Nicknames

arran77

Does anyone else use nicknames a lot for other people?

I always have done.

In the past I've worked for a contracts direct called Toenails because he was so far up his directors censored all you could see sticking out were his toenails and where I work now most people have nicknames but most of them don't know, it's got to the point though where it's really hard sometimes to remember a persons real name and it can be a bit tricky if you're speaking to one of the directors

On here we obviously have Piña, Womble and Benito666 amongst others but what else have we got?

crispybug2

At Liverpool FC in the 1970's Emlyn Hughes was nicknamed 'Thrush' by the other players as he was an irritating c**t!!

Stevo_666

Il Duce to you, sonny

I try not to do that at work as I'll get caught out one day. But we have nicknames for neighbours and people we see around our way. Not always very complimentary either, there's an overweight couple near us who we call the 'thigh chafers'.

Toe knee

We call one of the managers in our place, dynamite....... Coz he keeps blowin everybody up........

finchy

Finchy. Always Finchy, ever since I was about 10.

I got the nickname "Gadget" at school due to my arms and legs which seemingly extend forever and allowed me to make tackles and saves from unfeasibly far away on the football field.

tlw1

one of my favourites at work is bullet, as his brain works as fast as a speeding bullet....... sort of

And the guy that works on the sales counter, known as counter intelligence

My mate horrible, well a good story for another day

BelgianBeerGeek

Having been both a squaddie and a member of Her Majesties Constabulary, my favourite is "Turkish Slippers "
Perfectly describes one who "turns up at the end"

sungod

we once had a fuckwit, we nicknamed him fuckwit

long gone

Pituophis

Used to work with a guy universally known as "Two hats", the outer one covered a particularly poor syrup. :shock:

Pross

Probably a common one but the Project Manager on a scheme I worked on was called Kipper on account of having two faces and no guts.

cornerblock

In a pub I used to drink in there was one regular who was known to everybody as U-boat on account of the fact he was always looking for a sub. "You couldn't sub us a tenner till Friday could ya?" he'd often ask. As soon as he'd walk into the pub someone would usually warn everyone with a 'boop... boop... boop' like the sonar sound.

capt_slog

There's a largish lady on the staff who has very little neck, she is known as 'Total Recall'

A bloke who looks like Noel Edmunds is 'Blobbie's Dad'.

I used to know a 'bungalow', a chap who had nothing upstairs.

NapoleonD

We had Hi-Tec at the training school as he was a sh!t trainer.

Stevo_666

We used to call our chemistry teacher 'c***face' because he had a nosebleed at least once a month.

Shakey Bear

BelgianBeerGeek wrote:

Having been both a squaddie and a member of Her Majesties Constabulary, my favourite is "Turkish Slippers "
Perfectly describes one who "turns up at the end"

Brilliant - We have a colleague who is nicknamed 'Blister', arrives when the works done

mr_goo

Back in my late teens early twenties there was a crowd of us that all had nicknames and gave them to everyone we knew or worked with, some were even given phrases instead of names. God knows why, perhaps it was the boredom of working in an office block that 'contained' 2500 worker bees. Names included:
Cake (something to do with always having a girlfriend)
Petrol (surname was Fewel)
Bead (beady eyes)
Taff (welsh obviously)
Freda (coz he was very slow and Blue Peter had a tortoise named just so)
Bass (shortened from Fred Bassett, coz he looked like said breed)
Goo (thats me now Mr Goo. Still don't know how it came about)
Grace (girl that was built like a barn door, very masculine, thus looked like Grace Jones)
'Keep your eyes off my daughter!'. (manager that had a stunning daughter in same office, and was heard to say this to one of the lads ogling her one day)

fat_cat

A mate of mine used to call his boss The Exocet because you could see him coming but there was nothing you could do about it.

pinno

Get your own nickname

Stevo_666

pinarello001 wrote:

Get your own nickname

I thought it was meant to be the name of your first pet followed by your mothers maiden name? That came up with a few little gems when it was tried in the Crudcatcher.

laurentian

I know just about all of my mates by nicknames . . . unfortunately I ended up with "Rent Boy" in my late teens and, at 49, its what I'm still called.

pinno

laurentian wrote:

I know just about all of my mates by nicknames . . . unfortunately I ended up with "Rent Boy" in my late teens and, at 49, its what I'm still called.

How much do you charge?

ilovegrace

My Dad nicknamed me "Kram" 40 odd years ago when I was 10 years old and it is my nickname to this day.

the playing mantis

k.

short for kanu. after my immense, lanky, lazy skill goal hanging for the school 1st xi for 6 years, my kanu 25 yellow away shirt and my appendages.