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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The RAFYou may or may not have heard, for a long time the servicemen and women of our Royal Air Force referred to the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands as "bennies", as a reference to the hat-wearing Crossroads character who was popular at the time the war was on.
Fast forward to a few months back. The heads of the RAF have decided it's probably quite offensive to call them all bennies (christ knows why, never heard anyone complain about it) and so have issued a directive that anyone caught calling the natives "bennies" would be put on a charge. The Falklanders are now known as "stills". Because they're still bennies.
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Noit happy baby orangutan, Fri 19 May 2006, 18:33,
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