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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ZubizarretaMy dad's best mate was called Roy. He went through a phase of being called Roy the Boy, but me pa thought this moniker was far to dull, and so in the following months Roy the Boy modified and re-modified until he was left with the nickname Zubizarreta (the Spanish goal-keeper). How, you ask?
Boy the Boy became R the B
R the B became What Would You R the B or a wasp?
A wasp is a buzzer
Buzzer backwards is zubber
Zubber became Zubby
Zubby became Zubizarreta.
Roy died a couple of years ago, gawd bless him. It would have been ace if they'd put Zubizarreta on the tombstone.
Apols for breadth and depth.
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Droog is too orangey for crows, Thu 25 May 2006, 13:44,
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