Nicknames

[Frank]

The original nickname thread is long locked and I wanted to post in it, so here is a new one.

So, what's your real life nick?

I used to be called Frank the tank in football because I was big fat linebacker (6'3" and 260 pounds then). My older cousin used to call me Crank. because well, I was a whiny, cranky bitch. And now, after being diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, my sensitive and creative watchmates have taken to calling me Rumbles, Shits or Bowels all randomly.

I have the best friends and coworkers.

 

[phil]

Cheese steak.

:/

 

[General Specific]

It's Fumbles, it was always Fumbles.

 

[Wasabi Poptart]

My real name is Lisa. In school, for whatever reason, people thought that rhymed with pizza. So I was Lisa Pizza for quite a few years.
I was also T-Bone because I was skinny back then and it sort of sounded like my last name.
I got stuck with Twinkle Toes because I took dance lessons and used to tap dance every where I went.
A friend in high school labeled me Brillo Pad Head because of my hair.
When I was supervising in the casino one of my clerks started calling me the Epitome of All Evil. lol

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Hope you're all sitting down for this, but my real name? It's Nick.

My nickname among a couple of friends has been "Nick the Brick", which was going to be my wrestling name had I not left wrestling school. Well, the full name was going to be Nick "The Brick" Brunswick due to my being from New Brunswick (friend of mine is from PEI, so we were going to be a Maritimer-themed tag team).

But the "Brick" nickname has kinda caught on with a couple of friends. Could be that I can be a tough bastard...or a damn stubborn one.

 

[makare]

my law school friends call me mish or mishy

 

[Chad Sexington]

This is a small approximate transcript of a conversation involving racism-by-ignorance which culminated in my only and (thankfully) brief nickname.

When I was travelling, I met this Aussie girl who was excited to hear I was from Canada, because, as she said, we had "real Indians".

"What do you mean, 'real' Indians?" I asked.
"You know. Red Indians."
I raised my eyebrows and cautioned her, "You... really can't say that. That's not a thing that's okay."
"What?" she said, innocently. "What do you call them?"
"Aboriginals, I guess," I said.
"No, we have aboriginals," she argued.
"Then, Native Americans."
"That's boring. I'm going to call them Red Indians. And you can be White Indian."
"*facepalm*"

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my law school friends call me mish or mishy

mishy? That's awesome. That makes me think of... squishy.

 

[Frank]

Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.

 

[Chad Sexington]

Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.

Really? I did not know that. But now... Now I know. At least they don't use "red". Because if they did... Good. Lord.

 

[makare]

This is a small approximate transcript of a conversation involving racism-by-ignorance which culminated in my only and (thankfully) brief nickname.

When I was travelling, I met this Aussie girl who was excited to hear I was from Canada, because, as she said, we had "real Indians".

"What do you mean, 'real' Indians?" I asked.
"You know. Red Indians."
I raised my eyebrows and cautioned her, "You... really can't say that. That's not a thing that's okay."
"What?" she said, innocently. "What do you call them?"
"Aboriginals, I guess," I said.
"No, we have aboriginals," she argued.
"Then, Native Americans."
"That's boring. I'm going to call them Red Indians. And you can be White Indian."
"*facepalm*"

---------- Post added at 08:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:05 PM ----------

my law school friends call me mish or mishy

mishy? That's awesome. That makes me think of... squishy.

yes mishy. sigh.


we have the bureau of indian affairs so officially we still use indian.

 

[LittleSin]

Hel. That's my initials put together.

I was also known as the Red Baroness in Junior High because I had this one, all red out fir I used to wear on a regular basis.

My dad calls me Honey Bunch.

 

[Officer_Charon]

My list of aka's has been long and varied, starting with Stevie Wonder in primary school, running through Dan the Man, Ogre, Lurch, Trenchcoat, Jarhead, and more recently Officer Dan. I have some creative friends

 

[Piotyr]

My soccer nickname in high school was the Punisher, because the team was in the mood to give nicknames that day, and they kept changing mine for every goal I scored (6 that scrimmage). All the other nicknames I had growing up were much less flattering (dough boy, puker, just to name a couple).

 

[Element 117]

Fire face.

 

[Hailey Knight]

I don't think I've ever had a nickname, except being called "ghost" in middle school as a tease, and that doesn't count.

 

[Denbrought]

Hmmm, friends started calling me Den when I was 11 or so, as I used this handle for a lot of stuff we did, it's still my nickname in Spain. In the U.S. I'm Will, Willem, Gweelem, Gollum (damn you Judo TA) or any other intentional funny butchering of Guillem you can think of The people at the FNMagic tourneys I go to call me Lucky Will.

