nick names

[Andy Hamilton]

The earlier gnome topic got me thinking about nicknames that I have had. such as handrill, meltdown man and Smythey to name but a few.

I wonder if the internet has had much influence and if kids at school are now called alteredbeast2001 or whatever?

[ina]

such as handrill, meltdown man and Smythey to name but a few.

Why?

[Andy Hamilton]

such as handrill, meltdown man and Smythey to name but a few.

Why?

Handrill as it sounds a bit like Andrew, meltdown as I would always fall asleep at parties and meltdown was a version of hameltdown (get it?) Smythey short for hamilton-smythe my nickname when I lived in notts. I was considered posh as I was going to move to Bath.

[Shirley]

ROFLMAO!!!

I didn't ever have a nickname until I lived in Brighton... and I got nicknamed crasher cos every computer I used at my job at the airport CRASHED!!!! Not my fault I have to say... !!

[ina]

meltdown as I would always fall asleep at parties

I thought that was our family's prerogative - my brother and I were both famous for that (although we rarely went to the same parties, being 7 years apart)!

Quite complicated nicknames, though...

[Millymollymandy]

Handrill Hameltdown - you have some strange friends!!

[Tigerhair]

Mostly the ones I've had derive from my name - Imogen
So...
Estrogen
Sanatogen
I'm A Germ
Snogz
Nogz
Imz
Imagine
Imi
Smurf (maiden name was Smith)
and some I won't mention!

[Hillbilly]

You did have some weird nicknames!

Mine was 'Pooh'. Not because I smelled but because of mymaiden name which was Winstone. That got morphed into Winnie then some bright spark decided to drop the Winnie and concentrate on Pooh...

[Ranter]

Babs.

Nothing to do with the internet, but the name my brother gave me as I'm the baby of the family (a fair bit younger than he & our sister). Snag is, I'm almost 35 & he still calls me Babs, so do most of his friends who don't have a clue what my real name is...

[shiney]

I have been called

Carter (after Jimmy Carter president of America, because when he smiled he always had big teeth. Apparently, I show a lot of my teeth when I smile)

Knasher (used to wear a Dennis the Menace type jumper rather a lot)

Batley ~ like my name 'Natley'

Tomahawk ~ I had rather spikey hair when I was younger and used to wear feathery earrings.

And of course many other silly names.

[Wombat]

For some reason most of mine contain 4 letters and are not repeatable in polite company.

I have been called the Swede or Sween (corruption of Sweeney obviously) and weed - same derivation also enjay (my first two initials). A favourite greeting from a guy I sed to work with was "wahtsay enjay".

In the same vein, I used to work with a Chnese guy called Joe Ho and one of the guys greeting for him every morning was "Hi Ho"!

Nev