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"She's never had a nickname / But then, nor have I", sang the Go-Betweens, and a mysteriously affecting line it was too. When I listen to it, I like to pretend I haven't had one either, but I have, as I just pointed out on the Mechanics of Offence thread. None have them have stuck for very long though. This could have something to do with my tendency to drop entire groups of friends and move on every so often (something I haven't done for a few years now, despite what people on the Sinister list might think).

Anyway, at primary school I was called 'Joey' and 'Deacon' because I used to spaz about a lot. I like to think they meant it affectionately. Then I didn't get another one till university, where I got called 'Dirty Nick' by the beer n' porn monsters I was put with in my first flat. It was ironic, duh. After a term I escaped to live with a bunch of second and third years, who accordingly called me 'Nipper', which mutated into 'Skip'. For a while in my second year, some people called me 'Prone' because I kept causing accidents. Since then, not a lot. Tim Hopkins has coined the marvellously witty 'Dicky Knee' (Nicky D / Dicky Knee - geddit?), something he just came out with one night and floored me with (How didn't I think of it before? I've had all my *life* to make amusing wordplay with my name).

Still I don't think I'm a person to whom nick names readily stick. What nick names have you had? Do you like them?

― Nick, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My sister always called me Bee, because I had a stripy jumper, that one stuck, don't mind it.

At school, I was oft known as Lockerbie or Disaster Features, just because I went to an evil school, was ackward, and my surname is close to sounding like Lockerbie. Needless to say, I hated that one!

― jel, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never really made enough of an impression to get one... or maybe people were too afeared I'd beat them up if they *did* give me one!

The only ones I've known of are "Krazy Kate" (used affectionately) or else "Psycho Kate" (not used affectionately).

Apart from that, I've never been anything but Kate.

― Kate the Saint, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I forgot. Various people call me Knickers. And my dad has had loads of nicknames for me ever since I was born. 'Bubbly' and 'Pip' spring to mind. Is 'nick names' one word or two, anyway?

― Nick, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When younger, my brother used to call me Beej after the bass player from The Suburbs. To this day, I still don't know why.

I college, I told people that my nickname was "deX!" and they fell for it. "deX!" was also my Internet identity basically up until last year.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yet another thing I hate about the English. Why do they have to come up with all these cute derivatives instead of saying people's names? 'Baz' and 'Bez' and 'Tel' and 'Tezza' and 'Gaz' and 'Gal' etc.

Then again, I suppose it's better than the Canadian fashion of putting a stupid ending on everybody's name, most usually the '-er' or '-o' suffix

― dave q, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

er, yeah DAVE!

― jel, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Shipe. Everyone was setting up gangs at school, many along lines of having animal names in them, I set up the sheep gang, I believe, and became shipe. for four bloody years. but i got used to it. bill is actually a nickname, sort of, except it stuck, and I don't mind it. think new school, new teacher: 'so william, what do you want to be called'. me: 'I really don't mind.' him: 'I'm going to call you Bill.' and that was five years but also been used all over the internet, so I don't really care. probably also known as 'that quiet one whose name nobody can remember', but that's not really a nickname, is it?

bill

― Bill, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I spent years being called Allison Wonderland. I could kill someone for calling me that. In high school I was called Lucy. No clue why, now. Then it was Lulu, which evolved to Lulubell, before I went back to being Ally.

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was 'Greenie' at secondary school, which I HATED, but then re- titled in 6th form as the 'Man O' Wisdom', which was quite flattering. Amongst you lot of course I appear to be 'The Deege'.

― DG, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This girl I had a love/hate/love/HATE thing with in 6th grade made some of the more interesting leaps of faith when it came to insulting me - Blow-your-noso, Pick-your-noso. After time, it simply became Rapanoza. In 6th grade, I was called Rapper. I could NOT rap, though. The irony wasn't lost on me.

Now, of course, because of the happy confluence that was created when my shortened first name (Dave) met the first initial of my last name (R.), I am DAVER. Or, as Josh & Ethan call me, Daver Motherfucking Popshots. (A sight better than Daver Fucking Rant's Nest, let me tell you.)

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, it's "Dave Motherfucking Popshots." "Daver Motherfucking Popshots" is just too much.

― Josh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sorry, but Daver sounds like a goofy character played by Bill Murray in one of his bad movies, or something.

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

WOuld "Ebay " be a good first name?

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was "Red" and "Hammerhan" and "Fisheye"

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will call you Ponce from now on, okay?

