Nicknames

[victorbrunswick]

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Dr Strangelove -- a more recent nickname for one of my neighbours because of his resemblance to the film's title character.

[Mulletino]

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I remember some from school:

One kid called Brian had a lazy eye, he was called sometimes called Briclops.
There was a Bovril Ears.
One of the teachers was called "Porn King Dave" because allegedly he's look at porn inside a text book and leer at the girls.
Some were just extensions of their surname, like Greenie etc.

There were more when I was an Engineering Apprentice in the 80s:

Sniffer was another apprentice, due to the amount of bullsh!t he spoke.
There was Mmmmartin, who had a stammer.
Lanky Leon, who's real name was Nick, but he was lanky.
FB, short for french Bread, because on our first day of training College he had a massive French Bread stick for lunch.
Apple Pie, because he had a giant spot on his forehead on the first day at training college.
Skateboard, because he looked like a skateboarder.

Then when I qualified and moved to anotherr company, the apprentices there got nicknames given to them.

Toddler, because he was like a 6ft toddler.
Fish, because he was so gullible.
One guy had a few different ones, all based off the Greg Mitchell Character from Reeves and Mortimer, due to the fact he's always end up getting stuff wrong and going "oh no!". His were, Tricky, Swine, Mitchell, and combinations of such.
There was a guy there who's nickname was "Biscuit Barrel" said in a Harry Enfield "only Me" type voice, as he resembled him and liked wood turning, one day bringing in a biscuit barrel.
Wacko Jacko, he was a bit odd and still lived with his mum in his late thirties.
Guru, apparently due to luck with the ladies at the time.

Most of my mates, old and new have nicknames, some we don't even know why. I guess they're a relic of the past, something which will likely fade away now that kids are taught differently.

[darren]

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Well one of my teachers history teacher was called sniffer tipping.

i can recall mostly unpleasant nicknames at secondary. Don't think anybody i knew had a normal or nice nickname at all except for big john. Perhaps the group of kids i knocked around with were rougher then the usual crowd, hence why i always in trouble both in and out of school.

[battyrat]

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I can recall mostly unpleasant nicknames at secondary. Don't think anybody I knew had a normal or nice nickname at all except for Big John. Perhaps the group of kids I knocked around with were rougher then the usual crowd, hence why I always in trouble both in and out of school.

[darren]

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i like that one have u a pic to show me of it.

i was called dozer cause apparently i slept a lot in class.

I was called Herman in honour of Fred Gwynne's character Herman Munster because of my squarish head

[Twocky61]

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I was called Herman in honour of Fred Gwynne's character Herman Munster because of my squarish head

[darren]

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i was known as dozer or carrott top cause ive ginger hair

[Jay Mc]

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How did I miss this before. We had a midge, very fast right winger for the school team. went right through school with him but have no reccollection of him in high school, but I know he went.

if you are from Northampton this could be me Though I played on the left

[havasack]

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How did I miss this before. We had a midge, very fast right winger for the school team. went right through school with him but have no reccollection of him in high school, but I know he went.

[PC66]

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I can't say I remember many school nicknames other than a couple who were Titch or Half Pint for obvious reasons, and the usual ones based upon a shortening and changing of first or last names.

However.....

AT&T -- A reference to the US phone company. They were a trio of prankster workmates whose names began with those letters.

Also telephone-related, I very quickly earned the nickname Strowger when I left school in 1982 and started work for British Telecom. Almon B. Strowger was a Kansas City undertaker who came up with a concept for an automatic telephone switching system in the late 19th century. With many refinements over the years, the basic concept was employed in many telephone exchanges for the next century or so, that type of equipment still commonly being known as Strowger equipment. Since I was already quite conversant with the principles of the system and I'm sure it showed in my enthusiasm for discussing it, my newly recruited peers at BT decided it was an appropriate nickname for me and it stuck.

[Shado66]

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yeah i got that as im ginger.

also got carrott top.

Just to balance it up a bit I got called SICKNOTE cause I always tried to get out of swimming lessons.

[victorbrunswick]

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Funny thing is as kids we didn't really have nicknames for each other. One of the few rare examples I can think of was a kid named Tucker who was sort of the school bully. We used to call him Tucker the F*****. Though in all honesty he wasn't as much a bully as he was just very annoying. It was as a young adult in the '80s and '90s that I started to have nicknames for people. Among them were:

AT&T -- A reference to the US phone company. They were a trio of prankster workmates whose names began with those letters. Their specialty was messing with the phones so whenever the phones didn't work I would often say that it must have been AT&T again and everybody knew exactly who I was referring to. Interestingly "A" was our supervisor's boyfriend back then and one of the "T"s was her brother!

BARON VON PROZAC -- (see GOLDFINGER)

FAT PHIL -- An associate of Rug Merchant Pimp who used to hang around the shop. For some reason I always suspected that Fat Phil was some sort of Mob guy because one morning he was having a heated argument with RMP with Fat Phil doing almost all of the yelling and screaming, mainly about the former owing him money. RMP looked a bit scared and was trying to placate Fat Phil. They then went outside and when they came back it looked like Fat Phil had punched RMP! And then, inexplicably, the next time Fat Phil came to the shop they were buddy buddy once again. And on another occasion I overheard a conversation where RMP said that someone owed him money and Fat Phil said, "Don't worry, I'll get it for you."

GOLDFINGER -- An acquaintance that I knew from selling at antiques fairs who bore a vague resemblance to the Bond villain.

INVISIBLE MAN -- One of my current housemates because we hardly ever see him because he works nights and often heads out early in the morning even though he doesn't have to be at work till 3:00 PM.

MAGIC DAVE -- A fellow diecast collector with a penchant for tall tales. His "magic trick" is to show us a rare diecast model that he claimed to have picked up at the local flea market that morning for only 20-50p when most of us had been to that same flea market and hardly find anything.

MR PRICKLY PANTS -- Another acquaintance because of his resemblance to the Toy Story 3 character of the same name.

ORCHID BOY -- A close friend of mine I've known since high school. He earned the sobriquet when we worked for Rug Merchant Pimp because of his penchant for always having the heat cranked up in the shop both summer and winter

RUG MERCHANT PIMP (RMP) -- A rather unpleasant person of whom I had the misfortune of working for back in the late 1980s who often wore disco shirts and gold chains.

[darren]

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yeah i got that as im ginger.

also got carrott top.

I remember we called one ginger kid DURACELL because he had a copper coloured top.

[Jay Mc]

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cuffy in our school was used for the scruffy looking kids.

Might well be that as I seem to remember that he was pretty scruffy

[Richard1978]

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Someone I knew at secondary school had a friend at primary school who got the nickname Froggy because he had a wide mouth.

Very quickly half the school was calling him it, & even his mum did for a while!

For some reason one boy at my secondary school had the nick name Lord Snooty, even though he never seemed that posh or looked like the Beano character.