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Do you have a nickname?

What nickname would you give a fellow NSer?

Does your nickname annoy you, or do you like it?

So I don't get in trouble for not contributing in the original post...
I've had nicknames my whole life. A few of them I'd rather not mention, but they involve the word "snot". I've had some strange ones, like Myer Girl and Motzerella (I like cheese?), and I've also had the really ovbious adding an "ie" and subsequently a "poo" on the end of your name.

I've had a lot of nicknames. Reeka... being the most obvious. (If you can't figure it out, it's possible you haven't said it out loud.) Friends from home call me Kiz or Kizzle a lot still. Some of my friends (mostly guys) here at school call me Oompah Loompah. I wish I was kidding.

I guess I don't mind the nicknames (at least the ones I know of), mostly because it's meant affectionately, not hatefully.

I get Spike, Bronto, and Kid the most, though only from select people.

Some of my friends (mostly guys) here at school call me Oompah Loompah.. People called me that when I was in HS..and it wasn't meant to be affectionate. :(

Other than Shorty,I really don't have a nickname people call me.

I somehow get "Les" from "Tom". I guess it's because I play a Les Paul, but still.

Stormin' Norman... my middle name is Norman, so it's pretty easy to figure out....

A nickname for an NSer? I would make LG singular... it describes him very aptly.

Certain people used to call me Michael-roni and cheese. I'm not actually sure why, as I've never been particularly fond of the food item that such a nickname plays off of.

I have quite a few nicknames, all of them relating to my name, which is spelled very funny. It's spelled completely different from the way it's pronounced.

"Hey you"

To my best friend, I'm the "little beer monster". I think that's rather cute. :p Otherwise, Pavlov, which is the name I use to introduce myself to people I don't really want knowing my name. Brian Ollocks suffices for form-filling.

I got called scoot in high school which pissed me off (my name is Scott, and this forgein exchange student when he said my name it sounded like "scoot", so all my friends thought they were being clever).


In college a few of my guy friends have called me darth vader because I wear a long black trench coat in the winter, and usully have on a black t shirt, so somehow they got Darth Vader from that. Or maybe its because sometimes Im in a bad mood and unpleasent to be around.

It quickly spread to the women folk we hung out with. I kept being worried Id get sued by Lucas;)

'Meatloaf' or occasionally 'tubes' (after some sky sports personality apparently).
I have hair and am chunky, hence meatloaf. not especially flattering.

Everyone just calls me Flozza or Floz these days. Very Australian.

Do you have a nickname?

What nickname would you give a fellow NSer?

Does your nickname annoy you, or do you like it?

So I don't get in trouble for not contributing in the original post...
I've had nicknames my whole life. A few of them I'd rather not mention, but they involve the word "snot". I've had some strange ones, like Myer Girl and Motzerella (I like cheese?), and I've also had the really ovbious adding an "ie" and subsequently a "poo" on the end of your name.
arabic slang so hard for you to get:
ABUNIX
NICKO
ABUNICKO
Coli
ibn inuela
icecream man (my friends found out i could make icecream)
big bro (i look out for some of the younger kids )

Personally, I think "Scoot" is adorable. :p

As for me, I had the nickname "Amara", or 'mara, all through high school, due to a character I rp'ed in grades eight and nine. There are still a few - well, one in particular - people who know me as such.

In the last few years, it's pretty much been Steffy (which only my best friend and my mom can call me), and Stefania. My name being, of course, Stephanie, and Stefania being the Italian version.

Almost everyone calls me "Steph", so it's not even a nickname anymore. Funny thing is, until I met my boyfriend, I *loathed* Steph. It was Stephanie or die. Then he started calling me Steph, and, well, I didn't mind so much... and now everyone does.

my nickname is my name backwards because my friends say that I am backwards

Hi, I'm Nelg

I got the nickname "Mr Huge" while I was in the army. I got it from knowing so many people that where I went I knew someone. Had a buddy say damn you are "Huge!". Therefore the name Mr Huge stuck. A lot of my friends still call me that after all these years.

Mostly just "guero." Of course, context and voice inflection make all the difference in calling that a nickname, rather than an insult, but with friends as a kid it was harmless.

