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Yeah, I meant to say nicknamey and for some reason I changed it. Like, Tommy at 40 seems a bit dorky. I think Jenny or Emmy starts to get dorky at around 40ish, too. Even names that are older in the other sense seem to me to age badly if they are too kiddie-nicknamish - like Marty, Ernie, Eddie (what my grandpa called my grandma Edna), and Annie do, a little bit. I guess not among the bearer's friends, and maybe not among peers ... not sure, since I'm actually still in my thirties. Ahem. Maybe I've picked 40 as the age of nickname dorkification because it's older than I am, and in a few years I'll say 50 is it. =P