What were your childhood nicknames?

[eyesroll]

(Inspired by Terrya's "were you better looking" thread...)

I had a variety, for a variety of reasons -- I dubbed myself "Psycho" (for CB handle, back of my youth-group jersey) after getting sent to the school shrink for morbid writing; Prodigy censors wouldn't accept that as a nickname so I started appending other words and ended up as "psychovomit" there (If that sounds familiar to any Prodigy members from the early 1990s, drop me a PM.)

Of course, I was assigned nicknames as well -- some were corruptions of my first name (I was Spacey Stacie like the Garbage Pail Kid for awhile), some were personality-driven...For years I was "the Nerd." Boring, perhaps, but effective -- it bugged the crap out of me. My parents thought it was cute, though, and tried to reassure me the boys who started that were just jealous. In fact, my mom actually introduced herself as Mrs. Nerd and my sister as Nerd Junior (and said Mr. Nerd couldn't join her this evening) when one of my classmates blurted out, "Oh, she's the Nerd's mom!" at a school function.

That actually did teach me a bit about reclamation of language, and I embrace it now; I will be including the word "nerd" in my new URL when I finally get off my ass and move my blog.

So, how about you?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. fatass, tub-o-lard, fatty, yum-yum

butterball, stringbean (irony),...
therapy sucks :cry:


EDIT-And now for the more flattering ones: Bri, Bri-bri, B.B., Big B, B.Y. (my initials), B Brian Blair, B-Man, Java, Papa Bear

[sniffa]

3. ditto here

fatty, fLubsy, fat fuck, earthquake, tubby.

[eyesroll]

4. Ouch...sorry for dredging these things up...

I do wonder if kids today are more creative than they were when I was growing up...all of my peers' nicknames were either based on name rhymes or were pretty basic.

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. I'm older than you are, probably.

Believe me, if you're overweight, kids can get pretty damn creative when they want to.

[eyesroll]

11. You're only a year or two older, IIRC

I'll be 29 in a couple of weeks.

Maybe it was just my classmates were more boring than average -- shorty, four-eyes, tubby, crybaby were pretty common nicknames in my class; there rarely was a flash of inspiration.

[Misunderestimator]

25. Oops... wrong spot

[barackmyworld]

2. "Moon"

I loved the book goodnight moon when I was little, so my parents started calling me (and still call me!) Moon. It's alright, but I feel like a crazy hippie kid when they use it in public.

[mark414]

5. casper

which i still sort of have

given to me by my friend jose because "i was white and friendly"

haha, i love it

EDIT: and how could i forget, when i was real little (about 6 or 7) and marky mark and the funky bunch came out, EVERYONE called me marky mark

[eyesroll]

12. I think every Mark was Marky Mark that year...

I'm a bit older than you and we had our Marky Marks, too.

When I was teaching, one of my students nicknamed me "lint ball" because I was "small, white and frizzy-haired." That was one of those things that I tried only half-assedly to shut down, because it actually cracked me up quite a bit.

[rocktivity]

7. At the Greenwich Village Halloween parade one year

Someone in a trench coat and a monster mask came up to me and said, "Hi, Adrie!" I had absolutely no idea who it was. Fortunately, it dawned on me that no one outside of my family calls me Adrie, so this person couldn't have been any of my friends. So I started naming my cousins, and hit the jackpot on my second guess!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Cheswick2.0]

8. stilts

and spaghetti legs. Yup, I was tall and skinny.

[SarahB]

9. SarahBelle

My dad used to call me that and that's about it. Actually, my maiden name is a one syllable name that has a zillion things that rhyme with it, so I suppose in elementary school, people came up with stupid things in that regard, but other than that, nope, no nicknames really, just plain Sarah.

[Commendatori]

10. Lefty (n/t)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Humdinger

Dad's nickname for me. Then my aunt and uncle call me Missy. My sister always called me Liss. In Middle school it was Buzzard, which I hated until High school, then people started calling me Buzz and Buzzy.

Duckie

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. My freshman baseball team named me "Snake."

I don't quite know why.

[eyesroll]

15. Because you spent all your time chasing the ball through the grass

instead of catching it?

:P

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. That was cold.

[eyesroll]

18. Ice, ice baby.

[TXlib]

32. Just my first name... not much you can do to it.

but my coworkers call me Dubya.

There are three of us with the same first name in this office, and we do similar things. So, we're all referred to by our last names. Except me; I have a long last name, so they call me Dubya. They thought it would piss me off, me being the resident "Pinko Commie Tree-Hugging Liberal" - meaning I refuse to embrace Bush as the Second Coming.

It fails to piss me off.

