In high school, the closest thing to a nickname I had was the contraction of my first and last name into one quick two-syllabled word.
Dad calls me Schnookie-Babe (have NO clue where that came from). Grandpa calls me Dutchie because when I was little I had one of those bowl cuts and he thought I looked like the Dutch Boy from the paint cans (too bad I'm a GIRL). My sister calls me Chicken because I used to follow her around all the time. My friends call me a short version of my last name. In college I was called Yankee and Chicago due to the fact that I moved down to go to Vandy. That lasted about a year until people began to learn my last name. From that day forward I never had a first name. Even my professors called me by my last name (and it isn't a common name at all - just fun to say I guess....).
***hole. Always seems to stick. My wife and I have at least 100 nicknames for each other, that change/rotate every few months/years. Some are insulting/profane, others are dumb/sweet, but most are gibberish. Now I will end/finish this post.
i was given the nickname Bolo in college. apparently, i have a strong resemblence to Bolo Yeung. that big asian dude in Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon and a couple of Van Damme movies.
In college, I had some lazy friends..they never wanted to say anyone's name all the way. just used first couple od syllables.. So I became Lar... I use it from time to time when Im feeling lazy or short on time in emails.. Some call me "you as*hole" they would be right also.. and some of my old stoner buds call me dude...but then again, they call everyone dude and then around here...I guesss I have a nick of my nick...cause most refer to me as...well, you guys know it..duh! oh yea, and my maternal grandother used to call me Butch...for that matter, sometimes my mom does too.
smartarse well, I guess I could always just type *L* if I truely wanted to save time.. really, I dont know if it is a real time saver...I have never timed it..
Slowly but surely one of my cliques have thrust "Nauls" upon me. I'd like to think it's because of my uncanny resemblance to T.K. Carter, but I'm beginning to suspect that my knack for being thwarted by Box Monster's played a larger part.
When I was little, my parents called me well-meaning but weird names like Rootie and Turkey Neck. Go figure. Most of my nicknames have just been inane takeoffs on my regular name. In college, I was called "Leather Woman" due to an incident that everybody knew never actually happened. I haven't had any nicknames in a while... except for some guys on the Internet (who <i>do</i> know me personally) referring to me as "Xena". My husband started that one. The coolest nickname was "Mariah", in high school. One of my teammates thought I looked like Mariah Carey - which I don't, but I had the same hair as she did (back in the early 90's). At least it was better than some of the other nicknames those girls came up with (including Twin Peaks, Mount St. [last name], and Milk Duds.... don't ask... I think they were jealous of something ). To keep this thread safe, no comment on names for Sparky, Mr. Happy, the Polish Sausage, the Guided Missile, or the Third Leg.
A lot of my friends call me JB now....but for about a 2 year span in my middle school days, everyone called me "Jun", instead of my real name John,because there was this great african-american buddy of mine that called me John, but due to his accent, it sounded like "Jun." He is a smooth talker, and one of the greatest guys on the planet.
Last year, another guy named Joel started hanging out with my group. I'm Jewish and he was arabic. People started calling him A.J. for arabic Joel and I was dubbed J.J. for Jewish Joel. The other Joel moved to Canada, but they still call me JJ.
Well I do. My first name is Paul, but everyone but my family has called me by my surname since I was about 11. Even when I went to university, and introduced myself as Paul, as soon as a friend came to visit, and called me Bailey, it instantly stuck. I don't bother correcting people now. There are even some people who think it's my first name.
