I don't know, but I always called my father 'Dad' or 'Daddie'.
Just me, watching old movies.
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I don't know, but I always called my father 'Dad' or 'Daddie'.
Just me, watching old movies.
PO'T
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Only once, but my brother did it, not me.
When we ere kids, our dad was blowing up balloons for a b-day party.
One of them exploded, while he was blowing it up, and my bro said, Nice going, Pop.
We all had a good laugh about it.
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I never did, but my father called his father 'pop', and I don't remember ever calling that one grandpop. Weirdly, my son calls me pop, but I can't think why.
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I call my father "Pop" at his request. I don't really remember when that was. I have no memories of calling him anything else, but I clearly remember him asking me to do that. I know I was older than 7.
My grandmother was called "The Old Bag" by her kids and their friends, but it was meant, and taken as, a term of endearment. At my aunt's funeral, some of her firends from the old days (early-mid 70's) asked, "So, where's the Old Bag." No one that really knew my grandmother felt it was out of line. People that sort of knew her felt obliged to be offended on her behalf.
Most of my family and my dad's older friends call me "Varmint", while my dad and his newer friends call me "Creature" or "Creatch."
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Nope, it was always "Dad" or "Daddy," and that's what my kids call me.
Funny. Kind of reminds me of one of my favorite jokes - when somebody asks if I drink (meaning alcohol), I say, "I don't drink anything stronger than pop. [pause] Of course, Pop used to drink battery acid..."Originally Posted by Cookie
Only once, but my brother did it, not me.
When we ere kids, our dad was blowing up balloons for a b-day party.
One of them exploded, while he was blowing it up, and my bro said, Nice going, Pop.
We all had a good laugh about it.
That joke, naturally, doesn't really work places where they call it soda.
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When my children came along, they called my step-father "Papa" as a contration of grandpa and called him that for a number of years before it evolved into "Pops" and now everybody calls him Pops, myself encluded.
Children, when they are small, have a way of softening one's life.
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Never. Always dad.
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No.
"Pop" was something you drank (soda).
Called my father "Dad."
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Me too. The "Pop" part, not the eight children -- they only had three. My own Dad was just Dad. Or Daddy, when I was little.
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My biological father was "Dad".
I really lucked out in life in having both a father and stepfather that I loved and respected. (I took my stepfather and Boo, who's home from college visiting for a day, to lunch yesterday.)
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I called my father "Dad", or "Daddy-o" (no, I'm not kidding), while both of my children call me "Pa". (I have no idea why.)
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Ditto, but paternal instead. Paternal grandmother was gram. Dad was dad, mom was mom.
I don't recall how I referred to to my maternal grandparents because I was very young when they died.
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My father was "dad" or "daddy"; anything else I might have called him probably would have come later than six, and what you call someone doesn't tend to change after they die. My grandfathers were both "Grandpa [Last Name]." Actually, I think my daughter might call her adoptive father "Pop," but I haven't seen them together in long enough so that I'm not sure. But her dad is in his early seventies, as I recall, and that might influence things.
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Always "Dad", "Daddy", or "Papa".
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I'll call my grandfather "Pop" by never my dad.
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Friend of mine insisted on "papa" over "dad." Come to think of it, my niece and nephew call my brother-in-law "papa." But he's German, maybe it's a cultural thing there.
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My paternal grandfather wanted to be called "Pop".
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My kids call their grandfather "Popi", grandmother "Mimi", and their great grandmother "Na-na". Occasionally, they call me "Da". (Edit - My wife is never "Ma", always mom or mommy.)
Funny thing is, my oldest son had a speech problem and had to get OT to clear it up. I wonder if this a hold over from that?
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I resisted this thread until now but my father called his father and also my mother's father "Pop" so when I had to find a name for my new father in law I chose Pop. so I guess reading these replies it is in use still.
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"Papa" is a completely normal thing to call your dad in German, aye. I do.
I called my stepdad by his first name, though. Somehow I never felt like calling him "dad", nor does anyone I know who has what the Swedish lovingly call "bonus"parents, really.
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I called my in-laws "Mom" and "Dad". My wife used the same names for my own parents. My Dad called my wife "Daughter". They only had sons.
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I called my dad "Pop" as often as not, but not exclusively.
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I did once, and then my mother gave me a lecture of how to call father politely :|
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I switched to calling both my step father and my biological father Pops because I am really bad with names. I called my father by my step father's name multiple times and he didn't take it well, at all.
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No Pe-paw? I guess that was Grandads. Haven't heard Daddy-O in awhile, that was the 50s. Before then, people just had names, like--what...Buddy Brandon, Radio Riley, Snap Allen and Corky?
Just call me Carruthers..but ya doesn't hast to call me Johnson.
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It was always Dad.
My kids call me Dad. Oldest sometimes calls me father.
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