# A Grown Man Should Not be Nicknamed "Scooter" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 28, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360 "2005-10-28T19:42:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deevee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@deevee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deevee)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/1 "2005-10-28T19:42:37Z")
It always makes me think of a dog with impacted anal glands. I hope he does time. In fact most nicknames on adults are loathsome. Although I don’t know the Libster, I have known a “Bunny”, “Cubby”, and a “Sparky”. (All men) Not very well mind you as actually encouraging others to call you by these names precludes you from being my friend. What stupid nicknames have you heard? Online handles don’t count nor do monikers that the person doesn’t know about (shitbreath) or doesn’t like to be called (Bugsy) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/2 "2005-10-28T19:51:18Z")
> [@deevee](#): > > It always makes me think of a dog with impacted anal glands. I keep flashing back to the Muppet. > [@deevee](#): > > What stupid nicknames have you heard? Online handles don’t count nor do monikers that the person doesn’t know about (shitbreath) or doesn’t like to be called (Bugsy) “Turd blossom”. I don’t care how you spin it, that’s just a shitty name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/3 "2005-10-28T20:11:41Z")
I was thinking the same thing–like he never outgrew his frat or something. Does nothing for his sex appeal, that’s for sure…(not that I look to the Bush cabinet for sex appeal). congressional page: who was that hot guy I saw you with last night? other congressional page: oh, that’s just Scooter. He may advise Cheyney, but believe me, he’s “scooter” all the way. First Cong, page: oh. never mind. How 'bout that secret service hunk? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/4 "2005-10-28T20:12:45Z")
I know of an adult man (husband and father) who goes by “Skippy.” Well, OK, so he’s an adult only in the chronological sense. Pretty juvenile personality. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/5 "2005-10-28T20:34:48Z")
I know a man in his mid 50s who goes by “Skeeter.” Always has. And his actual name is quite distinguished-sounding. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/6 "2005-10-28T20:47:08Z")
I knew someone who lived 75+ years going by the nickname “Chappie.” My cousin lived with “Cubby” until his 20s. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/7 "2005-10-28T20:54:05Z")
There’s a baseball player nicknamed “Chipper”. In all fairness, he probably had the nickname while still a kid in the minors. It’s kind of hard to change it when the whole city of Atlanta knows you by that name. It’s kind of like the former Yankee pitcher, Hideki Irabu. When he first came over from Japan, they called him Hideki “i-RAH-boo”. About a year later, he told everyone that it was really pronounced “EER-a-boo”. Paraphrasing Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on WFAN: “Too late! You can’t change your name now. Your last name is i-RAH-boo.” And he was right. Nobody ever used the correct pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/8 "2005-10-28T21:06:01Z")
I hate grown men who go by “Junior” or “Little (dad’s name).” Yuck. Once I made the mistake of expressing this opinion to someone whose dad was called Junior. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/9 "2005-10-28T21:16:40Z")
I know a grown man who goes by “Cricket”. Now how in the hell do you go through life like that. Scooter needs to go to jail if only for the fact that his nickname smacks of smug frat boy. Keeee-rist. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/10 "2005-10-28T21:22:09Z")
When I first heard the name “Scooter Libby” on the news, I thought they were talking about a woman. Maybe the Libby part subconsciously helped with that, but I would have a hard time calling a grown man (or frankly, a grown woman) “Scooter.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/11 "2005-10-28T21:24:54Z")
I don’t have a sense that this is turning into an IMHO thread. Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/12 "2005-10-28T21:39:40Z")
Two words: Boy George ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/13 "2005-10-28T21:47:09Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Scooter needs to go to jail if only for the fact that his nickname smacks of smug frat boy. Keeee-rist. Irony is, jail will be the place his nickname changes… to _bitch_. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/14 "2005-10-28T22:04:34Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > I hate grown men who go by “Junior” or “Little (dad’s name).” Yuck. Once I made the mistake of expressing this opinion to someone whose dad was called Junior. Oh, well. I knew _two_ men whose official first names were “Junior”. Once you accept that it’s a perfectly cromulent name, you get over it quickly. Oldies from the world of politics: Scoop Jackson Cooter Jones Gopher Grandy (The later two being character names turned nicknames.) ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/15 "2005-10-29T00:30:33Z")
> [@Jackknifed Juggernaut](#): > > There’s a baseball player nicknamed “Chipper”. In all fairness, he probably had the nickname while still a kid in the minors. It’s kind of hard to change it when the whole city of Atlanta knows you by that name. > > It’s kind of like the former Yankee pitcher, Hideki Irabu. When he first came over from Japan, they called him Hideki “i-RAH-boo”. About a year later, he told everyone that it was really pronounced “EER-a-boo”. Paraphrasing Chris “Mad Dog” Russo on WFAN: “Too late! You can’t change your name now. Your last name is i-RAH-boo.” And he was right. Nobody ever used the correct pronunciation. Heh…George Steinbrenner called him a “fat pussy toad”. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/16 "2005-10-29T05:14:43Z")
Well, sometimes retaining a nickname like “Scooter” is the better of two bad choices. I have a friend in the Coast Guard whose name is just made for atrocious nautical puns (he shares a name with one of the former Monkees; take it from there!). Instead, he’s chosen to continue being known by his childhood nickname of “Scooter.” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/17 "2005-10-29T05:17:10Z")
> [@Jackknifed Juggernaut](#): > > There’s a baseball player nicknamed “Chipper”. In all fairness, he probably had the nickname while still a kid in the minors. It’s kind of hard to change it when the whole city of Atlanta knows you by that name. I don’t think he minds, though. His real name is Lawrence Wayne Jones, Jr., and it’s public knowledge that he hates it when people call him Larry. I once saw him hit a home run against the White Sox just because a guy behind me yelled “Larry” at him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/18 "2005-10-29T05:47:27Z")
Libby’s nicknamed after a great Yankee, Phil Rizzuto. Who got the name from how he scooted around the bases. I think Phil could take him. But it’s got nothing to do with frat boys at all. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/19 "2005-10-29T06:09:40Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > I hate grown men who go by “Junior” or “Little (dad’s name).” Yuck. Once I made the mistake of expressing this opinion to someone whose dad was called Junior. Oh, well. What I hate even worse than that are those Firsty McLastname III’s being called “Trey”. I don’t know how many little boys I’ve taken care of (i’m a peds nurse) that were called Trey because they were the third of that name in their paternal line. Makes me wanna shake their mamas by the shoulders and scream at them. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2005, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360/20 "2005-10-29T10:32:45Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Irony is, jail will be the place his nickname changes… to _bitch_. Ah, if only that were true–to give him a taste of life with the run-of-the-mill criminals. But somehow, I have the feeling it’s going to be more like a Smug Frat Boy Reunion over there in Club Fed. I doubt he’ll be rubbing shoulders with the Bubbas of the penal system. They’ll all get hammered on toilet gin and draw on each other when they pass out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-grown-man-should-not-be-nicknamed-scooter/328360.md?page=2)