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I'm back to Ireland after spending christmas with my family in Germany.
Back in Germany, everybody was calling me by my nickname that my mom gave me. I'm more or less used to it, as she gave me my real first name to shorten it into the nickname.
When I first came in touch with the English speaking world, I realised that that nickname is actually quite embarassing in English, although it doesn't mean a thing in German. My real name is Brigitte, and the nickname in question is Biggi. So I stopped introducing myself by that name and went by my real first name (which native English speakers still can't pronounce, but it's still better than the nickname).

Anybody else out there blessed with a stupid name?

I sort of know a guy who insists on being called "Ham" or "Hammer"

I have vague memories of a german woman in my town going by the name of Biggi.

The strangest nickname I had was Harpy/Harpic. Cos we were playing Kings one night, and I was drinking Harp and someone made a rule that people have to be reffered to by their drink.

given to me by late step dad

the ghost who walks

given to me by late step dad

the ghost who walks

Are you pale or something?

I have a few nicknames,sadly.All on my IM screen name.
Lewis-Lewis
Lewis-No-Socks
Lewelzeeboss
Smelis
Lewiikis
Lewiseepoos
Whoosy Lewsie
Connelly-Pie
Sir Lewisalot!




As you may have guessed,my name is Lewis.

A friend of mine's last name is Scaccetti. Ever since I've known him he goes by the nickname "Scat", as if he's involved in making scat fetish porn.

A friend of mine's last name is Scaccetti. Ever since I've known him he goes by the nickname "Scat", as if he's involved in making scat fetish porn.

Are you sure he's not?

I have a few. In ninth grade, a bunch of guys called me "Legolas", because I apparently looked like an elf. I outgrew that one, though. Now I'm called a number of things, including Heater (self-explanatory, for the most part, but there is a story behind it), Iron Granny, Naked Lady Mac, Pearce, hippy, ShroomGirl.

I have a few. In ninth grade, a bunch of guys called me "Legolas", because I apparently looked like an elf. I outgrew that one, though. Now I'm called a number of things, including Heater (self-explanatory, for the most part, but there is a story behind it), Iron Granny, Naked Lady Mac, Pearce, hippy, ShroomGirl.

The people of Rome demand to hear this story!

No nicknames for me.
My moms sisters and some other relatives still call her "Sissie." Others call her Willie, even though her real name is Ruth. Her parents originally put Ruth on her birth certificate, but changed her name to Wilma when they got her home. Unfortunately they never legally changed her name. She wasn't aware of her legal name until they informed her of it when she joined the army.

And until he started school no one knew my brothers real name. The whole neighborhood called him "Brud." Short for Brudder, since when he came along I was only three and couldn't pronounce the "th" in brother. My grandfather never got used to it and called him Brud until he died.

The people of Rome demand to hear this story!

John Dillenger died for you!

Are you sure he's not?

I guess I don't know for sure.

I guess I don't know for sure.

What? SOCRATES DIED FOR YOUR IGNORANCE!!!

Are you pale or something?

no it's for the way i move about with very little sound

John Dillenger died for you!

Yay! More people I don't know need to die for me.

The people of Rome demand to hear this story!

Oh, if you insist. Basically, my English class was putting out a compilation of our best work, and there was a page with all our names on it, and my name had been mispelled as "Heater", and so my English teacher called me that for a few months. He's since forgotten about it, but a few friends still call me it on occasion.

My Real Name is Orla. (Orla-Marie, but noone calls me that).

My Nicknames are : Orlii.
Orlii Bean.
Betty No Hat.
Orlzenheimerness.
Lumpy.
Peter (Don't ask).
Teh Kuhweeen Of Teh Hats.

I am teh Queen of Stupid nicknames...

Oh, if you insist. Basically, my English class was putting out a compilation of our best work, and there was a page with all our names on it, and my name had been mispelled as "Heater", and so my English teacher called me that for a few months. He's since forgotten about it, but a few friends still call me it on occasion.

I was hoping for something far, far nastier.

*sigh*

I was hoping for something far, far nastier.

*sigh*

Well, the Naked Lady Mac story is more interesting, I guess.

