Nicknames.

I mentioned elsewhere that I got stuck with the Nickname 'Binraker' for a while.

Background..... Was living on the Black Isle, and was out working on the land rover in front of the house. One of the kids brought me a cuppa and a biscuit. I put the wrapper in the closest bin, the neighbours.

In the bin there was a fireside companion set, minus the little coal shovel, but hey, needed a set so it came out of the bin, and I put it in the kitchen by the Rayburn. Later that day Mrs Nextdoor called to visit...she was in the kitchen, and I could see her eying up the companion set, she said nothing.  Later that day she came back with the shovel "You might as well have this as well.."
Her hubby had broken it trying to shovel snow with it.

Anyhoo, I made the mistake of telling our other neighbour, and got landed with Binraker....he'd shout it at me in town. 

I have been called Oddball for years too. After Kelly's Heroes Oddball, my all time fave film 

One lad at work I christened TAPS. Thick As Pig S#*t. He thought it was to do with the bugle call, bless him. If you asked him a question you could really see the cogs grinding, and he would frown really hard as he sought the answer. You know, difficult stuff like "what day is it?"

There was Rock Steady Eddie...never the first to move when work was handed out. 

Manuel. Short for Manuel Labour, he thought it was a Spanish aristocrat. If his pockets were full of water his hands would have drowned.

Quite a few nicknames unsuitable for this forum, best not to go there....

What names have you given to folk?

I can't take credit for any (that I can think of) but the best one I heard was my workmate calling the bosses daughter Juanita.






Yep, you guessed it, she only had one tooth at the front of her mouth.

Used to work with a lad called Rasheed as he had psoriasis of the scalp.

nuevoboy wrote:I can't take credit for any (that I can think of) but the best one I heard was my workmate calling the bosses daughter Juanita.






Yep, you guessed it, she only had one tooth at the front of her mouth.

 Her father lived in Wales. He also had only one front tooth. Dai Central 'Eating.

Cymro

Also know a very, very slim chap, known to all in the choir as Split Pin. And another singer, not very accurate, would often come in a beat too soon, or too late. Unpredictable. Known of course as Scud.  Loads more but shall refrain.
Cymro

There was a very tall skinny chap at work whose ears really stuck out a long way. Yep, Wing Nut suited him 

"Rasheed". So apt, but like any good nickname, inherently cruel. Love it.

I'm liking split pin too...

We used to call a foreman the steering wheel. Yup, he drove us round the bend.

Years ago a new batch of apprentices arrived and we welcomed them (no, really, we did) to the workshop. We were asking their names and one chap said, my mates call me "plug" (as in the Bash St kids character ).. His real name was George and was a really decent guy.

At school the history teacher was called Plug. He was on 3,2,1 (remember that?) He didn't win.

The navigation and seamanship teacher was Desperate Dan, or Big Dan. Big beardy guy, lots of bristles. His missus was diminutive and was the librarian. She used to rule him with a rod of iron.

In 4th year I went out one lunchtime and had a liquid lunch ( I looked older, and they didn't really care). Big Dan..."You been drinking boy?" Yes sir. "Whisky was it?" Yes sir. "Stupid boy. Should have been rum." And then he walked off.

Mention of one tooth a guy I knew was known as one eater because he only had one tooth at front after his days as a rugby player.

Worked with a guy called Keth. His real name was Keith, but he was minus an eye.

Another guy, one leg longer than the other. We used to call him Bob. 

A bloke called Campbell was known as "soup" and another guy, Thomas Wardrope was known locally as "Tam Cupboard" !

About the most cruel was a chap who worked with my wife. His head was (physically) large. Known a Dai Tadpole.

I went to boarding school, in the early 80s, and was given the nickname Benny on my first day. That stuck for the next 5 years. One time our house master was talking to my parents about me and referred to me by nickname - my parents looked rather confused and the house master corrected himself.