Worst Nicknames EverEveryone wants a cool nickname like "Ace", "Boss", or "Iron". Kids being kids, that's not what we get - the kid with polio gets called Johnny Spazm, your Ginger Fuhrer was called Rob Man-you-smell and your question master was "Tommy" Trinder despite him being dead for years.
Tell us the worst you've heard and the stories behind them.
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chthonic, Thu 18 May 2006, 15:45)
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Last NamesMy own last name is Wolf, which is, in retrospect, fairly cool, especially for a reporter/writer (see my website for my full name). But during school, it was Wolfman, Wolfbreath, Woof-woof, "Where, Wolf?" and so on, usually followed by howling. Sometimes, it was just "Wolfie," the name of the stuffed animal Eddie Munster slept with on "The Munsters."
That experience made me fairly sensitive to last names, so in college, I felt bad for my friend whose last name was of Hungarian origin: Sajdyk, pronounced "sigh-dick." He was "Side Dick."
But I real felt sorry for a woman who joined our group some years later when I saw her last name: Gajdyk.
Worse, she was a lesbian. Who had enormous breasts. That had to be reduced. And she swam in high school, emphasizing her chest and building up her muscles. And she was butch.
If you haven't twigged it out, the proper pronunciation is "guy dick."
No one really felt she needed a nickname. . .
(, Thu 18 May 2006, 23:32, Reply)
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