The strangest nickname you've ever had?

**Night Runner** · 11-21-2009, 09:32 AM

What's the strangest nickname you've ever had? What's the story behind it?

I've had more than my share of nicknames, but the strangest one would have to be Lucky Leather. I like leather jackets and I can conceal my card-counting skills well enough to appear extraordinarily lucky to other casino patrons (and, on occasion, pit bosses
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). One such card-counting expedition resulted in the entire table screaming "Lucky Leather!" for hours and touching my jacket for luck.
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Weird, I know... Now it's your turn!
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**True Rune** · 11-21-2009, 09:38 AM

Online : "Ishy" Only girls, it's just a result of the online alias "Ishida" (Which used to be my name on this site too.)
Offline: Al Boogie - My god father was just randomly making up nicknames, and that one kinda stuck for awhile.

**Geodess** · 11-21-2009, 10:16 AM

tentacle fish ~

**Night Runner** · 11-21-2009, 10:21 AM

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	tentacle fish ~

What's the story behind it?
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**lamplighter** · 11-21-2009, 10:24 AM

IRL I've had several nicknames, but Crayons would have to be the weirdest one. It's because one day in my biology class in high school the teacher said we were going to color in a diagram of a cell. I said: "Are you serious?" and then proceeded to fall asleep in class. When I woke up we were really having to color in the diagram of a cell, and I got stuck with crayons to complete the assignment. So one of my friends decided that it would be funny if she called me "Crayons" and it ended up sticking for few years. I did get her back and got her stuck with the name "Muffin Head" for the rest of high school.

Cooper · 11-21-2009, 10:30 AM

Smiley.....one of my teachers in jr. high called me that because I "never smiled". I soon grew to hate it and him. I tried to explain to him that I am smiling and that it does not matter if I am or not...it has nothing to do with my education, and reverse psychology does not work with me. He finally stopped after we had this exchange.

**Doppelbock** · 11-21-2009, 10:40 AM

in college my friends would call me Zoner because I would zone out all the time.

**cal** · 11-21-2009, 12:48 PM

When I was a kid, 'Kelly with the big fat belly'. I've never had a fat belly. Except a bit when I got into drinking a little much for a time. Then it wasn't the best idea to call me names.

**reb** · 11-21-2009, 01:58 PM

mongoose. in high school track, i was so slow on the 5 mile run, the smart ass coach gave me that nickname. what he did not know was....several of the 5 milers (people were mostly stuck there as punishment for not fitting in) would stop down by where the septic tank made a large crop of trees and brush. those of us who did the 2 laps would go by on the second lap, these goof offs would get up from their rest, and finish the second lap.

roessler (pronounced 'race ler') was this coach's name. this jerk made it a requirement 'in order to run track, you must be on the football team'. i had no interest in football, but i tried it so i could stay in track. my initiation to the football team was to go head to head with our 220# tackle with a half deflated basketball in his hands. i was supposed to run my face straight into the basketball. after the first time i followed the 'direction', the next 'hut', i put my head in the guy's gut instead. i think i weighed 150#, but he went backwards anyway.

somehow, roessler and i did not get along. always wanted to put sportscream in roesslers jock strap, but he never left his office unlocked. this man is one of the people who taught me to dislike authority figures.

**Nemesis** · 11-21-2009, 03:18 PM

I had two:

1) Flower. My best friend who I grew up with spouted rather massive boobs when we were teenagers, so I called her "Bubbles". Instead of whining about the nickname I gave her, she got even with me and started calling me "Flower". The name spread and many laughs were had by all.

2) Captain, Cappers, or Cap'n. Back when I smoked pot and all that fun stuff, me and a few of my party friends decided to sort each other out by rank. The reasoning was that if our leader was too screwed up to make good decisions for the rest of us morons, the next in line would step up. I was second only to the "Commodore".
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EDIT:

Yes, the name "Captain Flower" was also used from time to time. What fun.

**Kisai** · 11-21-2009, 04:47 PM

Renfield.

**Silverity** · 11-21-2009, 05:17 PM

My friends have called me Carrot, and Trella (which turned to Trellacakes, Trellsbells, Trellalalalalala and Trellasaurus)

My grade 12 English teacher called me Queen of Darkness. He even signed my year book addressing me as such <3

**daydreamer** · 11-21-2009, 09:08 PM

sticky LOL

the backstory is not as wild as can be imagined, i frequented stickam when it was first available a while back and my user id was icstickpeople. people called me sticky for short and it stuck.

**LionsPride** · 11-21-2009, 11:03 PM

LP.

I was never given nicknames in real life, so I'd have to say that the online one has to be the strangest, at least from my perspective. Being given a nickname of a nickname that came from an email address that is based on the name of group I was a part of that disbanded is kind of an odd way to get a moniker. Odd, but I like it all the same
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. It may have been borrowed when I arrived, but the name is all mine now. The fact that LP is also short for long playing amuses me, given that I have been playing here for some time now
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. Lions is nice too. I like being plural.
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**Elfrun** · 11-21-2009, 11:20 PM

BamBam, cause when I decided I wanted to do something it would become important to do it straight away! and that would often result in things going 'bam!', named after the Flintstones of course.

Trinity was another, thus named by a drunk friend when he met me cause he couldn't remember the name Trina and convinced himself that my name was Trinity despite my assurances it wasn't.

**Samoan Corleone** · 11-22-2009, 03:15 AM

I got called Pedro in High School, because a lot of people thought I looked like Pedro Sanchez from Napoleon Dynamite. When running for Head boy, people would jokingly say, "Vote for Pedro". After not making Head Boy and instead being named House Captain, there was a joke that everyone in my House had voted for Pedro. Good times, although it was a nightmare then.

**Kisai** · 11-23-2009, 12:23 PM

Renfield was a self-stuck name in college. My college friends still call me Ren even though I've gone back to my real name in publlic.

I knew a guy in college called Itchy, because he scratched himself inappropriately.

I knew a guy in college called Sniv because he tried to say 'Svirfneiblen' and it stuck.

**El Cas** · 11-23-2009, 12:37 PM

Rain Man - I was working when the head of System Support came by to talk to me about some future upgrades to the system I was in-charge of and then decided to ask random math questions, "What is the square root of X? what is the cube of X, etc" and I started answering then right away without the aid of a calculator to the third decimal place. My co-worker looked at the him to see if I was answering correctly and then turned to me and said "How the hell.... you are now called Rain Man." The nickname stuck till I left that office.

**themuzicman** · 11-23-2009, 01:09 PM

Fish paws....

At the time I was employed by a company named "Felpausch" (grocery store chain named after a family.) I was playing basketball, and someone asked where I worked, and someone misunderstood and thought i said "fish paws", and the name stuck... doh...

**ClydeB** · 11-23-2009, 04:29 PM

Pumper #9

Some boy in the 6th grade started calling me that. Never would explain why. Started when I zoned out doing laps in the 'gym' and decided to jump up on the stage rather than hit the edge when I realized I should have turned. Drove me nuts for months. It all stopped the day I started throwing desks out of my way to corner him in the classroom when the teacher was out.

Haven't thought about that little annoyance in decades. I wonder (hindsight) if there was more to that than I realized. I was already labeled as different back then. And to some, different equaled gay. I wonder if that was some kind of immature sexual male to male thing? Who knows... Todd, if your out there wondering. The answer was no.

**Autoptic** · 11-23-2009, 05:29 PM

Loony, which is almost my name which was, unbeknownst to Mother, the nickname of my paternal grandfather, Leonidas. Technically, it was actually an alternate nickname for the same in his day, though in my case, I was just weird, and it was convenient. The girl, who started and mostly only one to use it, was a crush for years, thus she got away with it. If I knew then what I know now...

**plotthickens** · 11-23-2009, 05:33 PM

Thpt. As in, the raspberry sound.

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**EuroCrimeFan** · 11-23-2009, 05:41 PM

Mutey

Because I was extremely quiet as a teenager. I tend to attract very loud extroverted friends and this is what they decided to call me because I wouldn't really socialize with other people or engage too deeply. After I get to know somebody and after a few drinks I lighten up a little bit and just stop caring but I'm pretty much that way now anyways unless I'm depressed or anxious (then I generally tend to avoid eye contact and keep my interactions with others very short)

**realJim** · 11-23-2009, 05:54 PM

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	Smiley.....one of my teachers in jr. high called me that because I "never smiled". I soon grew to hate it and him. I tried to explain to him that I am smiling and that it does not matter if I am or not...it has nothing to do with my education, and reverse psychology does not work with me. He finally stopped after we had this exchange.

I had a boss that liked the work I did, but didn't like it that I didn't smile, at least, no big happy smile. He used to call me "smirky". I'm glad to say the nickname didn't stick.

**Brittle** · 11-24-2009, 02:46 AM

Abbanabba

A bit of a hybrid of my actual name and my Swedish heritage and super-group Abba. My uncle has called me this for as long as I remember.

Britchy

Another hybrid of my name (which sometimes devolves to "Britchy-without-the-R") as is Brittle

Vampira

I used to be into Goth... pretty self explanatory really.

My brother ended up with Sputnik in school because he was always "out of this world". I thought it was a great name - he hated it!

