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#1

Frank

Frankie Williamson

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.


#2

phil

phil

Cheese steak.

:/


#3

General Specific

General Specific

It's Fumbles, it was always Fumbles.


#4



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


#5

ThatNickGuy

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. :p


#6



makare

my law school friends call me mish or mishy


#7

Chad Sexington

Garbledina

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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makare said:
my law school friends call me mish or mishy
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mishy? That's awesome. That makes me think of... squishy.


#8

Frank

Frankie Williamson

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

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.


#9

Chad Sexington

Garbledina

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

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

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


#10



makare

Chad Sexington said:
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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makare said:
my law school friends call me mish or mishy
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mishy? That's awesome. That makes me think of... squishy.
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yes mishy. sigh.


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


#11

LittleSin

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.


#12

Officer_Charon

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


#13

Piotyr

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).


#14



Element 117

Fire face.


#15

Hailey Knight

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.


#16

Denbrought

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 :p The people at the FNMagic tourneys I go to call me Lucky Will.


#17



Element 117

Officer_Charon said:
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
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charface


#18

Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

.Amy. said:
Fire crotch.
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Yeah... mis-parsed that one. Thanks - you now owe my department a new computer


#19

Cheesy1

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.


#20

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

The only current nickname I have is Boo.


#21

Krisken

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.


#22

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

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

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.
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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.


#23

klew

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.


#24

Frank

Frankie Williamson

ThatNickGuy;424638][QUOTE=Frank said:
Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.
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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.


#25

Dave

Dave

Turbo.


#26

phil

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.


#27

Krisken

Krisken

Dave said:
Turbo.
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Stop trying to take Calleja's nickname.


#28

Vrii

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.


#29

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Krisken;424648][QUOTE=Dave said:
Turbo.
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Stop trying to take Calleja's nickname.[/QUOTE]

Now now. We already have a nickname for Calleja.


#30

Krisken

Krisken

ThatNickGuy;424653][QUOTE=Krisken;424648][QUOTE=Dave said:
Turbo.
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Stop trying to take Calleja's nickname.[/QUOTE]

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


#31

Rob King

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.


#32

Thread Necromancer

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.


#33

Rob King

Rob King

Frank;424641][QUOTE=ThatNickGuy;424638][QUOTE=Frank said:
Did you know the government of Canada still officially refers to the aboriginal native population as Indians?

Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

True story.
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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.


#34



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.


#35

General Specific

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).


#36

figmentPez

figmentPez

In high school I had the nickname Wildman.


Yes, it was supposed to be ironic.


#37

North_Ranger

North_Ranger

The girls in our class from elementary to high school called me "Miksu", which is a diminutive from my first name, Mikko. Same kind of diminutive was used for my surname, "Mettis".

Most nicknames I have had, however, were mocking names I got as a kid, so I have pretty much willed myself to forget them. For instance, in my childhood there was this book series about a butt-ugly kid called Mikko Mallikas (roughly meaning 'To-be-Modeled-after'), who had inspiring adventures. I never lived that name down, and I admit it's one of my Berserk Buttons.

When I played in WoW, my main was Furadin the dwarven hunter, so from there I got Furbs, Furby, even Furry.

Among fellow players at the Medieval Market, I was for the longest time nicknamed after my characters, particularly "Wentzel" and "Lätty" (which also means 'pancake'). But that happens to pretty much everybody.

And a friend of a friend nicknamed me "the hairy little Magic player", which is kinda odd. I never played Magic: the Gathering. And I'm not very little.


#38

Silver Jelly

Silver Jelly

My "real name", that is, the name in my ID, isn't what anybody has ever called me, not even my parents, so I guess that what I usually say is my first name ("Carlo") would be considered a nickname. Then, there's variations on it ("Carlito", "Charlie", "Charles", "Carl"...).
One of my friends sometimes calls me "Carlinski".

There's also some people, mainly friends from when I studied journalism, that use my surname, "Gallucci", maybe adding a "Mr" in front of it, or shortening it to "luzzi" or "luzzo". Some just call me "sir" or "mister".

Tegid used to call me for some years "Gordo" ("fat") and "Pesado", wich means both "heavy" and "annoying". I also called him "Pesado", and "feo" ("ugly").

A friend of mine sometimes calls me "Carlos, el de los huevos largos" (Long balled Charles?)

Oh, my mom calls me "Carletto" and, when I was a little kid, she sometimes called me "Miquitus", wich is a ridiculous version of the catalan for "monkey" and "bicho" or "bichito", wich means "little critter" or "bug". Curiously, I used to call my brother "monkey" when he was little and I usually call my little sister "Bicho". Family nicknames and pet names will live on!!

And speaking on wich generic nicknames I use with people, I very frequently call my friends "Doctor", "Doctor en Alaska" (wich is the spanish name for the show "Northern exposure") and other variations on this "doctor" theme, and I may also use their names fused with "man" ("Nachman" for my friend Nacho, "Daveman" for my friend David, "Eddman" for my friend Eduard, etc. etc.)
I also call girls "madamme" or "señora".


#39

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

I don't really have any nicknames. In public school and high school various people would call me Bobby Hill, Turtle or Squirtle, citing my uncanny resemblance to all three. But none of those people were friends or even positive aquaintances. Anyone who has ever had any kind of positive relation with me just uses my actual name. There were three girls I knew who called me D-Rock but I hated that.


