The name Randy Candy is something Esche, 36, of Uptown, has gone by since 4th grade, inspired by an obsession he says he had with the Garbage Pail Kids—a gross-out trading card series with obscure rhyming names that parodied the Cabbage Patch Kids in the mid-1980s. Through high school and his professional career as a piercer at a tattoo parlor, Esche says the name stuck. Most friends, family and clients don't know him as anything else, so none were surprised by the petition for an official change.