Do you have a nickname?

[LaraMN]

I thought I'd never really had one, but I found out over Thanksgiving that my family used to call me "Lulu," when I was a kid. I have no recollection of this, and having a short name, I don't recall ever being called anything but "Lara".

I think my husband could use a nickname. His name is Nathaniel, and he NEVER goes by Nathan or Nate. Sometimes when I want to annoy him, I call him "'Than."


How about you? Do you have a nickname that people use frequently? If you do, do you like it?

[Tyler Durden]

1. My lips are sealed.

The "nickname" inflicted on me by High School was mean and demeaning. I don't do nicknames.

[trof]

5. Yes. Butch.

OK, go ahead.
I've heard them all.
;-)

In the '40s it was the fashion to call little boy babies "Butch".
When the nurse brought me in to my mom all cleaned up for the first time she said "Here's your little Butch".
And that was 65 years ago and it stuck.
:shrug:

[ronnykmarshall]

48. Oh my god!! Same here!

Can you believe that??? My Aunt calls me that.

My other one is REYnoldo.

[Lowell]

2. Yep n/t

[LaraMN]

8. It's that bad, huh?

:o

[Tyler Durden]

14. You have no idea.

Really. Truth.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. MrsGrumpy or MrsHarpy...

Primarily used by PassingFair and her family. :hi:

[LaraMN]

6. Ah, hence the handle!

I learn something new every day!

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I usually post about it in the "how'd you get your screen name threads"

but nobody ever reads it.

We were out to dinner and I accidentally said,"That would make MrsGrumpy very Harper" instead of the other way around. A nick name was born...and a username too! :hi:

[Broken_Hero]

4. A couple...

my dad use to call me Donald Duck all the time...like "Here's Donald Duck! What are you up to son?"

And Polar Bear, I got this one from my college days...

[KFC]

7. Not me, but a college friend had the best ever

Hair Pie.

Based on his opinion that he was the number one ladies' man on the planet.

[rug]

9. Rico

Suave

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Yup

Except for the "frequently" part, since I left it behind when I moved here eight years ago. Still, every so often I run into one of the Old Gang who still use it as if it were my real name.



And, no — I won't tell you.

[Connonym]

60. You big dork! nt

[miss_american_pie]

12. Only shortened versions of my first name

Don't like any variation of it. :hi:

[reyd reid reed]

13. Nope.

My name's short and my mother had this thing about nicknames. Said if she wanted us called something else, that's what she would've named us.

I always wanted one, though.

[SPKrazy]

21. Awwwwww

we need to give you one then

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

31. Go for it...

I'm game.

:scared:

[SPKrazy]

47. There's Li Li, or

Liser, or La Lisa, or I don't know, I don't know enough about you to come up with something really original

Someone had Reidipie, LOL GOPsUx I think

Is there a picture of you somewhere in a thread? That would give me working material. hee hee

:hug:

I won't be mean

[NewJeffCT]

15. yes, I had one

My nickname, starting in high school was "Kool" - not a bad nickname to have. It's kind of faded away since I hit 30 about 10 years ago, though

It's mostly because the first syllable of my last name is pronounced that way.

[SPKrazy]

16. Um No, Of Course Not

never had one

what are you talking about

(I ain't sayin')


:evilgrin:

[reyd reid reed]

17. Awwwwwww....

c'mon....

[SPKrazy]

18. Really I Haven't Had One In A Long Time

the closest is what people call me sometimes at work

Pope Steven Paul

Hey, my name is Steven Paul and someone started calling me that and now it sometimes sticks.

I used to have red hair and got all the red head nicknames

Red, the worst was "Ketchup"

but most people call me Steve

:pals:

[WCGreen]

19. My dad use to call me Shit for Brains....

And my friends at OSU called me Ray Milland, after they saw his performace in Lost Weekend....

[ZombieNixon]

20. Yes.

x(

And many of you know what it is. x( :P

[ganeshji]

22. Slick Rick

I'm not exactly sure where it came from.

[Omphaloskepsis]

29. Do you wear an eye patch?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&client=google-music&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&q=%22Slick+Rick%22

[Drum]

23. Only from one person: my boss.

He sometimes calls me "Shiner," because when I came to my audition years ago I was sporting a great black eye from an unsuccessful mugging attempt upon me the week before.
They erroneously cut me from the audition, but later that day tracked me down and hired me, based on "missing that guy with the black eye."

