WHO HAD THESE NICKNAMES?

You may have worked with people who had nicknames like "Sparky" and others.  But we had a group in the early '70s that had nicknames from ????????  See if you can identify any of them and email your answers to me for credit.  Also email any additions you can make to the list.

Names of the correct guessers follow the nickname:

Lenny (from "Of Mice and Men") - Pete Coble

Albert (from Bill Cosby stories) - Pete Coble

Weird Harold (from Bill Cosby stories) - Pete Coble

Russell (from Bill Cosby stories)

Pigpen (from "Peanuts") - Pete Coble

Sweetpea (from "Popeye")Pete Coble

Batman - Pete Coble

Festus (from Gunsmoke) - Pete Coble

Thumper (came later during a Sales/SE late night meeting) - Don Piveral, Don Villarrubia, Vic Munn, Pat Armstrong, Bill Harber, Pete Coble

The Hawk - Vic Munn

Phrog Lady, aka Sister Boogie Woman (See her 1976 Christmas poem on the trivia page, you will like it) - Kevin Stranahan knows and added this bit "She threw great parties!!!! I seem to remember a "Ruin the rug" party at her place back in the summer of '78. A bunch of us "dumb" trainees thought she was serious!!!!!", Bill Harber, Pete Coble

The Phantom - Don Piveral, Lynn Brandhorst

Hand Job (an FE named by Russ Mann)

Swamp Gas - Don Villarrubia, Vic Munn, Bill Harber, Pete Coble

Grey Ghost (named after a Civil War Confederate Officer not the color of his hair - then)

Flip and Flop - (Late '70s Sunnyvale development dept machine room CE's)

Sparky (a CE at Caterpillar at the time.  There are probably lots of "Sparkys.") - Pat Armstrong, Pete Coble

"Who liked to ski in a green silk cape?" - Pat Armstrong, Pete Coble

The Polish Eagle - Pete Coble

The Whiskey Man  - Pete Coble

Baby Huey

The Red Barron - Bill Harber

Merlin (created info about AIDE SOURCERY, DCOS DELUSIONS, MITOS MAGIC) - Bill Harber

Safeway Chicken - Bill Harber

Hammer - Bill Harber

Burrito Bob - Bill Harber

Max

Cookie Monster

Mr. Peripheral - Bill Harber

Mad Dog - Bill Harber, Clyde Blanchard

Boomer - Bill Harber, Pam Anderson

Bytecracker Nut - Bill Harber

Help me out.  Surely there were more.  Send me some you know that others might remember.

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