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Miscellaneous => General Chat => Topic started by: ShadowBrain on January 25, 2008, 07:41:25 AM
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What are some other names some people tend call you (in real life, not the internet)? I know not everybody gets saddled with some weird alias that replaces their actual name (like in the movies), but you've probably been called by a least a shortened version of your name (unless, of course, it can't be shortened).
I've actually not had any serious nicknames beyond just a shortening of my name. There's this kid who always calls me "Sandals", as I wear them exclusively, but he's the only one (I suspect he wants it to catch on, but it's just really irritating).
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Not really. Some people in my P.E. class last year called me either "Mustache" or "Dr Pepper" but it's likely that none of them knew my name. Some other guy called me "One-Three-Three-Seven" oftentimes, too.
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Well, I've been called Transformer/Transformers for bringing up the movie once, but I don't mind. This one kid calls me Rabbit because my name is Jimmy and the guy Eminem plays in 8 Mile is named Jimmy and nicknamed Rabbit, but no one else calls me that. It's annoying.
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Arr, people be callin' me "Droopy" for the past 4 years now.
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Some of the guys in English IV started calling me "Heavy Duty" for no reason (at least, not one that I could tell), and it caught on.
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I earned the nickname Tootsie Roll during my first year of marching band. We were at band camp, during the dance, and there's this song (which apparently has the name Tootsie Roll) that I was dancing to. That's what most of my close friends still call me.
My dad calls me Spud, because when I was born, he was known to be somewhat of a couch potato, and they said my mom was going to have a little spud. He changed it to Spudnik for a short time because of that Nickelodeon show Salute your Shorts, but has since gone back to calling me just Spud.
There's a girl at work that calls everybody Pea whenever she's in a big hurry. She knows our names but sometimes you don't have time to call somebody by their name, apparently.
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Back in my younger years, my grandma would call me Amer (sounds like aim-er) Kay which is basically just a corruption of my name (Amy) plus my middle name.
Also when I was little, the other kids called me Rudolph because my nose was red. Mind you, it's a birthmark I'd rather not talk about. Such dark times...
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AK47
Mr. 47
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Half my RL friends called me nothing but "Fly" through a bit of middle school and all high school.
The true origin came from 7th grade sewing class where I always sat at the same table as these two other dudes (who were both my friends but they were better friends with each other than I was to either of them at the time although I eventually became practically best friends with one guy and the other guy blew his brains out) and supposedly pestered them so I was a "pesky fly".
The real origin is that these guys liked nicknames and spread it well to other nickname lovers.
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Heck, the only Nicknames I could remember were "nerds" "gee--"........ On second thought nevermind those.
There was a nickname that I was quite intrigued by however, once for like, a day, everyone in school started to call me "Mr. Nintendo" At first I was a bit offended because it tottally drew attention to my obsession for Nintendo Video games. Then I kinda liked it cause... well yeah.
Since I are is not at school no longer, I are very happier being.
Everyone else had better nicknames though. In band, every trombone player was assigned a special name:
My Brother: Trout.
My Brother's Friend: Horse.
My Friend: Turd.
They were both Seniors and they always said to my friend, "Stop screwing up Turd!" and "Get over here Turd!" and "You suck Turd!"
I'm so glad I am not him.
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Well, I've had a few...
1) Al. This is because I apparently "bear a resemblance" to an anime suit of armor. What the dukar, guys.
2) Jim. Simply because my internet alias is Jim, and it's what I use as my name on Melee, because anything else I like to be called won't fit.
3) Tron. All the people who called me this mostly left. This was because on our "Disney Dress Up Day" last year, in the midst of all the Mickies and Princesses, I was Tron. Greetings, programs.
4) Hey, get out of my way!...This is the most frequent one I hear.
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My father always liked to call me "Pound" when I was a young child, When I got fat, he added "Round" to the beginning, and sometimes calls me "Round Pound". XP
Actually, just the other week, my father was doing that, and my mother started singing the song "Downtown" and replaced the title lyric with my nickname. I thought that was hilarious.
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Well, I have a few nicknames.
1. My dad calls me "Cakes" because I'm supposedly the nicest one of my sisters.
2. My niece calls me "Deeja" because she can't say my whole name.
3. One of my friends calls me "Lil' Bean" because...just because.
4. A few of my friends call me "DJ" It's only because it's a shorter version of my name.
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Hmm. I've earned quite a few nicknames over the years, but many only lasted a year or so.
1. I went by the alias Hot Dog Eric whenever I talked on my father's CB radio.
2. In elementary many called me Reese's because of this Reese's t-shirt I had (which I still have, but it doesn't fit :( ).
