As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.
In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!
I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if there were ten minutes to lunch, and the teacher was done with the lesson, he'd say, 'Okay, Leo, get up there and do something.'
As a kid I was creative.
As a kid, I had to be funny.
I used to sign vouchers and sign-out sheets with 'Alexandra Dee.'
I had a career. His name was Ike.