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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The CatOne time, I went sailing on a boat to New Zealand with some lads I didn't know. I don't know if any of you have ever been on boat in the ocean, but the bloody things are a menace to the malco-ordinated, as treacherous as a rotating disco dancefloor. I got a bit of a reputation for falling over. You know, suddenly flying across the gallery, smashing my brains on the cooker and spilling hot stew everywhere, or tripping over my feet as I rushed forward to rip down a sail during a storm. Or, when the boat really heeled over, suddenly falling off the toilet, smashing the shitter door to smithereens and crashing into the fucking bridge of the ship with my massive canvas trousers round my ankles.
They nicknamed me 'The Cat'.
For some reason I didn't make the connection between this nickname and my total lack of agility. Instead I thought it was a reference to my good looks, lively attitude, and cool dude behaviour.
"You mean," I asked, "Like The Cat in Red Dwarf?"
From that day forward I was known as Dwayne Dibley.
(, Fri 19 May 2006, 17:07, Reply)
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