My little sister's name is Ann. I love my little sister. I often enjoy coming up with silly nicknames for her. And she's cool with it, so it makes it all the better. Here, I'll give you a few examples.

   My Freshman year in college I took French. It was the first foreign language that I took and really liked. So anyway, the french word for sister is soeur. When converted to American-English sounds it's very extremely a lot close to "sir." Here I found a jackpot. I could give my sister an endearing foreign language nickname, and I could call her "sir."
  This was especially great when she had friends over who had never heard this name before. Her friends would be there and I'd treat her just like I normally do, and I would continue to call her "sir." Finally, when her friend and she were safely in the private confines her of own room, her friend would timidly and with a touch of astonishment ask, "Did he call you 'sir'?"
  Ann would smile and presumably explain that "soeur", which sounds like "sir", isn't actually "sir," but "soeur," which is loosely pronounced like "sir," but again is not actually "sir," but "soeur." But my sister isn't the biggest fan of foreign langauges so I like to imagine her response being something more like: "Yes, I endeavor that he would address me as 'Ann.' And he only says, 'Yes, sir.' I emphatically cry out, 'My name is ANN', and his lone response: 'No sir, I don't like it!'" (Okay so I wanted to quote Mr. Horse, so sue me.)
  Later I added onto this, yet this addition wasn't nearly as welcome by my sister. We had soeur for sister, but if you say my sister it's "ma soeur." This one I started using whenever she'd tell me what to do, though I'd put more emphasis on the "ma" and and make it into a negro slave 'a'. Which would produce, "Massur" (I'm not sure exactly how to spell it, but you know what sound I'm shooting for.) She said it sounded like I was talking like a slave (which was the point) and she didn't like it so I only got to use it a few times.

  There's another name that I've enjoyed. Remeber the old Ace Ventura movies? There's a word that Jim Carrey says a lot in the moves, whenever something happens. The word is mandinga. So anyway, this was well after the movies came out and were forgotten by some, but I was using the word anyway, cuz it was fun. So I'd be talking to my little sister, and she'd say something worth an explative like, "Raisin Bran has two scoops." or "Our male dog Andrion is going to have babies." I'd say, "Mandinga," or more commonly "Mandinga Ann." Gradually this would morph into "Mandinga Anndinga." And finally I began to simply call her Anndinga. This one has been one of my favorite nicknames for my sister.

  There's another one that I've been using for a while. I will admit that I actually stole it from someone, but this person was using it ineffectively, and I figured I could get more milage out of it. I have at least one friend, whose name starts with 'A,' and my cousing started calling him "A". She tried to explain to him that it was hip or the fashnizzle. But she and he didn't see eye to eye, so it only lastest little more than a week. A couple months (or quite possibly years) after my cousin gave up, I started calling my sister, A. And my sister seems to like it just fine. So anyway, here's my confession that "A" is not a Korben Rusek original. 

  The most recent one happened just last Sabbath. Our church was at the nursing home and we were singing to them. I can't remember exactly what the song was about, but simply that it mentioned our/an "ancestor." I immediately thought to myself, they're singing about Ann, my "Ann-sester." (If you don't understand how that name came about, then I'm sorry.) I turned to her and said, "You're my Ann-sester." Seeing as how I'd given her no explanation and just called her my "ancestor", she just gave me a normal confused stare. After I explained it to her, she was farely impressed. But either way, I like it and it'll go along well with soeur and confuse her friends just as well.
  So on to the point (I guess) of this entry. The very next day, Sunday, I got together with a bunch of my friends to talk about a Star Wars parody that we are planning (It'll be pretty funny, but if you love conservative environment destroying politics, or almost pansy liberals, then please don't get upset at me). But anyway, we were talking about the Darth Vader-ish character and the Luke-ish one, and someone said, "We can have the Vader-ish one say, 'Luke-ish, I am your ancestor.'" Mandinga, this made me laugh, seeing as how I was going to play the Luke-ish character and someone would say that to me. I tried to explain it to them, "You know ancester: Ann-sester, get it Ann--Sester." Yeah, they didn't get it either.