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My stepfather has a good friend named Robert, but he has been called Buckwheat by EVERYONE who knows him since he was little.
The story is that when he was little, and his cousins or friends would come to his house in the morning and ask if he could play with them, his grandmother would always say "Yes, as soon as he finishes his buckwheat." I don't know if it was pancakes or cereal she meant by buckwheat, but eventually he ended up being called Buckwheat and here he is now sixty-some years later and that's all anyone calls him.

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin