Mine is. All my closest friends refer to me almost exclusively as Stoid and they have for probably 20 years. It dates all the way back to high school, it came from a distortion of my real name, which includes the the letters “est”, so my friend started calling me __ESTOIDIAN Flake. She made up a bunch of names for all of us around the same time, but mine is the only one that got shortened and permanently affixed. When I think of myself by name, I think of myself as Stoid more than anything else.
Most of my closest friends are known by nickname to me as well:
Bear (Carrie–> Care Bear—>Bear)
Hane (Jane by way of Spanish. Our BFF name: Stoidenhane.)
Banana (I met her at a seminar, her name is Barbara, but it was written by hand on her name tag and looked for all the world like “banana”. She’s been Banana to me ever since.)
I am rarely called Wile E. I have one person who knew me outside of the Internet start calling me Wile E after emailing me. I have people who I have met through the Internet and in person continue to call me Wile E when we met in person because I am slow to give out my real name and even if they know it they are just used to calling me Wile E.
When the Dallas Dopers were getting together regularly, we defaulted to addressing each other by our Doper names, and made reservations in the name of “the Adams family”. We got lots of interesting reactions from restaurant staff.
Aside from that, I know Toaster IRL now, and she sometimes calls me “Bal”, though that’s mostly from gaming together.
No one calls me by my Doper name, though I am called alternately Hair (I have curly brown hair) and Vodka Tonic (not because of my drinking habits, though).
I have a knack for getting hurt doing everyday things. I have sliced my leg open while cutting boxes as a stock boy. I have slipped and hit my head on the edge of a pool. There was the time I got an electrical shock from brushing my hand against an exposed wire. I’ve shattered both kneecaps. Even had a can of butane exploded a mere few feet from my head.
As a child I have had steel pipes dropped on my head, fallen out of shopping carts, slipped of the edge of a drop off in a lake and nearly drowned, crashed my bike into others, broken every toes dozen of times, broken each finger at least once, cracked my left wrist twice, and dozens of other accidents I don’t remember.
It’s not from being active either, as I am not. It’s just clumsiness. As a result, I’ve earned several nicknames. Booboo bear, Mr. Accident, Accident Prone Man (with matching icon). There’s probably a few I’m missing.
Yeah – it’s my college nickname. There are relatively few who use it these days, but a couple friends, including two guys that I see at least every several months, still call me Cliffy more than Alex.
Electric Warrior is a name I only use here. The only nickname I’ve ever gone by, and only a small group of people ever used it, was “mouse”. (As far as I can tell, this came about because I am super short.)
My original doper name (Venus Hottentot) is a nickname used by many I know IRL. But Nzinga is never used by anyone except SDMB, Giraffe Board, Mellophant.
