Hi, I was just wondering (as you do!) what odd nicknames people used to have as children, or indeed now as adults. For years my sister has refered to me as 'Slug', for reasons I have never dared question (and no, I'm not sure I want to hear any suggestions as to its possible origin either)! Since I started my PhD she also calls me The Student, I get loads of random things through the post just addressed to 'The Student' :)

Mine is the very boring Snook, I’m afraid. Although it is only people in a certain part of the world that call me by this name. I'm not exactly sure why that name was chosen, but the explanation was 'it was either that or s**thead. So I didn't argue.

Diggler was the only nickname I've ever had.

When I was a kid I was slightly...ummmm....weightier than I am today. I'm still no sylph, I should add...:)

Anyway...I used to play rugby at school and played full back. My nickname for a while was weeble - partially because of my shape, but partially because, like weebles, I wobbled but didn't fall down when tackled. :)

And for those too young to remember :

http://www.stuffwelove.co.uk/weebles.htm

Joe

Can you guess mine?

Erm ..... maybe..... Stimpy?

Originally posted by Dirk Diggler
Diggler was the only nickname I've ever had.

Now c'mon DD was that Diggler or Tiddler ??

:D :hihi:

Chunk. yeah, i was the fat kid

all the ladies called me 'the fonz' though. Its true

I was known as Weedol for about two years (no sensible reason, just a brotherly thing), then Spike (I had spiky hair).

Ant is the one that stuck (Anthony).

My boyfriend calls me Farts, he even introduced me to his parents as Farts, I swear I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.

When my brother was small, he couldn't pronounce my first name properly. It came out sounding like "Nessie". Which didn't really bother me, until everyone found out it was the nickname for the Loch Ness monster.

Every once in awhile, I still see someone I grew up with who calls me Nessie.

:) Sierra

at school i was called screwy, because my surname is driver (dohhh). At work a patient took to calling me pozzi, i didnt get that for ages untill someone told me (hav i spelt that right). Now im called the student by my mates, just because i became a student at 32

mine was when i was younger custard then it moved to lemonkirdy and now its bertie lol dunt ask y

Mine was biggun dunno why lol

Originally posted by mat1978
Now c'mon DD was that Diggler or Tiddler ??

:D :hihi:
LOL - nah actually it was Diggler.
I loved the nick name to be fair but it came from the fact my name is Kirk (like Dirk).

However it's still a decent nick name.

one of my mates was called portland bill cause his dad was a coast guard anyone remember the show

My boyfriend calls me Farts,
Squashie28, is there any particular reason why he calls you that? :hihi: :hihi:

My older brother still calls me lil boon,
it started off when i was a baby n he said i had a chubby face n sticky up hair like a baboon (he's lovely isn't he?) So he called me booner, boon, boontop n now its just 'lil boon'.

Yoda, because someone once misheard my name as Yoda.

I'm not going into my names at school, as I really don't want to remember.

Suffice it to say, none of them were very complimentary.

My nickname's Crow. Or Crocky (as in Grotbags' sidekick).
Thanks to my two big sisters for those...
When I went to uni I felt being called Christine by everyone was just too formal - I kept thinking I was in trouble as the only people who called me Christine were my teachers and dad!
So I'm still Crow (but not at work) ;-) .

Nicknames..

Sadz' (after sadsack from the raggy dolls cos I used to be a miserbale sod :suspect: )
DJ - For obvious reasons
Craigy - Generally used by females meaning I want something :rant:
Big C - Leave that to your imagination :hihi:
Shorty - Cheers Pretty_Woman

I used to be in a band with someone who called me 'Mitch the Bitch'

I am known as Timo by some, Sooty by my wife [in moments of heightened emotion], Puglet by my sister, and I have been known to answer to Stag Thrust on occasion.

Originally posted by scaramanga
Chunk. yeah, i was the fat kid

all the ladies called me 'the fonz' though. Its true

Chunk from the Goonies who did the truffle shuffle?!

My best mate calls me bam bam, because I always end up putting my hair up with hair stick things or pencils.

A new one that has been given to me is "lickerman". :gag: :loopy: :help: :hihi: :)

Cheers, C. ;) :D



Alex

Originally posted by Deejay
Nicknames..

Sadz' (after sadsack from the raggy dolls cos I used to be a miserbale sod :suspect: )
DJ - For obvious reasons
Craigy - Generally used by females meaning I want something :rant:
Big C - Leave that to your imagination :hihi:
Shorty - Cheers Pretty_Woman

Or Craig-o :P ;)

Alex

my big sister with all her wit and imagination came up with 'smell' and still insists on calling me it today :rolleyes:

Venger pronounced venja from `ginger avenger``deadly avenger`

Wad short for Howard

Howie Flowie by my mum when I was a kid

God mums can be annoying