Nicknames

[Queenie]

They started discussing this on the show today, but I don't think they ever got to the bit (imagine that?!).

Here's mine:

Ms. Paper Doll Lady - on most days, at one time or another, when I walk by the receptionist, I find she is playing online at some website where she "dresses up" dolls. This woman is 40+ years old and is playing dress up with dolls. To each his own I reckon.

On the days when she isn't Ms. Paper Doll Lady, she is referred to as Ms. Bi-Polar. She can be a sweet as pie one day and then be a bitch from hell the next. We chalk it up to her not taking her medicine. I am not in any way making fun of someone who has the real disorder, this woman is just moody as hell. I've actually asked her before whether or not she was bi-polar (that wasn't such a good day after that).


So, have you pinned a nickname on somebody?

[potthole]

I've got two coworkers that have gotten nicknames. Creepy Bev, and Drunk Driving Melissa.

Creepy Bev earned her nickname the summer I had a marketing internship for college. I'd work my "regular" job in the mornings, and the internship in the afternoon. Because of this, I'd just wear my shirt/tie for the internship at the normal job. Multiple times a week Bev would come up to me telling me how nice I look, often reaching out to touch my shirt.

Drunk Driving Melissa was called Taco Melissa, because once a week she'd bring in tacos and sell them at lunch. Then one day she got busted for DUI. Hello instant nickname change.

[Queenie]

Drunk Driving Melissa was called Taco Melissa, because once a week she'd bring in tacos and sell them at lunch. Then one day she got busted for DUI. Hello instant nickname change.

She would actually buy a bunch of tacos and sell them? For a profit? Weird.

[potthole]

Struck me as odd too. She now brings in burritos. Puts them together at home the night before, keeps them in the lunchroom fridge, and sells them at 75 cents a pop.

I'm thinking of dropping the Drunk Driving nickname, as last week she graduated from some alcohol abstinence program, or something like that. Maybe she'll get the old nickname back.

[Titan!]

Some from when I worked at the railroad:

Taco John and Taco Joe, mexican brothers. They also had a nephew who worked there, and for while he was little taco.

[sunshyne]

Struck me as odd too. She now brings in burritos. Puts them together at home the night before, keeps them in the lunchroom fridge, and sells them at 75 cents a pop.

I'm thinking of dropping the Drunk Driving nickname, as last week she graduated from some alcohol abstinence program, or something like that. Maybe she'll get the old nickname back.

Too bad Bev wasn't the one that brings in the tacos, now that shes bringing in burritos she could have been Burrito Bev.

Of course, I know a guy that people call Burrito Bob, because he sells burritos at fairs and such, but his name isn't really bob, I think its Mark.

[Queenie]

I know this girl, she works at the AT&T tower and we call her the AT&T chick . . .

[Queenie]

When I pull up this thread, I get this ad. Too funny.



I guess this could be what she plays on all day!!

[linzi]

My hubby plays poker online under the alias, Harry Gash. He told an older co-worker of his that he was going to change his name to it. The guy actually believed him and called him Harry every time he saw him. Now it's stuck.

[Biff]

At my buddy's wedding I told the photographer my name was Frank. Everybody started calling me Frank just to play along.

[Howie Feltersnatch]

This is a long story for a stupid nicname:

When i was new at a job I couldn't think of a woman's name and refered to her as "What's her name" to another employee. Said employee (not 'whats her name") said that it was rude to call her that. So I asked if it would be less rude to refer to her wrongly as 'Bob' or 'Frank' or something stupid, the opinionated employee (girl) agreed that it would be less rude. So, from that point on I remembered "What's her names" real name and refered to the opinionated employee (again, girl) as 'Bob'. I worked there for several years and every new employee that started was instructed by me to call her "Bob" and only "Bob".

[Titan!]

I like to mix Biff and Potthole's names and call them Biffhole.

[sunshyne]

I have a friend that sells socks, so we call him Captain Socks.

