What is your nickname and why?

[nytemare]

Mine is "Face". When I was about 12, my father just started calling me that. He called me Face for about a month until I finally asked him why. He said it is because I am always making faces, which I am. I have a rubber face. The nickname has stuck.

How about your nicknames?

[Bok_Tukalo]

1. I have several

From "Skillet" to "Bok Tuklo."

My favorire is "X" It was given because I'm a bit off the norm.

[nytemare]

4. Cool!

What about the other names? Why "skillet"?

[Bok_Tukalo]

15. Skillet because I can cook very well

Be-seff (biscuit eating mother fucker) because I grew up in rural Arkansas. Bok Tuklo is a familial nickname that is a Choctaw pun on my last name. 5-O as in "book em Dano" because of the car I drive. Guru because of my job function.

Want more? I hear them all except for Bok Tuklo almost daily.

[nytemare]

39. Skillet has a nice ring to it

I can't cook worth a shit, so I would never have that nickname...lol.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. It used to be fish stick.

and then it was snowmobile woman because of a hideous snowmobile suit handed down to me me from my brother. Think 70's style parka snow suit...army green. One boy in my fourth grade class made up an entire comic book called "The Adventures of SnowMobile Woman". Ack....

[nytemare]

5. LOL

Cute!

[GOPisEvil]

3. I was "Spanky" for a while in college.

After I moved out of the dorms, that died. I'm short and stocky, and to a drunk upperclassman, I looked like Spanky. :shrug:

I guess I'm not a nickname guy.

[nytemare]

6. Spanky is a good nickname

Every group needs a spanky.

[GOPisEvil]

10. I was that Spanky for a year.

I've never drunk so much in that short a time...

[da_chimperor]

7. I have had four.

Smile (I smile a lot, this one has stuck the longest)
Couch (I like sitting)
Stalin (some friends in high school thought I was some sort of megalomaniac and wanted to take over the world)
Kylie (female variation of my first name x()

[nytemare]

13. LOL, Stalin is a good one!

They were all watching you, and look who took over!

[da_chimperor]

17. They even asked me for various positions in my future world government

A friend of mine was insistent that he would be the chief of my secret police. :silly:

[nytemare]

22. You should send his resume to *!

LOL.

[bigwillq]

8. Some of the guys at the bar call me sweet pea!

I don't love that one. I have another nick name that every one calls me and that I love but it kind of is similar to my real last name so I am not going to share for the whole board to see.Sorry.

[nytemare]

21. Awww, come on!

You brought it up, now you have to spill it!

:)

[bigwillq]

24. I'm PM ya with it!

OK?

[nytemare]

25. LOL, ok

Then I will share it here!

(kidding)

:evilgrin:

[bigwillq]

27. Check your PM

I just sent it!

[nytemare]

41. Sorry, was afk

Telephone for the Face!

[bigwillq]

48. No prob!

SHHH!:)

[madeline_con]

9. Thanks for the memories...

My brothers (I have 3) called me Face because they always said I was ugly. Actually, I've always pretty good looking. Lately age is catching up...

Anyway, it was really kind of damaging, because it took a long time for me to realize I wasn't ugly! Isn't that cruel?

[nytemare]

14. Awww. As long as you got over it, that is the important part!

:)

[Rowdyboy]

11. In college, I was known as Captain....short for

Captain Perverto, the name my freshman roomate called me after seeing my pornography collection...

[nytemare]

16. ROFL!

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[Rowdyboy]

33. Even worse, two of my professors heard the nickname....

and called me "Captain" in class (don't know if they knew the true story but it didn't matter).

Even now, after 30 years, these guys still call me "Captain". Be careful what you do in college....

[DIKB]

12. Well

at work they call me "Shorty." Someone else w/ the same name was already working there when I started, it just kinda stuck.

When people ask why they call me shorty, I say I don't know how they found out about my male inadequacies.

[nytemare]

19. Oh no!!

LOL. I suppose you are not short if people ask you that.

[DIKB]

23. well

5'6" is pretty short for a guy. It's mainly females who ask, most guys think I'm short, most women don't.

