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This is a genre of article where an author gets made at a guy he made up, a guy who gets made at being given a nickname. At no point is there actually a cited instance of what he's allegedly worried about - someone being offended by a nickname.

> Ever after, to be on nickname-terms with someone implies a family-like bond—even when the name walks the line between demeaning and affectionate, as with the nicknames that John Belushi’s Bluto bestows on new frat pledges in the movie “Animal House.”

Yeah, buddy, that's just a form of hazing.