People Who Come Up With Nicknames for Themselves?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

In real life it seems lame, but I mean we all have user names that mostly aren’t our real names so I guess we’re all a little guilty. Well, unless someone else came up with your user name or you use your real name, but I digress.

Anyway, yes it’s like how George Costanza wanted to be called T-Bone. Its pretty easy to backfire. Like that insufferable guy at work who wants to be called Genius, but all his co-workers just call him Shithead.

What made me think of this is how athletes have fairly generic nicknames. Like Polar Bear Paul Varelans from old school UFC shows. I used to think Polar Bear was a lame nickname because it’s not original. Now, I appreciate it differently.

Oddly enough I’ve gotten called Polar Bear many times over the years by different people, some of which never met each other. I’ve never asked to be called that. I figure Varelans had that as a nickname for a similar reason I did. He probably liked to set the thermostat cooler. I mean sure Death Ice Beast would’ve been a tougher sounding MMA name, but how would that have come about organically?

[Nosnorb]

May 31, 2022 9:44:30 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

What made me think of this is how athletes have fairly generic nicknames.

Nowhere and nothing does nicknames for athletes quite like Football in South Africa.

[ayumidah]

When I was a teenager, I had a pretty lengthy screen name, and this guy who was a member of the message board I ran at the time shortened it to TADAH. It amused me so the next time I made a screen name, TADAH was part of it, then I shortened it to Dah and that's been my name pretty much everywhere online since. So I guess it's a bit of both for me, someone gave me the nickname but then I altered it.

[The Summer of Muskrat XVII]

Muskrat is my actual real life nickname, I’ve had it for like 20 years. I have family members who call me that. I’ve started referring to myself as the Ginger Jesus, but that’s more tongue in cheek then actually trying to get a nickname to stick.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

May 31, 2022 9:54:09 GMT -5 Nosnorb said:

May 31, 2022 9:44:30 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

What made me think of this is how athletes have fairly generic nicknames.

Nowhere and nothing does nicknames for athletes quite like Football in South Africa.

James 'Hitler' Sobi – dominated the ball like Adolf dominated Europe

Not gonna lie, I laughed my ass off.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Ultimo Gallos is my name.

Never really had a nickname. Went by one of my middle names until I was about 15,then there was a pile of us hanging out all with the same name. So I switched to going by my first name. Which is what everybody besides my family calls me.

My old screenname on here is the Screenname I came up with in 97. I got online wanted to post at RSPW and needed a good name. At the time a friend was a ref for a tiny fed in Southern AL. He was legally blind and his first and last name began with T. So I used all that created Double T the Legally Blind referee.

Used that online pretty much everywhere until about early 2015. Where on a road trip the character and name Utimo Gallos was created. Gallos being kind of a inside joke based on my last name.

But yea had a buddy in high school try to give himself the nickname Bull. Dude got it air brushed on a few hats and shirts. GOt a vanity plate with it. Which lead to him being known as BullShit for years.

[ERON]

I was always so confused growing up because everyone on both my mom's and dad's side of the family would call each other by nicknames like "Shorty" and "Lucky" and "Tootie" all the time. Then someone would use someone's real name and I'd be like, "Who's Irving?" or "Who's Virginia?"

[Ultimo Gallos]

May 31, 2022 12:49:48 GMT -5 ERON said:

I was always so confused growing up because everyone on both my mom's and dad's side of the family would call each other by nicknames like "Shorty" and "Lucky" and "Tootie" all the time. Then someone would use someone's real name and I'd be like, "Who's Irving?" or "Who's Virginia?"

I have the same issue wwith my paternal grandfather's side of thhe fmaily. There is 10 or so Peter Miskos on that side. So they all got nick names. Petesy,Peter Boy,etc.

Then there is my now dead Uncle Curly. Until he passed 4 years ago I had no clue what his real name was. He had been called Curly since he was like 4.