When I started this blog three years ago, as one would expect, the username “Jim” was taken.

I had the woman who designed my business website helping me with the blog setup over the phone and one of the first (if not the first) items on the agenda was picking that all important username… Interestingly, I believed I’d be relatively successful at blogging – I’ve always fancied myself a fair writer, even though I’m quite under-educated – so I wanted to pick something that would A) Stick out in the crowd, B) Be funny, C) Be slightly offensive to certain grievance-driven social groups and D) “would begin a comprehensive discussion challenging the acceptance of common roles in a traditional marriage… Yada, yada, yada, blah, blah, blah” [Dammit]… You know what? I have a tough time with Political BS English so let me just use plain English: Folks, the arrogance, call it cockiness, exuded in calling oneself “Big Daddy”is huge… I am, almost without exception, the best-looking man in the room, anywhere I go (or so I am often told) but I really don’t think that highly of myself. Granted, I walk into a party where Hugh Grant, Hugh Jackman, Chris Hemsworth, George Clooney and Brad Pitt are in attendance, I’m just as hit as Honey Boo-Boo’s mom but in the real world, I’m pretty smokin’. Now, a certain segment of the population is going to see that nickname and be immediately turned off, even angered, by the assumed level of arrogance required to pick that nickname in the first place and that’s the idea. My over-doing of the arrogance, even though I am anything but, helps keep this blog relatively jerk-free.

Now for the true origin of “BgddyJim”, my wife’s nickname for me, for years had been “Big Daddy”. That was an answer to my nickname for her: “Babymama”… Before you get all fired up because you don’t know the context, I am, and have always been, an Elvis man (as opposed to a Beatles man – please see Pulp Fiction for the explanation). “Babymama” was chosen as the “Elvis”, southern, term of endearment, not the newer “producer of my babies” term which I find quite deplorable.

With that background, I took “Bgddyjim”.

So, while it may be commonplace to use a person’s nickname when commenting on a post or replying to a comment, That’s not necessary with me. Dude, just call me Jim.