Nicknames you've picked up

[Hucklebubba]

So at closing the other night, I asked Doug, the security guard where I work, if he thought my store's uncanny resemblance to the Amityville house was a hindrance or help to business.

In Doug's mind, I am henceforth Mr. Amityville. It's a terrible nickname. I am not an evil house! At least, I'm reasonably certain I'm not an evil house. I assume somebody would've piped up and said something about it if I were.

Also, one of my old lady co-workers calls me Chia Pet, on account of my hairy arms.

[loulabelle]

Loulabelle is an actual nickname that my parents used that eventually rubbed off on my sister, close friends, in-laws and people I don't know well. Usually used when they're about to ask me for favours or money. Another nickname is Luigi which my best friend started when I was 9, and is still used to this day. Some dumb guys at school used to call me Louise-bian even though I had no gay tendencies. If you can't guess my real name by now, you're a little simple.

Another name I got was "Chicken-hawk" by a couple of girls I knew. I'd be walking around high school, or at the shopping centre with pals and suddenly I'd hear "Hey chicken haaaawk!" and see the two girls wave to me, and then suddenly disappear out of sight. Weird.

Oh, and I also had a superior at work who called me something else-- Lucy. Even though I had a name-tag with my name printed in bold capital letters, this woman would still call me Lucy. It confused everybody including the real Lucy, other staff and even the customers (I was a checkout chick). I tried to counter this by ignoring her until she called me by my proper name, but it only made me look bad.

[Al]

I've been saddled with a few that are mostly just variations on a theme:

Al itself is shortened from Alan, and from there has come the obligatory Big Al. I also wound up with Aldawg (or A-dawg) midway through highschool courtesy of a classmate who decided I needed a cooler name for him to yell out as we bumped chests. Aldawg mutated into "Aldos" about a year later via a friend's girlfriend who misheard my nickname and thought I really hated Windows 95. No, really.

From time to time I've also been called 'Kinger' and 'Kingfish' and so on and so forth as plays on my last name. I also had the misfortune of saying to my boss recently that I had to 'scoot,' and have been thusly dubbed Scooter. But that's not one I plan on having follow me around.

-just plain Al

[BDC]

Shadow was the original as a play off of my name. That, actually, led to my capoeira nickname of Sombra. I like Sombra, actually.

BDC was originally the name of a character I created, but just shortened it for messageboard purposes. And Pooly referred to me as this.

Only other one I have is Thunder. Because I'm loud. I kick loud, punch loud, all that stuff, more of a martial arts nickname, but not capoeira.

[TheOogieBoogieMan]

Two friends of mine developed a set of food related nicknames for their friends, and they gave me the moniker Zucchini. Being a guy, I've made some conclusions as to why they gave me that name, but I haven't shared this theory with said friends, because they are female.

[Ms. Jellybean]

<----points to name

Ms. Jellybean is one of them, and that's the result of my wearing a Larry the Cucumber shirt to band practice one day and having one of the tuba players say that it looked like I had an anorexic jellybean on my shirt.

Sunshine is another, a combined result of my grouchiness in golf matches (thank God that's over) and being a sulky little freshman drummer back in the day. Don't ask.

[mysteriorockanova]

I'm called Reidler a lot because I once dressed as the Riddler for halloween

[dajaymann]

I've been saddled with the obligatory Jay and J. P., stemming from Jayson. Recently, J. P. became my professional alter-ego when I got my new job at the radio station. Now it's all I hear, and it's funny when I see people I work with out on town and I'm around my wife, because sometimes she acts like she's about to correct them when they call me J. P.

The best nickname I had in high school was "Jesus", thanks to my long hair at the time. To this day, I might be out somewhere and hear "JESUS!!!" from across the room and directed at me. If I hear that, then I know one of my old drama/debate buddies is present.

[PoolMan]

I LOVE how the ad space at the top of the page is hocking Chia Pets. Way to go, Hucklebubba!

Once I hit high school (and right on into the present) I tend to get Pooly, PoolMan, or Seanno. Not too creative, but I still love it.

[Hucklebubba]

PoolMan said:

I LOVE how the ad space at the top of the page is hocking Chia Pets. Way to go, Hucklebubba!

No ads for Amityville houses though. Strange.

Whoa! I've got it! Chia Amityville house! You water it, and the walls bleed.