another nickname thread....

[percy toboggan]

what nicks have you been given during your lifetime so far?
Some stick for a while,, but when you change jobs or if your circle of friends contracts then they can just disappear.

I've been known as 'The Wheel' and 'The Breeze' for sizeable chunks of my existence...not any more. Shame really because I quite liked them.

'Moanin' auld git' doesn't have the same ring to it.

C.B. handles came and went too...
'Drifter'
'Fleetwood Mac'
and 'Sky Blue' to name but three....those seem far off days indeed as I contemplate the old one-nine.....anyone for a copy?

[unicorn]

Was the wheel cos you always came back to the same point just kiddin Perce

[percy toboggan]

Was the wheel cos you always came back to the same point just kiddin Perce

No ,it's a fair point although 'boomerang ' might have covered that one.
It was 'cos in my late teens early twenties I drove and drove for a tyre firm - I was a 'rep' but preferred to think of meself as a van driver. To be more precise a split-screen VW pick-up which I loved..they've since become cult vehicles, I'd love to have the old girl now. I put about 80k. on the clock over three years around the North-West of England.

Funniest incident was when I got back to the depot one day having had my side of the split screen shatter. No glass at all left after I'd punched it through. One of my esteemed colleagues saw fit to sidle up to the truck - whilst I was sat in it, relaying derring-doo about the dramatic incident - and press the windscreen washer button (manual) he pumped it a few times and of course I got a face full of soapy liquid...very funny...at the time and looking back.

[unicorn]

What a bad man

[Sapphire2803]

At school I was called Horlicks because my surname was Hall (hated that)

My name is Emma, so people tend to call me Em almost straight away, I don't care as long as they don't call me Emsy or Emsywemsy, either of those is likely to result in them being called something I can't repeat on here.

Sapphire is my nickname, it goes back to my lovely black Sierra Sapphire which was the love of my life. The car had to go eventually... The name stuck, although it's usually shortened to Sapph.

I was Blue Jeans on the CB. I still have a CB and if by some miracle I ever have a conversation on there now, I would be Sapphire. I'm getting old ya know, too many names I'm liable to get confused.

[arana negra]

Never had a nickname as far as I know, my CB handle was Orange Bloossom Special as I used to be in an orange coloured Alfa Romeo Alfasud. They were fun days till the filth crept in and I gave up. used to talk to my dad in his lorry.

[joxville]

I got Joxville from one of my present English colleagues. It was a corruption of Johnny Knoxville from Jackass. I was larking about and he called me Johnny Joxville and it stuck.

One of the other guys, cos he'd been fired so many times, was given the name Bullet.

[joxville]

Never mind nicknames-think of this poor kid:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ticle95505.ece

I feel sorry for him.

[northener]

Never mind nicknames-think of this poor kid:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ticle95505.ece

I feel sorry for him.

There really, really, ought to be a board set up to scrutinise babies' names.
They could point out the likely amount of ridicule and social ostracisation they are probably heaping upon their unfortunate sprog. - And possibly dole out life sentances to any parent who refuses to be sensible......

[northener]

As for nicknames:


Clanky ('cos of the constant clanking noise when you walk with a couple of spanners in yer overall pockets). Bilge Rat, Diesel Weasel.

All nicknames for RN Marine Engineer Mechanics (Stokers).

More personally - Hoss, Ben, Li'l Joe............You have to be familiar with an old Cowboy series on the telly to get those

And Lightning.

[brokencross]

In the past I have been "Clacker" after the dangly balls on string toy thing of the 1970's. (No personal comments please).

Also "Toby Jugg" because of a way I used to sit crouched up on a desk.

[Welcomefamily]

My nick name seem to evolve, when I was younger and keen on Darts, my mates use to refer to me as ockie, then one night following after match socialising at the Rugby Club I played for, I had drunk a little too much of the sponsors Apple Juice. From that day on it changed to Rocky ockie. About five years later the ockie got dropped following a minor incident on the Rugby Pitch for which I got banned for the rest of the season. On my return as tight head prop it changed to Rock and occasional Rocker.
About five years later I went to play for another club which my brother played at so it became Rocker 2.
Even now I still get referred to as it when I head south.

[2little2late]

Never mind nicknames-think of this poor kid:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ticle95505.ece

I feel sorry for him.

Think that's bad. How about these poor souls in New Zealand.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7522952.stm

[poppett]

I used to work with a guy called "Greensleeves"....... that won`t take much working out.

In the past have been called "The Iron Lady"............ not after Maggie Thatcher, but because I ran an ironing service.

"Tangerine Dream" on the CB............ after one of my favourite sweeties, my avatar here is my other favourite sweetie and my pet name from my OH.

"The Rottweiller"............ when faced with beaurocratic bunglers.

[Tugmistress]

Ex CB Handle 'Wildcat'
Ex nickname 'Tips' (initials are PG )
current nickname 'Duchess' or 'Tuggs/Tuggy'