The Curious Begins Of Nicknames..

We all have nicknames..well most of us i do remember the day i discovered some people have never had the honour of being bestowed a lovable nickname...it was about as shocking as the day i discovered some people's parents never bothered to give them a middle name..."How Sad For You" ...
Not that a nickname is always all that exciting...seriously when you get right down to it..majority of the populations nicknames consist of zero creativity.. half the male population just refer to each other by their last name or adding an 'O' to their first name 'ShaneO...NeilO and so-forth ... and the other half by something to do with their appearance  ... every red haired person i know is called 'Bluey'... then there are the over weight blokes 'Fatty' .. though i did know an over weight guy once,  we called him Pudge.. when he lost weight every one began calling him by his real name again...why didn't we just start calling him Stick or Twiggy??? Which lead me down the track of thinking..."Do we really only give people mean nicknames???" .. My Dad's nickname had always been 'Bert' refering to his egg shaped head like Bert from Seaseme Street.. untill my mum came along and dared anyone to continue calling him that... he has been know as Steve ever since...
My nickname since they day i popped into the world with a "Hey Folks" has always been the creative 'Chook' why? Because it rhymes with Brooke i 'spose... UNTILL the day's of the Nokia 3350 arrived!!!
I was 15 when i got my first mobile...all us 'cool' kids got mobiles fairly quickly and the top release of 2003 was the good old brick 3350! Apart from the awe-inspiring game of SNAKE this swish little piece of technology also had the ability to guess and spell words! YES!! The dictionary setting was great! And the reason behind my new nickname...
BROOKE contains all the same letters in the same order on the button pad as spelling out ARNOLD, I remember that day on the school bus vividly while my friend typed out a message to a boy asking... "Hey just wondering what do you think of Arnold" HA-HA .... check out how the phone spelt your name...Nokia in face.. and since that day it stuck... I had become ...
That Girl Named Arnold...xxx