Nicknames are a funny thing. I did a post sometime around early summer of last year (2006) which I’ll leave for you to search out if you have an interest. In any event, some names are bestowed upon us due to characteristic traits; in remembrance of something we were involved in that made us unique; because someone, generally a child, could not pronounce our name when we were younger; or some other viable reason. Sometimes those nicknames have been with us for a lifetime and in other cases, they are new found names. Some of us have multiple nicknames, some of us have merely one, and then some of us have none at all. I have five. Some of us love our given nicknames while others despise them, passing along an evil look when that fateful word (or words) are uttered. Heck, I suspect there are a few poor souls that have been ‘pounced’ on for muttering a nickname one-to-many times.
So why the sudden interest in writing about nicknames? I have had a few people, via email and or commentary on my blog postings, ask why I have my most current nickname, STROKER. Well, I actually think it was payback from a friend, a fellow blogger, for initializing my email correspondence to him with Smiley (What can I say when someone has a great smile, a great set of teeth, and happens to be a dentist.). Yes, it’s the obvious. Dear old Josh from Smiley’s Place christened me with that name publicly on one of my blog posts and from there it has stuck. Seems like a number of my close blogger buds, many now friends, have run with it. I’ve never asked Josh exactly why he chose to bless me with that nickname but I am sure part of it was a play of the name of my blog…a shortened version of Brushstrokes. And I am that Mr. Smiley had other ‘naughty’ things running through his mind when he memorialized it in my blog. (*insert devilish grin coming from me here*) Guys, guess you’ll have to remain in a state of wonderment as to any truthfulness to the later. HEHEHE!
Happy to say, I’m enjoying that little teaser of a nickname.
Hmmm! I have a great question for today’s “How Do You Like It?” Tuesday.
If you have a nickname, what is it, how do you like it, and how did you end up with the name?
I realize some of you may have nicknames as bloggers and maybe those are valid names…at least tell us how you landed them. For those of you absent any nicknames, perhaps you have a short funny story to share regarding this specific topic.
I’ll be waiting to hear those responses!
February 6, 2007 at 1:58 am
Interesting topic for a post…hmmm. Nicknames. The one that comes to mind is Ricker for obvious reasons, my first name being Rick. Then there’s my X used to call me Pucci based off a restaurant we liked to frequent. (Haven’t thought of that one in awhile.) Lately, I get Bandit as people sometimes confuses as the Bandit from Bandit Talks.
February 6, 2007 at 2:23 am
I have to laugh at Rick’s comment. When I talk to bloggers, I am always identified as Sorted. I don’t mind.
As for other friends, my ex David and I had the same pet name for each other and still say it when we see each other or chat on the phone. All of our friends think it’s so cute that after 3 years, we still call each other our pet name.
February 6, 2007 at 3:17 am
My blogger penname is self-selected and my reason is listed on my site.
I was, however, given a nickname by my fellow scouts as a youth. Interestingly I just had a conversation with someone from TN (*wink*) about it over the weekend. I would prefer not to mention the name explicitly, but I will state that it was also the first name of a very popular, sexy, well-endowed (female) movie star at the time. I’m not sure anyone in the troop new my real name!
February 6, 2007 at 3:17 am
Oh, the name was derived from the fact that my last name and her last name were similar.
February 6, 2007 at 9:37 am
R.C., my first and middle initial. My mom says my dad is responsible for it and my dad says it was my mom who started calling me it (they were big RC Cola drinkers – my dad still is). I hate it with a passion because of all the f’ing “Like the Cola?” responses or other such comments growing up.
February 6, 2007 at 9:45 am
Interesting…
For many years-back a half life ago-I spent most of my time on the road and the only communication I had with anyone most days was via CB Radio or a Satellite keyboard. Because trucking is so isolating and cell phones weren’t affordable, most people communicated via CB handles. AKA nicknames-
It allowed a person to communicate information without law enforcement knowing who you were, what truck you were driving, or what cargo was loaded in your wagon.
My handle-”Northern Exposure” was earned through misfortune. I’d locked myself out a man hating peterbilt, in my underwear. Stuck in the middle of the desert, it was one of the more humiliating moments of my life and natually just about everyone I knew happened to be running that stretch of highway that day. I was busted. The rest of the story is found here http://www.highmountainranch.com/Book/C14.shtml
Great topic!
February 6, 2007 at 11:41 am
Stroker is a nickname I played off your blog title, that is true. But all the sexual innuendos were meant LOL
February 6, 2007 at 11:52 am
Maddog is a nickname I got during college. I’d gone to lunch with a professor friend and a girl I worked with came by and said “What’s up Maddog?” I’d never been called that before and I asked her later why she called me that and she said she called everyone that. Lucky for me it stuck. Within a couple of weeks everyone was calling me Maddog and to this day students and faculty alike from that time in my life call me Maddog.
