budgie's squawks - "Why Budgie...?"

12:16 am July 13th, 2008




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	"Why Budgie...?"
	Every so often, I'll forget that some people don't know why I'm called "budgie". There's a link on the homepage of this blog, but of course, most people reading this livejournal are reading it via their own friends pages or the RSS feed. And there've been a couple of new people reading this who've asked, so here's the link to the "origin story" - Why "Budgie"?

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	From: angelout2killme	Date: July 13th, 2008 12:37 am (UTC)		(Link)

What a wonderful story! It's a great nickname. Thanks!

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 12:40 am (UTC)		(Link)

Weird to think that at the end of last year, I'd had the name for 25 years... OK, there was a break for a while, but to be honest, more people now know me as Budgie than ever think of me as Lee.

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	From: angelout2killme	Date: July 13th, 2008 12:55 am (UTC)		(Link)

May I ask if you have returned to your alma mater to test your theory over which name will be remembered?

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 12:57 am (UTC)		(Link)

As a general rule of thumb, on this side of the pond, we don't tend to go in for the 20 or 25 year reunions so much. I think we figure that if we haven't seen people for 25 years, there's probably a reason for that...

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	From: angelout2killme	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:02 am (UTC)		(Link)

I've never been to a reunion and never plan on it. :-) However, I did take my husband back so he could see the location of all those stories.

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:04 am (UTC)		(Link)

I haven't been back to Manchester in, oh, must 15 years or so.

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	From: stuwest	Date: July 13th, 2008 02:58 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I'm pretty sure it's an even decade!

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 03:00 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hell's teeth - I'd quite forgotten UKCAC '98... something I described at the time as "less a con, more a mart with some signings..."

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 03:01 pm (UTC)		(Link)

stuwest just reminded me, it's actually an even decade, as I took Laura and Phil (then two years old) to a comics con in 1998... the one and only time Laura accompanied me, and the last time that Phil did until he was ten years old. But, to be honest, I can't honestly recall taking Laura around my old stomping grounds.

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	From: angelout2killme	Date: July 13th, 2008 09:17 pm (UTC)		(Link)

I can't recall much either of taking my Hubby. I just remember a picture of us in the green room together.

My twentith comes up next year. I cannot believe it's been that long.

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	From: uberredfraggle	Date: July 13th, 2008 12:59 am (UTC)		(Link)

I don't think I've ever read that story before. Odd. :)

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:00 am (UTC)		(Link)

The only thing that surprises me more than everyone not knowing the story.... is people I've known for a while not knowing it. :)

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	From: uberredfraggle	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:08 am (UTC)		(Link)

Yeah I have no idea why i didn't know. It just didnt' ring a bell when I read it. *shrug*

It's gotta be 2-3 years now that I've known you.

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	From: budgie_uk	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:09 am (UTC)		(Link)

Yeah, I started coming to Brum in October 05, I think...

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	From: uberredfraggle	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:16 am (UTC)		(Link)

That makes sense. NYE 05/06 was the NYE of forgotten keys. :)

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	From: si_fuller	Date: July 13th, 2008 06:17 am (UTC)		(Link)

Hey Budgie, nothing to do with where your nickname came from, but Scans Daily has a new scan of an X-Men story written by some bloke named Lee Barnett. The posters are praising the writer and everything. Actually it's the first time I read it, it's pretty good.

http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/5845127.html#cutid1

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	From: gothamajp	Date: July 13th, 2008 01:15 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Last night as we were waiting in line to go see a movie, Gill is talking about how one of her coworkers still goes by a nickname they picked up in 3rd grade. half way through a sentence she stops, pauses, looks at me and asks..

So why's Budgie called Budgie?

It's only taken, what, 16 years for her to ask. It's a little spooky that at almost the same time she was asking, you were posting this.

Talk about serendipity.

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