okokok.....why M.A.d'Dogge??? whats it all mean??
well its a NickName that i picked up when i first started Living Histories...and like all good true nicknames...it started out as an insult.
the story all starts about 20 plus years ago....at one of my first Cival War Re-Enactments...which one exactly has been lost to time...so ok i cain't remember which one...sheeesh.....Anyway, we had stayed up to the wee hours of the night...i was oh 16 or 17ish...and had been sneaking some beer while the other Men of the Camp were whoop-in it up around the campfire...the next morning found me rather "sluggish" to say the least. The others had allready taken to the field while the women of camp had stayed back tiding up. Here i come staggering out of the Sibley Tent, at the crack of 11ish....and it seems that i had litterally Drooled all night...and that brand new straggely goatee that i was so oh proud of, was plastered to the side of my face.....everyone in camp was pointing and one woman exclaimed...."he looks like a Damn Mad Dog!!!".....and it stuck....dang it.
20 years later and i am still trying to get rid of it. but it seems that many only no me by this name and i am usually introduced as this before i can correct it....so it seems that the nickname has preceeded me......so i now embrace it, and made it into a anogram to help differentiate from the other "MadDogs"of the world...who i can only imagine also derived from insults and/or a drooling problem......MADDOGS of the world UNITE!!!!
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