My real-life nicknames are Nene and Tone. The first was totally mangled by small child-mouths, the latter is somewhat of a joke.

Online there have been several purposeful trashings of my screenname(s), but not this one, at least as far as I know. :D

Now and then people actually call me Kie, but it tends to be more of an online nickname for me than an offline one.
My first name is two syllables long, but many people use a common one-syllable shortform, even after I tell them that I prefer the name my parents gave me.
My sister commonly calls me 'brother' rather than using my name, but I call her 'sister' so it all works out.
My Mom has been known to call me Link, after the videogame character. Ridiculously, after my sister began dating a guy with my name, Mom decided that I was the one who needed a new moniker.
A friend of mine sometimes calls me Gordon, after the character on Stargate Atlantis.

"Frankie" in reference to Frankenstien-like big black boots that I wear.
"Big Jim" given to me by a girl I knew several years ago. A reference to the song by ween. Also the inspiration for my nation name.
"Red Dog" for the beer.
"devil boy" Obvious.
"Greatness" due to my lack of modesty. (really no clue as to why anyone would consider me to be anything less than perfectly modest.)

I have others.......

I swear by God and all things that may be holy that this is true. If I'm lying, I'm dying. Better yet, if I'm lying, may I be banned! :p

The other engineers call me Trogdor. Yes, I respond to it.

(I'm still alive. And here.)

I swear by God and all things that may be holy that this is true. If I'm lying, I'm dying. Better yet, if I'm lying, may I be banned! :p

The other engineers call me Trogdor. Yes, I respond to it.

(I'm still alive. And here.)I'm sorry but I have to say you're awesome. Do you have a beefy third arm growing out of your back? :D

Walrus. There are people who don't know my real name and just call me that.

Here's the story-

Back in my first attempt at college I hung out with this chick a lot, and since I was a bit of a slacker and needed an accomplice, I would drag her along on a lot of my hijinks, which were tame but whatever. It usually involved doing all the things I could do for free because I either worked someplace or knew someone else who did.

She had a fiance that I hadn't met but knew about. She wanted him to do the things I did with her (in addition to give her 'the good stuff', which I didn't do). But, he worked for a living (he was a ranch hand...yeah, great...). So she tried to make him jealous by telling this ranch hand that there was this guy she hung out with at college that did all these cool things with her. She told me about this and all I could think about was my face getting pounded by an angry ranch hand while I tried to explain, "All we did was play pinball!!!" and how that wouldn't come across that well.

But, much to my relief, he didn't get jealous and she couldn't understand why. I asked her how she described me. Now, I have to explain, she has a tendency to be unintentionally frank. I had a rather large mustache at the time, and not thinking that maybe it wouldn't be the most flattering description said "He looks kind of like a walrus."

"Well, there's your problem. Any guy finds out his girlfriend is hanging out with someone she thinks looks like a walrus, he's just going to be happy she made a friend." She was embarrassed once she realized that the name wasn't the most flattering, and to tease her I kept bringing it up. When I had to enter a name in something I would put 'Walrus' to tease her (bowling games, bar trivia). It was at bar trivia where I met for the first time the staff of the record store during my second term of employment that a group of them learned who I was through a bar trivia game. Since there were already two other people with my real name there (who also went by nicknames) they all spontaneously decided to call me Walrus. After a while people stopped bothering to learn my real name and I became just Walrus. It's not as common now, but now and then I run into someone who still only knows me by that name.

Why didn't I use some variation of that for a nation name? Shut up, that's why.

Why didn't I use some variation of that for a nation name? Shut up, that's why.

Call me Mr. Memory but I think you've previously explained that you tried it as a nation name but it was already taken?

I've never had a nickname - my parents used to call us children 'yeahbutnobutahbut' since one of these variations was invariably the preface to any answer we gave.

Mine was "All-night", 'cause a rumor went around that once I spent "All-Night" with one of the popular girls in school. Which was true, but it wasn't the kind of all-night thing i wanted to do. (we both worked at the same place and one night had to work until 1am)

That and "dinge" was another. Easier to explain, I acted like a dingbat- and was very into the grunge scene back then (early '90's) so combine DINGBAT and GRUNGE= Dinge.

