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NICKNAMES AND HORSING AROUND

Our 16-year-old daughter has another new nickname. It's about her 20th. She has more aliases than Jesse James. That's the way it is with colorful characters like her.

But this one's really wacky:

''Mr. Ed’s Girlfriend.''

How'd she get THAT nickname? Elementary, if you know teenage logic. See, she makes her own lunch. One day, she must have gone a little crazy with the peanut butter for her sandwich. It was about an inch thick.

She took a big bite, and was struggling to scrape around the insides of her mouth with her tongue, and over her teeth, to be able to swallow.

I guess to her ''table,'' those longtime friends who bestow nicknames as often as possible and with a goal of as much embarrassment as possible, it made her look like the famous TV talking horse. Since she's every inch a girl, she couldn't be ''Mr. Ed.'' Voila, the new nickname.

Teenagers: they're a horse of a different color. And they talk, too.

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