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ok Shittylocks

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, it's my own fault, I guess. But I'd rather be called Daver than Popshots. Or Poopchutes. (The worst thing is, you can't say "Daver" without sounding dopey. Dave-errrrrrrrrrrrr. Dopey. I should buy a beanie with a propeller attached.)

And no apologies necessary, Ms. K. Hell, getting compared to a Bill Murray character is fine in my book. Even if it's in a bad movie. (But has Bill Murray ever been in a bad movie? Just for being the only one in _Wild Things_ that didn't get naked or grope someone, I say he's untouchable.)

― David Raposa, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike, why do you love me so? I'm nothing great. Please. Please, just move on with your life. You're better off without me.

― Ally, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I get 'boken, short for Hoboken, at work. Mom calls me pumpkin or child when she's annoyed with me AND I'M 37, best friend calls me smoopy when he's after something.

― Lesley Higgins, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Church," for two years.

So any AMG guys who I knew from Big Rapids, howdy.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ladies call me the magnum. u should know y.

― junichiro, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my parents called me mark because it wouldn't get "shortened" at school, a fear they have never adequately explained. Anyway: at my first school (5-8), I was called "marky", which somewhat startled maw and paw, who had not bargained for lengthening, and at my third I was mainly called "roop". [xXx] who was my heart's desire from the age of 36 and no days until [ulp: insert random date past or future here] went thru a brief phase of calling me "sinky pinky", which I greatly disliked but forgave thru gritted teeth becuz I wd in that sad state have forgiven much (too much, in fact). My sister and most of her friends call me "sparky", which I like...

― mark s, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have been called "bones" and "tapeworm" because of the skinny thing. "Burn" when my little bro couldn't pronounce my name. One summer it went from Byron to "Byroani" to "Bolagna." And "B-Real" "B-Money" "B-Boy."

I should have been named Brendan but my grandfather thought kids would call me Brenda.

― bnw, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have a "real" name, I had it expunged from the records. To protect my family.

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think this joke is from the Goon Show, can't remember. But - one character asks another what his name is. He tells him. But then he says, But most people call me by my nickname. Oh yes? What's that? Answ. : Ahem. Nick.
Yeah it was the Goon Show I'm pretty sure, I can kind of hear it in the voices of Spike Milligan & Harry Secombe.

― duane, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am called the pink moose because i am a gangly awkard kind ogf funny looking queer canuck.

― anthony, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always considered "Surefoot" to be a bit over the top.

― Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lately I'm being called "Anderson" [spoken in accent which slurs the "s"] which is apparently from The Matrix (haven't seen film, don't know WTF it means). That replaced "Porno" which wuz last year's name (& not so good called across crowded room).

― AP, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

for some reason, i have been Bradley for the last 6 months or so. why? apparently after the guy from S Club 7. WTF?

― gareth, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Obviously Em or Ems by friends / family etc. which is cool, I quite like it. However I did not appreciate being nicknamed Hammers in my old house where we seemed to be living some kind of male public school thing despite the fact none of us had been to public school. This has stuck to the extent that during an ill-advised one night stand with a friend he refused to call me Emma which was very unnerving.

My dad went through a kind phase of calling me FatEmma after we watched the James Bond film where the bad chick is called Fatima Blush. I was about 10 at the time, thanks Dad. One of my exes used to find it hilarious to call me Emily or Lumpy. Thanks, love. Nicknames are horrible. However Pete has millions which I may reveal at some point if I can be arsed.

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never use an alias on the internet, and then go to pub with aforesaid people. Especially if your good intentions are funny at the time. I get "Starry" and "Fluffy", and "Jo". My mother chose my first name so it couldn't be shortened. And then proceeded to call me by a shortened form of my middle name anyway.

She's crazy in the madnut.

Incidentally - we have full internet access at work now.

What is this "stats cock" of which you speak anyway?

― sarah, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stats cock

― gareth, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

workplaces which offer full internet access should have a different name.

I always assumed you wanted to be called Starry but now I know different I will call you Starry.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For ten bucks an hour you can call me anything you want to.

― Lola (nathalie), Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Starry is a good one and OKAY. Considering my current flatmate once said "Who's Sarah?" to me - this is before we lived together btw - it seems to be quite omnipresent in my life. Sarah is dull anyway! You'd think an old furrin name for "princess" would be a bit more exciting, wouldn't you?

