uncle

[tgello]

i became an uncle for the first time friday the 26th.my sister had a little boy.....tgello

 

[Mark_in_NH]

tgello,
Congratulations on your Uncle Hood. I would think it rather appropriate to get the little guy a shiny scale model tractor instead of a boring old furry teddy bear. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
You can't ever start em to young. The TBN must live long and prosper.

 

[MDNY]

Congrats. I have twelve nieces and nephews to my clan. Thank god only one is my god daughter keeps my wallet with some green in it, well not much, but some.

Good luck and watch the fun unfold.

 

[gator]

Congrats Uncle, the first time you hear him call you Uncle will be awesome, thats the way I felt when my Niece and Nephews called me Uncle for the first time./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

Congratulations on being a new uncle. If you're really lucky, your nephew lives close by. Being an uncle (or aunt/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif) is almost as good as being a grandparent. You can have fun with them, you can spoil them rotten, and then you get to send them back to their parents! /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[tgello]

golf, i live in ct. and they live in st. louis.mo but i have a so called nephew that is actually my girlfriends little nephew. everything is uncle this and uncle that with him.he's 3 yrs old. knows all the tractors and drives the boomer while on my lap.drives his parents nuts, every time he sees a tractor or backhoe he says theres uncles tractor. pretty funny....tgello

 

[TonyC]

Congrats on the big event! I'm missing out. I have a sister but no nieces or nephews and none coming. Not a Dad either and won't be. I'm so lonesome/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. Oh yeah, there's the wife./w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[Thomas]

Congrats /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Looks like your xmas list just grew a little more,and you better visit your NH dealer for some blue toys and clothes for the little guy. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

<font color=blue>"I'm so lonesome.</font color=blue>

Well, you've always got us /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif!

 

[TonyC]

<font color=blue>Well, you've always got us /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif!</font color=blue>

Well thanks Garry! I guess I hadn't thought about it. I have a zillion friends and they all love tractors as much as I do. What a coincidence!

 

[Bird]

Congratulations! Aaah, to remember what it was like to be young; now we have so many nieces and nephews, I barely know all of them; just got an invitation to one niece's 25th wedding anniversary celebration!

 

[tgello]

wow, now thats getting old....ha ha ha...tgello one question i have always wondered. i noticed your a retired law officer and was wondering where the word "cop" came from...tgello

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>wondering where the word "cop" came from</font color=blue>

If you find out, let me know./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Some have claimed it came from the abbreviation for Constable On Patrol from England. Others have said it originated from the copper bottons on the uniforms. One definition in the dictionary for the word cop is "take away, catch, capture." And I suppose there's been a few other theories. I have no idea whether any of them are right.

I do know that when I started in law enforcement, most of the officers considered it a derogatory slang word, and it really teed them off to be called a cop. I suppose some still do feel that way, but I think that attitude has changed quite a bit. At least a lot of us referred to ourselves and our comrades as cops./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif