WHO ARE GUMCHEW, OOPIE, HUMPIE AND FLEA?
/Baldy, Toad, Poker, Bushy, Porky, Pung and Spider?
A FATHER'S DAY CHALLENGE
by Gerald Belanger and Cathie Jones
Prior to the 1960’s when most things were not always required to be politically correct most boys had a nickname. These nicknames became so permanently attached to that person that years later we usually forgot the beautiful Christian names given to these boys by their parents.
Here is a list of some of our favourite nicknames for boys/men from the Marmora area.
CAN YOU MATCH THE NICKNAME TO THE REAL PERSON?
(You can click here to find the answers.)
1. Baldy
2. Bear
3. Beaver
4. Boots
5. Buck
6. Buckwheat
7. Bud
8. Bun
9. Bushy
10. Butch
11. Cherry
12. Corbey
13. Fats
14. Flea
15. Grunny
16. Gumchew
17. Hindu
18. Humpie
19. Johnnycake
20. Kick
21. Moose
22. Mugs
23. Mush
24. Musky
25. Nimmer
26. Nip
27. Nook
28. Oiley
29. Oopie
30. Peanuts
31. Poacey
32. Poker
33. Porky
34. Pounce
35. Pung
36. Rat
37. Rusty
38. Sally
39. Sap Pan
40. Shortstop
41. Skat
42. Skip
43. Slate
44. Slugger
45. Spider
46. Spout
47. Squeak
48. Stub
49. Tanner
50. Tink
51. Toad
52. Turtle
53. Tut
54 Weiner
(You can click here to find the answers.)
___Arnold Jones
____Bernard Walter Doyle
___Bert Gray
___Brian Ellis
____Brian Lummiss
___Charles Alf. McWilliams
____Charles Clemens
___Clifford Patrick Ellis
___Dave Reynolds
___Donald Alex. Nickolson
___Donny Bronson
___Doug Nobes
____Doug Rothermel
___Douglas Smith
___Ernest Floyd Trumble
___Ernest Gordon
____Floyd Russell Loveless
___Frank Leal (Jr)
____George Mantle
___Glen Lavender
____Glen Mawer/R McCann
___Graham Bell Jr
___Harold Oliver Olsen
___Howard C. Deering
___Jack Clairmont
___Jack Terrion
___James Francis Reynolds
____Jim Bedore
___Jim Deline
___John Campion
___John Nobes
___Kenneth C. Trumble
___Larry Phillips
___Mark Shannon
___Morris Edward Lynch
___Norman Douglas Sopha
____Pat Shannon
___Patrick John McCrodan
___Percy Joseph Gray
___Philip Sopha
___Rob Robson
___Ron & Terry McGarvey
___Ron Smith/Reg. O'Shea
___Russell J. Hegadoren
___Sandy Fraser
___Stanley Kerr
___Thomas Bedore
___Tom O'Neill
___Tom Shannon
___Warren Hastings
___Wayne Brown
___Wilbert Albert Gray
____William Foster Brown
___William Pearson Monk
