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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Packet of three1) I worked at Halfords in the late 80's. Worked with this really nice girl called Maria. Anyway, one day, I'm down one end of the store, she's down the other. Since we're the only two that work together in this particular department, and the fact it was very early, she, inexplicaly, yelled out "Oi! Gunk!" I responded... Well, word of this spread, and the name stuck. So much so that when management drew up everyones schedule, I was now listed as "Gunk", not my real name. When I was paged over the PA system, they'd use the nickname as well.
2) At school, there was this really mean fat kid. One day, me and a miscreant friend brainstormed our own personal nickname for him. One that just seemed to sum him up. We settled on calling him "Slud". To this day, I still think it was the perfect nickname for him.
3) Round a mates house in 1991. Another mate is coming round later. Tall, skinny. Broomhandle with the wood scraped off... When he turns up, my friend greets him by saying, in his best Michael Barrymore voice, "Awight Bloater!"
Fifteen years on, that's how he's still referred too. I don't remember the last time we used his real name.
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