I think the world has forgotten the art of a good nickname
My dad knows people called Kippers, and Flap, and Crunch, and Day, and Big Rob. Best we had at school was a guy who we called Damon because he looked like Damon Hill. Or the guy we called Jurgen, because he looked a bit Germanic. Otherwise, we usually just took the last name and added a Y if it sounded right. Or, the old classic fallback of just calling people by their first name.
( magnum, Fri 29 May 2009, 14:50, archived)