Nicknames: You're called WHAT?

I've had quite my share of nicknames during specific times in my life. The only time I can't ever recall having a nickname was during my time in university.

The most common nickname I've had ever since elemenatry school and people still call me it to this day especially when I go back to my hometown is Dick. The nickname dick is always constantly used for anybody in my area that is either named Richard or Derrick.

During my time from Junior High to High School I had my share of nicknames that never lasted for very long such as DJ, Drake, Dirk, and constant others.

The most famous nickname I've ever had and it was during my last year of high school was the name Dirk Diggler not for the obvious reasons that people may think when you first hear that name. There is a story behind this one. I was always called Dick for the longest time but in grade 10 I was fairly tall for my age so the name dick quickly evolved to being called the 6 foot dick especially by the guys I played basketball with. We were on a hockey tournament the same week that Boogie Nights came out on video. I was riding in the bus with all the guys and they basically told me they were getting sick and tired of calling me the 6 foot dick, from now on they were going to call me Dirk Diggler, and that name has stuck but only with people from high school.

I've had two other nicknames in high school but they were mainly just within certain sport circles. I had one nickname for basketball and the other for hockey by the guys I played with. For basketball I was called Horace based on the player Horace Grant, because I played with sport goggles and when I went to a large provincial basketball tournament I was the only guy wearing them. For hockey I was called Bruiser because especially playing in my last two years of minor hockey I was a big physical force. I ended up giving these really bone crunching checks and also I had incredible sense of balance on the ice because I never got knocked down very often. I use to play on the checking line for the last four years of minor hockey.

In terms of right now, the only nickname I have are my close circle of friends that sometimes call me Derack. No apparant reason, one of my friends decided to be silly and started calling me that and its kind of stuck.

Jam it back in, in the dark.