The Ten Glens

The Ten Glens 




    I have never thought of myself identified by a nickname. Paul Knowlton was Zeke, Eddy Carroll was Tussboy, then Doc Tozzle, Billy Hogan was Hogie, Steve Breen was Big Brownie, Kevin Smith was Smitty and Greg named himself Craig.  Yet, there are a handful of folks who know me by other names and this post covers ten names beside "Creason," "Glenny," "Glenusan" or "the prick with the glasses" (referred thusly in pick up basketball games).

Clancy- when I was about six years old there was a funky puppet show on TV called "Thunderbolt the Wondercolt" that had a lion cast member named Clancy who I loved. One day, after watching an episode I informed my Mom that in future I wanted to be known as Clancy. Olivia Whitney always called me Clancy and a handful of St. Helen friends used the name including Steph Knowlton.


Cleats- another childhood nickname placed on me by my Dad since I loved the sound baseball cleats made when you walked on the sidewalk and I stuffed newspaper into the toes of my brothers outgrown cleats and refused to take them off except inside the house. This one stuck with me since I used it as a screen name since 1996. Strangely enough there are other cleatscrea's on the net.

Ben- when I began employment with VWR Scientific as an indoor salesman there was an established senior top salesperson named Glenn Jones. To avoid mixups I was forced to take another name and was known for over a year by all employees at the company as Ben

Dadik- used by Katya when she was little to just tweak the boring Daddy tag that was used by other kids on their fathers.

Unc- When the Strange Heads were reborn under the guidance of my nephew Paul he referred to my by the relationship moniker and the other players adopted the nickname also.

DonSabelo- a Spanish term meaning "know it all" that was used with affection by Lucinda  in describing my work as a librarian. When we met in the mid-90's librarians were still the  google of the time and we were expected to answer all questions.

Eekbug- only used by one person and that is my little sister Christine. She made up the name and Eekbug worked on a newspaper named Eaglespockl

Glenn Krausen- a  strange misspelling of my name in a TV piece without a fact-checker on board. It was used by  Mary McCoy mostly and myself.

The Gadfly- was a nom de plume used by me in writing a gossip column for the Communicator magazine published by the Librarian's Guild mostly in the 1990's

Mike- my bigoted Uncle who owned a farm in Paso Robles told me one Summer  when I was about ten years old "Glen is a sissy name, I'm going to call you Mike" I accepted the change since he let me use a b-b-gun the rest of the day to shoot at lizards and such.                                            




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