Daily writing prompt
What’s the story behind your nickname?

HA so, many years ago, I was super into Snoop Dogg and the tranzillator website that would turn any text into Snoop slang.

I also worked at a call center around that time, eventually sitting next to a skater guy who was really into hip hop and rap. Some of that influence rubbed off. I would eventually make him a mix CD for his birthday.

AND my first head supervisor really liked Snoop. I told her about the tranzillator (which I think is still a thing, just run by someone else), and she tested it out on an email she was sending to her baby daddy. Then read it back to me. It was a rather casual kind of workplace in some ways LOL.

I was also heavily online, and coming up with usernames and self-applied nicknames. For most of the formulaic Snoop slang, you add “izz” or “izzle” in between syllables. Technically, that’s not quite how he speaks it. “Fo’ shizzle dizzle,” for example, instead of “For sure.”

Mizzieshizznell is my Snoopified version of a “meeshell” pronunciation of my first name, which I guess would be closer to how you said it in French. So yeah. It’s a tribute to Snoop.

I couldn’t find a dog that I could legally use that looked like the ones in the “Who Am I (What’s My Name)” video, and I happened upon a graphic of a pop art woman thinking about a hot dog. Hence, the dachshund, which tracks, because my first dog growing up was a doxie. It looks like the actual lyric in the song is “The Bomb” not “The Dogg” (having checked just now)… but this version gives better context to the rest of the image.

Therefore, I use Mizzieshizznell pretty much everywhere online.

I like it a lot better than the occasional nicknames bestowed upon me over the years. And you can also abbreviate it to Mizzie or Mz. E. Fun stuff.

Enjoy!

Good thing I still have some hot dogs for tomorrow. Now I kinda want one.

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