Tonight is Kesstan's last night before she heads back to the states, so she, Conal and I headed out for fish n chips at McDonough's, followed by a few pints at Neachtain's and the Front Door. While we're eating our fish n chips (delicious irony ahead), the conversation somehow meandered to Top Gun, fighter pilots and their call signs. Conal states that he almost wished he'd become a fighter jock just to get the 'cool' nickname.
I had to inform him, however, that few fighter jocks actually got cool, macho names like 'Maverick' and 'Iceman', and that most call signs were rather derogatorily derived from the pilot's actual name, and that his call sign then, most likely would be 'Lingus'.
Aside from the fact that "'Aer' Lingus" would be a great name for an Irish (or Irish American) fighter jock, the guy has willingly and bravely (and in fact, rather proudly) accepted the fact that from here forward, be he pilot or not, he will be known in this house as Conal 'Lingus' O'Kane.
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