11-21-2009, 09:32 AM	#1
Night Runner Core Member [148%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 5,931	What's the strangest nickname you've ever had? What's the story behind it? I've had more than my share of nicknames, but the strangest one would have to be Lucky Leather. I like leather jackets and I can conceal my card-counting skills well enough to appear extraordinarily lucky to other casino patrons (and, on occasion, pit bosses To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. ). One such card-counting expedition resulted in the entire table screaming "Lucky Leather!" for hours and touching my jacket for luck. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Weird, I know... Now it's your turn! To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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11-21-2009, 09:38 AM	#2
True Rune Core Member [200%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8,011	Online : "Ishy" Only girls, it's just a result of the online alias "Ishida" (Which used to be my name on this site too.) Offline: Al Boogie - My god father was just randomly making up nicknames, and that one kinda stuck for awhile.
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11-21-2009, 10:16 AM	#3
Geodess Member [16%] MBTI: INTP Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 670	tentacle fish ~
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11-21-2009, 10:24 AM	#5
lamplighter Veteran Member [70%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,818	IRL I've had several nicknames, but Crayons would have to be the weirdest one. It's because one day in my biology class in high school the teacher said we were going to color in a diagram of a cell. I said: "Are you serious?" and then proceeded to fall asleep in class. When I woke up we were really having to color in the diagram of a cell, and I got stuck with crayons to complete the assignment. So one of my friends decided that it would be funny if she called me "Crayons" and it ended up sticking for few years. I did get her back and got her stuck with the name "Muffin Head" for the rest of high school.
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11-21-2009, 10:30 AM	#6
Cooper Core Member [1338%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 53,559	Smiley.....one of my teachers in jr. high called me that because I "never smiled". I soon grew to hate it and him. I tried to explain to him that I am smiling and that it does not matter if I am or not...it has nothing to do with my education, and reverse psychology does not work with me. He finally stopped after we had this exchange.
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11-21-2009, 10:40 AM	#7
Doppelbock Member [30%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,208	in college my friends would call me Zoner because I would zone out all the time.
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11-21-2009, 12:48 PM	#8
cal Veteran Member [67%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,687	When I was a kid, 'Kelly with the big fat belly'. I've never had a fat belly. Except a bit when I got into drinking a little much for a time. Then it wasn't the best idea to call me names.
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11-21-2009, 01:58 PM	#9
reb Core Member [257%] MBTI: XNTJ Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 10,280	mongoose. in high school track, i was so slow on the 5 mile run, the smart ass coach gave me that nickname. what he did not know was....several of the 5 milers (people were mostly stuck there as punishment for not fitting in) would stop down by where the septic tank made a large crop of trees and brush. those of us who did the 2 laps would go by on the second lap, these goof offs would get up from their rest, and finish the second lap. roessler (pronounced 'race ler') was this coach's name. this jerk made it a requirement 'in order to run track, you must be on the football team'. i had no interest in football, but i tried it so i could stay in track. my initiation to the football team was to go head to head with our 220# tackle with a half deflated basketball in his hands. i was supposed to run my face straight into the basketball. after the first time i followed the 'direction', the next 'hut', i put my head in the guy's gut instead. i think i weighed 150#, but he went backwards anyway. somehow, roessler and i did not get along. always wanted to put sportscream in roesslers jock strap, but he never left his office unlocked. this man is one of the people who taught me to dislike authority figures.
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11-21-2009, 03:18 PM	#10
Nemesis Core Member [304%] MBTI: XXXX Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 12,189	I had two: 1) Flower. My best friend who I grew up with spouted rather massive boobs when we were teenagers, so I called her "Bubbles". Instead of whining about the nickname I gave her, she got even with me and started calling me "Flower". The name spread and many laughs were had by all. 2) Captain, Cappers, or Cap'n. Back when I smoked pot and all that fun stuff, me and a few of my party friends decided to sort each other out by rank. The reasoning was that if our leader was too screwed up to make good decisions for the rest of us morons, the next in line would step up. I was second only to the "Commodore". To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. EDIT: Yes, the name "Captain Flower" was also used from time to time. What fun.
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11-21-2009, 04:47 PM	#11
Kisai Core Member [353%] MBTI: XXXX Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14,152	Renfield.
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11-21-2009, 05:17 PM	#12
Silverity Core Member [274%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 10,995	My friends have called me Carrot, and Trella (which turned to Trellacakes, Trellsbells, Trellalalalalala and Trellasaurus) My grade 12 English teacher called me Queen of Darkness. He even signed my year book addressing me as such <3
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11-21-2009, 09:08 PM	#13
daydreamer Veteran Member [66%] MBTI: xntx Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,644	sticky LOL the backstory is not as wild as can be imagined, i frequented stickam when it was first available a while back and my user id was icstickpeople. people called me sticky for short and it stuck.
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11-21-2009, 11:03 PM	#14
