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i think we already talked about our internet 'handles' and where/how they originated but, i was wondering if you all would like to share some personal info and reveal any nick names you might have acquired over the years.

i can start- and believe me this is just a taste...

as a kid - 'the professor'
i prefer to think it was because i was so smart but in truth, it's more likely because i was so much of a smart a**.

this started a few years back - 'captain america'
it was a drunk utterance (from me) in answer to who would save the day in some world crisis "i will, captain america"
it has stuck

there's more but i'll wait a bit.

joe
 
When I was 20, I joined a group of writers in my native Guatemala. Since all of them were over 35 and I was the youngest, I got slapped with a pretty descriptive nickname in Guatemalan lingo: "El Patojo", a slangy term for "The Kid."

I've lived in the US for over 14 years... and I'm considerably older now, but I didn't know how much I would resent when one of those old fellows decided not to call me "Kid" because I was no longer one.

"Compared to you, I'm still pretty much a kid" I said.

So I won my nickname back! :)

Oddly enough, I wouldn't like it now, but it comes from a group and a time in my life that I really like to remember.
 
When I was a little kid my family called me "Putte".

Still not quite sure why...
 
When I still lived with my parents the people from a nearby, small supermarket always referred to me as "Greg". I haven't got a clue why; my name is "Remy", which doesn't sound anywhere near "Greg". :)

My grandad from my mother's side always called me "directeur", which is the dutch noun for a company's president. Again I don't know why. The only thing is that he was vice-president of a construction firm but whether that had anything to do with my nickname....
 
Used to be called 'The Priest' in the Army. Probably due to my refusal to visit certain 'entertainment' establishments and my refusal to participate in binge drinking that my buddies loved so much. There is one more detail. I have a lady friend during those days (not my wife), we went for holiday and we shared room to save money. My buddies would not believe that nothing happened! Those dirty minded morons made the comment that I must be a gay or a priest. Fortunately the latter got stucked with me!
 
When I worked at Boeing (before 1975), I commuted by motorcycle. In fact, months would go by without driving my car; winter, summer, rain, whatever.

The other guys at work called me "Bronson", after the main character, a wandering motorcyclist, in the TV series "Then Came Bronson."

I liked the program... Bronson would roll into a strange town (as I recall on a Harley Sportster), get some kind of handyman job, get involved with someone's problem or some community issue, and leave the town having done some good.
 
Since some years ago, my friends almost always refer to me as Mr. Jos, mainly in our email conversations.

And no, by any means I don't look like the Jos character from 'Bonanza' ! :D

But I've never really had a nickname tradition...
 
All my time in the Marines, I was referred to as 'Maddog' Mattocks. I have no idea why.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
I have always liked my name. When I am in disagreement with something that I have to sign off on I can always initial it.

My Father used to call me Bubba; he was born and raised in Mew York City but settled down in Columbus Georgia after the Korean War. In New York, his best friend was "Bubi" so he tagged me with the Southern variant "Bubba" which is usually used for "younger Brother". In the South a small child usually manages to get "That's my Bubba" out instead of "That's my Brother". Over the last couple of decades "Bubba" has degenerated to be used for "A Good 'Ol Boy". Maybe it's use is returning to its origins. It took me years to get my Dad to quit using it. After that, I never used Nick-names.

Nikki on the other hand relied on Nicknames that she gave to herself to get her through the last 3 years. My theory was that if you went through all of the medical procedures that she did you would want to be anybody but Nikki. I had to make an Excel spreadsheet to Map "Nick-Name 57b" to the chosen Nickname of the day. She made up over a Hundred names and remembered them based on Number-Letter. And if you did not get it right she would go off on a prednisone meltdown. When she got rid of a nickname she walked into the bathroom, flushed the toilet, and announced "the old nickname is gone, my new nickname is 'xxxxxxx' ". Why didn't I think of that 40 years ago!

Yesterday she started Kindergarten and let people know her name was "Nicole Marie Sweeney", and people could call her Nikki.
 
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I actually really have never had a nick name. I guess being named Ralph was enough.
 
:eek:) My highschool biology teacher said once, in front of 31 classmates, that I look like a galley slave. I had pretty big hair and a considerable black beard for our age (17ish).

So was I the galley slave for quite a long time.

Even earlier, I got the nickname "bacsi" from my sister, which is just mixing around "csabi" - that being a nickname for "csaba" which is my given name :) Complicated enough, but it shouldn't make much sense to non-hungarian people.

Bill, there's a new thai movie called "ong bak: muay thai warrior", a great movie by the way, where a huge guy was called "mad dog". He was giving a hard time to the main hero of the movie, inside and outside of the fighting ring. Something similar to your story, maybe?:)
 
Brian Sweeney said:
I have always liked my name. When I am in disagreement with something that I have to sign off on I can always initial it.
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That doesn't have the same effect when I do it.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
rover said:
I actually really have never had a nick name. I guess being named Ralph was enough.
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My sisters called me "Billy" and that stuck within my family. So my neices, nephews, and brothers-in-law all call me "Billy" as well.

Best Regards,

Billy
 
Pherdinand said:
Bill, there's a new thai movie called "ong bak: muay thai warrior", a great movie by the way, where a huge guy was called "mad dog". He was giving a hard time to the main hero of the movie, inside and outside of the fighting ring. Something similar to your story, maybe?:)
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Ah, I guess I maybe did a couple of crazy things when I was a Jarhead. All Marines are crazy, but I guess I went a little over the line even for us once or twice.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
Gene is a pretty plain name, but once I worked in a place with a mainly Portuguese cleaning staff. They all called me Gino. I kinda liked that one ...

Gene
 
Peter said:
Used to be called 'The Priest' in the Army. Probably due to my refusal to visit certain 'entertainment' establishments and my refusal to participate in binge drinking that my buddies loved so much. There is one more detail. I have a lady friend during those days (not my wife), we went for holiday and we shared room to save money. My buddies would not believe that nothing happened! Those dirty minded morons made the comment that I must be a gay or a priest. Fortunately the latter got stucked with me!
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Saint would have been more appropriate!:angel:
Kurt M.
 
Pherdinand said:

Even earlier, I got the nickname "bacsi" from my sister, which is just mixing around "csabi" - that being a nickname for "csaba" which is my given name :) Complicated enough, but it shouldn't make much sense to non-hungarian people.
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Bacsi, as I recall from my long forgotten youth, is "uncle," so the movie "Uncle Buck" was translated: "Buki Bacsi..." Nevermind. Could be LOTS worse for Magyar nicknames (TRUST ME).

I'm Gofredo in Portuguese. That name NEVER stuck with the family over there, thankfully, and here just Jeff.

In the Navy, I was "JD," but so was about 1/2 the base. That's from my name (Jeff) and my complete middle name ("D"). I liked that one, and sounded good from someone with a Southern access.

For my sign-on name on here (and a couple other sites) I've simply appended "OS/2," the IBM operating system that got me started in the computer biz, as an homage.
 
jdos2 said:
For my sign-on name on here (and a couple other sites) I've simply appended "OS/2," the IBM operating system that got me started in the computer biz, as an homage.
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That's interesting to know, 'cos in Spanish your forum name reads J-DOS-DOS or J-2-2 :D
 
Jdos: yeah, but that's "bácsi" that means, an older guy. I'm bacsi, fairly young ('76). It is indeed confusing on an internet forum since a and á are usually written the same.

For the ones that don't see it due to the devil of ascii, á = a with a dash on it :) (alt-160 on a regular pc).
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J-dos-dos":) cool.
 
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