Nicknames.&n

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Nicknames.&n

Nicknames.

 

Yes, Pepperclip is a nickname. Does anyone else have a nickname? Possibly a nickname that just wasn't used? Some of my strangest ones were as follows:

-Pepper-clip

-Hothead

-Cinderella

-Charlie Brown

-Charrlette Brown 

 

They're all not being used anymore, so I don't have a real nickname anymore.

My favorite is/was Pepperclip. 

submitted by Pepper-clip, Pepper-clip land
(March 5, 2013 - 8:21 pm)

I have been called Felix and Cadillac on multiple occasions. Mostly because those were my camp names for the summer and sometimes they stick. Felix more so than Cadillac. People think I look like a Felix.

I nickname my friends all the time... Let's see: Captain Hook, Muffins, Frodo, Eater-of-Mjolnir, Cheesehead, Omnomnomnivores, Squid, and Forkmaster. Those are the ones that come to mind immediately...

Yava says vhen.

--L

submitted by L
(March 5, 2013 - 9:29 pm)

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submitted by top
(March 10, 2013 - 7:38 am)

My parents have caked me Rosie Posie.

I have a drama club friend who calls me Alice, because he thinks I look like Alice from Alice in Wonderland. 

submitted by Melody, age 14, Backside of water
(March 10, 2013 - 11:13 am)

My friends have a lot more nicknames than I do (one of them has about 26 or so, we haven't counted recently), but let's see how many I have...

-R.M. the one who controls lemmings (My friend wrote a story where I signed a ransom note like that.)

-Lemming Boy

-Aka-chan (Aka is "red" in Japanese. Ru-kun calls me this when I'm being annoying.)

-The Otaka (that's a pun. "Aka" means red and "otaku" is a video game/ Japanese pop culture nerd, so together I am an otaka.)

I think that's all actually... Sad. 

submitted by Red, age 13, Elsewhere
(March 10, 2013 - 12:51 pm)

Oh yeah, I forgot Belarus.  My friends like Hetalia a lot.

submitted by Red, age 13, Ru-kun's house
(March 13, 2013 - 7:29 pm)

Let me see:

HannahBanana

H (my dad)

HannahHampster (by my friend's twin brother. I have no idea where that came from.)

HannahMayMay (My jazz teacher. She likes to give out nicknames.)

Crashy (My dad and my uncle used to call my cousin and me Crashy and Smashy when we were really little. I was crashy, he was smashy, probably because we where always running around and running into things.)

Pinky La Roo (One time when a was like five, I was dressed all in pink, so my dad called me Pinky la Roo, and it stuck, so whenever I wore pink, my dad would call me Pinky la Roo. He doesn't call me that any more, thankfully!)

That's all I can think of right now.

submitted by Ivy
(March 10, 2013 - 1:21 pm)

Mostly variations on Holmes.  I think I signed my papers as Mata Hari briefly in third grade.  That's also where Holmes came from; I was obsessed with espionage etc.  My friend used to call me Helen the Melon.

submitted by Gollum
(March 11, 2013 - 7:00 pm)

As my name is rather hard for people to pronounce, I'm usually known as Rocky. I have been called Forkmaster and Zippy before, however.

=Rocky= 

submitted by Rocky
(March 12, 2013 - 12:13 pm)

As my name is rather hard for people to pronounce, I'm usually known as Rocky. I have been called Forkmaster and Zippy before, however.

=Rocky= 

submitted by Rocky
(March 12, 2013 - 12:14 pm)

I didn't really have nicknames until coming to college. There's two other Haleys in my year here at Cornell (and two more in the freshman class this year! what is this), so we've taken to identifying ourselves by colors when we work together (which happens often, as we're all theatre people). I'm Haley Green, and the other two are Haley Blue and Haley Red respectively. Haley, Other Haley, and Other Other Haley have also been used by people who don't know the color system (I'm usually Other Haley).

Also, a handful of the Avenue Q crew have taken to calling me Farranda (pronounced so it rhymes with "veranda"), which is a corruption of my last name and came about because we were eating dinner together after rehearsal one night and ended up giving every one a punny name because it was one in the morning and we were all very sleep deprived. (The whole Ave Q rehearsal process was terrifying. Our light board literally blew up the day before a show [burnt plastic and everything. I wish I were exaggerating]... and that's not even the worse thing that happened.)

