Thinking about it, it may have been used in the documentary for French Algerians obliged to reimmigrate to France on account of the Algerians wanting Algiers back.
There is a fine tradition of obscurely tangential nicknames. There was an arc in Aussie soap Home & Away where the younger characters were trying to track the school bully’s cousin Liz through her phone contacts, only to discover she was listed under A for Anna (Anna, goanna, lizard, liz.)
A girl named Verity once challenged me to find a nickname for her, and I came up with Mushroom. Verity sounds like ferrety, the black-footed ferret is the largest true weasel, pied noir (black foot) is a somewhat reclaimed name for Algerian immigrants in France (I’d been watching a documentary, but obviously that wasn’t somewhere I wanted to stop,) pied bleu (blue foot) is a type of mushroom.
Curse you, Go Comics and your entirely reasonable unwillingness to post links.
Search ‘nems bad machinery’ for the skinny on the Beatles rectification, and the re-rectification which never happened as it was deemed ‘beyond my skill to draw’ by the Ministry’s ultimate superior.
And how did the ears fare?Oh, much the same as the pin and the potato.