I was volunteering at a Community Health & Safety fair in my home town and had to dress up in the fire dept's mascot costume Sparky the Fire Dog for the kids. My best friend still calls me sparky.

I went camping once, and slipped down a hill and landed in thick mud. My husband asked what I was doing and I got mad and said "making Mudangels!". That's my other message board name.

[-Jiggy-]

When I was in shop class in Jr. High the first day we had to go around the room and introduce ourselves and then say an animal whose first letter corresponded with the first letter of our name. Example - Chris the cat

Well it didn't help that I was one of the last to go and my name starts with J because J (at least in that class) was a very common letter for your name to start with. I tried thinking of everything I could but could only come up with junebug. This redneck kid just thought it was effing hilarious and from that moment on every time he saw me I was Jeremy the Junebug. I pretended to laugh because he was much bigger than me.

[Rock Monster]

When I was in shop class in Jr. High the first day we had to go around the room and introduce ourselves and then say an animal whose first letter corresponded with the first letter of our name. Example - Chris the cat

Well it didn't help that I was one of the last to go and my name starts with J because J (at least in that class) was a very common letter for your name to start with. I tried thinking of everything I could but could only come up with junebug. This redneck kid just thought it was effing hilarious and from that moment on every time he saw me I was Jeremy the Junebug. I pretended to laugh because he was much bigger than me.

Jackalope was already taken???

[sunshyne]

My husband had an old neighbor whose given name was actually Junebug. yes and it was a guy.

[burnking]

There's a chick I work with that dresses slutty, but is very unattractive and has a lumpy body. We've dubbed her SBG which stands for Sloppy Body Girl.

[Howie Feltersnatch]

I would assume (i'm not certain) that boizalynne's nicname is 'preggers'. as she's been pregnant for 3 of the last 6 years.

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edit:

booya preggers...

[Rock Monster]

I would assume (i'm not certain) that boizalynne's nicname is 'preggers'. as she's been pregnant for 3 of the last 6 years.

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booya preggers...

Geez preggo, don't you own a tv? Maybe do some yard work to entertain yourself...

[zdunklee]

At the old apartment complex I was at in GR, the lady at the front desk was really huge, so my roommate and I nicknamed her Big Beefy. If Joe happens to look at this he will laugh cause he lived there when I did and knows who I am talking about.

[airhornahole]

We had a guy with a big beer gut on him. One lady said "hey, your kind of ..." he told her not to call him fat and she responded with, " ... no, not fat, but fluffy". He's fluffy to this day.

[Torque]

I've worked with horses most of my life and often my nicknames for them stick and become their barn names...

Houdini - a horse that could un-latch/lock/tie anything and would let all the other horses out as well and break into the feed or lounge rooms

Samsonite - he was this gangly, rather stupid horse with an overbite who reminded me of Jim Carey in Dumb & Dumber

Goose - well, he was just grey

Zima - a stuck-up trendy SOB who was only popular with girls

And of course, corny yet unavoidable- Charlie (horse, not the unicorn)

[Titan!]

More from the railroad:

Farmer John, he chose to work 3rd shift so he could work on his farm during the day.

[potthole]

Back at my high school job I gave a guy the nickname Pistol Pete. He mentioned to me once that he didn't like it, but I thought he was kidding, so I kept calling him that. I wasn't working the day he quit, but apparently as he stormed off, he made some mention about how he couldn't stand the nickname (by this point other people in my department were using it too).

Fast forward a year or two. I sit down with my family at a restaurant, and guess who our waiter is? Things got akward real fast.

[Howie Feltersnatch]

Back at my high school job I gave a guy the nickname Pistol Pete. He mentioned to me once that he didn't like it, but I thought he was kidding, so I kept calling him that. I wasn't working the day he quit, but apparently as he stormed off, he made some mention about how he couldn't stand the nickname (by this point other people in my department were using it too).

Fast forward a year or two. I sit down with my family at a restaurant, and guess who our waiter is? Things got akward real fast.

