In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of ‘Junk,’ which doesn’t do a lot for one’s self-esteem.
The only nickname I’ve ever had is Merlin, like the magician. I don’t know why.
Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
There are many ways to deal with annoying coworkers, but obviously the most effective way is to picture them as rappers. Picturing your coworkers as rappers makes you laugh and provides a helpful nickname that can be used when talking about them behind their backs.
I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason – I burned inside to play volleyball.
Some people know me as the bad boy of professional poker and call me The Poker Brat. Sometimes I deserve that nickname, but not always.
‘Animal’ was my nickname in high school.
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
It’s common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became ‘scorpion’ because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
My nickname is Nuke.
Mariette is a nickname. My real name is Mary Loretta.
I don’t have a nickname and I’m not looking for one.
Twigs has been my nickname for years, and I guess a lot of people close to me called me Twigs, like, as a nickname. Before I even did dancing properly or anything, like, substantially creative, I was still Twigs.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
My nickname at school was Casper.
My nickname was Liz Lemon. When I would go for a takedown or get in there to ‘ground and pound,’ I would make this disgustingly horrible face like I sucked on a lemon.
Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the ‘paddy wagon.’ The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.
I got the nickname T-Rex when I was 11 years old. Back when I was younger, I was very skinny and I had short arms, but I used to always be swinging.
For as long as I can remember, my nickname was Dusty. I remember my dad naming me that because of the streets where we lived.
My mom knew we were going to call me Kiki by birth. I think she had the nickname before she had my name, and she then found the name that would allow that.
‘Shaggy’ was a nickname before it was ever a stage name. I have no problem with it.
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is ‘cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
I actually gave Mike Tyson his ‘Iron Mike’ nickname.
I guess if the president of the United States gives you a nickname, you have to stick with it.
I have dark skin. My nickname is El Negro. They call me El Negro in Mexico because even in my country, the dark skin is evidence of Indian blood, a sign that one technically belongs to a third class. Even my grandmother had some kind of differentiation with me, because I was darker than my siblings.
I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it had a kind of patina to it, like copper and bronze and so on. The color I used was a Benjamin Moore color called 2012. My then-young daughter started calling me 2012 – it was my nickname.
You can’t ask somebody to talk about themselves. You’ve got to ask other people. It’s like you can’t nickname yourself.
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