# Your Silly Nicknames For Faomus People, TV Shows, Etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325 "2004-07-28T21:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/21 "2004-07-31T04:11:25Z")
Actor [Tchéy Karyo](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001409/) is “Skullzes” around my house—a reference to a joke made about his character in _Addicted to Love._ And I can never remember [Jason “Transporter” Statham’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005458/) name, so I just think of him as “Handsome Rob.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/22 "2004-07-31T04:22:10Z")
I’ve always referred to _Jurassic Park_ as “Yer Ass Is Parked.” Chuckle, chuckle. My BIL dubbed _Crocodile Dundee_ “Hock a Pile Dundee,” leading me to call the sequel “Hock a Pile Twice.” ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/23 "2004-07-31T05:14:56Z")
My sister and I used to refer to president Reagan as “Big Ron,” though I can’t remember the reason for this. Maybe it had something to do with his tough guy attitude during the air traffic controller strike. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/24 "2004-07-31T05:17:09Z")
My friends and I used to refer to Keanu Reeves as “Canoe”. We’d giggle like schoolgirls whenever we said it. Funny, it wasn’t that we were big fans, it was just one of those “inside joke” things, I guess. There’s a local restaurant, The Five Sisters Bar and Grill (in fact, it’s just a five minute walk from my house). Three guess as to what the local nickname was, and the first two don’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/25 "2004-07-31T05:22:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > My friends and I used to refer to Keanu Reeves as “Canoe”. We’d giggle like schoolgirls whenever we said it. Funny, it wasn’t that we were big fans, it was just one of those “inside joke” things, I guess. Ah yes, to my fiance and me, he is Ka-_noo_-noo. Whoa… ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/26 "2004-07-31T13:55:29Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > And I can never remember [Jason “Transporter” Statham’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005458/) name, so I just think of him as “Handsome Rob.” 😃 My friends and I call him “Mr. Pecs-n’-shoulders.” Thanks to the Simpson’s Cute Tree House Of Horror let’s-mess-with-our-names thing, Hank Azaria will forever be known to me as “Yank My Area”. Thanks to the Diva Wars on the Madonna boards, we refer to Madonna’s Top 40 rivals (or former rivals, in some cases) as T!tney, Sh!tney, Whoriah Scarey and J-Ho. Madonna is called “MoMo” by those in the know. I’m sure I’ll think of more later. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/27 "2004-07-31T19:44:24Z")
I sorely miss Pat Buchanan in this year’s presidential campaign. Last time around, hardly a day went by when I didn’t refer to him as “Bat Puke Cannon”. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/28 "2004-07-31T19:58:17Z")
Just at random: \*\*Beauty and Her Bust Little PC on the Prairie M_U_S\*H ER (pronounced “er”) The Walnuts (The Waltons) \*\* etc. ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/29 "2004-07-31T21:21:21Z")
> [@Only Mostly Dead](#): > > Ah yes, to my fiance and me, he is Ka-_noo_-noo. Whoa… And in my family, he’s often referred to as “New Reeves” after my mom puzzled over the pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/30 "2004-07-31T22:13:07Z")
Turning to baseball: the Texas Rangers’ first baseman is named Mark Texeira. Granted that it’s pronounced “Tuh-share-uh,” but when you play for Texas and your last name starts with “Tex,” how can Tex not be your nickname? I think “Tex Texeira” has a really great ring to it. Maybe the ESPN folks can’t make up nicknames that aren’t pop culture references. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/31 "2004-08-01T14:08:02Z")
My dad always called _The Jeffersons_ The Black Bickersons (of course, I didn’t get the reference when I was young because at that time, I’d never heard of _The Bickersons_). Apparently, though, these two shows had some similarities. I’ve been known to refer to _The Flintstones_ as The Cartoon Honeymooners. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/32 "2004-08-01T14:37:28Z")
Scott Bacula\* as Captain Jonathon Archer in _Star Trek: Enterprise_ will always be Quantum to me. I can’t even remember where I first saw/heard it, but it fits so perfectly. Because of that other show, you see. \*I didn’t know he was an undead brother! ---
**Author:** ![Astacey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Astacey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astacey)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2004, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/33 "2004-08-01T21:08:09Z")
My husband and I always call the movie _Jerry McGuire_ “Eddie McGuire”. We think its cute for some reason. We have others but I can’t think of them right now. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Vega](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a9adbd/32.png) [@Lord\_Vega](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Vega)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/34 "2004-08-02T03:02:29Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Scott Bacula\* as Captain Jonathon Archer in _Star Trek: Enterprise_ will always be Quantum to me. And T’Pol has been called from ep 1 “T’Its” Cheers, Vega ---
**Author:** ![li\_l\_Dickie\_Dirtz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@li\_l\_Dickie\_Dirtz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/li_l_Dickie_Dirtz)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/35 "2004-08-02T04:23:23Z")
> [@Mayflower](#): > > I’ve always referred to _Jurassic Park_ as “Yer Ass Is Parked.” Chuckle, chuckle. > > My BIL dubbed _Crocodile Dundee_ “Hock a Pile Dundee,” leading me to call the sequel “Hock a Pile Twice.” That’s funny, my friend always says that the Mexican title for Jurassic Park should be “Su Cola Estacionario.” ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/36 "2004-08-02T05:15:35Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Scott Bacula\* as Captain Jonathon Archer in _Star Trek: Enterprise_ will always be Quantum to me. I can’t even remember where I first saw/heard it, but it fits so perfectly. Because of that other show, you see. > > ! they call him that at Television Without Pity I’ve always called Bill Pulman as “LoneStar” because i first saw him in _SpaceBalls_ ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/37 "2004-08-02T14:56:43Z")
Slight aside: Radio Shack = “Shit Shack” Taco Bell = “Taco Smell” or “Taco Hell” ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Bongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a9adbd/32.png) [@Winston\_Bongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Bongo)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/38 "2004-08-02T17:13:18Z")
Keanu Reeves seems to be quite a popular target. I’ve called him “Piano Keys” for as long as I can remember. My father calls the governor of California “Arnold Sweatenswocker.” In Texas we have a popular hamburger place called _Fuddrucker’s_, which of course _nobody_ calls by its real name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/39 "2004-08-02T17:16:11Z")
I call Sting, “Stink.” ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2004, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325/40 "2004-08-02T21:21:32Z")
::Runs to get **Poonther** , who was born for a thread like this…:: Among others… Old Bainbridge Road in Tallahassee called, “Old Braindamage” The Tallahassee Democrap… I don’t even see the typo anymore. “ER” is simply pronounced, “er,” not “eee are.” “Magnum P.I.” is pronounced, “magnumpi.” **Poonther** calls Julia Roberts, “Bucky” Roberts because, evidently, she has a bit of an overbite. Really, he’s great at re-naming things. I can’t think of a single one, although I call almost nothing by its real name… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-silly-nicknames-for-faomus-people-tv-shows-etc/257325.md?page=3)