Call me Mr. Memory but I think you've previously explained that you tried it as a nation name but it was already taken?
No, I have a string of variations for such situations. It really just didn't occur to me. I had settled on it being my national animal and had not thought about it being my name. Though, at the time I didn't even know this place had a forum and I certainly didn't have a notion that I'd become addicted to like like it was word crack, so being known by the name I chose didn't really cross my mind. I just wanted to see what the game was all about. I didn't go to the forums for months (or weeks, it was a while ago) and when I did I was informed that if I did think of a name, I couldn't change it. I made some puppets that had names (none of them a variation on Walrus) but they never took and I just stayed nameless...

I've never had a nickname - my parents used to call us children 'yeahbutnobutahbut' since one of these variations was invariably the preface to any answer we gave.
Heh

"Hey you"
...out there in the cold ...
getting lonely, getting old ...
.... can you feel me?
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SJS works just fine :)

Rob though if I'm on an adventure its Pedals

however every time people mail stuff to me they put stinky as my middle name :cool:

I got the nickname "Mr Huge" while I was in the army. I got it from knowing so many people that where I went I knew someone. Had a buddy say damn you are "Huge!". Therefore the name Mr Huge stuck. A lot of my friends still call me that after all these years.

I'm feeling rather filthy right now :p

No, I don't have a Nick-name. I've got all kindsa names, but Nick ain't one of 'em. :p

My family & close friends call me M (the first letter of my first name).

The only nick name I have is Trotsky, and it's exclusive to this forum. You can prolly guess why.

In reality my nickname is 'Jonty' which is quite strange as J is not present in any part of my real name. It all came up on the first night of moving into halls. We were all drinking, partying and then we gave each other nicknames. Mine was the only one that stuck and I am now introduced to everyone as Jonty.

I grew up thinking my name was Curly - when I was born, my brother who was just 2 and hadn't mastered the art of saying "g" went around telling everybody that his mum had had a curl... It stuck and years later when he got teenage and diffident he suddenly refused to call me Curly and I found out I had another name :p

Well, Steve and things of that nature, obviously. The guys around college call me Pirate. Back in secondary I was [first syllable of my last name]o, or just [first syllable of my last name].

Around here I've gotten Iffy and Ifrin.

Do you have a nickname?

What nickname would you give a fellow NSer?

Does your nickname annoy you, or do you like it?

So I don't get in trouble for not contributing in the original post...
I've had nicknames my whole life. A few of them I'd rather not mention, but they involve the word "snot". I've had some strange ones, like Myer Girl and Motzerella (I like cheese?), and I've also had the really ovbious adding an "ie" and subsequently a "poo" on the end of your name.

Nicknames: Chili, Nunu, Mami, Nena and Sofí.

Nicknames for fellow NSers: I would have to get to know the NSers more before giving them nicknames.

Does my nickname annoys me: Chili does. But the story behind it will remain private.:p

I'm sorry but I have to say you're awesome. Do you have a beefy third arm growing out of your back? :D

No, but that would be supremely awesome.

"Jim", "Jimmy", or on rare occasions "JP"
Also 'Bighead', when I was in grade school, or 'head' by someone when I was a Freshman in high school.

In college a few of my guy friends have called me darth vader because I wear a long black trench coat in the winter, and usully have on a black t shirt, so somehow they got Darth Vader from that. Or maybe its because sometimes Im in a bad mood and unpleasent to be around.It's because you sound like James Earl Jones, isn't it?

Some of my nicknames are The Rain, Lisa B. , Baze

I don't mind my nicknames at all.... i answer to any of them! :D

Nicknames: Bea, Betty, Aliria, Alir, Ael, Aelosia, Gallito é Pelea, Gallita, Galla, Saltona, Tragagente, "That obnoxious bitch over there", (I don't know if the last one qualifies ;))

Nicknames for fellow NSers: They all already have one, don't they?

Does my nickname annoys me: Bea or Betty does. I like to be called by my first name as it is. When someone asks "Can I call you Betty, right?", I always answer, "No, the name is Beatriz thankyouverymuch". I got rejected of a job interview because of this.

