Nicknames: You're called WHAT?

Good lord, I had a ton of these. In High School there was Beast, that one was most pervasive. Partially because of being 6'5", 220. And partially for the facial hair and ability to pull attractive girls. Later got adopted by people for the X-Men character. All Gorilla on the outside, smart kid on the inside. Kong came about when I started dating this tiny little blonde girl, but it never really stuck. I got Billy Shakes on the baseball team for being the only cat who liked to read books. Lucifer was the only play on my name I ever got, once the kids figured out what I was named after.

University hit, and being 6'6", 245... Beast got picked up right away by the new friend group. So that one still sticks. I also picked up Papi from the baseball team, because of my penchant for wearing the number 34 and hitting the long ball. My favourite film prof also took to calling me "French", partially because I'm bilingual, and partially because I'm really influenced by French filmmakers.

The one that surprises me is that I never really got "Mack", given my last name and build you'd expect it, but it just never caught on. But yeah, the only one that really stuck was Beast, and the odd person who picks up on it and takes to calling me McCoy, or Hank.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Oh, here's one that Shmitty up there will appreciate.

In hockey and footy circles I picked up the nickname "The .44 Caliber Killer" because it's my number of choice in both games. In footy, it's a direct reference Reggie Jackson of Yankee fame, and how people speculated he was the Son of Sam because of his wearing the number 44. I picked it up as a result of my goals per game average tripling come playoff time. Mr. October and all that. Also picked up from my hockey nickname, though for a different reason.

In hockey, it's a slightly more dubious and direct reference to the number and Berkowitz. It initially came up as a result of my love for big hits at the blue line. "Keep your head up, or 44'll take it off" was a pretty regular warning from opposing coaches, and that lead to my team playing it up as the .44 caliber. The Berkowitz reference came when I started fighting. One fight, I caught a guy with a fairly lucky punch and put him out cold before his gloves were on the ice. Leads to my coach calling me a straight up killer, which picked up to the guys referring to me as the .44 caliber killer. The reputation as a bit of a bar fighter didn't hurt, either. Sort of bled over to footy from there. So there you go, Shmitty. A Yankee connection to me.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by LeHah

People at my old job use to call me Wal-Mart because I sat outside of one the day the Playstation 2s were due out.

Calling someone "Wal-Mart" or a "greeter" in my group has become slang for retards, because of their penchant for letting downs syndrome kids stand at the door in a blue vest and wave.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by nanstey

I'm called "Flounder" where I work, after the character from Animal house. There's another guy called Pinto there. I had the nickname "Fudd" at another place I worked.

And from now on, you will be Vir Cotto.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Lyth

My family calls me fat-ass.
Everyone online calls me Panda or Pancake, but that's because of titles on MUDs or some of the forums I go to.

Oh, and a few of my friends call me GT... It stands for Gorilla Tits. I don't know how the hell it came to be my nick name, but from the looks of things, it's not going away any time soon.

Gorilla Tits? Requesting a name change for Lyth, please.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Disney Overflow

My grandparents are the only ones that ever called me Jon-Jon. My grandfather still asks about me by this name which tends to put a smile on myf ace. Occasionally my mom will slip into this but only when there's something extremely important or dire being discussed at that point in time.

As far as WB/Dub/Dubble goes I get asked this all the time:

"WB" started out in college at Tennessee State. Half of my friends there barely know my real name is Jonathan considering I was called by that name so much. Strangely enough it was started by a roommate of mine that I later came to dislike, based on my art style (WB standing for Warner Brothers, my favorite animation company at the time)

"Dub" was the "shortened" version of WB which is what friends online and my college buddies down in Savannah called me, and is currently what I am known by from the largest amount of people.

"Dubble" started here and in a few places where I couldn't register Dub or WB because they were too short. Dubble simply meaning "Dub 2".

And that's that

Jean Grey

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?