[TlalocW]

18. White Chocolate and/or the New Hotness

Primarily because I refer to myself like that around the office.

I might soon have "Master of the Impossible" (offered up by my boss) because I'm halfway through solving something that the past two idiots in my position said was impossible. Getting halfway there took five minutes.

TlalocW

[JohnKleeb]

20. ahh mostly variations of Kleeb

[nytemare]

28. Bleeb? Schleeb?

:)

[JohnKleeb]

32. ha well

no
Kleeby, Kleeben, Kleevage, are some I have offhand. I remember though when my little brother was in elementary school, this stupid kid who was in between our grades, like my brother is 4 grades younger than I am, and this kid is two grades younger than me and older than him, and he had this stupid really loserly letter that he wrote about my brother that he passed around on the school bus trashing my brother and stuff, kid was such a loser, god I hated that damn family too, they were such losers and I later found through my brother, bush supporters.

[nytemare]

38. Kleevage is a good one!! How about Kliebschen?

:)

Figures the punk ended up a Bush supporter!

[JohnKleeb]

52. His family were

I am not sure about the actual kid but me and my brother were tougher and above them anyhow, they were total losers even before I knew that they were GOP.

[tridim]

26. I was "spooky" at my previous job

You know, the resident conspiracy theorist. That was 3 years ago, and everything I said back then has come true and then some.

[DIKB]

29. Dontcha love that

You warn people something is coming, they say you're nuts, and sure enough. . .

I called the Iraq war Oct of 2001. People thought I was being paranoid, though it was obvious to any one who had a clue.

[nytemare]

30. Spooky is a good one!

If they came true, you are a skeptical consipracy theorist!

:)

[crispini]

66. Heh, we call one of my coworkers 'the spook'

not because of conspiracy theories but because he used to work for the NSA.

[Sugar Smack]

31. mouse and smudgie which were bestowed

at birth- used to be as quiet as a mouse and also was profoundly clumsy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;-)

[nytemare]

44. Smudgie is a cute one!

Not very common as nicknames go.

:)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

34. Nonnie, cuz my first grandchild couldn't say grandma

and that started the nickname for the rest of the grandkids. Cute story here...my second grandchild had called me Nonnie for five years, and she also has another grandmother she calls Mimi, and a greatgrandmother she calls Mimaw. One day I was explaining to her that her mother was my daughter, which made me her grandmother. Her eyes got real wide and she exclaimed, "I HAVE A GRANDMOTHER? OH BOY!"
With all the nonnies and mimis and moomoos, the poor kid never realized she had a grandmother. Let alone, several!

[nytemare]

46. That is a cute story!

My youngest niece called me "A Neeno" because she couldn't pronounce Aunt Diana.

I thought it was cute!

[sasquatch]

35. One of them is my DU screenname

I got the nickname because I wear size 18 tennis shoes.
Another nickname I had was "Shrek" that I had while working in a section of the Automotive plant that I worked in for 4 years because of my large size 6'6" 300+. One I had in Junior high/High school was "Lurch" because I was tall and lanky like the Adams familiy's Butler.

[nytemare]

47. COOL!!

Must be hard for you to find shoes! I have some big feet and it is hard for me, but mine aren't that big!

[lonestarnot]

36. Holy shit one of my dog's nickname is Face. She has two faces, so we

named her Two-Face (Indian name) Face for short. Oh and mine is Pokechop.

[nytemare]

49. OK, pokechop!!

:)

[lonestarnot]

62. Kid freak'n out cause his tv can't get nut'n but Terry so he's in here

pester'n bout why am I post'n bout his dog...Act like I didn't tell you please.

[SarahB]

37. I never had one.

Any ideas? :shrug:

[nytemare]

51. Sarah Marinara

:)

[SarahB]

54. Good, but too long.

:D

[lonestarnot]

63. Sarah the faira

[pamela]

40. Slut

My best friend has called me "Slut" for 20 years now. In fact her whole family, including her 70 year old mother, calls me "slut."

