What are the best nicknames you have heard for a person?
April 2, 2025
I'll start with one.
I worked with a guy called "Tasty". He was bitten by a student in the school we worked in.
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My coworkers call me Duraflame because I had two apartment complexes I lived in catch fire within a 3 week period (not my fault either time)
Väliliha, so Taint in English. I was in the same squad with him in Basic training. His bike saddle was tilted on one 20km ride and rubbed his taint sore. He then complained that for weeks, so the name stuck.
I knew a guy who was called “Little Lung” (in translation). Not because he was often short on breath or anything, but simply because his dad was called “Big Lung”. No idea what the origin story was for the dad’s nickname, though.
“The Viking” tertiary acquaintance who wore exclusively Viking brand safety shoes in college. Afterwards it carried over into his work life to the point where his coworkers would forget his real name, at a project meeting he was genuinely introduced by it when the lead couldn’t remember his name. A bit of a late bloomer, the name was initially slightly ironic, him being short and dumpy, but it spurred him to work out, fix his posture and grow his bread. Now he definitely lives up to the name.
We had Short, Long and Morse, reason they were all named the same name and Long was tall person , short was short and Morse was in-between. Together they were know as The Code, even teachers call them that.
My former classmate is called “Jesus”, because he decided he’d build a boat from a door and a bunch of plastic bottles when he was 15.
He tied them under the door and sailed around the river for a while. He didn’t sink but the water reached his feet so the door was not visible and he looked like as if he was sliding on the river on his feet.
“Truella” was the nickname of an archaeologist I briefly worked with. Truelle(Trowel)+Cruella.
She had a reputation to be insufferable and she wore false nails when she wasn’t on the field. I don’t know if she really deserved it but it was a good pun.
A friend of mine told me a story of how he and his army friends went to a strip club to celebrate one the guy’s birthday. They bought the birthday boy a lapdance and when the stripper finishing the show the guy wanted to tip her, but had no paper money at hand so what he did was, he grabbed the stripper’s underwear and pulled it like he was opening a drawer and dropped a handful of coins in, half of which just missed and dropped on the ground.
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My coworkers call me Duraflame because I had two apartment complexes I lived in catch fire within a 3 week period (not my fault either time)
Väliliha, so Taint in English. I was in the same squad with him in Basic training. His bike saddle was tilted on one 20km ride and rubbed his taint sore. He then complained that for weeks, so the name stuck.
I knew a guy who was called “Little Lung” (in translation). Not because he was often short on breath or anything, but simply because his dad was called “Big Lung”. No idea what the origin story was for the dad’s nickname, though.
“The Viking” tertiary acquaintance who wore exclusively Viking brand safety shoes in college. Afterwards it carried over into his work life to the point where his coworkers would forget his real name, at a project meeting he was genuinely introduced by it when the lead couldn’t remember his name. A bit of a late bloomer, the name was initially slightly ironic, him being short and dumpy, but it spurred him to work out, fix his posture and grow his bread. Now he definitely lives up to the name.
We had Short, Long and Morse, reason they were all named the same name and Long was tall person , short was short and Morse was in-between. Together they were know as The Code, even teachers call them that.
My former classmate is called “Jesus”, because he decided he’d build a boat from a door and a bunch of plastic bottles when he was 15.
He tied them under the door and sailed around the river for a while. He didn’t sink but the water reached his feet so the door was not visible and he looked like as if he was sliding on the river on his feet.
“Truella” was the nickname of an archaeologist I briefly worked with. Truelle(Trowel)+Cruella.
She had a reputation to be insufferable and she wore false nails when she wasn’t on the field. I don’t know if she really deserved it but it was a good pun.
A friend of mine told me a story of how he and his army friends went to a strip club to celebrate one the guy’s birthday. They bought the birthday boy a lapdance and when the stripper finishing the show the guy wanted to tip her, but had no paper money at hand so what he did was, he grabbed the stripper’s underwear and pulled it like he was opening a drawer and dropped a handful of coins in, half of which just missed and dropped on the ground.
They still call him 50 cent.