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.
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chthonic, Thu 18 May 2006, 15:45)
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Quiver..is still my nickname, as I am still referred to by my surviving* mates from halls in first year.
It came about when, as lairy young freshers we were toddling back from the pub in a group of 5 or 6. As is often the case in those numbers, people get separated out and were conducting conversations in twos as we walked back. I can't remember why exactly, but I was telling my mate Martin how when we were toddlers my younger brother would call me 'Criffiter' ('cos 'Christopher' was inevitably beyond his 1 year old tongue).
Enter Welsh Jim. Great lad, mad as skippy, Welsh. Being a few paces behind, he mistakenly heard 'Criffiter' as 'Quiver'. He promptly yells out "Quivaahh! That's yer name, isn't it!?". Then Martin joins in. The name stuck throughout first year, and to be honest, I don't really mind it. At least it ended the recurrent quandries over what to use as a screen name..
(And in more inebriated moments I have been known to boast that that's what I do to girls' knees. I'm so suave..)
* Surviving as friends that is. Not that any have died or owt, I think..
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