LionsPride Core Member [225%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,029	LP. I was never given nicknames in real life, so I'd have to say that the online one has to be the strangest, at least from my perspective. Being given a nickname of a nickname that came from an email address that is based on the name of group I was a part of that disbanded is kind of an odd way to get a moniker. Odd, but I like it all the same To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. . It may have been borrowed when I arrived, but the name is all mine now. The fact that LP is also short for long playing amuses me, given that I have been playing here for some time now To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. . Lions is nice too. I like being plural. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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11-21-2009, 11:20 PM	#15
Elfrun Core Member [268%] MBTI: entp Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 10,720	BamBam, cause when I decided I wanted to do something it would become important to do it straight away! and that would often result in things going 'bam!', named after the Flintstones of course. Trinity was another, thus named by a drunk friend when he met me cause he couldn't remember the name Trina and convinced himself that my name was Trinity despite my assurances it wasn't.
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11-22-2009, 03:15 AM	#16
Samoan Corleone Core Member [151%] MBTI: INxJ Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 6,078	I got called Pedro in High School, because a lot of people thought I looked like Pedro Sanchez from Napoleon Dynamite. When running for Head boy, people would jokingly say, "Vote for Pedro". After not making Head Boy and instead being named House Captain, there was a joke that everyone in my House had voted for Pedro. Good times, although it was a nightmare then.
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11-23-2009, 12:23 PM	#17
Kisai Core Member [353%] MBTI: XXXX Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 14,152	Renfield was a self-stuck name in college. My college friends still call me Ren even though I've gone back to my real name in publlic. I knew a guy in college called Itchy, because he scratched himself inappropriately. I knew a guy in college called Sniv because he tried to say 'Svirfneiblen' and it stuck.
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11-23-2009, 12:37 PM	#18
El Cas Veteran Member [65%] MBTI: InTj Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 2,610	Rain Man - I was working when the head of System Support came by to talk to me about some future upgrades to the system I was in-charge of and then decided to ask random math questions, "What is the square root of X? what is the cube of X, etc" and I started answering then right away without the aid of a calculator to the third decimal place. My co-worker looked at the him to see if I was answering correctly and then turned to me and said "How the hell.... you are now called Rain Man." The nickname stuck till I left that office.
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11-23-2009, 01:09 PM	#19
themuzicman Core Member [284%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 11,363	Fish paws.... At the time I was employed by a company named "Felpausch" (grocery store chain named after a family.) I was playing basketball, and someone asked where I worked, and someone misunderstood and thought i said "fish paws", and the name stuck... doh...
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11-23-2009, 04:29 PM	#20
ClydeB Veteran Member [83%] MBTI: INTx Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 3,348	Pumper #9 Some boy in the 6th grade started calling me that. Never would explain why. Started when I zoned out doing laps in the 'gym' and decided to jump up on the stage rather than hit the edge when I realized I should have turned. Drove me nuts for months. It all stopped the day I started throwing desks out of my way to corner him in the classroom when the teacher was out. Haven't thought about that little annoyance in decades. I wonder (hindsight) if there was more to that than I realized. I was already labeled as different back then. And to some, different equaled gay. I wonder if that was some kind of immature sexual male to male thing? Who knows... Todd, if your out there wondering. The answer was no.
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11-23-2009, 05:29 PM	#21
Autoptic Core Member [105%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4,230	Loony, which is almost my name which was, unbeknownst to Mother, the nickname of my paternal grandfather, Leonidas. Technically, it was actually an alternate nickname for the same in his day, though in my case, I was just weird, and it was convenient. The girl, who started and mostly only one to use it, was a crush for years, thus she got away with it. If I knew then what I know now... Last edited by Autoptic; 11-23-2009 at 07:16 PM.
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11-23-2009, 05:33 PM	#22
plotthickens Core Member [661%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 26,450	Thpt. As in, the raspberry sound. Useful against annoying cousins when pinned "helplessly". To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
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11-23-2009, 05:41 PM	#23
EuroCrimeFan New Member [01%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 70	Mutey Because I was extremely quiet as a teenager. I tend to attract very loud extroverted friends and this is what they decided to call me because I wouldn't really socialize with other people or engage too deeply. After I get to know somebody and after a few drinks I lighten up a little bit and just stop caring but I'm pretty much that way now anyways unless I'm depressed or anxious (then I generally tend to avoid eye contact and keep my interactions with others very short)
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11-24-2009, 02:46 AM	#25
Brittle Member [23%] MBTI: INTJ Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 958	Abbanabba A bit of a hybrid of my actual name and my Swedish heritage and super-group Abba. My uncle has called me this for as long as I remember. Britchy Another hybrid of my name (which sometimes devolves to "Britchy-without-the-R") as is Brittle Vampira I used to be into Goth... pretty self explanatory really. My brother ended up with Sputnik in school because he was always "out of this world". I thought it was a great name - he hated it!
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