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Beldar at the beginning

By Beldar

When I started this blog in 2003, near the bottom of the personal information that's always been linked from my sidebar, I included an explanation for the origin of my nickname, "Beldar," during my days as a member of the Finquo Pledge Class of the Longhorn Band's Kappa Kappa Psi service fraternity 30 years ago.

Last night, I received an email from my fellow Fingquo Don Winstel with an attached scan of a faded Polaroid from those days:

Taken in the stairwell of the Music Building East at UT-Austin, this shows four of the Fingquos  ? left to right, me, Dan Gremminger, David Schkade, and Richard Taylor ? snarling as we prepared to present our Saturday Night Live/Coneheads skit at the weekly KKY meeting after band practice on a Tuesday evening in the fall of 1978. The nickname came as a result of Richard's beer-impaired processing of my name a night or two before, as we were planning the skit ? "Bill Dyer, Bihl Dahr, Behl-Dahr, Bel-Dar, hey, BELDAR!"

Damn, we were young and good-looking. Mips!

Full post as published by BeldarBlog on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).