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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 4164698, member: 1131"] In my high school, there really WAS a kid named "Whiskey". His real name was Bill W________ (don't want to fully identify him here), but our freshman math teacher decided that his full name was too hard to pronounce, so he decided to call him Whiskey. Never has a nickname better suited a personality -- Whiskey had a bartender's personality, genial and with a near-infinite appetite to listen to other people's diatribes. Whiskey was also about 6-3 and 250 pounds as a high school freshman. He didn't initially plan to play high school football, but after the coaches got on him about that, he became the middle guard on the team's defensive line. As the coach in our senior year said to a local reporter, "Teams don't run our middle much." Seeing that quote in the newspaper got Whiskey more angry than anything else that happened to him in high school, since the season had just begun and he was sure that every other team would be "running our middle" just to prove that the coach was wrong. His SAT's were very high, and he ended up going to Yale on a scholarship. [/QUOTE]