Sometimes I’m called Suburban, other times it’s Plankton. Occasionally, I’ll get burb, burbs, or burbsy, and on rare occasions **plank **or planky.
None of them bother me in the slightest.
Your post sent me to the Doper Pics site too, and I saw that my pics are really old. I need to update myself.
I’m fine if you want to shorten it to Potato.
My friends IRL who call me WordMan sometimes shorten it to Word or Verb…
I used to sign my posts with D/a, but I’ve only seen one or two people call me that. And that was a year or so after I stopped with the sig! It’s nice that someone remembered. 
If you MUST shorten my name, use “Happy.” I find that prevents confusion.
You’re lucky I choose to go by “Scrappy” or “HSHP.”
You can just call me Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.
I probably would have called you HL, Happy.
You can call me Ko.
Now you can call me Ray, or you can call me J, or you can call me Johnny…
(but I won’t answer to any of them.)
I get shortened to Spidey
In one thread where I was talking about photography, someone called me Peter Parker, which was really well played.
Call me Happy.
Really ? You sure ? 'Cause, see, I was told not to call a man happy until he was dead. And you’re not dead, mister, are you ?
You can call me Duck!
Mika’s all right by me, so is Ana. I don’t really care.
I agree, it’s always good to have a nickname that prevents confusio-- hey, waitaminute!
TPTB agreed to let me drop “Lute”. Y’all can just call me “Sky” now.
I get called “swampy” or “bear” a lot. Either is cool. One doper in particular refers to me as “old fart.” That’s ok as well. I do tend to hang around and smell funny.
I’ve been called **Purple **and PHS for a while. 'S okay. A few Dopers are even clever enough to change the font color, which means that my username sometimes gets graped by The Grapist even though that joke is older than my time here in the 1st place.
Well, ya know, if the shoe fits… 
Very, very rarely, someone will “shorten” it to T.
And I would have been more likely to call the OP Lender. I’ll also have to remember picunurse’s preferred name, as the “nurse” part is the least unique, so I tend to want to use the other part. The rest of y’all’s just make sense.
Though, with EmilyG, I kinda want to call her 7/8 due to her new title.
Y’all can call me Drew, or $2.99 as I’m known in the MMP
The 99 holds no special significance to me, it was more or less chosen at random (and not in the year 1999 either).
PICU is a place. P.ediatric I.ntensive C.are U.nit.