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On the Subject of Nicknames Whats yours and Why?

Colywobbles

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So on the FF thread it seems a well known pinball personality called Jack Danger gets grief just because what his Parents or friends nicknamed him way back when to the point some will refuse to watch his Channel/Stream so this got me thinking what is your nickname and why? do you like it, put up with it or just learned to live with it?

I know some on here have obvious ones as @Gonzo was telling me how he used to be involved in the Porn industry due to his extremely large package but I don't believe him TBH :p

Ill go first.
As a kid at school I was known as Chatty and I've no idea why but the wife does often say to me and I quote "please don't start talking to anyone when we get in here as we haven't got time" It was used less and less grew out of this after leaving school.
Nothing much changed till I started to play online games and as Coly was always taken I settled on ColyWobbles as it was nearly always there. This was my online Monika from then and the rest is history as they say.
 
Many moons ago back in 1989, I was in mates car whilst under the influence, after eating a small piece of paper. I wound down the window and starting barking at the passers by for a laugh. A friend in the car said = check out Steve the dog !
steve the dog, soon became just dog, which years later became doggard

Back when we had no mobile phones, my mates would come round and ask if dog was in, my mum would say sorry, only steven lives here, and shut the door !
Still to this day she gets wound up when people call me dog 🤣🤣
 
Ha ha this got me thinking 😂 been called so many things over the years my wife’s nickname for me, I can’t say but begins with a C ends with a T, at school younger years wardy comes from my surname ward then scotty doo which is obs then Scottytoohotty thanks to wwe, mostly during early school was always the beam me up scotty Star Trek joke, also while in school dam Chesney hawkes sung that one and only song and my life was ruined as everyone said I looked like him!
 
Can't recall a time before I was called Crewey (surname + y)
In college I enrolled wearing a t-shirt with an axe logo,the tutors from that point forward only called me Chopper for two years.
A group of lads I played footy with called me Sadsack (as in the raggy dolls) for a while as I'm generally a lumbering clumsy tw@t

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I spent 10 years of my career working in Asia. I lived in 3 different counties during that time but had a regional role so did a LOT of travel. One year I took 70 flights and spent 120 nights in hotels. Anywhere from Japan down to Indonesia and Sri Lanka across to the Phillipines. I was like a pinball, in Asia.

And Asia is where I bought my first 30ish machines. 2 containers came back with us, one for the furniture and the other for the pinballls.
 
At work I often get called DB after my initials, or birdman because I've rescued a few pigeons/doves at work😆.
The first one was spotting a fledgling dove in the inspection pit in the loco shed, it must have fallen from a nest in the roof and it was covered in dirt and oil. We sign on at 'the loco' at the start of a shift and obviously I couldn't take the Dove out with me so I asked the depot drivers to look after it. I returned to the loco at the end of my shift to find the Dove in the depot drivers office where they'd tried to feed it chips.
I took it home where it slept in our bedroom for two nights (in a box of course) until we could take it to a rehabber in a nearby village. I like to think it's living it's best life now.
So that depot driver and a few others started refering to me as birdman 😄

I kill pigeons and doves often at work so it's good to try give some a second chance rather than them suffer slowly.

I'm sure there's other nicknames I don't know about.

Usernames online are a different thing and usually separate to nicknames. Difference being you don't usually choose your nickname.
 
Every time you bought at Tandy they insisted on your name and address and then bombarded you with junk mail. Someone on Anstey Lane Leicester is still probably getting junk addressed to Sven Normansson.
 
Calimori comes from Greco-Latin and has nothing to do with squid. It also isn't at all funny, I was a Goth back then.
I have been told by people who know old languges various meanings. Decay or Honorable Death are the best two, worse is Hot Death.
From my first use of the internet, even back when it was a positive force, I have always been very protective of my actual identity, so used a variety of pseudonyms. Many are now dormant, waiting for the day the Rev Dick Tater needs to come back to life.
 
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I REALLY need to stop scanning through messages. I totally misread that last word as “Taster”. Which would be a fantastic Nick name but it would take a very confident man to introduce himself as that.

Sadly, I don’t think I’ve ever hated a nickname. Probably I didn’t have enough friends to qualify for one.
 
I’m a stereoscopic (3D) photographer, collector and photo-historian of stereoscopic photography, with my initials JB. So I’ve always been JB3d on stereo forums and just carried that over here. My avatar is a kid looking through a 1950s Viewmaster 3D viewer.
 
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