So, what do your homies call you?

What?!?!? Why in the world would anyone call you THAT? Discuss.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Answers

Stub because I am short! And I have short stubby fingers too! I dunno if that is a good or a bad thing... I am thinking bad, but oh well! The cool guy in BioDome is named Stub, so its all good...

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Bianra, usually. Whenever I got catalogs in the mail, my name would always be butchered. I've been, Dianbra, Dazane, every variation I suppose. One day I got one for Bianra and my friends thought it was so funny so they started calling me Bianra. I have also been affectionately dubbed "The Human Crash Test Dummy" for having survived two VERY serious near-fatal car crashes that I emerged from unscathed.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

I have lots of them.

Wonder Bread: There was this shirt with Wonder Bread on it that I used to wear a lot. I liked it. One day, this dude I worked with saw the shirt and ever since then, he's been calling me Wonder Bread.

Trouble: Again, it's a nickname from some person at work. I was telling him a story about my adventure in Chicago a few years ago and somehow we got into all my groundings stories. From that conversation on, I was known as Trouble.

Wendy: I used to like Wendy's and would go there almost everyday for lunch. I also have bright red hair. I don't think that has anything to do with it though; it's more than likely the lunch thing.

Bernice: My bowling nickname from high school. I don't know where I got that name from (I named myself). I regret picking Bernice though.

Benny: A friend's boyfriend forgot my name and he called me this. I didn't think that it would stick. Boy was I wrong.

Then there is a whole slew of others for my last name. I could go on and on.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Well, I had a couple from last year.

I was called "Hamburguesa" because my name is Wendy. They would say something like Wendy's Hamburger or something. And in spanish, they would call me "Hamburguesas de Wendy". And then it stuck with one of my friends.

And then I was called Wednesday. I don't even remember how that got started. And then my friend Sarah would call herself Saturday. Even though that nickname died after a while, I kept it as my screen name.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Um, that would be 'Nitwit'.

Partly for the expected reason, but the real reason is obvious if you know my real name. Which none of you do, except Zed, who's just left the country, so that's really no help.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

I don't have any nicknames... unless you get technical and count "Katie" as one. I don't. Anna would always call me by my last name, but that's not a nickname, either.

Blah. I have no nickname and I feel unloved.

:)

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

i get called kiki from some guy i work with. he misunderstood me when i said "kaity" and thought i said kiki. he knows now, but the name still lives on.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Golf.

From my last name, bequeathed to me by my English teacher in my senior year of high school. Because English teachers are just cool like that.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Um Katie, you could steal Sarah's nickname! I think Truck is a great one. Or you could be Van or RV or El Camino (those were THE best)...

I'd give you a nickname, but I don't know you well enough for that kind of thing. Too bad you didn't know mine and Eric's senior year English teacher. He was the King of Nicknames (good band name, Jeremy). Anyway, he's the one who gave Eric "Golf" and myself "Wee," and they live on to this day, although Golf achieved a little more fame with his.

Nangela is my other one, the one that actually gets used, but that's nothing like original. C'est la vie.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

I want to clarify that I'm not redundant, but Eric and I posted at about the same time. He beat me, damn it.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

My nickname used to be "Bubbles." It was given to me by my ex-best friend, who the first time I spent the night at her house, I farted, and from then on, she called me bubbles.

Other people began using that name, but they never knew, and never will know the true origin of the name.

Now I call her "That Fat Girl That I Used to Hang Out With," and she probably calls me "That Stupid Bitch," but oh well.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

cow. i know it sounds odd, but one day my friend and i were joking around and i was all "you're so annoying, you were probably a fly in your past life" and she tried to get back at me by calling me a cow. it didnt work. ;)

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

everyone i know calls me VZ. its my initials and its much easier to say than 4-syllabled veronica i guess.

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Everyone gets the wrong idea about how I got my nickname, namely because it sounds worse that it really is. Booze.

It all startd my second year of High Schoo.. I was already popular at this point and in my fifth period class of Environmental Science, I managed to catch all the losers (like not nerds, but dead beat druggies) in my class. All for the exception of two huge jock-type guys that are real good friends of mine.

One day we had a supply and while doing attendance she read my name as "Susan Bird" as appose to my real name, "Susan Biro". Ryan and Dustin (the two guys) then started to call me Bird, Boozie Bird.

Plus, since my last name is pernounce beer-o, Booze just stuck with me. So whenever a good friend calls my name in the halls as Booze a teacher will look at me like I'm an alcoholic.

I actually like it, but I don't really think of it as a "Booze", more of a nickname.

. . . if any of this makes sense?

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Everyone gets the wrong idea about how I got my nickname, namely because it sounds worse that it really is.

Booze. It all started my second year of High School... I was already popular at this point and in my fifth period class of Environmental Science, I managed to catch all the losers (like not nerds, but dead beat druggies) in my class. All for the exception of two huge jock-type guys that are real good friends of mine.

One day we had a supply and while doing attendance she read my name as "Susan Bird" as appose to my real name, "Susan Biro". Ryan and Dustin (the two guys) then started to call me Bird, Boozie Bird.