It's hard to translate a nickname, but it would be something like "that chill dude from our year/class" or something with the same meaning because I'm quite calm and I think I could be best described as a slacker or something similar, I think I'm also quite funny in real life.
If I come to class I mainly just read or sleep or observe other people or talk. If you see me outside class I'm not that active either. Actually I'm only active when going out or when I'm swimming or when I have one of my hyperactive moods. I also spent most of my ski-holiday sitting on a mountain, drinking with friends or reading on our balcony and stuff like that. Sometimes I wish that I did a little bit more but sometimes I'm quite happy, and considering the small amount of work I do my grades are reasonable.
I don't know if it really qualifies as a nickname because it's more of a description, but many people know me like that or something similar. Maybe I should talk to more people and tell them my real name.
I guess the 'nickname' is appropriate so I'm ok with it.

Nicknames: Bea, Betty, Aliria, Alir, Ael, Aelosia, Gallito é Pelea, Gallita, Galla, Saltona, Tragagente, "That obnoxious bitch over there", (I don't know if the last one qualifies ;))

Nicknames for fellow NSers: They all already have one, don't they?

Does my nickname annoys me: Bea or Betty does. I like to be called by my first name as it is. When someone asks "Can I call you Betty, right?", I always answer, "No, the name is Beatriz thankyouverymuch". I got rejected of a job interview because of this.

Gallito e Pelea, qué cómico, tía! Y el de Galla y Tragagente me mola multxísimo!:D

Gallito e Pelea, qué cómico, tía! Y el de Galla y Tragagente me mola multxísimo!:D

Sí, son cómicos, sobre todo porque llamar a una mujer gallito no es exactamente preciso...Un amigo intentó decirme "gallina", pero gallina tiene exactamente el significado contrario a "Gallito e Pelea", porque por lo general aquí gallina es un/una cobarde.

"Gallo" o "Galla" le decimos en Venezuela a los que estudian mucho, y son sabelotodos, es un equivalente a "geek", creo.

Los de Mami o Nena los entiendo fácil. El de Sofi supongo que es porque te llamas Sofía, ¿no?

Dangina

Sí, son cómicos, sobre todo porque llamar a una mujer gallito no es exactamente preciso...Un amigo intentó decirme "gallina", pero gallina tiene exactamente el significado contrario a "Gallito e Pelea", porque por lo general aquí gallina es un/una cobarde.

"Gallo" o "Galla" le decimos en Venezuela a los que estudian mucho, y son sabelotodos, es un equivalente a "geek", creo.

Los de Mami o Nena los entiendo fácil. El de Sofi supongo que es porque te llamas Sofía, ¿no?

Venga, son las mismas connotaciones que tiene acá. Ahora bien, lo de gallito lo entiendo cómo que eres rezongona. Parece que difiendies tu punto, pase lo que pase y eso es encomiable.

Ala, ¿en Venezuela le dicen gallo a los come-libros? Qué extraño. Pero vamos, todos los países tienen su forma.

Y sí, me dicen Sofí porque mi nombre de pila es Ana Sofía. Sofí fue un apodillo que me puso un amigo de Torrejón de Ardoz. Nana es por Ana, pero ese apodo sólo lo usan mis primos chavalines.

You are all welcomed to call me Pilgarlic.

Nicknames:

Lady (some NSers know the origin of this one)
Lis (obviously, since my name is Lisa)
Dong Dong (childhood nickname from my grandma. When translated from Mandarin to English, it literally means "winter")

I only really have two nicknames :

Santos - I'm not sure how I came to have this as a nickname but I got drunk one night and woke up with it

Tree-hugger - due to an interesting landing when doing my RAPS course for skydiving

Nicknames irritate me.

Either change your name by deed-poll or put up with it.

Nicknames are ways to avoid a disliked name?

Someone should have told me

I've been "Bob X" since high school. That is the only way a lot of people know me.

Santos - I'm not sure how I came to have this as a nickname but I got drunk one night and woke up with it

Santos... Do you become saintly when you're drunk?:D

Santos... Do you become saintly when you're drunk?:D

I wish that were the case :D

Nicknames irritate me.

