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Sat Jun-25-11 09:18 PM
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What were your nicknames as kids. Some asshole named me Bimbo and it stuck for a few years. |
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My crew of girls also went through a phase as tweens when we named ourselves after illicit drugs. Alison was Alice-D, Sarah was Sarhash, I was Wendope and Tamara was ....... Tamarawana LOL!. We were so naive. We had no idea about drugs. But for that week we called each other by these names we thought we were so cool.
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Sat Jun-25-11 09:21 PM
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My long time friends still call me that and the people I know outside of work mostly call me Toby now.
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Sat Jun-25-11 09:27 PM
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Sat Jun-25-11 10:02 PM
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3. Extra. Was a name some called me for awhile |
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Sat Jun-25-11 10:11 PM
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Sun Jun-26-11 09:44 AM
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16. Oh man, that cracked me up!! n/t |
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Sat Jun-25-11 11:28 PM
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Sat Jun-25-11 11:35 PM
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6. Spider, Question Mark, Pepperbottom |
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Sat Jun-25-11 11:48 PM
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7. We had a Tumor, Pugs, Legs, Muskrat, Tag, Snake and Festus in the group I hung out with. |
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Sun Jun-26-11 12:22 AM
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8. Taco Bender, or Taco for short. |
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I should've hated it, and today I'd clock anyone who called me that. But back in 8th grade I just wanted to be accepted.
Later in life, I inherited a dog named Taco. That was funny.
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Sun Jun-26-11 12:43 AM
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I have no idea why.
Got that name in junior high from somebody.
Burned itself out by high school.
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Sun Jun-26-11 01:14 AM
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10. "Bimbo" should be taken as a compliment - carefree, happy go lucky |
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However, I was nicknamed "Dirthead" - that's what stoners were called at my high school, and I was so much NOT a stoner it was given to me as a joke.
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Sun Jun-26-11 01:37 AM
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11. My friends call me "G-Unit" and I actually like it. |
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Sun Jun-26-11 02:00 AM
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12. I was called "Selz" (derived from my last name), Selsun Blue, and Selsun Power. |
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Sun Jun-26-11 02:32 AM
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13. Pinty, as in a part of a quart. |
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I was a skinny little kid
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Sun Jun-26-11 04:12 AM
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Evidently, that was my own first effort to say my own name, not even close, but it stuck, and my Dad, my aunt and my grandmother called me that forever after. Nobody else ever used it, not even my mother, but they're all gone now and I kind of miss it. It was affectionate. :(
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Sun Jun-26-11 06:24 AM
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15. Rabbit. To this day I'm not sure why. |
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I did bring my lunch and ate a lot of veggies. And I was on the track team but I certainly was NOT particularly stellar at that. :rofl:
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Sun Jun-26-11 10:23 AM
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17. birdlegs, beanpole, tasty, hot rod,thebod. |
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Sun Jun-26-11 01:09 PM
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18. "Some asshole named me Bimbo -- -- -- -- -- thanks, Mom." |
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. . . In the Army, "Doc" and "Sheephurter". . . . I wore each with pride. . . .
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Sun Jun-26-11 08:34 PM
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23. I'm so happy you are back. We've got your back. |
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Sun Jun-26-11 06:21 PM
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19. Completely off topic, but bimbo is an interesting word. |
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Obviously short for bambino, meaning little boy in Italian. Originally in the US it was underworld slang for a young recruit. You see it in 20's and 30's detective literature. How it went from boy to girl is a puzzler.
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I had a squeeky toy named Spooky during a summer camp, and was in a strange phase. I would carry it around and squeek it at people and refer to it in third person and the name attached to me as well. I kept friends after the camp and they continued to call me it.
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Sun Jun-26-11 07:44 PM
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It made me cry until I was a senior in High School. My last name was Bussard. The Buss is pronounced like the bus that you ride, not like Buzzard. My senior year it became Buzzy and I was much better with that. Now everyone calls me Mel. Why couldn't they have just called me that back then? Duckie
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Sun Jun-26-11 08:01 PM
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because I learned to hypnotize people at age 14. And did it well, actually.
Too well, as a matter of fact.
I don't do it anymore.
That was some of the scariest shit I've ever had to deal with.
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Mon Jun-27-11 09:13 AM
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That was how I mangled my name as a little kid.
When I turned 12, I threatened everyone in my family and relatives with death if they called me Kiku again.
Now I miss it.
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Mon Jun-27-11 06:13 PM
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25. I was "Dickie". My aunt called me that till the day she died. |
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Imagine this: It's my first day in high school. First CLASS. You know how scared and embarrassed you were... am I wearing the right clothes, how do I act...
My first class that day was English. My teacher spent about the first ten minutes talking herself and her Masters Degree up. Then she called the roll.
She gets to my name, and says "James Coleslaw". The class erupted in laughter. Some kids I knew, some were from other Jr. High schools. Now mind you, I've heard every variation on my name: Low-Cost, Pay-Less, Cheapskate, but who, WHO with a Master's Degree could look at the name Costlow and see COLESLAW?
From that moment forward, few people if any called me by my name, which is actually Chris. I was Coleslaw until I graduated.
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Tue Jun-28-11 03:22 AM
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30. G-Man. I was kind of straightlaced and conformist. |
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Doesn't exactly suit me now...
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