Actually we were quite inventive.
Back in my local in my home town my mates and I used to put our initials down on the darts scoreboard when we were playing killer. This graduated to us giving each other nicknames based on our initials.

My initials are D R. I will be known forever as Dirty Rapist. The worst bit? I came up with it myself!

One of the best nickname moments came from my old rugby team. It was the start of a new season and the squad were getting together for the first games of summer touch rugby. A lad was there on his own as the rest of his team hadn't shown up and so he asked if he could join us. His name was Dave. So we took to calling him Stranger Dave. Never to his face of course.
My brother only joined our team late in to the season and hadn't quite grasped the nickname nor the fact that we never actually said it to his face. We never saw the poor lad again after he was greated at a training session with 'alright Strange Dave?' by my brother.
( Evil Bastardo, Fri 19 May 2006, 16:02, Reply)