Oh, my gosh--Garbage Pail Kids! I'd totally forgotten about them. Just yesterday a co-worker had a Care Bear in the office; I'd forgotten about them as well. And, recently I was so excited to find these lip balms because they reminded me of those Village Lip Lickers tins that were so popular in the 80s:

http://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/n...cgrfnbr=176184

Okay, enough of that; you asked about dog nicknames. Lefty's are: Bean, Stinky Bean, Bug, Stinky Boy, Pickle, Snout, Turkey.

I call him "Bean" because he looks like one when he's curled up and "Snout" because of his large schnoz. The others just have come about for no reason--for example, he really doesn't stink.