how would you like to be called ?

[cacian]

in real life?

by
your name?
title?
nickname?

[Varenne Rodin]

I like to be called all sorts of things. It's fun when people come up with new nicknames for me. I like creativity.

When I was little my dad called me Tam. After he died I didn't let anyone call me that for years. Now I don't mind. My Vietnamese relatives called me Nui, also when I was small.

[Paulclem]

I've been called lots of things - but that aside, I've had a few nicknames including Suf - short for Suffer, (due to my insufferable personality probably), Clem, Clemmo, Yorkie, (from Yorkshire), York, (which, interestingly, is my wife's maiden name - so we were clalled the same thing before we got together), PJ, (my initials weren't this), and Splodge.

I liked my brother's nickname at home which was Rubber - though that's what Michael jackson called someone.

[cacian]

I like to be called all sorts of things. It's fun when people come up with new nicknames for me. I like creativity.

When I was little my dad called me Tam. After he died I didn't let anyone call me that for years. Now I don't mind. My Vietnamese relatives called me Nui, also when I was small.

what does Nui mean in vietnamese? It sounds like a lovely name.
In French Nuit with T mean night.


I've been called lots of things - but that aside, I've had a few nicknames including Suf - short for Suffer, (due to my insufferable personality probably), Clem, Clemmo, Yorkie, (from Yorkshire), York, (which, interestingly, is my wife's maiden name - so we were clalled the same thing before we got together), PJ, (my initials weren't this), and Splodge.

I liked my brother's nickname at home which was Rubber - though that's what Michael jackson called someone.

wow that is quite a lot of nickname you got there.
what does clemmo and PJ mean?

[Darcy88]

Darcy here, Brendan everywhere else. I've never had a nickname I liked. In high school because of my last name people called me Ham, which is actually a really unattractive name. Some called me Bunyan because I was big and at bush parties I always liked grabbing the axe or chainsaw and going for firewood. A couple years ago a lot of people I knew called me Edward which sucked real bad.

I hate nicknames. It puts you in someone else's power. Someone's like hey, I'll do what your parents did at your birth and thrust upon you a name you'll henceforth be known by. Its annoying.

[Varenne Rodin]

If someone gave me an unkind nickname, I would probably dislike it too. Mine have always been passing, nothing permanent. I was called Lamp for a long time. It's a favorite word, so I really didn't mind that at all.

Thanks, Cacian! I like the French meaning. That's lovely. If I remember correctly, in Vietnamese it means something approximating energy like a volcano. To be honest, I'm not certain it is a Vietnamese word. My aunts, uncles, and cousins also speak some Mandarin, Cantonese, and Thai. :)

[Helga]

I have never been called anything except my real name, and since there is not a original bone in my body it's the same as my name here.

Don't like nicknames for myself so I wouldn't answer if people tried to find a nickname for me but I probably have 20 names for my son, my current favorite is mouse. his name is big and long so nicknames are often preferred (unless he does something bad then he gets the full name).

We also have nicknames for the dogs, Spock the rock and Sisko disko I also sometime just say boy number 1 or 2 or 3... my son is number 1 Spock number 2 cause he's older and Sisko number 3.

[cacian]

Darcy here, Brendan everywhere else. I've never had a nickname I liked. In high school because of my last name people called me Ham, which is actually a really unattractive name. Some called me Bunyan because I was big and at bush parties I always liked grabbing the axe or chainsaw and going for firewood. A couple years ago a lot of people I knew called me Edward which sucked real bad.

I hate nicknames. It puts you in someone else's power. Someone's like hey, I'll do what your parents did at your birth and thrust upon you a name you'll henceforth be known by. Its annoying.

Has Edward got some kind of connotation to it?
and why Darcy?

[Darcy88]

Has Edward got some kind of connotation to it?
and why Darcy?

