Are you on first name/pet name terms with celebrities?

looksee

The way someone will say 'I see poor Dickie has died'.
'Dickie who?' you ask.
'Dickie Attenborough'.
Puzzled pause, 'I don't know any Dickie Attenborough', do you mean David?.
'No,you know, film director'. Richard Attenborough
Oh, right!

I didn't know Richard Attenborough, other person has never met him. I have never heard him called Dickie. So whats the idea of the pet name, and how am I supposed to know who you are talking about? And I am not much interested anyway.

Is this a regular thing where someone you know seems to be on first name terms with anyone remotely famous?

Sir Osis of Liver.

Don't you just hate when Dickie dies.

Kevin McCloud

Dickie often dies after too much sauce.

Yamanoto

Spit on me Dickie

Tzardine

Is dickie rock dead ?

Lisha

My mother is often very traumatised by the stories 'Poor aul Joe' do be telling her. A desperate bad start to the morning listening to poor aul Joe.

policarp

I call Enda Tricky Dickie.

Sky King

Straight out of The Talented Mr Ripley

Duckworth_Luas

I presume Dickie was in this blockbuster

AnonoBoy

I call Tom Cruise sugar t*ts - does that count?

I voted for Mick Wallace in the last election.

We're close now, best buds.

Now when I knock into his house I ask "Mick you Big Useless Long Haired Lying Cheating Pension Stealing Wánker, are you coming out to play?"

Its a pet name you know......of endearment

Son Of A Vidic

looksee wrote: »

Are you on first name/pet name terms with celebrities?

Two fingers terms? Yes.

First name/pet name terms? No.

Donkey Oaty

It's casually pointing out that they do it to you that marks you out as a ferocious social climber.

E.g, I bumped into that Dalai Lama the other day.

"Don!", he said, "How great to see you. How is Mrs Oaty these days?"

pauliebdub

Listening to some of the girls at work talk about celebrities, who they are dating, what they are wearing etc, you would swear they were talking about family members or people they knew personally. It's very odd.

Talib Fiasco

Well Salpa is down on my phone contacts as "Booty Call 7" if that counts?

dr strangelove

Used to be best friends with Mr. T in the late 80's and he always let me call him by his first name - "Mister", or "Mr." for short, very chill dude.

Sinister Pigeon

I used to hang around with Dustin the Turkey years ago - used to call him Gobbler (long story).
I was his wing-man so to speak, but we drifted apart when the fame thing really went to the long necked pr1ck's tiny head.
He was really just a wannabe Emu.