I hate to post twice here, but this hit me. Nicknames. ALmost everybody has them. Either you get them from your parents, or your friends, or someone else that just utters a certain phrase that sticks to you. When I was very young, my mother called me Tater one day in front of my friends. It stuck. I been Tater ever since. Played organized softball for twenty years, and almost everybody knew me as Tater, but couldn't tell you my real first name. Actually, I'm kinda proud of it. It sure aint as bad as some I have heard. Come on now, anyone got a nickname you're stuck with that you'll share with us?
------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Signs&Grafix 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
Not I; my parents named me "Samazon" cuz they knew I was gonna be tall and they liked the name "Sam."
------------------ “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” - Anais Nin www.samazon.com sam@samazon.com
Posted by Brenda Daley Giuseppin (Member # 37) on :
I will probably regret this.....
In public school, my friends called me Brenny Bear. Not sure when or who started it...but I'm 30 years old and still can't hide from that name.
The worst experience was when I was in College and thought that I had escaped "Brenny Bear". I was with all my new classmates on my 3rd day of school. I was trying to be cool...you know...new friends and all. Then all of a sudden I heard someone from down the hall yell "BRENNY BEAR!". Needless to say, that stuck in College and still today. I hate that person now..lol
------------------ Brenda Beaupit Classic Graphics Kemptville, Ont CANADA
Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
Ahh, Tater good post... good of you and Brenny Bear to open up. I have a friend named John who as a young boy could not pronunce a friends name "Joseph" he said "Jofe" which his brother found hillarious, now I would say only a few people Know his name is John...
As for my nickname, The Landlord of my old shop use to call it out every time he saw me, him another customer who didn't know each other started doing it then it just stuck. I think the landlord told me "Captain Ken" was the #1 morning DJ on local radio.
------------------ -------------------------------------------------- "A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?"
Ken McTague The Witch city Salem, MA
Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :
Fellow Letterhead read my sign on name(which is how I sign all my artwork!....PKing.... followed by the statement:"Like the Duck?" From there yet another Letterhead started calling me DUCKIE. Which makes my New Wife DUCKETTE and her son,THE DUCKLING!! I am now the proud owner of quite a collection of all types and sizes of DUCKS. I even have "The Original Rubber Ducky" toy. Have even incorporated it into signage and alternate company selling apparrel. Can't say if I Hate it or Love it.Either way this BB can drive you Quackers!!
------------------ PKing is Pat King of King Sign Design in McCalla,Alabama The Professor of SIGNOLOGY
Posted by Brenda Daley Giuseppin (Member # 37) on :
Quakers! haha that's too funny!
------------------ Brenda Beaupit Classic Graphics Kemptville, Ont CANADA
Posted by Marty Happy (Member # 302) on :
My last name doubles as my nickname. As long as I can remember many close people called me "Happy" and it's the same for my son as well as my brothers. I have to say that our unique surname (which is an Anglicized version of a name East-European in origin) makes it easy for people to remember me for business purposes!
Happy Signing.....Marty
------------------ Marty Happy Signmaker Since 1974 Happy Ad Sign & Design Regina SK, Canada S4N 5K4
Kookaburra, the nickname I use on chat, originated from one of the first times I got into a chat room. It was a german chat room, and I wanted a nickname that was distinctly australian, but not overly common, like kangaroo, or koala.. So Kookaburra (or Kookie for short) it was.
Another nickname is the one my parents use for me... Potato... Sounds weird? Yep Get the way it came around: Katie Tatie Tater Potater Potato
so there ya go Now, none of you in here call me potato, you hear me?
------------------ From Katie Wright, 16 year old professional signie wannabe from Aus.
"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on it that you can"
Posted by Brenda Daley Giuseppin (Member # 37) on :
Joey "the" Maid-hen? Joey "the" Madman? Joe Joe Madame?
haha jokin...pokin fun!
------------------ Brenda Beaupit Classic Graphics Kemptville, Ont CANADA
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Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
I think I remember a time that joey was going by something else.... Grumpy...Sneazy....Dopey...or was it Doc? Happy?...no thats the other guy. I had a friend growing up yhat was determined to get everybody a nickname, he would take the first sylabol of your last name and add "ip"! so I became McTip and Sweeney became "swip" and so on and so forth It would vary when needed i.e. brenda would be "B'pip"
------------------ -------------------------------------------------- "A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?"