― Sarah, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never had any nicknames that people have called me to my face. I've had a couple I've learned about later. Maybe I should have a competition to find me a nickname, or maybe I should just do more funny and nickname-worthy things.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think most people are lumbered with nicknames rather than being awarded them on the basis of science fact or merit. Except for Pete aka the Barnet Ape, Monkey Boy, Yip Yap Baz (why?), Little Adolf (for the way his hair looks after a bath), Pierre the Chair (it rhymes, see, and he is known for getting violent with chairs) and many many more. Especially when the ginger beard was in residence when we had an embarrassment of riches on the amusing nickname front (Henry VIII, Chris Moyles, any other plump chap with a stupid beard).

― Emma, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You had an um....EXHORT (?) named after your beard. If that counts.

IE, "By Tom Ewings beard, thats a ruddy great big herring"!

Arrr. That's not exactly a nickname though. Despite it being v.v amusing.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually an exhortation is even better than a nickname, particularly if herring were involved.

― Tom, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

French friends started calling me Suze after the weird Campari-ish drink they have there (it tastes spiky) and it has spread. Also Sushi, by smut-peddling ex-boyfriend.

― suzy, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This boy always calls me "the Abbithean era". "I was telling my friends all about how neat the Abbithean era is," he will say.

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Due to the fact that at school I sometimes played football with people slightly younger than me rather than attempt to kiss girls/take lots of drugs, I was given the nickname by one person of Peter Pan. Quite funny, really. Not much at the time though.

These days I have a few nicknames, including Cookie, 96, Big Gay Ally and variations thereof.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I got called (Kimmy) Gibbler quite a bit during the hey day of Full House. My friend Christian always called me Hairdo, but I don't see him so much anymore so... *sniff* These days it's Hollywood - also due to my hair... when I went (more) blonde. hmmmmm

― Kim, Wednesday, 8 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thumper, Dancer, Prancer, Tim-Tam - all by my father at an early age (my lil' sis Joanna was titled in chronological order: JoJoZep, Lala, Laudus Loudbum, Po-Jo, Po, Posephine, Jo-Mo, Mogus, Mogerama, Mogy, Mocus Pocus...). Tim-Tam has been used occasionally by my boyfriend and Timmy occasionally by everyone. Actually Tom came up with my favourite non de plume when he christened me the Boy Wonder from Down Under.

― Tim, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally C = The Great Blue Trackstibber

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

At school I was known as Juicy and this has stuck, although these days I use it more than other people. Mum calls me Sausage and Lemon and Nanna and Grandad call me Lulu.

― Madchen, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have no nicknames

― cabbage, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your real name is "cabbage"?

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was the first thing my father saw as he walked out of the farmhouse, could have been worse, it could have been someone called Mike.

― cabbage, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Using a nickname on yourself more than other people use it: Classic or Desparate Self Promotion?

― Nick, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you do it like a couple times after it was said once as a joke, it's all good. Once you start doing it ALL THE TIME, it's desperate. It's for people without any friends to give them nicknames.

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The day I start calling myself Sausage or Lemon, please shoot me

― Madchen, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the same "Lemon". It evokes images of...citroen.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like the name Cabbage. I think it is a thing of beauty.

― Martin, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mmm! yes, cabbages ARE beautiful...so full. ...round ...pink

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The day I start calling myself "Sausage or Lemon", please shoot me.

― Sam, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cabbage is pink?

― Ally, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

only when I've been in the sun for too long without my factor 15

― cabbage, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike likes them = they are pink. When will you learn?

(is there a proper philosophical term for the radical ontological position taken by Hanle y?)

― Nick, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

actrually its "THey are round = they are emma tits"

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big L, B, and Lenny...My friends aren't very creative.

― Lindsey B, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

I'had a few nicks. Tina, Galee, Desiloolambchop, shorty, Fa Lala,
and last but not least Moocha... (My sister calls me)

― gale2g20002, Thursday, 21 August 2003 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

When I'm in the nick people call me lots of names.

― Aimless, Thursday, 21 August 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Trayce is a nickname, well its not my real name, it just sounds like it. I also get Forbsey (ugh) sometimes. My dad calls me boom, as in chicka-boom, I dunno why, he has all my life. That and "the bag".

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 21 August 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"the bag..... of dicks"?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 August 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

oh GAWD.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 21 August 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

heheh

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 21 August 2003 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Phildo [rhymes with dildo]

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 21 August 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

When did Gale come back?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 21 August 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Boyfriends have called me Elfie, Freckled, Cat, NMN (No-middle-name) and my Dad calls me George. I sound hideous, don't I? Some kind people from college call me Lovely Lara or just Lovely. And Guy calls me Tart.

― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 21 August 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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