My parents always said it was a nice Scottish name. But back in the '60s, when I was a kid, Bruce was for some reason the jokey, archetypal name for male hairdressers and interior designers, as Tex is for cowboys. In those days, unfortunately, I wasn't secure about my own masculinity.
It could've been worse. You could've been Ralph III.
My late dad Ralph Handy Jr.
There was even a novelty song called Big Bad Bruce. It was a parody of a John Henry-style folk ballad about a beautician who "swished into town."
Never said much Kind of quite and shy...
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