3. For half of middle school I went by Turtle because of my obsession with turtles (which I still have a little of, but it's not so much an obsession than a likeness now)
4. My initials have created two nicknames, but I'd rather not talk about them here.
5. I've recently gone by Cornbugs or Uncle Cornbugs in reference to my impression of the band Cornbugs (which features Buckethead).
6. Also recently, I've started trying to spread the nickname Sir Rice, which is based off of a corruption of my name.
Eric. Take off "e" and put it at the end --> Rice; spell "Eric" backwards and it's "Cire," like "Sire". Drop that "e" and you get Sir Rice. I've also recently gained a powerful hankering for white rice and General Tso Chicken.
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"Julie" and "Jul" are the most common ones I'm called. My parents (and all relatives, for that matter) have always called me Julie, even though my real name is Julia.
Dad used to call me "Julie-kins" as a little kid. Now he sometimes calls me "lazy-butt bad girl." >_>;
Mom calls me "Julius" and "Daughteria," both of which I hate. The latter is in response to my nickname for her, which is "Mamia" (or Mommia, as she spells it). I prefer Dad's variation, "Ju-LEE-a"--my name with emphasis on the second syllable.
People call me "Hey" a lot. I'm not sure why.
I won't mention all the nicknames my brother's called me over the years...
"Sapph" is my online nickname, but you guys all knew that. Call me "Sapphy" and you die. Rao, I'm looking at you.
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I would like to point out to Mr. Melee that you cannot give yourself a nickname.
Sapph, does your mom realize she's calling you a guy?
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I want people to start calling me Glorbificant or Glorbacious, but so far, it hasn't caught on. *sigh*
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I have an bunch of nicknames and I'm not sure why I get them. I guess its because no one has ever heard of my name before, its Tevis so people tend to think its miss-spelled especially teachers who always add a "r" right after the "t" I have gotten Tev, T-man girl in my english class calls me that because its to hard to remember my name. Tetris so kids at this camp started calling me that. Golden boy because my name means a gold shilling in dutch. ( My stalker called me this.) /me gets the shivers
Um I was called Goggie pronounced Gog- gee because I eat very little so they called me goggie which means bird in native-american.
and array of others that I cant think of right at this moment.
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T-man
My name on the first three forums I went to.
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Sapphira forgot about "Juju". =3
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Hmm... As of late, I have mostly been called "Big E" by one of my suite mates at WSU (I'm not too fond of it). Another one of my nicknames stems from this prominent "E" sound: "Eebs." It's used only by relatives on my mother's side.
Suffix comes from a very brief but enjoyable moment in third grade, when classmates started calling me Suffix for a short time upon discovering that "ian" is a suffix.
One other nickname I can think of (which was just as brief, but not as enjoyable) was from Vacation Bible School's skit team, which I was in. The eldest actor guy started calling me "spaz bucket" due to my young, excitable nature.
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I have a tendency to nickname everyone named Will/William that I meet. i.e., William Shakespeare, William Shatner, William Turner, Billy Dee Williams, Will Smith, William Forscythe, Captain Wilhelm, and Wilhelm Scream. It used to be I'd do that with my friend, but now I'm going to do it to my nephew, once he's old enough to understand stupid nicknames.
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^ That's not very nice... But I guess its tradition.
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People only ever call me by my real name in life, and most who don't know me question it. Considering I am a male and my name is Brook.
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Brook, when looking at spelling only and not hearing it in your head, seems fine.
Brooke, with a silent e at the end, though, seems weirder for a guy to have. =P
Your name seems fine to me.
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My nicknames include Mitch, MJ (first and middle name initials), Matey (by my dad, and no my father is not a pirate) and Mickey D (who is also a comedian).
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I just had a sudden thought: do you think they'll go through this topic looking for names to use for Custom Title inspiration?
Also, I remembered that for a very short time, one of my friends attempted to call me Mario. There are two Jons(There's me [Jon] and then there's the other one [John]), and we both answer when someone says "Hey John/Jon" He (my friend) got tired of it and decided to call me Mario for like, a day. It didn't work.
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I just had a sudden thought: do you think they'll go through this topic looking for names to use for Custom Title inspira--
No.
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The people at GameStop often call me Nintendo Kid, and given that my name is Franklin, I get the standard Frankie and Frank. I also answer to "The Man."
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I also answer to "The Man."
You should go by "The Dude". It sounds more respectable, and more like a Big Lebowski reference.
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The people at GameStop often call me Nintendo Kid, and given that my name is Franklin, I get the standard Frankie and Frank. I also answer to "The Man."
Prepare to be called Franklin Badge.
That's what I'd call you, anyway.
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Why not Frank Sinatra, or Franklin Roosevelt, or Frankie Goes to Hollywood? I mean, the possibilities are INFINITE.
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Frankfurt. Frankenfurter. Frankenstein.. on second thought, nevermind that one.
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Being a mad scientist isn't so bad. Being said scientist's monster, however...