Either change your name by deed-poll or put up with it.

Nicknames irritate me.

Either change your name by deed-poll or put up with it.
Why? I like my name, but I also like my nicknames. They're associated with the love that I get from my friends and family. I think unless a nickname is insulting or assumed, people should be appreciative that there are people out there who think of you enough to come up with a unique name to describe you.

I wish that were the case :D

LOL! On the other hand, Santos sounds like a mafia don. Don Santos Dundee:D. Dude, that could work in your favor!;)

LOL! On the other hand, Santos sounds like a mafia don. Don Santos Dundee:D. Dude, that could work in your favor!;)

Hmmmm i'm liking this train of thought

Hmmmm i'm liking this train of thought

:D
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:D
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But much more attractive of course

(a guy can dream :))

I'm called Panda a lot. And this girl calls me Angel (not sure why).

Mine is Minnesota Iceman. People usually call me "Iceman" or "Icy" for short.

Er, i've had robo cop, beast (chopped a small pine tree with a shovel, well the axe broke so i had to use something), terminator, mostly from playing football. i didn't mean to tackle people so harshly.
They're not worth it really, good and bad memories.

But much more attractive of course

(a guy can dream :))

I hope so.;)

"Kid", because I'm younger than most of my friends, and "Jay", because that's the first letter of my name. I don't have any nicknames with interesting stories behind them :(

Nicknames irritate me.

Either change your name by deed-poll or put up with it.
Why would I change my name based on something my friends came up with? If I start calling you Batman, will you change your name? :D

"Kid", because I'm younger than most of my friends, and "Jay", because that's the first letter of my name. I don't have any nicknames with interesting stories behind them :(


Why would I change my name based on something my friends came up with? If I start calling you Batman, will you change your name? :D

Let's call him Batman. :D

I have two nicknames in my name here alone - does that make me the winner? :p

Nicknames:
Tall Person
Ostrich boy
Boss
Dorkward (only by certain people :P)
EXFORIATOR (don't ask)
Mr. President (It was strange for a while...)

Douglas, or Dougy for short,

Started about seven years ago and now more people know me by my nickname than my real name.

Funny how that happens.

Douglas, or Dougy for short,

Started about seven years ago and now more people know me by my nickname than my real name.

Funny how that happens.
I'm gonna start calling you Dougy now. :D

I'm gonna start calling you Dougy now. :D

Another TG

You might as well, virtually everyone in my school does.

Seriously, a teacher went up to one of my mates and asked him if he knew me. The teacher used my first name and he hadn't a clue who she was talking about

Everyone calls me "Vinny" Or just by my last name "Gambino" (Gosh I love my last name:D)

Nicknames:

Lady (some NSers know the origin of this one)
Lis (obviously, since my name is Lisa)
Dong Dong (childhood nickname from my grandma. When translated from Mandarin to English, it literally means "winter")
Seems to me ya left one off the list .... ;)

The guys around college call me Pirate.
Heh heh heh.
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Nicknames of Students from my school:

Bus Pass: - Bercause he always shows the Driver his Student pass
Rambo: - Cause he charges in like an idiot
Patman or Calamity Pat: - Because he is a rather clumsy Goalkeeper with the Surname 'Patterson'.
Reido and Reido: - Twins with the surname Reid
Walrus: - Because he is quite large
Boulie: - Irish for 'Snowman'
Bugs: - Cause he has two MASSIVE front teeth
Butch: - Cause he's tiny with a big attitude
Smilie: - Cause he has the weirdest smile
Piwi: - Cause he's a small guy
Nails: - Took a frozen football to the face and didn't even slow down
Duracell: - Always runs when everyone else has run out of energy
Scrawny: - He's not a great fighter

Just a few from my year. How do people get nicknames like these? Seriously

my most recently acquired knickname is Roman as a concatenation of my first three names, given to me by my Polish friends. Roman is apparently a rather outmoded Polish name, but i like it.