:shrug:

However, universally speaking, if I'm known by a nickname, no one's telling me...:eyes:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. Yes, I have a nickname, my dear Lara!

And you all know it..........Peggy!

Some folks call me Peg.....and I love both names!

My "real" name is Margaret...........I don't like it much, since my parents used it when they were mad at me!

It took me and my husband two children to realize that nicknames are for the birds.....

So our oldest daughter has one, and our younger one doesn't!

:hi:

[lizziegrace]

25. I do

and if Lelapin repeats it, I'll have to do something awful.

[av8rdave]

26. Mine is very close to my DU name

A.V.Ator, only because that's what's on my uniform name tag.

[scarlet_owl]

27. My husband calls me "Turtle".

When I was a kid, everyone called me "Emmy". My grandparents and my aunt still call me that.

[QMPMom]

28. My Dad calls me Jude. I can't tell you what my husband calls me.

[cwydro]

30. Yep. given to me at 6 weeks old

and I still go by it. Of course, my first nickname was "Pup".

Don't ask.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

32. Yep.

In high school, I had about 50.

The funniest, though, was when I was in middle school. A guy in my gym class didn't know how to pronounce my name (I'm of Indian descent), so he tried to call me "Dhalsim," which gamers will recognize as the Indian guy from Street Fighter II.

But he couldn't even pronounce Dhalsim, so he called me "Dhashiki." :rofl:

[Guava Jelly]

33. They called me John Holmes

It got pretty hard after a while!
But I stood up straight and tall and came through the whole situation a better person :)

[Redstone]

34. People call me "Red" or "Stone," and both are fine with me.

People don't assign you a nickname unless they like you, has been my experience. So if someone shortens my name, I consider it a compliment.

Redstone

[jmm]

40. I've also noticed people will do it when they want a favor.

Recently I was playing bartender at a party and a girl who has always called me Jessica and started calling me Jessie when she realized I was the little sister of the guy she liked. I also become Jessie or Jessie Mae when people want something from me at work.

My family calls me Jessie but I'm Jessie Mae (somehow people think using my middle name will make me gullible but I digress) when they're really trying to talk me into something.

[Redstone]

42. In my case, people just do it because they do. And that's OK with me.

I find it kind of flattering, actually.

Redstone

[hippywife]

35. My mom used to call me

Mickey Jo when I was growing up and my dad called me a shortened version of my real name. Now my husband calls me Loopy or Seelee (short for Seeleebutt.) I call him Geoff (short for Geoffbutt - pronounced goofbutt with an extra accent on the good part.)

[fizzgig]

36. my parents called my scooter when i was little

and they still call me that in birthday cards and such.

i'm sissy to my sister

but other than that, i'm just me

[YDogg]

37. yup

[TK421]

38. My friends call me psycho....I'll take that as a compliment

:D

[Aristus]

39. A friend at work calls me "Digital Bob". I don't know why. It's not like

I'm in IT or something. I'm a Medical Assistant.

Oh well, I like it. It's kinda cool. B-)

[Ariana Celeste]

41. Yes...

Lena Bean :blush:

[WhollyHeretic]

43. I've got a few

Uncle JJ
J-Dawg
Maverick

Those are from a few different times in my life though I still get all of them occasionally. My current nickname is J-Dawg started by a friend to annoy me. That's mostly what we use nicknames for, to annoy each other :evilgrin: My friend Vinnie was dubbed "Barbarino" by my sister 20+ years ago in 2nd grade and I still use it.

I used nicknames for a silly Christmas present for my friends (we usually just buy fun stuff for a Christmas party as presents)

[RetroLounge]

44. Never really had a nickname

In the 70's my CB Radio handle was "nowhere man" after the beatles song, and to this day some childhood friends still call me that.

Actually it was kinda apropos for the 80's...

RL

[leftofthedial]

45. several

"Wes" is one of them

[JackBeck]

46. Jack is actually my nickname.

My legal name is John, but everyone calls me Jack, and I've always know myself as a Jack. Causes confusion sometimes at the bank. Last week a bank teller asked me, "Are you sure Jack is a nickname for John"?

But my family used to call me "Gompers", after Samuel Gompers, the founder of the American Federation of Labor. They swore that whenever there was a chore to do I'd run and hide, which was not the case. If anyone was raised in an Italian Catholic household, you'd know that there's chores every minute of the day. Since my parents were Republican, I'm sure they found it funny to call unions lazy, as well as myself.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

51. My grandfather, proper name John, is called Jack by everyone.

:hi:

[dubeskin]

49. Yup, and it's a long one

The...Fat Emo Crazy Communist Unicorn Princess who burns books. Obviously by righty friends developed most of it.