Plus, since my last name is pernounced beer-o, Booze just stuck with me. So whenever a good friend calls my name in the halls as Booze a teacher will look at me like I'm an alcoholic.

I actually like it, but I don't really think of it as a "Booze"; more of a nickname.

. . . if any of this makes sense?

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

My nickname is Id.

Not the Freudian thing, although people *always* think that's what it is (apparently I am like a textbook definition of the Id, I don't know though because I have never studied it...).

My best friend Mary's nickname is Stup. Not pronounced "Stup," but "Stoop."

The reason? When we are together, we are stupid. Stup Id. Get it?

Yeah, we're dorks, but oh well. :)

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Hey, I was just reading the postings, and found something interesting: bowling nicknames.

This is something I do, too! How many other people have bowling nicknames? When I bowl, I bowl as Stephano, and I bowl with Ernesto (Jenny), Armand (Lindsey), Rodrigo (Lili), Zsa Zsa (Dustin-Karl), and Fifi (Jason). Is this common?

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Well, my nickname is Car. The reason for this is explained by Sarah's entry. I just wanted to contribute something. go me. :)

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

My nickname is my last name. Everyone calls me that. Like, I will meet new people, and within hours they will start to call me that, even if they didn't know that other people call me that as well. I think all Irish people are commonly refferred to by their last name, or some variation on it, so I guess that is what I get for being Irish. That and a sunburn.

A few of my friends call me cap'n dan, but there is no real reason for it. Not that I remember at least. It just has a nice ring to it.

-dan

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Pie.

Here comes the story :)

Once upon a time my boyfriend was eating pie. (I can't remember what kind- something uncommon) and he said "This is really good pie!" Then I said, "Oh yeah?" (Note: although I seem interested, I'm not) "But you know what kind is my favorite?" "What kind?" "Jennipie". Later it was shortened to pie.

Thank you -takes a bow-

-- Anonymous, July 18, 2000

Weird, 'cos I know a family named "Egolf" and everyone called the one brother "golf". But anyway.

Emily has been shortened to Em, Emmie and any other variation thereof you can think of. My best friend Kate called me EmmiePea and I called her KatyPea, which was cute. Anybody else we liked was "sweet pea".

My sister used to call everyone "jimmy" when she was in high school. Like "hey, jimmy, can I have a ride home from school?" or "hey, jimmy, what's going on?" I guess it was sort of instead of "hey you".
One day she started calling me Jimily, Jimmy + Emily, and then that got shortened into Jimil. Pronounced Jim-lllllll sort of. But only her friends knew it, really, so nobody calls me that anymore.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

Dan: I call you "Reader Dan." I have no idea why. I don't call anyone else "Reader [Name]," just you... like, "Reader Dan is so obsessed with the Laura melodrama." :)

I used to call everybody Harold. No clue where I picked that one up. "Hey, what's up Harold?" "How's it going, Harold?" "Is that a fact, Harold?" "Isn't that right... HAROLD?" Yeah.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

Dont worry about it Katie.. my nickname is Greg. Short for my birth name. I dont use my birthname, except in the hospital because its on my card from when I was really young.

Other nicknames have been Charley, G-Money, GreggyPoo, Gregkins.... hmm, maybe its not a good idea to give this information out. Of course, there was this one girl who gave me the nickname, Master. Hmm.. that was a nice one. Excuse me, Master. Erm, I have to go now.

~Greg @ Commixion

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

I don't really have serious nicknames besides ambito [my "samalian" name which now even my cousin, lindsey picked up and liked to call me] and ambro [short for "ambromoto" ..making fun of the hunchback of notre dame]....someone once called me 'am' short for my name..haha but that was sorta not unique enough so it didn't stick. I hated teachers who used to call me by my last name though. I hate my last name.

as for other online, well, I call people off the web stupid things when talking about them sometimes. sometimes I'll just say their name and "of 'whatever the name of their webpage is'" but sometimes it'll just be silly like "the canadian girl" or "the english guy" ...I really did call some people off the net this when talking about them and mom and everyone knew who they were even though there are other english and canadian people out there. craazy I am! now I just call people by their names..hm.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

Paul called me Wingnut for a while.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

At my first job, my co-worker Ian called me Pine... One day, I had to clean the employee bathroom, and I came back smelling like Pine-Sol. I reaked of Pine-Sol for the rest of the shift--I kept smelling my hands to see if the smell was gone. Every time Ian saw me, he'd drawl, "Piiiiiiine," like I was getting high off of it or something. From that day on, I was Pine.