Darcy is my middle name. Edward was and is because I apparently look like the twilight guy. I wish I could go by my middle name and my mother's maiden name, then I'd be Darcy Grais, a name I think rolls off the tongue with a lot of smoothness and classiness. If I ever do porn it'll be under that name. Keep an eye out for it people.

[Paulclem]

wow that is quite a lot of nickname you got there.
what does clemmo and PJ mean?

Clemmo is a shortening of my full surname with an o attached. In Yorkshire we had the habit of attatching either i - short vowel sound - or o - long vowel sound to anyones surname, and that was what you called them. So I knew a Smith-i and a Cook-i and a Jag -o and a Carp-o.

PJ was just the wrong initials that stuck.

The best nickname I remember from school was a lad called Pie. His surname was Bielby, and when we were kids someone made the connection between Bielby and Bilberry (a small edible berry), and thus Pie was born. Bielby Pie.

There was a lad in secondary school called Spock because he did look like Leonard Nimoy.

My Dad's nickname was Jidd. I've no idea why. I also had a mate whose former nickname was chick, and i played rugby with a lad called spanner.

Names are facinating - especially the stories behind them.


If I ever do porn it'll be under that name. Keep an eye out for it people.

I won't be looking for "it". I hope that doesn't mean I'll be off the Christmas card list. :biggrin5:

[KCurtis]

Darcy is my middle name. Edward was and is because I apparently look like the twilight guy. I wish I could go by my middle name and my mother's maiden name, then I'd be Darcy Grais, a name I think rolls off the tongue with a lot of smoothness and classiness. If I ever do porn it'll be under that name. Keep an eye out for it people.

And I actually thought it was because you liked Pride and Prejudice. I am a bit disappointed.

[Delta40]

Clemmo is a shortening of my full surname with an o attached. In Yorkshire we had the habit of attatching either i - short vowel sound - or o - long vowel sound to anyones surname, and that was what you called them. So I knew a Smith-i and a Cook-i and a Jag -o and a Carp-o.

I was called Wardie for the same reason. Of course when it came to my first name, I got some real ribbing. Les-o! And the real smirker would be to knock on the door and say to my mum 'would Les-be-in?'

[Paulclem]

I was called Wardie for the same reason. Of course when it came to my first name, I got some real ribbing. Les-o!

:lol: Unlucky.

My sister, in an attempt to modify her name - Penny - shortened it to Peni briefly.

Thinking back, my cousin was called Wardie.

[cacian]

Darcy is my middle name. Edward was and is because I apparently look like the twilight guy. I wish I could go by my middle name and my mother's maiden name, then I'd be Darcy Grais, a name I think rolls off the tongue with a lot of smoothness and classiness. If I ever do porn it'll be under that name. Keep an eye out for it people.

Darcy is such a posh name..well made famous by Jane Austen.
You are the first person I know of with the name Darcy after the famous Darcy in Pride and Prejudice hehe.:)

[Delta40]

:lol: Unlucky.

My sister, in an attempt to modify her name - Penny - shortened it to Peni briefly.

Thinking back, my cousin was called Wardie.

lol Peni must have made a real difference to her given name! My brother Brian was called Bratzie because of a deaf uncle and the name just stuck.

[Paulclem]

Kids are nightmare aren't they?

One of my other cousins is still called Sconnie, and his brother is called Twiss. No idea why. A mate was called Froggy due to his bulgy eyes, and another mate was called Squinny because he had a squint. He got really big though, as he trained and played rugby. We stopped calling him that after a while.

[Delta40]

Kids are nightmare aren't they?

One of my other cousins is still called Sconnie, and his brother is called Twiss. No idea why. A mate was called Froggy due to his bulgy eyes, and another mate was called Squinny because he had a squint. He got really big though, as he trained and played rugby. We stopped calling him that after a while.

Yes. My daughter was called Hairy Sairy (Sarah) at school. She was a bossy boots though so I imagine she came up with all sorts of colourful names for other kids. I just assume name tagging is something that kids do. My childhood friend was Italian and her surname was Conti-Nibali so the boys called her ****ynibbles....

