My Grandma used to call me Tykie when i was a little kid, then when I hit the stage in a boys life(at about 13yrs old) when he doesn't want to be called by his family Nickname in front of his friends, I gave my family a cease and desist order to never call me that again...fast forward a few years and my sister started having kids...and since my sister is a little onery and a pain in my ass, she taught the girls to call me Uncle Tykie instead of Uncle Del...sO i guess I have kind of embraced it now...lol