I've also been called Jermy; Germany; Cheerios; Aardvark; Radar, Paw, Ernest, and any other part I played in high-school drama; and, most recently, Steve.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

Jerey's forgeting that I used to call him Mopey. He's much happier now. But I stil like the nickname.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

Oh yeah, how could I forget Kirstin? My sixth grade reading teacher called me that the first day I was in his classroom and I corrected him. Throughout the rest of the year he would always say my name like that. It annoyed the fuck outta me. Then my friends started to call me that and it's kind of stuck. I only let the people I went to grade school with call me that though.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

lately, it's been Dwarf... or Sexdwarf! LOL! I was on a school trip and all of a sudden, people notice how short I am! Well, I was with Loco (Tina) who's crazee, and she's really tall so I guess it was more noticeable! I'm tineeee... boo-hoo. Oh, I got Tommy's Girl the other day because I was wearing my Tommy Girl top. I liked that name since I fancy this singer in a band, called Tommy Scott so that made me happy!

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

where do i start... alex, alexa, alexis, ally cat. i swear people in my family don't even know what my real name is. i always get alexandria or alessandra or some shit like that. o well. now i just go by ally.

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

The most common is "Little Wiseman" because I have an older sister who is known as "Wiseman". [But, of course, as people graduate, I'll become Wiseman and .... boring.] Then there's Dee which started because people have a thing about saying one's full name. Niecy & Niece is common with the kids.

My favorite nickname, I have to say, is "Jail Bait" because it freaks the hell out of my mom. It probably should, but still ...

-- Anonymous, July 19, 2000

I have a lot of nicknames, some I can't even remember off the top of my head. I guess that could be because its 4am..but back on the subject! Jilly, jillybean, jillymac, midge (short for midget, cuz i'm short), manila, biggie..

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2000

I've never posted here before, but I've recently become rather rapt by your posts and your questions. So, perhaps I'll stick around! 8^>

Historically I've had the nickname "C" because my name is hard to spell. When I was little I called myself "T.T." because I guess I couldn't say "C" (I had a lisp). I still get called "T.T." by some of my family.

At my most recent former-job I earned the nickname "Chirs" pronounced "curse" unforunately. I think it was just a shortening of my name, and not my attitude (I had a hard job, being a bookkeeper in a corporation where record keeping had been the *least* priority for nearly 5 years!).

Who knows what else other people call me!! 8^>

Chirstyn

-- Anonymous, July 20, 2000

maude. i'm the only one of my friends with a unique name, we've got about 46432653 crystals, 217827583 jessicas, 84732765 sarahs, etc. so i finally got tired of going through the "crystal" "which crystal?" "crystal j." "oh" routine and just gave everyone i knew who shared a name with another friend of mine a new name, like beatrice or elise. none of them were too particularly fond of their new names, and they stuck too, so to get back at me they all started calling me maude. i took it in stride though, made "hi! my name is maude" nametags and everything. (yeh, i'm a dork.) turns out that my mother almost made my middle name maude, too, after some lady she was friends with at the time. ironic.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

My nickname is usually Elle or some variation of it [I have been Ellie, Ellies, Ellers, Ella, Ellebutt..] and I had one friend that would call me Noe. My friends aren't very original.

-- Anonymous, July 21, 2000

that would be 'roxy'. everyone calls me something different, though.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2000

In highschool it was B or B-dog or B-money. The funniest would have to be Brenna-nenna-nenna-nenna... as sung to the batman theme song. Bren is what friends and the fam call me. And my old best friend used to refer to me as Svenna, the the goddess of Sri Lanka.

-- Anonymous, August 11, 2000

I've had tons of nicknames, the most common being Meg, which is what I usually go by. On the first day of school every year, the teacher calls out "Megan Lunde" and I always respond "Please call me Meg, thanks". This is partially because I know a lot of Megans and we need to distinguish each other. One of my very best friends is named Megan, spelled the same way as me. So she started calling me Lunde.Now I call her Farrell. A lot of people call me by full name becuase it sounds fun. Heather has never just called me Meg, it's always Megan Lunde. I also have the nickname Caesar because of a skit/play thing we did based on the events on the Ides of March. My friends Stef and Kate are now Brutus and Cassius. It's pretty funny to walk around town or somewhere calling each other those names. Another name is Little Megan because...well I don't know why. Stef (Brutus) sometimes calls me Nicholle, because she thinks I look like Nicholle Tom.

-- Anonymous, September 05, 2000

I have nicknames from when I was a little girl to this present day so here are a few.

OMI: Because my name is spelled Naomi, my relatives call me Omi from the last three letter of my first name.

OH MY: This nickname was from my Uncle. He calls me this because I was his first niece.

ONLY THE LONELY: I was out of town at my cousins place and I'd get lonesome, so he started calling me that. The way he'd be saying it is by singing it.

ARMY GIRL: When I was a little girl I used to play with boys and hardly with girls, so from then on my big brother called me army g

-- Anonymous, December 15, 2000

Sunshine.

It actually started out being called "a ray of sunshine," but this just worked. I have a long held belief that the Beatles wrote "Good Day Sunshine" just for me. :)

-- Anonymous, December 18, 2000

For Megan Lunde (Sept, 00) Lunde is Norwegian for Puffin. In Iceland and the Faroes they call it the Lundi. So, if you like "Puffin" or "Bird" or the German name "Papageivogel" (Parrot bird) then there you go. Smiles Keith

-- Anonymous, August 18, 2001