[nytemare]

53. nothing like sarcastic terms of endearment!

I have friends that I call bitches, wenches, assholes, asswipes, and hos.

That is true freindship.

:)

[ElectroPrincess]

42. Electronic Princess

I like collecting all sorts of electronic gadgets. My field in the Army was Signals Intelligence so my foundation is numerous scanners, both base and mobile. Yep, and antennas galore: Fortunately my large discone antenna is located in our attic. A smaller discone for my mobile scanner is hanging from the highest point (13') of our vaulted ceiling in the master bedroom.

I guess you could say that I'm both wired and connected. <eg>

[nytemare]

55. My dad was in the signal corps

I went the MP way. I was offered crypto, and should have taken it, but I was naive.

[ElectroPrincess]

61. It was rewarding but MPs is also a quality MOS

I felt honored to work around so many intelligent people. Some of the enlisted translators were honestly "brilliant." The other cryptology MOSs were no slackers either. I was a clueless 22 year old "butter bar," but I had some excellent NCOs who helped me learn the ropes.

Yes, there were some really bad times but overall I was blessed to have served on active duty (INSCOM Warrior) during the 80s.

Unfortunately, IMO we can't say that anymore. Especially with our present leadership in both the Pentagon and the Executive Branch. :(

[nytemare]

64. I think the military will lose a lot of good leadership due to the lack

of it at the very top. I served under Bush1 and Clinton. I think Bush1 was out of touch, but it wasn't awful serving under him. Although many other soldiers didn't like serving under Clinton, I did. I thought he was a thoughtful leader.

[illini]

43. Fly

because im always buzzing around.

[nytemare]

56. You go buzz then!

[Ann Arbor Dem]

45. My nickname in high school was Streaker....

It was the '70's, so you can imagine how I got it.

:evilgrin:

[nytemare]

57. Bad streaker!!

LOL.

[VelmaD]

50. Well, my daddy calls me "Scooter"...

so does someone else around here when I call him his annoying nickname. *whistles tunelessly while waiting for "Doll-baby" Pitt to show up* :)

My dad has called me "Scooter" since I was a baby. Before I learned to walk or even really crawl, if I wanted to get around I would sit up, kick my legs out in front of me, then scoot my butt up to my feet and then repeat the process til I got where I wanted to go.

I think Will just uses it because it's pretty damn annoying to have the same nickname as Lewis "Scooter" Libby. *sigh*

[nytemare]

59. I had a rabbit named "Scooter"

I have thought that his memory has been done a huge disservice by Libby.

How could he ruin such a good name as Scooter by having it?

[Blue-Jay]

58. "Blue-Jay" was given to me by blues diva E.C Scott.

She was playing in my hometown several years ago at a club that I frequented. Her regular saxman had been involved in a traffic accident and was hospitalized a few hours before the gig. I got a call from the club owner and Ms Scott asking if I could sit in with her band for the night, so of course I said "You're fucking RIGHT I can! I'll be there in ten minutes!"

I already had two of her CDs and so was familiar with many of her songs, and the night went better than anyone could have suspected. After I got finished blowing a solo on You Got The Wrong Number, she introduced me to the crowd, but forgot my actual name. She remembered that it started with a 'J', so she said "Give it up for Jaaaaaaay....um... BLUUUE JAY!"

A bunch of my musician friends were in attendance that night, so the name stuck. I ended up touring with her for a few weeks, and that led to a tour (due to EC's recommendation) with Debbie Davies as well.


At any rate, be sure to check out EC Scott the next time you're looking to listen to some good blues. She's awesome.

http://www.ecscott.com/
http://www.debbiedavies.com/

So... That's the "Blue-Jay" story.

Hi, Mom! :hi:

[nytemare]

60. Cool story!

Good deal!

[kittenpants]

65. 'Stinky' and I can't imagine why.

:shrug:

[nytemare]

67. LOL!

cute!

[Taxloss]

68. "taxloss"

and "wilesy", based on my real name. but my screen name was a nickname before it was a screen name.