Well, the Naked Lady Mac story is more interesting, I guess.

Out with it!

Jackpot
Jacot
Jaycot



That triology makes me real nervous.

I'm back to Ireland after spending christmas with my family in Germany.
Back in Germany, everybody was calling me by my nickname that my mom gave me. I'm more or less used to it, as she gave me my real first name to shorten it into the nickname.
When I first came in touch with the English speaking world, I realised that that nickname is actually quite embarassing in English, although it doesn't mean a thing in German. My real name is Brigitte, and the nickname in question is Biggi. So I stopped introducing myself by that name and went by my real first name (which native English speakers still can't pronounce, but it's still better than the nickname).

Anybody else out there blessed with a stupid name?

its better than Biergit, or however you spell it.... i remember that name being so funny in my old german classes :p


though my own name is too short to warrant a nickname or abbreviation, being only one syllable long anyway :(
that said, my sorta nickname at uni was 'jesus' (partly because i looked kinda like the dude (long hair, beard, etc) but also because i was such a fucking hippie :D)

its better than Biergit, or however you spell it.... i remember that name being so funny in my old german classes :p


though my own name is too short to warrant a nickname or abbreviation, being only one syllable long anyway :(
that said, my sorta nickname at uni was 'jesus' (partly because i looked kinda like the dude (long hair, beard, etc) but also because i was such a fucking hippie :D)

We could call you H.

Jackpot
Jacot
Jaycot



That triology makes me real nervous.

Yes, given that the next one is almost certainly going to be "jackoff"

:D

We could call you H.

H-unit. >.>

When I was in college my frirnds insisted on calling me JJ because my dad worked there and he was called Jim, hence I was Jim Junior or JJ even though my name is Richard

Out with it!

In the same English class, I performed a few Lady Mac monologues during our MacBeth unit. After I performed, we watched the film version, and the teacher and one of the male students decided to compare my performance with that of the film Lady. My teacher insisted I was a better actress, but the student pointed out that the film Lady Mac had been naked, which was not only sexier, but much more historically accurate. Well, a few months later, I did a show with his girlfriend, and we had a rather unusual "My boyfriend wants to see you naked" conversation (very friendly, not at all nasty, I assure you) during which I promised to perform as Naked Lady Mac for her, and only her, and her boyfriend wasn't to be invited. They've since broken up, but she and I kept the joke alive. I used to occasionally break into Shakespeare while doing a sort of strip tease backstage during My Fair Lady, but our tech director thought I was being a bit of a whore, and banned me from taking more than one minute to change between scenes.

I find the nickname "Bubba" to be annoying in general. No ones ever called me that though. I've picked up "little red" "Kirby" and "Red-headed step-child" others that supposedly were based upon my hair color.

Yes, given that the next one is almost certainly going to be "jackoff"

:D


It's like the instant when the wave is about to crash on your head and you see it getting bigger and bigger....

My sisters initials are BJ. You can guess where that one went.

In the same English class, I performed a few Lady Mac monologues during our MacBeth unit. After I performed, we watched the film version, and the teacher and one of the male students decided to compare my performance with that of the film Lady. My teacher insisted I was a better actress, but the student pointed out that the film Lady Mac had been naked, which was not only sexier, but much more historically accurate. Well, a few months later, I did a show with his girlfriend, and we had a rather unusual "My boyfriend wants to see you naked" conversation (very friendly, not at all nasty, I assure you) during which I promised to perform as Naked Lady Mac for her, and only her, and her boyfriend wasn't to be invited. They've since broken up, but she and I kept the joke alive. I used to occasionally break into Shakespeare while doing a sort of strip tease backstage during My Fair Lady, but our tech director thought I was being a bit of a whore, and banned me from taking more than one minute to change between scenes.

Powerfully awesome. NLM FTW!

My sisters initials are BJ. You can guess where that one went.

South?

Yay! More people I don't know need to die for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dillinger

South?
Way south.

It's like the instant when the wave is about to crash on your head and you see it getting bigger and bigger....

I assume that's why you were worried, and I didn't just add another one.

Way south.

How come nothing ever goes north?

