# Weirdest things you have been called. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449 "2002-07-23T21:23:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/21 "2002-07-23T23:35:41Z")
Uekte called me a brownshirt once. And once I called a guy in New Zealand, but dialed the wrong number, and got called a “meatball”. ? ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/22 "2002-07-23T23:37:23Z")
Pyramid. Stupid nickname applied by the morons who rode in the back of the school bus. Half those morons are dead now – killed the summer after graduation in a car wreck. They left the highway at over 100 mph, with a trunk full of stolen stereo gear, and a back seat full of empty Budwiesers. I’ll probably never know exactly what sort of insult ‘pyramid’ was supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Billy-Bob\_Fina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@Billy-Bob\_Fina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-Bob_Fina)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/23 "2002-07-23T23:37:48Z")
Once, on another message board, I was called “pants” I don’t know it thats supposed to be an insult. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2002, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/24 "2002-07-23T23:55:48Z")
I get called weird things all the time by my Crew[sup]TM[/sup]: [ul] [li]Sarne (what a nickname!)[/li][li]Chiwahwah (note: not misspelled, but derived from my actual middle name)[/li][li]Booty[/li][li]Fart[/li][li]Lard[/li][li]etc., etc., etc.[/li][/ul] I have been called numerous odd things by kids I know: [list] [li]Boinky-Head[/li][li]Turtle (as in, “You’re a turtle!”)[/li][li]my sister’s or friends’ names[/li][li]Nothing (“What’s my name?” “Nothing!”)[/li][li]etc., etc., etc.[/li][list] F\_X ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/25 "2002-07-24T00:07:55Z")
A scottish man (a total stranger at the time) once yelled at me across a crowded causeway: “Away and boil your head, you filthy cabbage!” first and last time I have been called a filthy cabbage ---
**Author:** ![Billy-Bob\_Fina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@Billy-Bob\_Fina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-Bob_Fina)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/26 "2002-07-24T00:09:24Z")
I would kill myself if anyone called me “ect., ect., ect.” How do you live with yourself? ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Darren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Double\_Darren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Darren)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/27 "2002-07-24T00:34:27Z")
I was called Mr Roberts. I have an unlisted number and still some people call me at near midnight. I’m like SEE YA SUCKA!! ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/28 "2002-07-24T01:25:34Z")
I have been called Helen by a number of different people, at a number of different times. Once in high school, a few years later in a bar, twice in business (two different companies.) When I explained my name wasn’t Helen, each time I was told, “You must have an identical twin then, because you look EXACTLY like this girl Helen I know.” I do not, to the best of my knowledge, have an identical twin. But one of these days I would love to find this Helen and find out how many times she’s been called by my name. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/29 "2002-07-24T02:03:03Z")
My sister said to me, “You’re nothing but a skillet!” To this day I know not what she meant. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/30 "2002-07-24T02:09:26Z")
I tried to introduce myself to a woman at a loud party, and she kept mis-hearing. So I yelled **“Bill, like Phone Bill!”** She called me “Phone” for the next two years. I was called “Big Bagg” in High School. My little brother wore my shorts one day by accident. They were baggy. His friends called him “Bagg”. I am bigger, so I was “Big Bagg”. I had a girlfriend who had never seen a relaxed male member in person, so I obliged. She said it looked like a slug. (Hey, it was COLD!) It soon changed, and she then called it “Slugger”, for some odd reason. Depending on her mood, I was either “Slug” or “Slugger”. I could go on. ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/31 "2002-07-24T02:22:06Z")
One of my nicknames in high school – which survives to this day – was Dragonass. It’s not related to “wolf-ass”. Don’t ask. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/32 "2002-07-24T02:37:14Z")
When I was a kid, my parents had friends that had a foster son who was retarded. He used to call me “Skateboard”. Which, if you consider my real name is Kate, isn’t too far off… ---
**Author:** ![Eran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Eran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eran)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/33 "2002-07-24T02:51:08Z")
I’ve been called my brother’s name by my parents, my siblings, acquaintances, and people who have never met my brother (it is a common name). ---
**Author:** ![Phouchg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/41988e/32.png) [@Phouchg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phouchg)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/34 "2002-07-24T03:17:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gatopescado \* > \*\*“Leather-clad Sex Nazi” \*\* Band name? Just today a co-worker called me a “bellhop gay-boy” and I am neither a bellhop nor gay…odd When my nephew was a small child and when he would get mad at me, he always called me “smackhead”. Phouchg Lovable Rogue ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/35 "2002-07-24T03:26:30Z")
Ohhhh geez…what a memory! I grew up with two other girls, the same age as me, as neighbors. For some reason, one of the girls came up with such a wonderful little nickname for me, and then they both started calling me it. It was actually a little sing-songy thing that went something like, “Maria Piss-eea, is a skagmain…” What the hell it means, I dunno…we were young( My name isn’t Maria, either, close…but not exact). One girl dropped it shortly afterwards, but the one who came up with it called me “Pissy”, for years afterwards. I believe she signed my HS yearbook addressed to “Pissy”…yay me. ~V ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/36 "2002-07-24T03:33:15Z")
Once, in High School, I was having an arguement with this black chick at my lunch table…and she calls me " NIGGER". I’m a _white guy_ , and _she_ calls _me_ nigger? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/37 "2002-07-24T04:07:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enola Straight \* > \*\*Once, in High School, I was having an arguement with this black chick at my lunch table…and she calls me " NIGGER". > > I’m a _white guy_ , and _she_ calls _me_ nigger? \*\* A similar thing happened to me once - I bumped into a black woman on a crowded train platform and she yelled “watch where you’re walking, nigger!” 😕 ---
**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/38 "2002-07-24T06:00:04Z")
My best friend calls me by his fiances’s name often and sometimes calls her my name. Should I be worried? ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/39 "2002-07-24T07:00:38Z")
I was called a horrific euphemism once. I really don’t know where that came from. I just happened to walk in on a conversation. I suppose the participants were giving people weird nicknames. My best friend holds the honor of saying both that I was “a person from the house of Usher” (that was after she read The Martian Chronicles, but before she read Poe’s story) and “more outgoing than a friendly blue Smurf”. Both of these, mind you, were used in school assignments to describe me. I don’t know if I should be offended or flattered. jessica ---
**Author:** ![Creaky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@Creaky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creaky)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449/40 "2002-07-24T07:07:24Z")
When I was a little kid, my dad called me “Barnsmell”. Sometimes he still does. I do not now, nor have I ever, smelled like a barn. What the hell is he talking about? Currently I’m called “She Who Talks to Eels” by my friends, which is accurate, because I like eels and I _do_ talk to them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weirdest-things-you-have-been-called/120449.md?page=3)