Tell us about your nickname(s) - Page 2

Borodog · #11 06-19-2007, 11:17 PM

Doc - You can probably guess.

CappyAA · #12 06-20-2007, 01:18 AM

Cappy - Shortened version from Table Captain or Table Cappy whenever I'd play online a few years ago and my buddies and I would always joke that the guy with the most chips at a table was the Table Captain (boring, I know).

Luggy - This is shortened from Lughead. I was a junior in a High School football game and I was on the punt return team. I was blocking someone and the returner didn't yell to get out of the way from the short punt. The ball came down and hit me in the head. Our team still recovered the ball, but my buddies just joked about me having a big head after that - thus Lughead and then Luggy stood.

RunDownHouse · #13 06-20-2007, 01:34 AM

Freshman year of undergrad, there was this guy named Carlos that lived on our hall. He was from Mexico. Perfect English and everything, but he was a little out of the loop on some cultural stuff. Pretty early in the year, someone called him "Hot Carl" and while we all laughed, he grinned and said thanks for the compliment. He thought us guys were actually complimenting his attractiveness. The rest of the year, if he walked in a room, a bar, we saw him around campus, whatever, someone would shout "HOT Carl!" in greeting. It was particularly enthusiastic if he was with a girl.

Senior year, he found out what a "hot carl" is and confronted a couple of us angrily. Good times!

rothko · #14 06-20-2007, 01:45 AM

paging dominic:

kyleb · #15 06-20-2007, 06:45 AM

Asian Kyle, because in my freshman year I lived on a floor of a dorm with two other people named Kyle, neither of who were asian.

dcasper70 · #16 06-20-2007, 08:43 AM

Baker, College nickname from smoking ridiculous amounts of pot.

Seriously ridiculous, like you have no idea, and no, you didn't smoke more, really, you didn't, just leave it be....

4_2_it · #17 06-20-2007, 11:47 AM

Stick man Got that one from my high JV basketball coach. I was 5' 9" and weighted 125 lbs my sophomore year.

Jammin' College frat brother gave me the nickname. My car stereo was loud and always playing either Maiden or Priest.

Chump Change · #18 06-20-2007, 12:22 PM

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White Mike
Got this one in middle school because I was one of the only white kids that played basketball and football. Pretty much the reason they came up with it was because of the show the Waynes Bros and the guy that they called "White Mike" there. This one stuck and people still call me this today and I am almost 25 years old now.

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Lol, yup. Every nickname i've had stemmed from playing basketball and specifically being white and playing basketball at predominately black schools, parks, gyms, etc.

Bird - from Larry Bird, ldo. This one stood the test of time and has been with me since I was 11.

Price - from Mark Price

Mixtape - from the And1 mixtapes

Tape - shortened from Mixtape (nicknames of nicknames was always a weird concept to me)

And a bunch of others that didn't stick. Basically anytime I went to a gym or playground I wasn't familiar with i'd get a another one.

Chump Change · #19 06-20-2007, 12:23 PM

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Freshman year of undergrad, there was this guy named Carlos that lived on our hall. He was from Mexico. Perfect English and everything, but he was a little out of the loop on some cultural stuff. Pretty early in the year, someone called him "Hot Carl" and while we all laughed, he grinned and said thanks for the compliment. He thought us guys were actually complimenting his attractiveness. The rest of the year, if he walked in a room, a bar, we saw him around campus, whatever, someone would shout "HOT Carl!" in greeting. It was particularly enthusiastic if he was with a girl.

Senior year, he found out what a "hot carl" is and confronted a couple of us angrily. Good times!

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So wrong yet so right.

MrWookie · #20 06-20-2007, 01:26 PM

I don't have any particularly great ones.

Satan - A fairly obvious derivative of my last name. Standard middle school ribbing. It was a bonus since I was known as a goody-two-shoes.

Seatown - An alternative derivative of my last name, also used by Seattle, where I'm from. I picked this one up in high school. I was pretty stoked that I shook Satan, and I latched onto this one. When my little bro got to high school, I became Big Seatown, and him Little Seatown.

I didn't really pick up any nicknames in college.