Comments on: Of Men and Nicknames

By: abe

abe — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:26:57 +0000

my name is abrahan but in fourth grade a black friend of mine got sick of calling me abrahan and called me abe no matter how much i hated it. in fifth grade i finally accepted it and got another friend named hunter he always called me abe even if i said that only anthony could call me that. we ended up calling me abe, the black kid his last name farley, and the white kid hunter cracker because he was white.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:55:57 +0000

Squatch
My church/campsite has a full kitchen that I am always volunteering in. I have a full beard, long hair, and both are bushy. Also at six foot one I am fairly tall. Add to that the fact that every time someone tries to get an”action shot” of me cooking for the newsletters calendars. I tend to be in mid-movement and what they get is a blurry fuzzy blob. Roll those all together and you get the elusive West Virginian kitchen sasquatch. or just squatch for short. Squatchy in a few special inner circle cases

By: Ek70R

Ek70R — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:49:37 +0000

Ive had a lot of nicknames since Im a kiddo let me share them with you

when I was 9 years old and spent time with my little buddies of the neighborhood, they called me “skim milk” or “rabbit” it was because I was the only whitey of my friends and because I had huge teeth.
My friends at school used some different nicknames for me for example “coyote” because I liked to borrrow money to everyone and my trademark nickname which is “Hippie” because I liked to wear fancy pendants, chains bracellet and stuff and looked a little bit like Lennon, at first I hated the nickname but I got to enjoy it.
Everyone at high school used to address by nickname and not so much knew my real name even the girl I liked (T__T)
but well thats another story :D

By: Scotto

Scotto — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 16:35:25 +0000

It is interesting how nicknames can evolve or even change all together over time. When I was a little kid, my next door neighbor and I both bore the name Chris. He, being much older than I, retained his name as Chris, and I was then dubbed “Little Chris” when was subsequently shortened to the more convenient “LC”, sometimes pronounced as “Elsie.” That neighborhood nickname stuck until my family moved to florida, when i promptly ditched the name, as nobody here had any reason to be calling me that.

I went several years nicknameless, until the first day of my eigth grade gym class, when my coach was reading names off of the roll and paused on my name to exclaim something along the lines of “Scotto!… that is a cool last name… Scotto…” from then on, just about everyone I knew called me “Scotto” to the point that nearly everyone assumed my name was Scott and several people, including my best friend, were entirely unaware of my first name. The trend continues now to a bit of a lesser extent.

More recently, and humourously, I have recently been dubbed by a small group of co-workers “doctor” due to my habit of watching Doctor Who during lunch break and being one of the few who actually enjoyed it. Due to the majority of them being much older than I am, I am rather fond of the nickname, even if it is only used at work.

By: Justin Ice Cream Richardson

Justin Ice Cream Richardson — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:06:34 +0000

Back in high school, my parents ran an ice cream truck business in the summers. It was a great way for me to make good money quickly. I went on to play football and got the nickname “ice cream” for two reasons. A) I drove an obnoxious looking ice cream truck and B) I entered into the season late and was out of shape and puked every practice.

Name has stuck to me to this day.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:08:57 +0000

My nickname is Bill, short for billy goat, because I am just as stubborn as one. My name is actually Sydney, and I actually prefer Bill over Syd. The funny part is I am a girl, and it just throws everyone off when they first hear it. My mother, who coined the name, rarely uses my real name. All her friends and coworkers think she has a son, and they get really confused when she says “she”.
In school, other girls rarely call me Bill, it’s only the guys. They love it for some reason. Every sentence Wes ever said to me had Bill in it.

By: Jer

Jer — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:29:19 +0000

My dad is Jerry, so growing up I was always Little Jerry and Dad was Big Jerry. At 6′-2″ and 240lb, I’m now 4″ taller and outweigh him by 40 lb, but I’ll always be Little Jerry to the family.

Starting in high school and beyond college my friends called me Big Jer, with my wife and a few other female friends (or males getting cutesy) using Jer Bear.

An interesting related topic is military pilot call signs. Unlike “Top Gun,” in reality they are usually (like nicknames), derogatory, given based on an attribute or incident. I know of one local Air Guard pilot who’s call sign was “Shredder.” Because of the way he tore up enemy formations? No, when flying F-117s, he once allowed a chart to get sucked into the jet intake.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:32:08 +0000

I was called period head all though middle school, cause I have red hair and middle school kids are dicks

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:49:50 +0000

I have two nicknames Caucasian Blade, Blade is my call sign(Im a medic in an IN BN) I got it on range when we had two medics, one black, one white. I was trying to reach my other medic on the other side of the range on comms, so I called for ‘Blade’ someone jumped on and asked “which one?” I told him the black one. So my guy jumps on giving me the “hey you this is me what do you want” protocol it went like this “Caucasian Blade, this is Negro Blade, send your traffic.” Needless to say our very PC Lt went nuts, that made the names even funnier to the guys in the platoon and both stuck stuck. My other is equally bad to our PC generation. I got it as a PFC and it stuck around all these years following me from post to post, I always seem to bump into someone has heard it. Autrism it is a combination of my last name (Autrey) and autism. My CPL dubbed me not too long after I showed up to my first duty station. Now that I have soldiers I nickname my pvts,the most recent are as follows:
Jane- really big guy last name is Austin
Home Depot- his given name is Lowe
Santi-beaner. Mexican kid
Negro Blade- a combo of our call sign Blade and the fact that he is black.
Valtrex- my personal favorite, kid named McCord who tried to name himself Rip Cord from GI Joe. I quickly nixed that and came up with the current one shortly after noticing the cold sore on his lip.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:37:09 +0000

While working at a small construction company for several years, I somehow ended up with the nickname “LJ”, which originally started out as “Little Jon” as I was, at the time only 120lbs and even 28″ waistline required use of a belt. On days when co-workers were feeling particularly cheeky, it became “Big Jon”. The funny part of it was that I was the only one in the company with the name Jon (or John or Jonathan) so it wasn’t used to distinguish which Jon.