# What are/were some of your nicknames **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 15, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858 "2009-10-15T01:57:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/1 "2009-10-15T01:57:45Z")
Inspired by the user name thread. What are some of the nicknames you or people you know have. Share even if you don’t use them any more. I posted this in the other thread but I’ll put it here to get started > [@](#): > > Mine is also a nickname from high school. My PE teacher told me I was so skinny I was just a rack of bones. Eventually it became just “bones” which kind of a cool nickname to have in high school. My PE teacher still calls me Bones. (I graduated in 1989.) My initials are TW so these days it is just ‘T-dub’ or ‘T.’ Not that inspiring. A friend of mine is always doing crazy shit so we call him Showtime. He got this after diving for a ball, making the catch and coming up with dirt and grass all over his beard. Another friend is a big goofball and he somehow got stuck with Shrek. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/2 "2009-10-15T02:33:06Z")
Qaddy, Mercoteaser, and Doc. That’s pretty much it. One elderly aunt and one mildly brain-damaged cousin call me the 1st, a few select college buds call me the second, and everyone at work calls me the 3rd one. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/3 "2009-10-15T02:44:15Z")
Hm, back in my teens I was Suzi-Q and Dizzy Red alternately/simultaneously depending on peoples moods. I have been Margali to an amazing number of people from about 78 - 09, with Aru as a shortening of Aruvqan for the past few years thanks to the SCA and gamers mainly being my friends. Only people from work ever called me by my real first name. My original persona name in the SCA was Margali, I changed personas about 10 years ago because I wanted something different. It became a lot easier researching steppes tribes after the iron curtain dropped and the internet got so widespread. Made determining what books I needed to ILL so much easier! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/4 "2009-10-15T03:47:42Z")
Gatopescado, Catfish, Fish, Asshole and Skeeter Flatbush. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/5 "2009-10-15T04:42:56Z")
In boot camp one of our drill sergeants liked giving out nicknames, and I dreaded receiving one from him. One day I spoke up once too often in a class and was nicknamed “Soundtrack”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/6 "2009-10-15T04:59:40Z")
Back in college I lived in a rooming house, and a couple of weeks into the first semester I came down with the flu . . . and of course gave it to every one of my housemates. From then on, I was known as “Germ.” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/7 "2009-10-15T05:54:30Z")
In boot camp (Naval recruit training), the company commander looked at my service jacket, saw some college experience, and decided to make me the company Yeoman (basically an administrative assistant position). Not, a bad gig, it got me out of Service Week, plus the CC allowed me to stay up an extra hour in his office and teach myself Braille (needed that to write to my girl back home). Anyway, everywhere I went, I had the company clipboard. Kinda like Radar on M_A_S\*H. So my name was Radar. Then on my first submarine position, I reacted poorly to some attempted hazing in the engine room, flailing away with a pencil in one fist, the tip of which ended up embedded in the back of an EM’s poopy suit. Maybe it broke the skin a little, I never got the details. What was important to me was that I didn’t spend any time duct taped upside down outside Maneuvering. But my name on that submarine became Norman (as in Bates :D). Complete with _Weeee! Weeee! Weeee!_ sound effects, like in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/8 "2009-10-15T06:01:57Z")
So far on this website, “Retard”, “Redneck” and “Dipshit”. I consider the source. ---
**Author:** ![starwarsfreek42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@starwarsfreek42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/starwarsfreek42)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/9 "2009-10-15T07:02:49Z")
People IRL who don’t know my name have, in the past, called me Star Wars. My husband called me that for years and years. I’ve also been called Bet, Bets, and once in a while Betsy-Wetsy by well-meaning elderly relatives. I tell myself there’s no use in killing them, since they are going to die soon anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/10 "2009-10-15T07:40:38Z")
Cinderella, because my feet were tiny (still are). Rayo, which can be translated as “bolt of lightning” or “ray of light”, both as a play on my name (part of it means Light) and because I’m very fast at reports, essays and that kind’a stuff. The little Spaniard, which I got in an Italian factory. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/11 "2009-10-15T07:51:56Z")
Sandy, Sis, and Blisk. The latter was a nickname given to me by my older brother, and it stands for ballistic missile. Apparently I was quite a full-on child. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/12 "2009-10-15T07:57:08Z")
[Swazoo Koolak](http://swazoo.com/) - a name I made up when I needed some test data for a program I was writing. I liked the name so much I started using it for myself. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/13 "2009-10-15T08:12:18Z")
When I was in AF boot camp, someone started calling me Charley, because of the title of a book I was reading. Someone else, in medic school, added Brown. So, I became Charley Brown, even though I was neither male or a little bald kid. The name followed me to my final duty station, where I met my first husband… whose last name was Brown. Then the nickname fell away… go figure. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/14 "2009-10-15T08:25:26Z")
Mostly I’m referred to by my last name, but for a while in fifth grade I was Cosmo. Never had a nickname that stuck, so nothing else is coming to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/15 "2009-10-15T08:47:46Z")
The girls all called me tripod. ---
**Author:** ![JoseArcadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@JoseArcadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseArcadio)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/16 "2009-10-15T13:30:40Z")
Ez – most of my friends and family call me this. It’s just a shortened form of my first name (Erin). Wee Ooz – my brother’s nickname for me when we were kids. I called him Maw. Nobody, including both of us, remember where such odd nicknames originated. We only call each other Wee Ooz & Maw when joking around now that we’re adults. Jaffa – this one has almost died now, thank goodness, but came from a joke I made about my lady bits smelling like tangerines and fairy cakes. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/17 "2009-10-15T13:44:53Z")
I haven’t had a nickname since college. I was Unit. I had just gone through the line at the caffeteria, and was looking for my friends. Apparently my body movements looked a little robotic. Star Trek: The Motion Picture had just come out, so my friend Gary said in a robotic voice “Todd Unit.” It stuck. It was even the name of my band years later. Not as bad as my friend Mark, though. We were hanging out one night and he was totally zoned out. No attempts to rouse him were working. He was wearing a sweatshirt with an arm patch that said Moon Base Alpha. Someone said to him “Earth to the Commander, Earth to the Commander!” So Commander was his nickname. It wasn’t until I moved in with him about 5 years later that I actually learned his name. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/18 "2009-10-15T14:20:42Z")
I’ve been Smurf since high school (blue uniforms with white hats, shortest person in the band, it was 1984…) I swear there are people who think my parents must have named me Smurf - I don’t think they’d recognize my real name! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/19 "2009-10-15T14:30:45Z")
Zoon. Since I was about 10. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858/20 "2009-10-15T14:39:40Z")
Firefighters are notorious for giving one another nicknames. One of hubby’s friends is “Boots” because he ran over hubby’s with the BIG truck. luckily, his feet weren’t in them. One of his other friends is “Donkey” I’m not sure why. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-were-some-of-your-nicknames/513858.md?page=2)