Beanpole

Can any of you believe I used to call someone 'Beanpole', and that he was my best friend?  Well it just goes to show that you can use a word without knowing the meaning for a long time.  Then we started to call him 'Bean'.  I think that middle school is the time for nicknames, and college too, I guess.  I had another friend we called 'Cheesy', I don't really know why except that we all thought it was pretty funny.  His real name was Kenneth, so I don't know how we got 'Cheesy' out of that.