Worst Nicknames EverEveryone wants a cool nickname like "Ace", "Boss", or "Iron". Kids being kids, that's not what we get - the kid with polio gets called Johnny Spazm, your Ginger Fuhrer was called Rob Man-you-smell and your question master was "Tommy" Trinder despite him being dead for years.
Tell us the worst you've heard and the stories behind them.
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chthonic, Thu 18 May 2006, 15:45)
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Well, since you askedMine comes from an old job. We were installing a pair of computers in a cluster. Normally, you give them related names, like Torville and Dean, or some such. I called them Red and Blue, so that I could call the cluster Purple.
When my colleague noticed, he said "You're a bit of a Purple God, aren't you". Still use the name.
Edit: Oh, OK, the one that *really* hurts. Well, when I was younger, I had sticky-out front teeth. Like, really sticky-out. And I'm mixed-race, so I'm cafe au lait coloured. And I spent a week at holiday camp being called 'Jungle Bunny' by everyone. Bastards, one and all.
Still, I showed 'em. I'm now an overworked and underpaid IT drone, while they are - oh.
(, Thu 18 May 2006, 17:41, Reply)
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