[GirlinContempt]

50. huggiebear

[mopinko]

52. mo

short for my real name, maureen, which almost no one calls me any more. i was mo as a kid, i tried to loose it for quite a while, but i have made friends with it. people rarely forget it.

[Evoman]

53. In high school, I got stuck with Speedy. Wasn't too bad, I guess.

At home, I had two nicknames...Toto (after a South American soccer coach...beats me) and....ugh..."whitey", because in my hispanic family, I'm one of the whitest.

Nobody really calls me those names anymore...now, I usually just go by a shorter version of my first name.

[sakabatou]

54. Yes, many

[BikeWriter]

55. I have a biker road name given to me years ago.

[UncleSepp]

56. A few...

I was "Woody" for a long time. It was a riff off of this really bad haircut I had... made me look like Woody Woodstock. When I was little, some of the neighborhood kids had a nickname for me. Sometimes it was "the Professor" and *shudder* occasionally "the little Doctor". My mom called me JJ or Jennie Joe. I tried to get her to just stick with the Joe... hm, maybe that was a clue :-D

At work I got a nickname that I liked a lot - "SQL Diva".

[ChaoticSilly]

57. I was called Yoda in high school

though I couldn't figure out why. Other than being short, green and having big ears there's really no resemblance. I did graduate to being called Cool Breeze after high school though.

[NewWaveChick1981]

58. When I was a kid, I did.

My real name is Julie, but my little brother called me "Ju" when he began talking. That stuck until I was about 12. Mom still occasionally calls me that, but it's rare. My mother named me after my grandmother Julia but didn't want confusion over who went by what name. Also, she's a big believer in making names as simple as possible. My sister and brother also have simple names.

My husband actually goes by his nickname and uses it professionally. He's had that nickname since he was 4 or 5, and since he has the same name as his father and grandfather (he's a III), it helps keep things straight.

[azmouse]

59. Mouse

My husband gave me that nickname when we first met. It's all he calls me now.
Sometimes I wonder if he even remembers my first name. :)

My dad always called me Pebbles after the little girl in the Flintstones.

[Connonym]

61. My family is big into nicknames

My full name is Constance so I get called Connie, natch. My dad called me Pea-Fred (don't know why). Also known as Cojo. In high school I got taunted with Alka (as in Alka-Seltzer, not alkacholic :silly: )

[BarenakedLady]

62. Ice Princess (once a long time ago)

Isn't that lovely?

Now it's pretty much just "Bitch"


Oh wait, that's probably not what you meant.

No I don't have a nick name except online.

[crim son]

63. My mother calls me "Liza Jane."

I had a childhood nickname which my sisters will use now and then: "Sudsyway." I don't know where that one came from... probably the same place as these, the nicknames of my sisters: Wenners
Abendreabeubba
Mishtinck

[Pendrench]

64. No...no one has ever called me "Nick" n/t :)

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

65. I got 5 OF them...

NOOD, NOODIE, Egg, TURTLE, NISSA. I still get called all of them except for EGG ( THANK YOU GOD!!!)
NISSA is short for ANISSA, which is my first name.:)
The first 3 names I've had since I was a baby. Egg came from my uncle because I had a car that was in the shape of an egg. Turtle was given to me by my brother when I was pregnant with my daughter. I liked it so much that I have it tattooed in Japanese on my back.

[Lautremont]

66. "A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man."

So sayeth William Hazlitt.

[Left Is Write]

67. Yes. Cathy.

[Deja Q]

68. I currently have no nickname of sorts.

Plenty from my childhood. And, don't worry, I promise not to mention any of them.

[greatauntoftriplets]

69. Sheesh.

It is short for my name, which is Sheila.

Only one person calls me by that name now, and I think she is the one who gave it to me. My sister's best friend, who is also a good friend to me.

[Blue-Jay]

70. I've had a few.

Snapper, Mojo, Jaybird, and yes, BlueJay.

I didn't care too much for "Snapper", but that was in Jr High, and given to me because I had a bad temper and started lots of fights.

BlueJay was given to me by http://www.ecscott.com/">E.C. Scott when I was playing with her.

[dajoki]

71. The one that stuck...

Hoot