," "scuba steve" or "dork"