#40

Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Psycho, because I tend to bottle up all the negative emotion until it blasts out in a short, but very surprisingly controlled, outburst. Got it when I put a guy that had been picking on me for over a month though a cinder block wall in the gym. I didn't get it trouble, but he sure did.


#41

Cajungal

Cajungal

I never had a nickname in real life, besides "Boo," and my aunts call everyone Boo.


#42

sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

From 6 to 22+ I was Matman. I started singing the (campy) Batman theme when I was little and adding my name to it...

For a couple of years in HS, I was Madman.


#43



Disconnected

Was and still is Tubbs.


#44

CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Well, there's the nickname I've had since I was 2 that nobody but my family and maybe 3 or 4 close friends know.

Otherwise I've had people call me Wolverine for awhile when the X-Men movies were out thanks to the 'chops. I guess Chris is technically a nickname since my full name is Christopher.


#45

Bones

Bones

mish huh? I have a friend named Mish in ohio, but her's is short for Mishakel ggoddess of healing from dragonlance....

me, bones, always and forever....for many many reasons....one of them for screaming like that interstellar southern doctor we all know and love.


#46



Element 117

Bones said:
mish huh? I have a friend named Mish in ohio, but her's is short for Mishakel ggoddess of healing from dragonlance....

me, bones, always and forever....for many many reasons....one of them for screaming like that interstellar southern doctor we all know and love.
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I call you Pleen.


#47

Shannow

Shannow

Depends on the group of friends.

At the bar and downtown, it is Wayne-o
With my college friends, its Cutty
My old highschool friends from long long ago, it is Tools
My close friends its either Cutty or Joffe or King Joffe Jay


#48

Gusto

Gusto

Miller is the mainstay.

It has been mutated several times over the years:
Milhouse
Milman
Mailman
Dennis Miller
Miller Lite
MGD
Millz
Millbot
K-millz

The only nickname I've had that isn't some kinda variation on my name was Spidercages, and tat one was because during my heavy poker-playing days, friends thought that everyone needed to have a poker nickname. They called me spider cages because while sitting at the table, I tended to tent my giant bony hands on the table so that my forearms were resting on the edge of the table and my fingertips were on the tabletop. I guess it made me look like some kind of arachnoid predator ready to pounce on the table.


#49

Math242

Math242

when i took my first job, after a few months, coworkers started to call me "the nihilist". I loved that one.

My name is Mathias, so most of my friends call me Mat. They also call me Kubiak from time to time.


#50

Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

Sparhawk said:
Psycho, because I tend to bottle up all the negative emotion until it blasts out in a short, but very surprisingly controlled, outburst. Got it when I put a guy that had been picking on me for over a month though a cinder block wall in the gym. I didn't get it trouble, but he sure did.
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I don't go by that nickname anymore... but "Psycho" was my nickname in high school too. I used to get beat up all the time through school unitl one time in grade 10 I snapped and ran around the gym taking out all the bullies with a goalie hockey stick. My gym teacher laughed his ass off and told them that they had it coming. They never picked on me (physically anyways) after that... and the name stuck.


#51

Hylian

Hylian

When I was little my parents called me Commander Toad cause I used to read the Commander toad books all the time.


#52



Chazwozel

Captain Awesome.


#53

Wahad

Wahad

Ah. Nicknames. I had a rather unfortunate one in highschool.

See, my real name (Roy) rhymes with the dutch word for prey (prooi). Now as if that wasn't enough, there was an idiot in my class who somehow, someway, had an aneurysm (not literally) and came up with the nickname ''Spermprey''. Yeah. By senior year I'd more or less adopted the attitude ''if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'' so I laugh about it now, but it's still stupid as hell.


#54

KCWM

KCWM

Turtle - 6th grade through my freshman year of high school. I dressed up like a Ninja Turtle and sang/rapped a song from the TMNT Pizza Hut album (Cowabunga). I even randomly danced the running man. I really hated the nickname. Oddly enough, I now have a couple of turtles as pets and have been called Turtle from time to time by family members.

Aldaco Taco (all-dock-oh) - freshman year - given to me by my football coach because of my ability to catch. I fumbled after a helmet to helmet hit gave me a concussion and he told me I'd dropped the taco. His last name was Bobo...funny.

AOEdd/AOHate - Back when AOL was big, I spent a lot of time online in chat rooms. My friends put together this list of characters based on people in our high school. We had a semi-falling out and, being that I was already an angry individual, they gave my character the exclamation of "HATE!".

Scooter - When I was a baby, I had a nasty case of jaundice. While in the hospital, apparently, I'd scoot back and forth and the nurses described me as a little scooter. My dad still calls me this more than my real name

Bean - When we first started dating, I randomly called my wife Reesabean. She called me Galanzo Bean. Eventually, we just shortened it to Bean and it's stuck ever since. In fact, we call each other this more than we use our real names. It's such second nature now that it's weird to think of it as a nick name.


#55



jaythen

Ex-wife used to call me Nobus.

Niece calls me Unkl Momo (she is 4).

Some friends call me No-ba-lee-doo.

One friend calls me Eeyore.

At a previous job, a manager called me Nobiewan.

Have heard every possible pun about my name.


#56

Null

Null

Piggy, Buddha, Lardass, the deeply ironic Slim, and Meat. If there are others, I don't remember or am not aware of them.

Oh, and of course, Elbows.


#57

Gusto

Gusto

Null said:
Oh, and of course, Elbows.
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Ye damn right.


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