I became known as Jesus to my friends
After one of them said that when the sun was behind me, it looked like I had a halo (I have very curly hair and was in the stage of growing it out where it went into something very near full on afro. It's long enough now just to hang down and look good, but there are some awful photos from back then). Got very confusing since another person with the same real name as me gained the same nickname independently before our two groups of friends ended up merging. I was Jesus 1, he was Jesus A.

Have a friend called Sarge for no reason other than "Sergeant (his name)" just sounds right.

Stinky Pete was self explanatory.

Another friend, due to a rather inappropriate joke about a younger friend of ours, can rarely go a full day without hearing "She was 14!" in a shocked tone of voice.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:38, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

A friend of a friend is known as "medium sized Dave". They have no other friends called Dave - tall, short or otherwise.

(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:41, Reply)

We have a little dave (or Davelet)
Who is the taller of the two Daves we know.

Also 3 Lizzies, of which little Lizzie is the tallest, but is just one of these people who always seems small.

We're not exactly short on little people either (fnarr!), to the point where we have had to number the ones nicknamed hobbit, and got up to 8 or so.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:44, Reply)

maybe you're just freakishly tall
and all the hobbits are in fact normal sized.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:51, Reply)

Yay for this!
We have a small, medium and large Bri
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)

I now know so many Daves
that one is called Not-quite-as-big-as-Medium-Dave-but-still-quite-a-lot-bigger-than-Little-Dave Dave. Or "Dave" for short.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:45, Reply)

I recognise this from somewhere
Where did you steal it from? This is going to bug me all day now...
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:47, Reply)

I stole it from me.
The aforementioned Dave was livid when we demoted him from Medium Dave. Livid.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:49, Reply)

Surely that would be a promotion?
Unless short people are somehow better, which would be lies.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:52, Reply)

Now my husband just goes by David
which makes easier as every sod is called Dave
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:32, Reply)

Terry Pratchett I think?

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:49, Reply)

It's from Pratchett, I think
possibly Hogfather?
(berk, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:49, Reply)

Maybe. *shrug*
I thought I'd made it up myself.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:51, Reply)

I watched The Squid and the Whale the other day
and the kid in it passes off a Pink Floyd track as his own. When asked why he did it he said "because I felt I could have written it. The fact that it already existed seemed insignificant".
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:53, Reply)

It is indeed
that's one of mon favourites.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:52, Reply)

POTD

( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:47, Reply)

haha!
Or another one

Keith, Keith, the man known only as Keith, Keith

I always thought nicknames were supposed to be shorter
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 14:48, Reply)

I have a mate called Dave
his name is actually Chris, but someone once said he looked like David Platt, which he doesn't, so from then on I called him Dave. It took off, and everyone called him Dave until he went to uni, and now it's just old friends who do it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 10 Aug 2010, 15:24, Reply)