Rossco is what people called me at my last place of work. i liked that one.

my ex-flatmates had numerous names for me incuding, Rosstopher, Rosamund, Princess and some others i can't remember. none of which i particularly liked but they were all meant in good fun so i didn't mind.

at primary school i had several, including Twiglet (for my freckles), Mont Orange (for the unfortunate shape my hair took for a while), The Mad Hacker (for my tackling style in football, the one you play with your feet that is), Cauliflower (as an extension of my surname) and some others i don't remember. i don't think i had any at secondary school, everyone just got called by their surname. oh! i got called Cholera for a while because it sounds a bit like my surname. that's it i think.


knicknames for others at my secondary school included:

Bugy (his surname was Brugrabber or something, Austrian)
Casper (he was very pale)
Master Bates (his surname was Bates and he was pretty repulsive)
Truck (a stocky kid whose surname was Tuck)
Dogdirt, or just Dog (not sure how exactly it came about but the guy was a twat)
Mr Soft (walked like Mr Soft in those old chewy mints adverts)
Samwell (corruption of Samuel, also the name of the guy's dad)
Mini-Roda (his dad was head of the school RAF cadet thingy and his nickname was Roda, short for Rotheram)
Barney (i think cuz he talked like that purple dinosaur but having never heard the dino speak i don't know)
DJ Doougy D (once he said he would call himself this if he became a DJ, regretted opening his mouth ever since)
Winston (his surname was Winson)
The Beast, Willy, Free Willy, Pie Eater (a fat kid with odd hair and the unfortunate name of Pieter Williams)

on the internet forums i frequent i get called IR, RI, RIR, Rom, Romi or Ro.

I'm usually called moley on the web :p

In reality my nickname is 'Jonty' which is quite strange as J is not present in any part of my real name. It all came up on the first night of moving into halls. We were all drinking, partying and then we gave each other nicknames. Mine was the only one that stuck and I am now introduced to everyone as Jonty.

After Jonty Rhodes?

A friend of mine at school was known as Chooka.

His last name was Henderson & chook is Australian slang for chicken.

When I was in high school and college, my friends (and my now ex-husand) called me "Dink" or "Dinky." I hated them for that, especially since no one ever explained why.

Now I'm mostly called "Mom."

A couple of my friends occasionally call me Cuntstorm. I feel like I should be a little insulted but its just so damn funny when they use it in public. I have even used a few times just to get a reaction.

After Jonty Rhodes?

Ha I wish. I don't think anyone knows why. It's just one of those things...

I get called "Shocker". Something to do with my refereeing decisions - I ref a mate's football league once or twice a week. Bless their cotton socks.

Dong Dong
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Heh heh heh.
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wut?
When I was in high school and college, my friends (and my now ex-husand) called me "Dink" or "Dinky." I hated them for that, especially since no one ever explained why.

Now I'm mostly called "Mom."

Can I call you Mom?

When I was in middle school some people called my Robojen. Now if people shorten my name they usually just call me Jen. Sometimes my dad calls me Jen-Jen. And on here and GM people call me Chandy sometimes. :)

But some people I don't even know have started calling me the devil lately and I don't know why. :(

Crash, it even says that on my locker at work. I think it was after I was hit by a car for the second time that someone hung that on me. Getting nailed a third, forth and fifth time probably sealed the deal.

Crash, it even says that on my locker at work. I think it was after I was hit by a car for the second time that someone hung that on me. Getting nailed a third, forth and fifth time probably sealed the deal.

third fourth and fifth time?
what do you do? Driving instructor?
i'd hate to be in any more crashes, i was hit from behind when i was learning, (with the driving instructor), kind of hit my confidence a bit but i passed first time.

I have a classmate.friend that we call with a slang term for vagina/introitus. It's not related to her sex organ, but we macerated her nickname and surname to come out with the term.

We call my roommate with another name that is completely unrelated to his real name. And my mother knows him by that name...

I call my fiance by the name of "Gordu", which in Spanish means fatty ('u' for Asturian). I know, it sounds mean, but in Spanish is an endearing term. He calls me "Nena", or little girl, because I'm small in stature.

The only nick name I have is Trotsky, and it's exclusive to this forum. You can prolly guess why.

But we usually just call you Trots...