[Lavender Brown]

17. Petey

I was the third daughter... so maybe my parents wanted a boy? :shrug:

[Donkeyboy75]

19. In third grade

I was The Absent-Minded Professor. Lost five...yes five...jackets that year.

[eyesroll]

20. Wow!

Maybe you should have pinned them to your mittens or something...

[Donkeyboy75]

21. I am still completely absent-minded,

and was very active as a kid. My mom made me wear jackets when I wasn't cold, so I'd invariably get outside, take it off, and forget all about it. Then, of course, I wouldn't even remember where I left it.

[asthmaticeog]

22. Crotch.

Seriously. Not for the reasons some of the more filthy-minded among you are thinking (oh good lord, if only), but because I have a clunky teutonic surname that sounds a lot like crotch.

It was a sucky nickname, but compared to my friend sur-named "Shipmann," I got off light.

[scarlet_owl]

23. Emmy.

I thought my name was actually Emmy up until the second or third grade. It wasn't until I saw a copy of my birth certificate that I found out my name was Ember.

[Samurai_Writer]

24. God what painful memories!

I was called the following during grade school:

Blockhead -- last name of Block
<first name> Square -- which was a real insult in those days (1960s)

During Junior High --

Shorty (because I reached my full height of 5'11" at age 11 -- I'm female)

During High School --

Hips -- my measurements were 34-23-37... I was 5'11" and weighed 120#. Large hipbones in women run in my family.

I was probably called even less desirable things behind my back. Kids are so mean!

[eyesroll]

28. That, they are...

I know I did my share of behind-their-back name-calling (I don't know whether I was too nice, too mean or too chicken to do it to their faces), even after (perhaps as a result of) being teased. It wasn't pretty.

[Misunderestimator]

26. Noodlebrain, Nutter-Butter, Boom-Boom (not what you think), Boomer

Even though I wasn't a chubby child, my lovely brothers also called me fatso and butterball... in retrospect, I will never understand those. The only time I had a problem with weight was when I switched careers in my thirties and sat behind a desk too many hours a day without changing my habits. I got rid of that weight after a couple of years of wondering how much more I could gain.

[baldguy]

27. Flerk, Igor, Muppet-head

shorted to Muppet or Mup

[AngryAmish]

29. Girl I knew in college

Her name was Martina (Marty) Fess so naturally she was called Farty Mess in grade school.

[bif]

30. Geezer

Because I started getting grey hair when I was 15. or 16.

[redqueen]

31. The only one I can think of is ...

vibrator.

I know... it makes no sense. But this guy in elementary school used to make up risque nicknames based on people's initials. My initials were 'VB', so... I was 'vibrator'. I had such a crush on him.

:loveya:

[tigereye]

33. that is a very silly one RQ

let's see

4-eyes - cuz of glasses
Brain - self-explanatory
and in college - Buffy, sometimes Fluffy Buffy - my frathouse nickname -overcompensating for all those years of nerddom, I suppose.


Currently my nickname is "Ben's mom"

[meow2u3]

34. Duck

I was 6 months old--yes, you're reading this right--when I started to walk. Problem was, I was born with a dislocated hip which caused my right foot to turn in at a 90 degree angle. In diapers, my mom said I walked like Donald Duck, so hence the nickname "Duck."

[Kathleen04]

35. Fuzz or Fuzzy

I have big curly hair. :silly:

[realisticphish]

36. vagina-face

i had a beard in high school (and still do), and several insanely immature friends. luckily, they were small, and i was not, so i just hit them every time they said it, and they stopped:)


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Richardo]

37. In Little League: 'Beetle Bailey'

'Cause when I'd run the bases the batting helmet would come down over my eyes.

I always kinda liked that one...

Example:

[Bossy Monkey]

38. John-John (only through 11/63), Jay, Marshall Dillon

(as Marshall is my middle name)

Later: D, J.D., and very rarely ('cause I really hate it) Johnny.

Of the cruel ones, I don't think anybody much bothered to call me Four-Eyes. One friendly enemy and debate partner went in for Pizza-Face a lot. Fun, huh?

[Ladyhawk]

39. Torpedo Tits :) n/t

[VOX]

40. Stilts, slats, Jolly Green Green Giant, Daddy Long Legs...

"How's the weather up there?" and "What are the giraffes having for lunch?"

Basically every tall/skinny nickname in the book.

[ronnykmarshall]

41. Butch

and if you say anything smart, I'll slap you silly.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

42. None from friends

Dad called me "Punkin" and "Sweetie," to my everlasting embarrassment (but how I long to hear him call me that now, him having been dead since 1983).

[Deja Q]

43. Gremlin, fag, god's joke, nark, geek, dweeb, nerd, dork, but more often

I'd just get dirty looks. (What'd I do to deserve the hatred?)