# Pick your own nickname **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428 "2012-11-09T00:31:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/21 "2012-11-09T15:17:04Z")
El Magnifico. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/22 "2012-11-09T15:19:16Z")
There are a few people at work who call me “G” (first letter of my first name). So I guess that’ll work. If not, call me “Hedgehog” ---
**Author:** ![Cryptic\_C62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cryptic\_C62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cryptic_C62)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/23 "2012-11-09T15:20:02Z")
Flabbernabs McGillicuddy Jr. III ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/24 "2012-11-09T15:44:20Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > My initials have a distinct, well known vernacular meaning that I don’t want to promote. C’mon, nobody ever made fun of B.J. Honeycutt! ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/25 "2012-11-09T15:45:21Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Holy shit, in that picture you totally do! Ba-dum-TSSSS ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/26 "2012-11-09T16:14:33Z")
I’m going with T-Dog. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/27 "2012-11-09T16:20:26Z")
Dibs on “ **Jack Dean Tyler** ” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/28 "2012-11-09T22:11:55Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > god’s gift to women (must never be shortened to just Gigi) No, because that’s taken 😉 For me, Gee-Gaw also has a nice ring to it. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/29 "2012-11-10T00:42:05Z")
Sven. Remember the guy in the beginning of the movie who got cheated out of his tickets on the Titanic? Sven? That’s me. I’ve been 'orribly cheated and abused a number of times… by a “ship” that sank right after sailing without me. Two companies and one industry in general lead the pack, but I’m proudest of watching tech implode just months after I walked out of my last tech job. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/30 "2012-11-10T02:39:36Z")
Buck Naked ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/31 "2012-11-10T02:55:19Z")
Slappy, Pep, Fishcakes, Mr. Destructo, An Smarmy Wanker, and sometimes Horst. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/32 "2012-11-10T02:58:30Z")
Mulva ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/33 "2012-11-10T03:01:02Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Mulva You’d have to repeat _that_ a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428/34 "2012-11-10T04:59:11Z")
Never actually had a nickname; not going to ruin my streak now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pick-your-own-nickname/640428.md?page=1)