What are some of the nicknames that Joel Furr has gone by over the years?
For some reason, Joel Furr has never had a great deal of luck getting people to call him by various nicknames. Joel has managed to get the people at his office to call him “Jay” (which, for some odd reason, sometimes means that he gets called “Jaybird”) but none of his friends seem able to make the switch from Joel to Jay. To his family and friends, “Joel” it is and “Joel” it appears it will always be. The only exceptions to this general rule came while Joel worked at the Hardee’s on South Main Street in Blacksburg, Virginia from 1984 to 1985 during his senior year of high school and the summer that came after. Having found where the manager of the store kept the label-maker that made the label tape that went on the “Hardee’s” nametags all the employees wore, Joel made himself a nametag that said “FLUFFY” and, when that one got old, another that said “STRUDEL.” No one to speak of ever noticed, though he minced around as “STRUDEL” for months. Joel is trying to get people to call him “Ja