Another friend of mine likes to randomly rename people and while she was trying to decide on mine her first guess was Nora, which is terrifying because that's my mother's name. I *may* have had a minor meltdown in the middle of an L-train station in Chicago at almost midnight because of that. 

I do get called Halison sometimes in my youth group back in Wyoming, but that's only in conjunction with my friend Alison. We share a lot of slightly obscure interests (though some of them, like Doctor Who, are only "obscure" in the sense that no one else in the youth group really cares about them) and we have a pretty similar and idiosyncratic way of talking about them which tends to lead to very dramatic hand-gesturing and an unusual amount of unison-talking. This has led our youth pastor, Billy, to decide that we're two halves of the same brain.

(Interestingly, this week, with no conversation about it between us at all, we both randomly started watching Supernatural within about a day of each other. And I found out about this when she texted me that she'd started watching Supernatural and actors from Tin Man have a startling tendency to be bit characters in it... while I was watching Tin Man [something which doesn't actually happen that often, 'cause it's six hours long and I like to marathon it]. This kind of thing happens all the time, so there may be some actual merit to Billy's theory.)

"Haley" isn't really a name that lends itself well to nicknames, since it's short and easy to pronounce so most nicknames are going to be longer than the name itself.

submitted by TNÖ, age 19, Deep Space
(March 14, 2013 - 1:55 pm)

@TNÖ

Hales.  That's about it.

 

Also, on the subject of bad luck theatre stuff, we did the Scottish Play when I was in sixth grade.  And of course, our table broke opening night half an hour before the show.  We were also supposed to have two girls playing the title role, but one quit like a week before the show so our other lead ended up having to bring a script onstage.  Great play, though. 

submitted by Melody, age 14, Backside of water
(March 15, 2013 - 7:43 pm)

When we were doing Charlotte's Web, our actor for Goose and Avery decided to go to the Youth Center instead of perform, so we had to have one of the actor's friends sight read the Goose and I randomly had to play Avery.  It was Reader's Theatre to begin with though, so it was sort of crisis averted?

submitted by Gollum
(March 16, 2013 - 7:45 am)

We did the Scottish Play in fifth grade (well, a more humorous adaptation) and I don't think we had any bad luck, really. We finished the sets at the very last minute, and Ru-kun got hit in the head with a flying painting during the performance, but I think that's all.

submitted by Red, age 13, Elsewhere
(March 16, 2013 - 11:42 am)

Some people have tried to nickname me Hales in the past. It never sticks.

Oh, and this was the Supernatural FB conversation that I referenced above, because it amuses me:

Alison:  Hurrah! So I've started watching Supernatural and there's a strange propensity for Tin Man cast members to be in it

Me: ME TOO a few days ago. zero gets unceremonioiusly killed in like the second episode, yes? (also, GUESS WHAT I'M WATCHING RIGHT THIS SECOND)

Alison: GET OUT OF MY BRAIN! Yes. And DG's robo dad turns up later too. Tin...Man...?

Me: YOU GET OUT OF MY BRAIN FIRST. yes i'm on part two.

Alison: How far along?

Me: cain's gun has no more bullets

Alison: And they're nearly going to be eaten by creepy tree monsters. Yay! This is because you saw OZ the Great and Powerful isn't it?

Me: [typed simultaneous to the above] GOTTA LOVE A GOOD ORCHARD. i'm watching it because i saw oz the great and [linebreak] yes. GET OUT OF MY BRAIN.

...so yeah. 

submitted by TNÖ, age 19, Deep Space
(March 16, 2013 - 1:02 pm)

My name doesn't really lend itself to nicknames, although Quintus came about because of something I wrote in fifth grade that was terribly cliched and full of inconsistencies, but featured a Protector of the Universe named Quintus, who had the number 5 tattooed on his hand.

...Yeah, my nickname-sake is a dude. Whatsituya?

Friends occasionally call me Mar or Ri, as an adaptation of Marina.

Odd things I get called... Mostly Spaghetti-chan.

Garthwumpian Flopp says mufw. He gets called Garth.

~Quintus the not-a-guy!

submitted by Quintus, Calveicia
(March 18, 2013 - 7:38 pm)