Don't know what made me think of this story but
I once knew a bloke who, jokingly, ironically, teenagely liked to call himself 'The Legend' or 'The Ledg' for short. It hadn't really caught on but he was persisting in trying to get people to call him that.
One night he'd had far too much to drink and decided to write his name on a wall. Forgetting how to spell his name he did the best he could. How difficult can it be to write 'The Ledg' after all? He was fairly pleased with himself, right up until the point he sobered up and looked at his handiwork.
From that moment on he was known as 'The Leg'.
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Ah yes - rather like calling oneself 'Potty Mummy' or 'Pants with Names'.... x
ReplyDeleteI have random memories like that. Love Potty's comment aka Pot.
ReplyDeleteThe LEG. Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteWasn't it Labour leader Michael Foot who became known as a leg-end in his own lifetime?
ReplyDeleteOh yes, nicknames gone bad!
ReplyDeleteLol. Makes me think of Dr Leg in Eastenders back in the era when I actually watched it. I always wondered why a fictional character, who could have any name the scriptwriters decided, should be named after a limb.
ReplyDeleteI was friends with someone as a teenager who had a friend (whom I never met, so this may be entirely made up) who was known (or at least referred to) as "John Wayne"). Not after the original cowboy. After John Wayne Bobbitt. Yes, that one.
ReplyDeleteI never found out why....
Hi nice to meet you, Jody here (Living in Ca) came through Expat Mum. Spelling always sorts sheeps out from the goats and all those cliches which I avoid like the plague. We once met a waitress on vacation up North, CA on a riding ranch who had an absolutely huge "Solidarity" tattooed all up her arm. Except it was Solidatity. Oops...
ReplyDeleteWow...he must have been seriously wasted!
ReplyDeleteToby? Or not Toby?
ReplyDeleteI actually feel a bit sorry for him! Although anyone who refers to themself in the third person (as a "legend" no less) probably has it coming...
ReplyDeleteBrilliant, poor chap.
ReplyDeleteCJ xx