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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Not at all P.C. but…..............A friends dad used to be in the merchant navy and spent a lot of time backwards and for wards to Africa in the 50’s. He told me the following story.
I those days you had to have a letter of reference to work on the docks. Also a European name would aid in getting a job. So our poor African friends would ask nice European sailors to write them references and give them English names. The following stuck in my memory but you can imagine their were many more. Also pity anyone asking a German crew for the same as they were far less P.C….
Names
Birds custard
Ajax Vim
Sunlight Soap
Etc.
References:
Lazy unreliable bastard, steals anything he can.
Don't give him a job as he stinks of piss and is work-shy.
Filthy stealing git, also lazy and illiterate.
Funnily enough these names used to get more work, as the ships crew thought it was hilarious to have someone caller Birds Custard or the like, running around on board…
Length, you don't want it to long when doing it Greek style to loverly flossy...
(, Tue 23 May 2006, 11:34, Reply)
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