 

[Element 117]

My list of aka's has been long and varied, starting with Stevie Wonder in primary school, running through Dan the Man, Ogre, Lurch, Trenchcoat, Jarhead, and more recently Officer Dan. I have some creative friends

charface

 

[Officer_Charon]

Fire crotch.

Yeah... mis-parsed that one. Thanks - you now owe my department a new computer

 

[Cheesy1]

In high school, I was "The Cheese." I'm too tired at the moment to go into the long story of how I obtained the moniker.

 

[HCGLNS]

The only current nickname I have is Boo.

 

[Krisken]

I am fairly forgettable most of the time, which was a blessing in High School for a guy who was 5'6" and 120 for most of his time there. No good nicknames.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.

Huh. I thought the latest politically correct term was "First Nations" people. That's what I've heard them referred as on CBC Radio and a few other places.

 

[klew]

I really only had one, k-lew, first initial, last name. Was used by only two people in high school, and two Brits at work have started using it in the last 3 months.

 

[Frank]

Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.

Huh. I thought the latest politically correct term was "First Nations" people. That's what I've heard them referred as on CBC Radio and a few other places.[/QUOTE]

Well, that's the politically correct term, but there's not a First Nations Affairs Canada is there?

Though, we mark FN as race for natives under the race section of our C-13 forms.

 

[Dave]

Turbo.

 

[phil]

Oh! In high school my friend Sean used to call me cracker. Sometimes my buddy MK calls me rampage. I, in turn, call him lazer.

 

[Krisken]

Turbo.

Stop trying to take Calleja's nickname.

 

[Vrii]

Well, Jake is the easy one, given that my real name is Jacob. At work I also get skinny, red stripe, and monkeyman (I climb things. A lot.)

Bevan is my WoW character, so I get that a lot with people I play with. Bevan the Red now, after getting the mohawk.

I think that's all I get on a regular basis.

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Turbo.

Stop trying to take Calleja's nickname.[/QUOTE]

Now now. We already have a nickname for Calleja.

 

[Krisken]

Turbo.

Stop trying to take Calleja's nickname.[/QUOTE]

Now now. We already have a nickname for Calleja.[/QUOTE]
Yup. Turbosquirt.

 

[Rob King]

In Junior High I got the nickname "King Bob." It stuck pretty damn well, and even now if I meet anyone who knows me from High School they likely wouldn't know my legal name. I'm "King Bob" to quite a few people, actually.

Years ago I flipped them around and extended "Bob" to "Robert" for aliases online. Then a few years afterward I re-shortened "Robert" to "Rob." Hence my forum name.

 

[Thread Necromancer]

Physh, alternatively, Datphysh, but it was shortened to Physh.

For a short time I was called Tequila Rose. Long story. But the short of it is that I practically lived at the Rose family house and I drank a lot of tequila.

In the more recent years I've been known as the Irish Gigolo, but that named died when I met my last ex girlfriend and actually ended up serious about a woman. Fat lot of good that did me.

 

[Rob King]

Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.

Huh. I thought the latest politically correct term was "First Nations" people. That's what I've heard them referred as on CBC Radio and a few other places.[/QUOTE]

Well, that's the politically correct term, but there's not a First Nations Affairs Canada is there?

Though, we mark FN as race for natives under the race section of our C-13 forms.[/QUOTE]

First Nations actually only means that they are Natives who aren't Inuit. It's not a catch-all term, hence the lingering usage of "Indian."

I'm not sure why they don't just use Aboriginal, or Native Americans, but I think someone once told me that there are groups who don't like either of those terms, so I guess the Government decided to stick with "Indian" as long as everyone else can't agree on a catch-all name that they like.

 

[Jiarn]

Mijlo from Blood in Blood Out. For being the only white kid in my school raised Hispanic.

El Casper, given to me by a large group of cholos for being white and cool in their book

The Hulk, for reasons I'm sure people don't need to hear, though I will say it has nothing to do with anger issues.

 

[General Specific]

Ok, this is going to be kinda mean. In high school a few friends and I gave each other nicknames around the characters of Moby Dick. One was Ahab, one was Queequeg, and I was Starbuck. We did this not because we were huge literary fans or giant dorks (though we were the latter as well), but because we hated a teacher who was morbidly obese and had a clump of curly, white hair. Though, thinking back on it, the book and names we chose were apropos. We all wanted to get her fired, but if we had tried, would have likely been caught and punished severely (Ahab's mom was my guidance counselor at that school and knew my mom quite well).