# The Nickname That Won't Die

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nickname-that-wont-die/223751>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 10, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nickname-that-wont-die/223751 "2004-01-10T00:24:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nickname-that-wont-die/223751/41 "2004-01-13T21:01:36Z")

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My girlfriend has called me “Jasper” ever since she went to **Coldfire’s** website and decided she liked the name.

Her nickname since birth had been “Tup” and since I’m the only person I know of that calls her by her real name instead it may as well be a nickname :).

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**Author:** ![Vezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@Vezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vezer)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-nickname-that-wont-die/223751/42 "2004-01-13T21:02:22Z")

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Once in high school when I was drunk and dancing around in my underwear apparently I said “I’m Mr. Moose”.

Word spread and when the feathers needed to be riled, Mr Moose I was.

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