We could call you H.

like the guy from Steps?


*swoons* ;)

'Cause Southerners are so much hotter than Yankees?

like the guy from Steps?


*swoons* ;)

Oh yeah, I remember him. Congrats PM, you're the new H.

I have vague memories of a german woman in my town going by the name of Biggi.


Can't be me... I never used that name in Ireland. But it's not entirely uncommon in Germany ;)

'Cause Southerners are so much hotter than Yankees?

:rolleyes: :p

:rolleyes: :p

Yugh. Some of those southern chicks make me just recoil. Though southern is nice if you really, really, like blonde people. Because for some reason there's a lot of blondes in the south.

Can't be me... I never used that name in Ireland. But it's not entirely uncommon in Germany ;)

Well it's not you cos she's in her 40s and has 2 kids too.

Cormac --> Corm-dog/Corm-slice :headbang:

adding "S" to the start of existing words
e.g. Smunkee :p

Yugh. Some of those southern chicks make me just recoil. Though southern is nice if you really, really, like blonde people. Because for some reason there's a lot of blondes in the south.

just still not use to north and south thing

I've had many nicknames, but for somereason, they never stick. My two current ones are "Con" and "The Irish Stallion"

In the same English class, I performed a few Lady Mac monologues during our MacBeth unit. After I performed, we watched the film version, and the teacher and one of the male students decided to compare my performance with that of the film Lady. My teacher insisted I was a better actress, but the student pointed out that the film Lady Mac had been naked, which was not only sexier, but much more historically accurate. Well, a few months later, I did a show with his girlfriend, and we had a rather unusual "My boyfriend wants to see you naked" conversation (very friendly, not at all nasty, I assure you) during which I promised to perform as Naked Lady Mac for her, and only her, and her boyfriend wasn't to be invited. They've since broken up, but she and I kept the joke alive. I used to occasionally break into Shakespeare while doing a sort of strip tease backstage during My Fair Lady, but our tech director thought I was being a bit of a whore, and banned me from taking more than one minute to change between scenes.

Wow, that's a great story!
Thanks for telling it.
My sister calls me Eri as a nickname but Erika is short enough that people generally just use that.

In the same English class, I performed a few Lady Mac monologues during our MacBeth unit. After I performed, we watched the film version, and the teacher and one of the male students decided to compare my performance with that of the film Lady. My teacher insisted I was a better actress, but the student pointed out that the film Lady Mac had been naked, which was not only sexier, but much more historically accurate. Well, a few months later, I did a show with his girlfriend, and we had a rather unusual "My boyfriend wants to see you naked" conversation (very friendly, not at all nasty, I assure you) during which I promised to perform as Naked Lady Mac for her, and only her, and her boyfriend wasn't to be invited. They've since broken up, but she and I kept the joke alive. I used to occasionally break into Shakespeare while doing a sort of strip tease backstage during My Fair Lady, but our tech director thought I was being a bit of a whore, and banned me from taking more than one minute to change between scenes.

dam tech director no fun at all

So far no one has been able to make one based on my actual name...

The only one so far is Chocolate Applesauce. ^_^

Pancake.

No more. :(

dam tech director no fun at all

Indeed.

my parents used to call me 'poggins'. no idea how they came up with that. my friends generally call me 'rosstopher', 'rossco', 'ross' or 'fag'. at one point in my childhood i was 'mont orange' for my mountainous (at the time) ginger hair, and later on 'dayglo' for my hair again. oh, and one of my friends calls me 'rossie'.

Pancake.

No more. :(

How about Andrea?

I have vague memories of a german woman in my town going by the name of Biggi.

The strangest nickname I had was Harpy/Harpic. Cos we were playing Kings one night, and I was drinking Harp and someone made a rule that people have to be reffered to by their drink.
You were drinking floor cleaner?o_O








I don't have a stupid nickname.

You were drinking floor cleaner?o_O



I don't have a stupid nickname.

Harp is not floor cleaner.
Harpic is.
Harp is a beer (brewed in Ireland) :D
At Last We have done something...

