Nicknames

[abchandler]

A bloke in a local pub is known as Village because he's the idiot some village somewhere is looking for

 

[Theseus]

Woodworking teacher at school - Scruff
Woodworking classroom - Scruff Shack
Chemistry teacher who had had Polio & wore a leg brace - Clank (not nice, but kids are mean)
Two teachers who were both rotund and were good mates - Tweedle Dum & Tweedle Dee
Apparently my nickname at work is Har because I cycle in each day.

 

[goo_mason]

There was a girl at school with really tight, curly blonde hair called Cath Reilly, who was referred to as "C".

A year below us there was an unrelated guy who had the same tight, curly blond hair. He became know as 'the Chair' - because he had "C" hair!

 

[longers]

A biology teacher was known as "Clang" because he looked like he'd been hit in the face with a spade.

 

[ChrisKH]

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...

Erm, well............it was then.

 

[swee'pea99]

I've always remembered the original 'London's Burning' drama - later spun out into a series - which featured one boring, tedious, irritating little fellow, called by all his colleagues 'Charisma'.

 

[ianrauk]

Another one on the show was called 'Vaseline' as he was a slippery little bugger

[quote name='swee'pea99']I've always remembered the original 'London's Burning' drama - later spun out into a series - which featured one boring, tedious, irritating little fellow, called by all his colleagues 'Charisma'.[/QUOTE]

 

[Maizie]

A girl in my school was nicknamed Shag. She had a (very nice) hair cut that was kind of shaggy. Plus there was a film out at the time called Shag (it's a type of dance, apparently).

A family member had a (male) colleague named Clare, who was called Idoody, as in "I do declare"

 

[Cubist]

One of my Inspectors was known as Tulip. (Totally Useless Little Irish Person)

We had a button on the phone which directed a call to the old fella that used to sit in the front office. The buttons said "Back to FUB", which I was informed meant Effing Useless Bastard.

Several people I know who shunned foot patrol were known as Tiddles, or the Station Cat, as in "never goes out" and one particularly useless Sergeant who spent all day in the nick pretending she was busy was known as BONGO. (books on, never goes out.)

 

[Speck]

I had a mate who used to disappear when it was his round, we called him Jet Legs.

Had another called Mutterly, he used to laugh like Dick Dastardly's dog.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

i got called bagpuss at school for a month or so having gone out with a girl called emily for a couple of weeks…("and emily loved him")

 

[zizou]

knew a friend of a friend as manbat for years, never knew why he was named that until i found out his real name - Wayne Bruce

 

[stedlocks]

As a fireman (and as picked up in earlier 'London's Burning quotes), the fire service does have a long tradition of nicknames......some are known to the nicknamee and others are not....

Fu**o the clown ...not very switched on bloke
the egg....a rotund officer whose number plate said *** UGG
Sat Nav.....got lost once driving to a fire
Basil.....surname 'Broom'........nearly 'Brush'!
Boltneck......looks like Frankenstein
Welsh Boris.....He's a sneaky Russian....from Wales
ect.....

These are the nice ones

 

[abchandler]

One of our teachers Miss Stone had a speech impediment which meant she couldn't pronounce her 'r's correctly. Always known to the kids as Miss Blick

 

[ianrauk]

Brilliant

When he signed up for the Army the form asked for his first names and so he wrote "S only B only". From then on he's been known as Sonely Bonely.