I capitalize nicknames that are specific to that person. If a particular person has the nickname of "Buddy", and that's what everyone calls him, I capitalize it. If I'm talking to someone I don't know, and say, "Hey, buddy, could you move your car?", I don't capitalize it.

- Vicki

"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution" - Daniel Webster