Nicknames

[ACS]

I had a Scouser on my team years ago who we called 'Diesel'

He was notorious for having sticky fingers and would go round saying “Diesel do fer the wife and diesel do fer the kids’

 

[arallsopp]

Almost all of my mates have single letter names, duplicates get a descriptive prefix.

D
B
P (I'm A, after all. I've even had his mum call him that when ringing mine for him).
The Lovely T (she is).
T (he's less lovely, but still ok).

Infact the only exceptions are people I met here (even so, ILB applies) and Mista Preston.

On pets, we have a cat called Neko, but I call him Fuppet. Its a contraction of F (something) pet.

 

[ArDee]

I've worked with a few people who had nick names; a bald Scotsman who we called Kojock and somebody who wasn’t too bright so was called “bungalow” because there wasn’t much up stairs.

 

[ColinJ]

I didn't get where I am today without having people call me CJ! :?:

 

[XmisterIS]

I went to school with a chap who's surname was Pattison, so we called him Pattatwat.

 

[Bandini]

I worked with a a guy called Flub. His dad was very wealthy and he worked under sufferance. It soon became apparent that his name was an acronym: he was large (F), he did little work(L), what he did do was of little import(U), and although he may have been born in wedlock, he earned the ire of everyone else on the crew who was working for the team(.

 

[Keith Oates]

Once worked with a guy who was called bungalow - nothing up top!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MacB]

several years ago one of the guys at the golf club got called Thrush, it was new to all of us at the time, explanation, coz he was an irritating c**t and hard to get rid of.....and it stuck. But I somehow doubt it was original, we just hadn't heard it before.

 

[Alan Frame]

A former Chief Constable from West Midlands Police was nicknamed "BIFFO".

Apparently, he was none too pleased when he found out it stood for Big Ignorant Fuc&er From Oldham.

 

[colly]

I used to play football with a bloke who was given the nickname 'Regular'.

After his response to a question about what marriage meant to him .....''regular meals.''

 

[Fnaar]

We had a teacher at school who had a false leg, and whose fingers on both hands were fused together, so that he had basically 'pincers' (like a crab) on each hand. He was an excellent teacher, and everyone behaved well for him/respected him, but he had the unfortunate nickname of "creature teacher"

 

[NickM]

I had a teacher who had spent many years teaching in Africa. His nickname was "Frouche". Some enterprising kid had gone to the lengths of looking up the Swahili for "bald" (apparently).

I was called Mike at school; I have no idea why.

Your surname isn't Hunt, by any chance?

I'm sorry, but if so it seems pretty obvious to me...

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

I had a teacher who had spent many years teaching in Africa. His nickname was "Frouche". Some enterprising kid had gone to the lengths of looking up the Swahili for "bald" (apparently).


Your surname isn't Hunt, by any chance?

I'm sorry, but if so it seems pretty obvious to me...

That'll be you missing the sarcasm then, I suspect.

 

[Norm]

Your surname isn't Hunt, by any chance?

With a brother called Isaac?

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Tom