Ken McTague The Witch city Salem, MA
Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
I think I remember a time that joey was going by something else.... Grumpy...Sneazy....Dopey...or was it Doc? Happy?...no thats the other guy. I had a friend growing up yhat was determined to get everybody a nickname, he would take the first sylabol of your last name and add "ip"! so I became McTip and Sweeney became "swip" and so on and so forth It would vary when needed i.e. brenda would be "B'pip"
------------------ -------------------------------------------------- "A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?"
Ken McTague The Witch city Salem, MA
Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :
Some of my podners from Boscoville hung the nickmane "Big Toe" more than 30 years ago.
My Dad gave me the moniker of 'Scootie' before I was even born, don't know why, just his form of warped humor to haunt me for life. Still my family and a few close friends call me that. When I played in a music group a few of the guys got to calling me 'Booker T' (from Booker T and the MG's because I played keyboard,,, though I'm not African American).My wife got the nickname 'Boop' from me because she's small and petite like 'Betty Boop' from the old cartoons. Funny how names get stuck on you from many different reasons.
------------------ Larry
Elliott Design McLemoresville, Tn.
If you can't find the time to do it right, where gonna find the time to do it over?
Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :
my mother called me "joey" till the day she passed away...hated that name.....when i was 3-4 yrs old couldnt pronounce my last name, came out close to "pidgeon" and it stuck, to this day i go back to my home town, and its "pidge". in the air force my 1st sgt had trouble with my last name....he called me "primbish" for 4 yrs.... thru the steelers haydays of the 70's i picked up the nick of "franco" from franco harris...kinda looked like him.... also have a few friends in sarasota call me "bear"....a few women who called me "animal" ex wifes who call me other things......and here iam old paint.....
------------------ joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-944-5060 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND
Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :
Well most of you know me by RAVEN.. and the handle came from when I was on the road Long Hauling...I didn't like driving in the day time as there was to much traffic on the road... So I sleeped all day and fly by night. Thus quotes the Raven Never More!
Raven/2001
------------------ Raven/2000 Airbrushed by Raven Lower sackville N.S. deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
Hmmmmm well my dear ole Dad called me Snicklefritz I was called Nutbie in school. When I dumped my last boyfriend he called me...........*#@*!*+#@
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Posted by Adrienne Pereira (Member # 1046) on :
I never had a nickname, nothing really rhymes with Adrienne, and I was always embarrassed by my name (too long and different) a group of girlfriends I've hung out with for years all have thier own, 'sept me.......
In chat I get called 'Rain' or 'Katt' for Rainkatt (old aol sign on name) Ron Percell's been calling me 'A' whenever I call over to his shop. Guess it's because I've been signing my posts just A, simply because i'm too lazy to type out the whole thing....... I dunno.....
oh, BTW...I named my daughter Christelle...cuz it's too long and different
A
------------------ Adrienne Morgan Splash Signs www.splashsigns.com "Rainkatt'
I never really had any nicknames til' I started stripin'...except what Mom called me...
I used to sign all my work with a DH...One day my boss (a long time friend, also) came out, looked down, and said, "Who did this? Dick Head?!" and believe it or not, it stuck...kinda funny...
When I worked at Spevco, I used to call everybody 'dude' or 'man'...I was in one of those stages (called herbal dependence) and it just came second nature. I got to be known as "Dude" around there...I can walk in there tomorrow and someone will hollar out, "DUDE!!"...cool feelin'...
Nowadays, it's a lil' more complex. Some call me "Crash" or "Convict" (for that run-in with the law a while back), "Dude" (still hangin'), D---wayne (for those that just wanna drag it out), and on occasion, I get called "Dwayne"...
I knew there were some out there. Good ones too. Here are a few of my friends nicknames: Scrap Iron Toehead Ricko Roscoe P. Spud Cockrod Farmer Dog Butch Pud and my late best friend, his nickname was "BUBBLEHEAD", but I called him "BUB" for short.
------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Signs&Grafix 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
Get the way it came around:
