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Okay letterville friends, Whats your nickname? What moniker did some friend or foe or family member stick you with for eternity. Mine is "Tater" Had it since I was about 12. More people here local call me that than they do John. (in case someone has already done a post like this, thats alright, lets do it again.)
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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Clay started calling me Raven when we met - of course I had black hair then! LOL
Then for work stuff, I started using ChefRaven as the name I wrote my culinary stuff under.
Samantha calls me Magic Mommy because she thinks I can do EVERYTHING...wonder how long that's gonna last????????
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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1963: Jillbeans 1964: Jill Pickles 1966: Pixie Galore (all given by my dad) 1980: Silly Jilly (coined by a co-worker) 1990: The Sign Lady 2003: The Coro Queen 2004: The Panel Diva Love....Jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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I used to get called a LOT of stuff a long time ago . . . . . .( )
I never had a real nickname 'til I went in sign biz....a lotta the guys who's race cars I used to do called me "oneshot" a lot, when they saw the paint I was using . . .I have a coupl'a cabbies who just call me 'signs' all the time...
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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ummm.....uh....Captain....since 1989... C'apt Ken Shelton was a popular local radio DJ..
Most of my friends call me Captain Ken now Most of my enemies still call me f^*kin azhole,
either one, I will probably answer to both
Hey Jill, I saw your movie I think! pornography has come along way since the 60's, but you still look great! damn, can I say pornography here? oh sheit can I say damn? I better shut the hell up....
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-------------------- Ken McTague, Concept Signs 57 Bridge St. (route 107) Salem MA 01970 1-978-745-5800 conceptsign@yahoo.com http://www.pinheadlounge.com/CaptainKen
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"A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?" Posts: 2425 | From: Salem, MA | Registered: Apr 1999
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Some may call me Joe, some may call me Moe, they often call me Speedoo but my real name is Mister Earl......
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-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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When I was REALLY young..."Solomon" as in the nursery rhyme.
Later..."4 eyes" cuz of the glasses.
In mid life.."The Grinch"
By a really close friend..always have been "Cecil" (my middle name is Cyril)
Lately.."the Sticker Guy"
Most recently.."Ya lucky son of a Bitch" (dunno why..maybe because I have found a way to make myself "lucky"?)
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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My middle name is Cloud (family surname) so I've been Cloud or Cloudy since pretty near the beginning. Magoo gave me Cat on chat (less letters!)
-------------------- Catharine C. Kennedy CCK Graphics 1511 Route 28 Chatham Center, NY 12184 cck1620@taconic.net "Look at me, Look at me, Look at me now! I't's fun to have fun, But you have to know how!" Posts: 2173 | From: downtown Chatham Center, NY | Registered: Feb 2004
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I work part time for the Sheriff and even he calls me sticky..Stickysam's Signs.
-------------------- Robert Davis Sticky Sam's Signs (828)488-1715 stickysam@dnet.net The Great Smoky Mountains Bryson City, N.C. Posts: 133 | From: Bryson City, N.C. US | Registered: Jul 2000
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Since the day I opened my doors I've been called "SignLady". No one knew my name but it travelled fast that there was a new sign shop in town and a "lady" owned it. After 5 years, most people still don't know my name- just "SignLady".
-------------------- Linda Schmidt Vital D'Signs Greers Ferry, AR signlady@ozarkisp.net Posts: 160 | From: Greers Ferry, AR | Registered: Sep 2001
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Just a twist on the same idea ....but are you a person who GIVES nicknames??
I don't really know why I give certain people nicks but . . .sometimes it's just 'cause I like to play and be silly. . .
My oldest daughter, Erica I always called "Hannah" and usually used it when directing her into the truck, or a chair: 'Hop in Hannah!' She is also still known by everyone as 'Rica' or 'Rica Gia' (her middle name is Gia) which I always called her anytime I was'nt calling her Hannah.
Emily is always 'Amah-layiah' which is just a fun way to stretch out her name and I was actually using it years before I found out that this was partly the Greek pronunciation. And she also goes by 'Em'.
~Lot'sa cute nicks for neices & nephews and kids at church who are now teens and I STILL call them by my-given nick:
Charity became 'Cheech'..less syllables I guess and not many girls with a 'ch' sound in their name...
Mara, my niece - I always call 'Too-mara'(take off on tommorrow)
Nephew Jessie is 'Jittybayree' or 'Jitty' because of a mentally retarded guy I know named Jessie Berry who pronounces his own name this way . . .
My niece, Loren was and is always Keesh because of 'quiche lorraine'(even though she's now grown and married)
Stephanie is 'Stefawn'
Brandon is 'Branded'
Austin is 'AustinTexas'
Wayne is 'WayneBrain' (because he's kind'a goofy and it's better than 'lamebrain' and still rhymes...
Wayne's mom always wears her hair in a braid that's way past her butt so I call her 'Hop-sing' (like the cook-guy on Bonanza)
Dozens more . . .(if someone does'nt like the nick I give them I don't use it though....but I probably still THINK it, lol
I think I primarily do this in order to simply REMEMBER names which I am bad about forgetting...
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Blab (from talking a lot in grade school) 10-R-10 (grade school, again, because my last name was Iorio) Iorio cookie Barb Barbie-(yuck!) Babsie-(yuck, even MORE!!!!) Jagoff (my husband's pet name for me) Weezie (my middle name is Louise) Boobie Bubsie Signlady, Paint lady, Gimme-some-kind-of-sign-girl(by a fav. customer) Bobbie-yep, that is my nick name since I was little.
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thewordinsigns@alltel.net Posts: 3485 | From: Jamestown, PA 16134 | Registered: Oct 2002
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Nobody knows my real name is Wayne Joseph Rees. Feels real weird to even type it, and I always know I'm in trouble if someone calls me by it. I don't use my first name because Wayne is my Dad. Thank God we had different middle names or I would surely have grown up being called Junior, or worse, Wayn-ey. <shudder>
Just don't call me Joey please, only my Mom can get away with that. Joseph doesn't sit well with me either - ruined in the 2nd grade by a particularly gangly pigtailed cootie machine who relished in calling me "Jofus". <sudders again>
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My kids call me Muzz or Muzzy. My side of the family calls me "Dee". As a kid, my older brother called me Toadsey Odor (I liked frogs).(My younger brothers still say ribit-ribit when they see me).
Diane
-------------------- Balch Signs 1045 Raymond Rd Malta, NY 12020 518 885-9899 signs@balchsigns.com http://www.balchsigns.com Posts: 1701 | From: MaltaNY | Registered: Jan 2000
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Captain Jim started on the CB radio 1971 shorten to CJ around 1985
my gran-kids ( 2 ) call me Rascal
-------------------- Ed CJ Williams CJ Graffx Christiana,Pa. cjgraffx@comcast.net Just have'n fun.... Posts: 296 | From: Christiana,Pa. | Registered: May 1999
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Bubba...really. T-Bird T-Bone My close friends call me T.
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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Funny, I picked that one myself, the first time I chatted ANYwhere. 'Moon' coz I was born under a full one and love da LUNAcy of it ever since, & 'Lite' because LIFE is should be less filling and humor should be lite-hearted. I'm ALL about FUN!
It's true. I've met people here in chat and Letterville I'd NEVER know by their 'real' names...and to me? They'll always be.... Bushie, OneShot, Peaches, Kai, DrCas, or...whatever. It does NOT mean disrespect. It's a good thing.
Nicks are GREAT. They're the name WE conceive of Ourselves, NOT the one our parents gave us before they knew us.
There's a good thing in that: naming ourselves, WHEN we finally KNOW ourselves...or admit to knowing how much we don't know, but are willing to accept, about ourselves. ;o) ... OR how the local 'hood or businesses conceives us. That's kewl, too.
Frankly? Call me anything. Just Call ME if you need a good sign. *S*
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-------------------- Karen Wunch (kwunch on chat) A2Z SIGNS in Buford, GA 678.714.1965 ---------------- "Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest." ~~Beatrice Potter Posts: 126 | From: Buford Georgia | Registered: Jan 2003
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Some of my friends here have some good ones too. Scrap Iron, Ricko, Roscoe, Boman,Zeke, Jethro, Moe, The Gift, Dr Squat, Bigman,Goose,Hoot, I could go on. I think most of them dont know their real names anymore. I know when I played softball, if you called me john everybody would look around like, Who the hell is john? Thats Tater!
-------------------- Maker of fine signs and other creative stuff. Located at 109 N. Cumberland ave. Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-837-0242 Posts: 4172 | From: Ages-Brookside, Ky. Up the Holler... | Registered: Jul 1999
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Same thing here John. My pap always called me Scooter or Scoot. We have what we call "the extended family" which is a friend of mine's parents and everyone who call them mom & dad (in all, over 50 "kids"). There is a "core" group of the extended family, mostly the "kids" they are closest to.... besides me, there is Fudd (their real kid) Bubba, Dream, Uncle Chick, Yogi...you get the idea.
Some strange things I've been called... besides Kissymatina (my uncle gave that to me years ago), my cousin's son called me Bup which he later changed to Tia. Aunt Kiss has always been a popular one too, guess Rs are hard for kids to say.
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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