# 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:** 12
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/61 "2015-11-16T10:33:36Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> No one with the OP’s names, but I knew a Muffy in college. She had been homeschooled. Her real name was Leann, but that felt too girly to her as a kid.
You’ve reminded me that I knew a Miffy. Real name: Meredith, but Miffy to everyone. Sadly passed away at a young age for reasons unrelated to her name.
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### Author:  [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/62 "2015-11-16T19:22:48Z")
I’ve known a couple of Butches, MANY Bubbas, one Skeeter, and two Boogers.
One of the Boogers was a girl on my little league softball team. I’m sure she had a proper name, but I never knew it. She got pregnant at 13 and I lost track of her.
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### Author:  [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/63 "2015-11-16T22:20:56Z")
I went to high school back in the '80s with a Spike.
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### Author:  [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/64 "2015-11-16T23:03:00Z")
My wife had the nickname “Biff” as a kid. Short for Elizabiff. 😉
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### Author:  [@justmeetee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justmeetee)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/65 "2015-11-16T23:33:13Z")
As I’m going through this I keep saying I know one of them. Could just be the hippie/biker lifestyle but I know or have known a lot of people by lots of nicknames. Some kinda common and some kinda obscure but most quite fitting once you know the person and/or the story behind the name. I’ve even thought I was hearing about two different people before finding out someone’s nickname/real name. And once when talking to someone discovered I was relating a second hand story about him because I knew him only by his nickname.
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### Author:  [@Nefario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefario)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/66 "2015-11-17T00:32:42Z")
I have a distant relative I only know of as “Butch”; not sure if this is a given name.
Also know of a guy who uses the first name “Tiger” professionally which is all he has been called since elementary school.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/67 "2015-11-17T06:26:24Z")
I know someone named “Tiger.” It’s his given name, not a nickname.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/68 "2015-11-18T01:38:27Z")
I recall this one oddball who insisted on being called Cooter once _The Dukes of Hazzard_ became popular.
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### Author:  [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/69 "2015-11-20T01:05:25Z")
I don’t; neither does my friend Muggsy. His wife, Cookie, concurs.
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### Author:  [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/70 "2015-11-20T01:27:01Z")
I know a Moose, he is 6’6" (or more). They nicknamed his smaller younger brothers Caribou and Elk.
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### Author:  [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/71 "2015-11-20T01:49:55Z")
^
Must be looks rather than size. 😃
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### Author:  [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-know-people/737348/72 "2015-11-20T02:48:57Z")
I know a Lefty and a Moose. Also Butch, Bucky, and, Shitty. I remember my mom asking my brother what Shitty’s real name was. He didn’t know. It’s 20 years later and I still don’t know. Ran into him last year and the name embroidered on his coat? Shitty.
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