Great Nicknames of Great People (Or people that just think they are great)

Hey, what's everyone's childhood nickname that they've always hated? And now looking through the years you see how your nickname has changed to reflect your being. What are your old and new nicknames?

Good old David Gilmour's nickname is "Fred", can you believe that?
I seriously wonder why, though...

When I was a child, I was called Porkchop.

Now I'm called "Teddy Bear", "Uncle Buck", "Roach"
How about you?

A fairly recent one for me is Lej (not the one that Fixxy calls me) its Lej as in ledge...
See my real name is Lejla ( think Eric Clapton Layla) but because of its odd spelling ppl always pronounce the j as a g and then Lej (ledge) came about. No comment on Mark's Lej...

















you know I love it buddy

cheers

Well my real name is Janne, and in Britain they pronounced my name as if "Janney" which sounds gay (okay we could discuss the word 'gay' once again for a long time, but lets spare that for some other thread). Then I found out that Janne in finnish, is James in english. So I became James, and uh...yeah...

To tell the truth, I used to called Seamus (pronounced: SHAY-mus, a kind of bastardization on Shane) when I was young. Then, I realized that it was for the better when I saw that Pink Floyd had a song that was called Seamus.
Then, I read that Seamus is an Irish name. I told my parents that, and they didn't know that it was Irish. They just took the first couple letters of my name and put a 'mus' at the end, and that was their pet name for me. What a coincidence.

People used to call me Kaybe. Now everyone calls me by my real name, except one friend calls me Kaykay, which I prefer ten million times more than Kaybe.

If I may, Sydney, is your name an eastern European spelling?

my friends for a while called me PJ due to my living next to a city park of the same name, which consequently was named after my great-grandfather. I was actually named after my grandfather, that is Maurice (pronounced 'Morris' like the cat food commercial spokes-cat, I think it's the German spelling, though we're Irish-Scotch) who actually dedicated the park in his father's name. Confusing yet?

You know what's odd, Wing'd Icarus? My great-grandfather also has a park named after him. Copeland Park, somewhere in a more remote part of Tampa.
I kid you not!

You will find the answer to that somwhere within my 682 posts














have fun

cheers

far out, Shane.


...and Sydney, wouldn't it now be 683?

Nope, 686 now

cheers

well, technically, 68.....oh, forget it.

I guess the only nicknames I had when I was little were Jo-Jo Potato (that was my dad's for me) and Kokomo Jo (that was my mom's).

Now my nickname is Jo... But for some reason, no matter how many times I tell people to call me that, the only people that listen to me are the ones I can really trust. Just a little test that's nice to go by...

my names Chase(pronouncd like its spelt, for any of you who make those things harder than they should be) but when i was little, or my family would talk about me with a baby they would call me cha-cha like the dance, i hated it because it sounded stupid

yeah, that's understandable....

...and how else would you pronounce Chase (especially the way it's spelt)? Just seems odd to me that there would be another pronunciation.