February 6, 2007 at 2:55 pm
My honey and I have numerous disgustingly sickening sweet and annoying ones: sweet pea, pookie, daddy, papa and other terrible ones….you can stop laughting now. My dad used to call me “ornery Arnie” (my first name)…and it was oh-so-correct.
February 6, 2007 at 5:33 pm
I only explain my blogger name offline. Those that have met me understand (as I think you do, Tony).
In real life, I don’t use my given first name. I’ve just never cared for it. I go by a shortened version of my middle name, which confuses the shit out of government/occupational forms. They just don’t do well with someone who uses their first initial and middle name.
The nickname I use for Sorted, offline, is Monet, for reasons that are well known to him.
February 6, 2007 at 5:48 pm
I have a nickname given to me by my parents – evidently it comes from the fact that I could not say my real name when I was a very small child – HEY – I never claimed to be the smartest tool in the shed… Brett would not come out but this did – and to this day they call be that and to this day I HATE IT!
If I ever was to tell you – I would HAVE to kill you because if you ever used it, yea, I would have to kill you.
February 6, 2007 at 6:06 pm
I get called JT a lot (my initials), but the last real nickname I had was in high school and I still don’t know exactly the origin of it. A handful of friends called me JT’s Giveaway. I surely wasn’t giving anything away, at least not to them.
February 6, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Why do you and Spider have virtually the same entry, anyhow?
February 6, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I have a few… 1. Fluffy, a name given to me by my brother in reference to my chest of hair. 2. Roqit Man… My, uhh, “friends” (tricks) dubbed me that after, uhh, some sweaty activity. Hit the ceiling a few times…
February 6, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Jake was the nickname my brother gave me years ago. He started out by calling me “Jake the Snake” like the wrestler. Soon it went to Jake then Jacob and sometimes Jakester. I like Jake and am totally comfortable with it. I’ve got a few other nicknames other family members have given me over the years. My ex’s called me “Baby Boy” which I thought was ironic considering I never shared it with the latter.
February 7, 2007 at 10:36 am
LOL – I’ve got lots of nicknames… MY first one was “Mutt” – being that Matt is my real name…
The one I hated the most – but came to be just a name, and then a term of endearnment – was one I got in the Army that one is “Suckman” – however I never earned that one until later…
Then the next one was “Bobo” – which lasted for about 20 years and evolved into “Beau” and was real cute when I was dating a man named Beau – Then “Sam” & “Jack”
Right now I’m calling Cowboy “BOO” – don’t know why, it just is…
February 7, 2007 at 4:23 pm
I could’ve swore I posted a comment about my nickname?? Maybe I’m getting CRS…can’t remember shit.
Anywhoo…..in HS my nickname was “Dante Hell”. It was a play on my real name. At home, my family calls me “Donnie J” (for my first name and second initial…since my Dad is also a Donnie).
February 7, 2007 at 6:31 pm
I only had one and it was when I was litte, I hated it, it was tater head! Cause my head was huge when I was little with a little body. Thank goodness the body finally caught up.
February 7, 2007 at 8:21 pm
First there was Mr. Feeney based on a mispronunciation of my last name.
Then there was Lotta in high school because I once ate a Big Mac meal after a snow trip followed by a cheeseburger. I guess that qualifies a growing young man as a ‘Little Lotta’…go figure.
Then there was Scooter…a name given me by my current partner. He thought I was a yuppie when we met because I was a Stanford grad. What’s worse is some friends shortened that to Scoots which I really hate.
I never really had a problem with any of them except the last one. Scoots sounds like I suffer from incontinence.
February 8, 2007 at 2:43 pm
I have two nick names. My family often calls me “McGert” because it rhymes with the shortened variation – Curt.
The other nick name I have is “Woody”. I’m not going to explain anything more on that one!! Put two and two together.
I find both of them endearing.
February 8, 2007 at 8:04 pm
My nicknames:
Peanut (by my Uncle)
Pumpkin Head (by a friend)
Shelly (by my Mom)
Worm (by my Dad)
Because I love to read and it is short for bookworm. (although sounds very strange to be called WORM! LOL
Michy (by boyfriend)
Mickey (by childhood friends)
My name is Michelle. Nicknames are fun. Thanks for sharing yours.
February 8, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I may have told you this before, so forgive me if I have. My blog name is also my nickname. the nickname came first. You know WHY have the nickname, but it was given to me because i was once at a pool party where there were two or three Tonys. Someone made a reference to me and to clarify which Tony he was talking about, he referred to me a “LARGE” Tony.
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