Back to Nicknames.... How does Orla (a girls name), come to Peter?? I really don't know what goes on inside peoples heads... :confused:

My nickname (that my Dad still insists on calling me from time to time,) is "Rosa Rita Refried Beans." And my Dad says it in a horrible Spanish accent too.

How about Andrea?

Andrea? Why Andrea? :confused:

My nickname in grade school was "freak". :(

You were drinking floor cleaner?o_O
Yeah, it was better than I expected.

I don't have a stupid nickname.
Nooblesburg is a pretty stupid nickname.

I'm back to Ireland after spending christmas with my family in Germany.
Back in Germany, everybody was calling me by my nickname that my mom gave me. I'm more or less used to it, as she gave me my real first name to shorten it into the nickname.
When I first came in touch with the English speaking world, I realised that that nickname is actually quite embarassing in English, although it doesn't mean a thing in German. My real name is Brigitte, and the nickname in question is Biggi. So I stopped introducing myself by that name and went by my real first name (which native English speakers still can't pronounce, but it's still better than the nickname).

Anybody else out there blessed with a stupid name?

I came within a hair's breath of being named "Aphrodite". I can't decide which nickname would have been worse...Aphro, or Dite.

I came within a hair's breath of being named "Aphrodite". I can't decide which nickname would have been worse...Aphro, or Dite.

:p

My intials spell EEW. :(

:p

My intials spell EEW. :(

Mine spell REM.

Well, everyone seems to call me something like "My Lord" or "Most Gracious Imperial Excellent Majesty" or "Great Master and Ruler of Everything", but that's not exactly annoying... not the first fifty thousand times or so. After that it gets a bit dull.

And I hate being called "Czardi", it's annoying as hell. Take the effort to type out my full name, it's only seven letters plzkthx.

I came within a hair's breath of being named "Aphrodite". I can't decide which nickname would have been worse...Aphro, or Dite.

my mum wanted to call me verticillium or erticarea. i don't know how to actually spell them but they are types of fungus. she's a mychologist. and a bit mental. luckily i had another parent who wasn't mental in the same way.

You were drinking floor cleaner?o_O
Yeah, it was better than I expected.


Nooblesburg is a pretty stupid nickname.
Oh yeah i forgot about that.:eek:
But it hardly counts.
100 for Stupidity 0 for nickname value.

Oh yeah i forgot about that.:eek:
But it hardly counts.
100 for Stupidity 0 for nickname value.

Tis only an interweb nickname, and doesn't really count.

who ever broke Pancake's Farewell Thread needs a nickname
as i can't post in it :(

My nicknames:

Dirt Kerr
Asshole
Auschwitz
Rudy
Irving
Uncle J
Pope Ficticious

My nicknames...

B
Weasel
Brat girl

my nickname is Smunkee and while I find it normal a lot of people think it's pretty dumb (and yet continue to use it, even after they ask 10 million times "what does Smunkee even mean?")

my mom calls me B-bear from when I was little and I used to want to hear the three bears every night before bed and when I would ask I would say "tell me B-bear porridge again"


:rolleyes:


I do have a friend who goes by puck........he is a hockey player and gets hit in the face with them a lot.

dam tech director no fun at all

Yeah. She hates me, and I don't know why. Actually, I do know why, but it's a stupid reason to hate someone.

Yeah. She hates me, and I don't know why. Actually, I do know why, but it's a stupid reason to hate someone.

oh i hate those
if you going to hate some one make it good

my nickname is Smunkee and while I find it normal a lot of people think it's pretty dumb (and yet continue to use it, even after they ask 10 million times "what does Smunkee even mean?")


I always assumed it was a mutated smurf.

Andrea? Why Andrea? :confused:

...


No reason. *whistles innocently*

Mine aren't too horrible:
Bobby McKee
The Scottish Leprechaun

...


No reason. *whistles innocently*

I smell conspiracy.

I smell conspiracy.

Doesn't that take more than one person?

Doesn't that take more than one person?

No, Dinaverg is a conspiracy of one. (TM)

Most people call me by my last name or simply "K".

Waldo.

Becuase I look exactly like Waldo.

Self-explanitory, really.

I also try to hide everywhere I go.