Pete: Hello I will be your waiter and my name is...

Potthole: PISTOL PETE!

[potthole]

I almost did that, but decided I didn't want spit in my dinner.

[zdunklee]

You probably got spit in your dinner anyway.

[Rock Monster]

I almost did that, but decided I didn't want spit in my dinner.

You got it anyway.

[dingdongyo]

i'm trying to think of nicknames i've given other people at work, but i tend to be the one getting nicknamed

[boizalynne]

Porn guy... there is an old guy down the block from me that watches very hardcore porn at all hours of the day with his blinds open...
I called the cops on him because my kids have to walk by his house on the way to the school bus...

[Biff]

I've decided that Boizy's nickname is "Fertile Myrtle".

[potthole]

You probably got spit in your dinner anyway.

I almost did that, but decided I didn't want spit in my dinner.

You got it anyway.

Probably so, but I decided to remain blissfully unaware, and not do anything to give him any extra encouragement.

[Titan!]

When I worked for family video, during my first week, the guy who was training me told me that on Monday I would probably meet, Monday Porn Paul because, every Monday this guy who's name was Paul would come in and rent 3 porn videos.

And sure enough, Monday morning 10:30 here comes this very average looking guy, heads straight to the porn room, gets 3 dvds and brings them up.

And.....

I can't believe forgot this one.

A girl I was dating not too long ago got the name of 2nd Base Girl because I told a friend of mine that she let me get to 2nd base in a club with her the night we met. Andehenver we would talk about her he would I would alway say, yeah Sarah and I are going to the mall, and he would say you mean 2nd base girl ? I would laugh and say yes, her. I teased her about it and she thought it was cute. Forward about 2 months or so, and she and I are driving, I get a call from my friend, and traffic is a little tight so I hand Sarahthe phone and she and my friend have a conversation, he says, "Is this 2nd base girl ?" And she says "You know, I don't like that name" and without missing a beat my friend says, "Well let him get to 3rd base then"

Friends can be awesome because the next day her new nickname was home run girl

(Side note Allyson posted a nice cartoon and chart pointing out the definitions of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd base as well as some other places on the field in the Expert / Nerd thread)

[moobsminger]

Guy at work: "Pissy Pants" - I'll just say that the name is quite literal and let you figure out the rest.

[patmcgroin]

We all refer to one person at work as Peeping Tom. We never call him it to his face, but everyone knows who Peeping Tom is. He is just so creepy...he walks with a slink, and has a pedophile goatee. We all think he will end up getting his rocks off while staring in through windows.

[saphfire]

Quasimodo...there was this girl that was always creeping around my (then) boyfriend's place. She actually looked more sasquatch, but I thought quasimodo was funnier. Whenever I saw her, I'd say what's up quasi...I'm not entirely sure she understood it, but I giggled everytime

[mayorofawesometown]

I had two nicknames in high school and they were both fairly lame.

I was a golfer and so was my older brother. The coach nicknamed my brother "Big Cat" and because of that three years later I was "Little Cat." Sadly, that eventually turned into "Kitten."

[beckyp]

This is a long story for a stupid nicname:

When i was new at a job I couldn't think of a woman's name and refered to her as "What's her name" to another employee. Said employee (not 'whats her name") said that it was rude to call her that. So I asked if it would be less rude to refer to her wrongly as 'Bob' or 'Frank' or something stupid, the opinionated employee (girl) agreed that it would be less rude. So, from that point on I remembered "What's her names" real name and refered to the opinionated employee (again, girl) as 'Bob'. I worked there for several years and every new employee that started was instructed by me to call her "Bob" and only "Bob".

hey Howie, tell us about your nickname. ya know the one.

[Howie Feltersnatch]

hey Howie, tell us about your nickname. ya know the one.

HOOTERS HOOTERS HOOTERS!!

[Titan!]

I thought you said you didn't like Hooters ?