WHAT'S IN A (NICK)NAME?

Devotees of Shakespeare will remember the star-crossed lovers in Romeo and Juliet. Juliet, in frustration with the fact that her lover Romeo is a member of the family with which her family has a long and deadly feud, asks "What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
This quote inspired Ned to do a post on nicknames, and has a modest quiz for his loyal readers.
NAME: John
NICKNAME:
NAME: Robert
NICKNAME:
NAME Henry
NICKNAME:
NAME: Margaret
NICKNAME:
NAME: Plyush
NICKNAME:
Finished?
The answers are as follows JOHN: Jack; ROBERT: Bob; HENRY: Hal or Hank; MARGARET: Peg or Peggy; PLYUSH: why, Bobby of course!
If his readers wonder how in the world someone named Plyush could be nicknamed Bobby, Ned reminds them that this is America!
Besides, anyone born with the name Plyush Amrit, who would like to run for office in redneck Louisiana had better do better than Plyush. So, early on, Ned suspects, Plyush had his friends start to call him, "Bobby." Not, "Ply" or "Ushie" or even "Shoofly", or that old souther standby, "Skeeter."
This is, in fact, our old friend, the Governor of Luisiana, Plyush Amrit "Bobby" Jindal.
Earlier Ned did a post on the governor linking to a NYT article calling into question the governor's inactions and missteps during the Gulf spill crisis, while he kept up a non-stop criticism of BP, the Coast Guard, and the Obama administration. And refused to call out more than a token number of the national Guardsmen authorized by the President.
Ned's readers know that Ned has been harshly critical of the President, for whom he voted by the way, but Ned would allow that a person named Barack could get away with nicknaming himself "Barry."
But Plyush? To Ned it smacks of cynical opportunism, but then Ned has always been a suspicious bastard. Chalk it up to that.