― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)
Ste, your friend isn't the only one. I had a friend who tried (in vain) to do this as well.
My parents and I used to give most of our regular clients nicknames. It was much easier because we never ask for names, so a nicknames was handy. And fun. Unless you're an idiot like me and nearly give it away. *sigh*
― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)
― Smug and Pious (kate), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)
― I Oppose All Rock and Roll (noodle vague), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)
very rarely am i called "g-kit", but sure, people say gregkitten (one word) quite a lot. certain people call me just plain old "G". but it's not very often i get the g-kit treatment. my girlfriend tends to call me "kit".
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)
So we referred to him by his surname from then on.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)
I also knew a girl named Susan who, I'm not sure why, changed her name to Clarisse. I think this was supposed to be out of Farenheit 451 (which I've never read).
― stewart downes (sdownes), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)
My 80 year old babysitter changed her name from Geraldine to Carmen.
― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)
― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― suckling pig at a rave (alix), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)
Didn't some of his jazzbo buddies in Last Exit call him that because of a stripey sweater?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)
In college, I was summarily referred to as "Axe", presumably because of a poster on my freshman year dorm room wall of "Halloween: the Night He Came Home" (ala 'axe murderer,' though at no point in "Halloween" did Michael Myers weild an axe). This too mutated into various incarnations (the oddest being "Axe Fifth Avenue").
I had a freind in high school named Greg. He was Polish, and his mother referred to him as "Greshu" (Polish for Gregory, I'm assuming). Poor Greg's Mom spoke with a bit of a speech impediment, so he swiftly became "Gweshu." This led to horrible things like, "Blesshyu, Gweshu! Tissue?" and such. After a while he became "The Grey Shoe," and later simply "Shoe" or "the Shoe".
The last nickname I accrued was "Speedmetal" due to both my affinity for same and my impractical pitching-style for the magazine's slow-pitch softball team.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)
― ai lien (kold_krush), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)
― deX! (deX!), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, I got that part and already weighed in on it, but while on the subject of nicknames, I thought I'd unsolicited extrapolate. I'm now giving you the nickname of "Pedantic Control-Freak".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, I got that part and already weighed in on it, but while on the subject of nicknames, I thought I'd unsolicitedly extrapolate. I'm now giving you the nickname of "Pedantic Control-Freak".
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)
― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)
― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)
― mitch dub (ano ano), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)
Bahahahaha
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)
Well, I was reviled at this particular camp and figured that if I made light of my shortcomings (har har har) I could get some friends that way. It totally didn't work. My cabinmate, a girl who was terrified "the weasels" were going to eat her, was more well-liked than I was.
― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)
-- The Ghost of Black Elegance (djperr...), September 12th, 2005.
what was the nickname?
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of See Upthread (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)
― kelsey (kelstarry), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)
"Well," explained Matt, "it's no big deal. We were all on a soccer team together, and one day after a game, we were all in the shower, and he just popped one."
"what?"
"A pear. He popped a pear, y'know", said Matt matter-of-factly.
Oh the indignity.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 September 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)
― Eva van Rein (Gaia1981), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)
My guess is that it's Per. It's a Swedish name, too.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)
― I Have A Small Penis, Monday, 12 September 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
Hey ho, no more beer for me.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)
So, how about that Rainbow Bum losing the old virginity, eh? That's cool.
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 12 September 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
the norwegian spelling is "peer," if henrik ibsen is to be trusted.
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)
― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)
http://www.gonemovies.com/WWW/WanadooFilms/Misdaad/pulp3.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)
I would also like to point out that in addition to trying to get people to call her BOOTS, Mandee also lied to her entire 3rd grade class when she told them that her "real" name was EMMA.
― not sure about pickles (Jacqui Pickles), Monday, 12 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
I took to just giving out my diminuitive, and everyone just started immediately calling me that in highschool. I think it caught on not because the force of my will or personality but because it sounds so chic and chummy rollling off the tongue. It makes the speaker sound cool just saying it. It's a generic name, but I like it as my nickname.
― Melinda Mess-injure, Monday, 12 September 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)
but i was in 2nd grade, not 3rd!
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)
can i also add that 'emma' was inspired by a recent viewing of 'mannequin'? i think the mannequin's name was EMMY, though
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)
― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 12 September 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Monday, 12 September 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)
― deaf leopard (haitch), Monday, 12 September 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)
― gear on other computer, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)
― gear on other computer, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)
― huell howser (chaki), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)
― Yeah, for real! (Matt Chesnut), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)
my little sister, when she was about 6, made the entire family call her Dorthy (her name is chelsea) because she loved the wizard of oz. she went to NY and bought a kitchen magnet that said "Dorthy" on it. for xmas, i bought her ruby red slippers.
― Jah Pastafari (jaxon), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:23 (twenty years ago)
I dropped the nickname after that and the fact I realised Jemal is a muslim boys name. Thanks a lot Peter Murphy!
I suppose Trayce is a selfimposed nickname - I feel weird being called Tracy, and irritated when I'm called Tracey (grr). Even my grandparents call me "trayce" now, as did everyone at my last job (even on official emails etc).
― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)
― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)
― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)
At my next school I wanted to be called Hermione, but it didn't really fly.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)
My name's Jean, but – uh – a lot of guys call me Shawna
― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)