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Many of us had nicknames when we were little that were given to us by our parents, family members, and close friends. My parents started calling me 'Goober' :p . I still don't know why they called me that. What were your nicknames as you were growing up and what (if you know) is the story behind it? Also, did you like it?

My first was Simba because my sister couldnt say my real name.

My second was Toad becuase of experiences I had when I was very very little.

My grandfather, the Caddo grandfather, started calling me "komusteit sin ah kimoketu" - best transiliteration - which means "Little man who can catch a fish with his hands" in our native tongue - long story, but fun.

Fish ... hands ...

It was decided after my Smokedance that my personal totem is Coyote and, well, Coyotes don't have hands, they have paws.

Anyway, a pre-teen friend of mine started calling me "Fish Paws" and that got shortened to "Fishpaw" in my later years. I now spin under the name "DJ Fishpaw" and have used the nickname "Fishpaw" in a lot of the stuff I've done.

In short, I like my nickname. It actually means something. :)

Mine is crap and very embarassing, which is why I'm not saying anything.

My grandfather, the Caddo grandfather, started calling me "komusteit sin ah kimoketu" - best transiliteration - which means "Little man who can catch a fish with his hands" in our native tongue - long story, but fun.

Fish ... hands ...

It was decided after my Smokedance that my personal totem is Coyote and, well, Coyotes don't have hands, they have paws.

Anyway, a pre-teen friend of mine started calling me "Fish Paws" and that got shortened to "Fishpaw" in my later years. I now spin under the name "DJ Fishpaw" and have used the nickname "Fishpaw" in a lot of the stuff I've done.

In short, I like my nickname. It actually means something. :)
That's pretty cool!
I heard you mention being called "DJ Fishpaw" before, but I never thought to ask why it was.

Mine was Nessa. Just shortened version of my name. I know it's boring but oh well :rolleyes:

Tankman seems to be the most prominent nickname of mine.
Quite simply, I like tanks, and know alot about them.
Hell, when I was 7 I could tell the difference between a Mk.IV and a Mk.V.

But yea, I don't mind it?

The only time I ever had a nickname(besides bitch) was in 6th grade. I was in a little group of geeks, and we gave each other nicknames. I was Horror Harrison. We also had Runty Renee, Ditto Ditton and Eerie Eric. I moved the next year and never had another nickname. It was okay, but I wasn't crazy enough about it to hang on to it.

Tankman seems to be the most prominent nickname of mine.
Quite simply, I like tanks, and know alot about them.
Hell, when I was 7 I could tell the difference between a Mk.IV and a Mk.V.

But yea, I don't mind it?


Impressive. Even I don't know the difference :)

Moose.

Sarge. Comes from my XBox Live user name.

I was called bud by mom

and at school it was "elf" because of my ears.

I am the Walrus (the indefinate article added later by kids I worked with I believe for no particular reason. I don't capatilize it because, as we all know, The Walrus was Paul. I tend not to capatilize walrus either, some latent e.e. cummings wannabe-ism)

So, the story-which I've related here before (and is no where as cool as the Fishpaw thing, but anyway...)

My first attempt at college I was a music major (sax) and had a friend who was a voice major. She is a great person, the first person I've ever met for whom "I just say what's on my mind" wasn't code for "I'm an attention starved prick who says the most abrasive thing I can think of." She is great, wonderful, joy to be around. We went everywhere together because partially I just didn't have the maturity to be in college and she was good at pinball and got me into pinball. And we'd go to movies because I worked at a theater, etc etc. She also made my shitty little 914 that I bought for $900 run, something I couldn't do. She can do anything with a air-cooled VW.

She had a fiance (now husband and father of her three children). He didn't do any of those things. He lived on a ranch and worked with his family. In Lodi. Ask Creedence, if you don't know...

So one day, without me knowing, decided that she wanted to change this by making him, this ranch worker I've never met, jealous. Using me. She told him all about this guy that took her to movies and played pinball with and hung around with and introduced to friends etc etc.

Only it didn't work.

Which is when she told me. I only had to live with the image of a ranch hand beating the snot out of me for a second. She was so disapointed that her fiance didn't get jealous.

So I asked, "How did you describe me?"

"I said you looked kinda like a walrus."

Well-there you go. I think if my girlfriend told me that she was hanging out with looked like a walrus I'd be happy she made a friend.

Now, she was really just trying to describe a mustache I was sporting at the time, but that didn't stop me from ribbing her about it.

So I use it when I have to come up with a name (why didn't I do it this time? Shut up, that's why....). When I started working at the record store there where four people with my natural name, and one of the goofier people's first introduction to me was doing bar trivia with my screen name being walrus.

So to a large portion of people, I am simply walrus (sometimes the Walrus). There are people who never did learn my real name.

I like it. Aside from the Beatle/Alice connotations it's pretty unpretentious, and I like that.

My friends gave me the nickname 'Fox Magnet'

It not because I attract the ladies, it is because I was bit by a fox.

some of my friends know me as Big Brick, which amuses me, and my gf calls me Nicky and Nickleby, to name a few. i like them very much.

I do not like my nicknames - they do not even pertain to me or my real name. My husband calls me 'Bunny,' and some family members call me 'Missy.'

I fucking hate my nickname! AARGH! People started calling me Neener (real name is Nina) in middle school, and it just pisses me off. I never liked my name in the first place, and now this is just emphasizing its crappyness.

Neener. Gah! :mp5:

I've had so many damn nicknames... 'Lize, Eli, Easter bunny, Bacon, Turtle, Hooker and Hatchet are the high lights. I like Bacon and Hatchet the best... because of their backstories... and YES, there are only 2 people who can call me those two names, "Mess" and "Mikey"... and you all aren't either of them.

and also glowworm... my campers decided one summer that if I was an animal that's what I would be. I liked that one - even though it's kinda wierd

My grandfather, the Caddo grandfather, started calling me "komusteit sin ah kimoketu" - best transiliteration - which means "Little man who can catch a fish with his hands" in our native tongue - long story, but fun.

Fish ... hands ...

It was decided after my Smokedance that my personal totem is Coyote and, well, Coyotes don't have hands, they have paws.

Anyway, a pre-teen friend of mine started calling me "Fish Paws" and that got shortened to "Fishpaw" in my later years. I now spin under the name "DJ Fishpaw" and have used the nickname "Fishpaw" in a lot of the stuff I've done.

In short, I like my nickname. It actually means something. :)

Very cool

I do not like my nicknames - they do not even pertain to me or my real name. My husband calls me 'Bunny,' and some family members call me 'Missy.'

Oh, my family members calls me Missy, too... But I think in my case it's more Miss-E. Little E and Big E or just plain E come out a lot too... I guess that's what I get for having my name start with the letter E.

When I was younger 'Jin-Jin', because it's in my chinese name.

My brother used to call me Burt. Because I used to like watching Ernie and Burt on sesame street.

Damn... I have too many... I just remembered Master Goddess and M.G. Hooker.... (The Hooker came about because of a play I did in which I played... you guessed it - a hooker) A good friend of mine played "God" so the joke for a while was that I was God's Hooker... Then I directed a crazy play and "God" started calling me the Master Goddess... and I shortened it to M.G. Hooker.... If you start seeing books published with that name anytime - it's probably my pen name. :-)