# Do you still know people...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 12, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348 "2015-11-12T02:37:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/1 "2015-11-12T02:37:37Z")
…called “Biff”, or “Fingers”, or “Lefty”, or “Moose”, or “Tiger”?
Thinking this is not a GQ question. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/2 "2015-11-12T02:50:39Z")
I know a Biff and a Moose.
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### Author:  [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/3 "2015-11-12T02:51:06Z")
Nope.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/4 "2015-11-12T02:58:17Z")
I know a Pidgeon.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/5 "2015-11-12T03:05:56Z")
I don’t know and never did know anyone with those names.
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### Author:  [@CT\_Damsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CT_Damsel)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/6 "2015-11-12T03:08:18Z")
Even as a kid I have never know anyone with those names.
Seriously “Fingers”?
I am not sure I want to know how someone acquires that nickname:D
No really tell me please!
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/7 "2015-11-12T03:17:38Z")
I think most of us know \*of \*a certain “Tiger”. Aside from that one, I had business dealings a few years ago with a woman named Tiger. One of the 20-somethings that moved in across the street is named “Buffy” (don’t know if she has a brother named Jodie or a best friend named Willow). There’s a male financial advisor where I work named “Greenleaf” and female one named “Tippy”.
On a totally unrelated note, I used to know a woman at the gym who was named D’artagnan and always went by her full name. She is the one that got me into the habit of calling rich old dudes “Yachty McShotglass”. She never saw the irony in that one.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/8 "2015-11-12T03:23:50Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#):
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> I know a Pidgeon.
One of my daughter’s friends since grade school has the last name of Burde (pronounced “birdie”). So, all of the kids called her Pidgeon; I honestly have no idea what her real name is. She’s 26 now.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/9 "2015-11-12T04:08:12Z")
No, but I’ll ask my friend Butch. Maybe he knows some.
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### Author:  [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/10 "2015-11-12T04:11:37Z")
New York to my mind is the birth place of the first three. I’m not sure. Moose is definitely from the West, while Tiger might have come from the old world. The name “Fingers” makes me think of pick pockets, or safe crackers, someone handy in a related trade.
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### Author:  [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/11 "2015-11-12T04:25:04Z")
My former boss is called Biff. His actual named is Eldredge.
I had a house-mate nicknamed Moose when I lived in Eugene, Oregon, one summer in the 1970s. She was a very petite blond girl.
People in my neighborhood in the Bronx used to have nicknames like Jack the Whack and Tommy Bullshit, but the neighborhood has changed.
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### Author:  [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/12 "2015-11-12T06:55:43Z")
I have a neighbor named Muffy. She does not look like the stereotypical WASP girl by any means. I also know someone who has Moose as one of her nicknames, mostly because she cosplays Sam from “Supernatural.” Also she looks a bit like Christine from “You Can’t Do That on Television,” but she was born a few years after it went off the air so she had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned it.
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### Author:  [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/13 "2015-11-12T07:12:57Z")
I know of a Tige. It’s pronounced like tiger without the r, according to his mother. He’s about four.
Had a friend nicknamed Moose when I was a teenager. Doubt anyone still calls him that.
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### Author:  [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/14 "2015-11-12T11:29:47Z")
Almost. When I lived in a jungle village in Mexico in 1998-99, my neighbor to the left was “Sapo” (toad), and to the right “Camarón” (shrimp). Everyone invariably called these young men by these names.
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### Author:  [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/15 "2015-11-12T11:38:15Z")
I work with a man named Biff.
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/16 "2015-11-12T12:44:09Z")
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I know Møøse and Skvirrel…
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/17 "2015-11-12T12:53:48Z")
My husband’s family contains an Easter, a Tippy, a Bubba and a Dearie.
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### Author:  [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/18 "2015-11-12T13:06:18Z")
I have a friend who goes by the nickname, Hummer I don’t know why I have never asked him but he accepts it quite well
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/19 "2015-11-12T13:12:17Z")
In and just after high school, I knew a guy named Bob. I once called him Boob in front of one of his buddies, and the name stuck. Heh, heh! 😃
Dunno if he’s even still alive today.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/20 "2015-11-12T13:13:31Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#):
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> No, but I’ll ask my friend Butch. Maybe he knows some.
I knew a guy named Butch (that was the name on his birth certificate). He named his son Butch. Though technically the son was Butch Lastname Jr, everyone called the son Butchie and the dad Butch.
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