[Paulclem]

Yes. My daughter was called Hairy Sairy (Sarah) at school. She was a bossy boots though so I imagine she came up with all sorts of colourful names for other kids. I just assume name tagging is something that kids do. My childhood friend was Italian and her surname was Conti-Nibali so the boys called her ****ynibbles....

Awful.

My lad was called Arnold at school because of the cartoon character in Hey Arnold and his mild manneredness. His mate was called clown face. My brother is called Phil, and in his young teens him and his mates saw a documentary about the first stripper in the UK - Phyllis Dixie.Thus he became Dixie for a long time.

[MarkBastable]

From an article I wrote on this subject, years ago...


A life can be shaped by no more than a single ill-advised sentence. Take, for example, the risible case of Knickers Nolan, who was known, until the age of seventeen, by his given name of Terry.

Terry was always at the periphery of the gang that hung out at the Tar and Feathers. He never quite fitted - but, God, he wanted to. One lunchtime in 1977 we all bunked off school and went down for a jar. The conversation turned to common though covert adolescent practices – poring secretively over the lingerie section of the Kays catalogue; getting teak-textured stiffies on the bus thirty seconds before your stop. That sort of thing.

Terry was beside himself, delighted to be party to this matey confederacy of confidences. “Yeah, yeah,” he broke in eagerly, through the general mirth. “It’s like when your mum’s out, right, and you go to her room, yeah, and try on her knickers!”

Instantaneously, a pin-drop silence fell. “You what, Tel?”

“Y’know,” he nodded, grinning and joshing, “when you get your mum’s knickers on, eh? Phwoar! We’ve all done it, ain’t we, eh? Yeah?”

To this day, on the building sites of South London, you may see a burly, beer-gutted hod-carrier blushing to his balding roots in response to the cry, “Oi! Knickers! More bricks! Come on, mate, move it! Oh – ‘ow’s yer mum, by the way?”

[Darcy88]

And I actually thought it was because you liked Pride and Prejudice. I am a bit disappointed.

No its not because of the book. I don't think my parents have even read that book. But I am proud of the name because of that character. I've been told a few times by people who didn't even know my middle name that I act like Mr Darcy. I can come off as arrogant, though I try harder now not to.

[JuniperWoolf]

One of my nicknames is rabbit, which I actually like more than my real name (and I like my real name). Then I have the other typical nicknames that you get when your name is Robin, Robin Hood, Bird, Red Breast, Rockin' Robin, ect., I hate them because I hear those same jokes over and over and over. I also have the nickname Trouble from my math teacher, because my last name is Trimble and, well....

On litnet, I kind of like it when people call me Jun.

[qimissung]

I like to be called by my first name. My family wasn't much for nicknames. I always thought that showed a lack of imagination on our part, but maybe I'm glad now.

All throughout school and well into college I had a nickname based on my last name that I didn't like. I disliked it so much that when I got divorced I did not go back to my maiden name. I didn't tell my parents why, though.

My kids got called Luke Skywalker because part of that name is our last name. Interestingly, they hated that nickname as much as I hated mine.

[prendrelemick]

"MickeyTeky" or "Technician" or "Teky". Because I once claimed to be "The Organic Waste Removal Technician" when shoveling S***.

[billl]

Not too long ago, there was someone who would regularly call me by the first name of a handsome actor who she thought I resembled, and so I liked that. (A certain haircut I had gotten triggered it.) Just the one person was doing it, though, and it would've been ridiculous for me to promote a broader usage, considering the circumstances.

But way back in high school, I decided it'd be cool to change things up: enough with "Bill" already... "Will" was too simple, and I had always seen myself as sort of in a different political party or something to those guys named "Will". It wasn't politics, of course, but there was some sort of primal yet intellectual opposition inherent in having followed different paths like that. You had to root against the other, and wonder what was wrong with them.

Going with the whole name ("William") was absolutely out of the question, because it was purposefully formal, the opposite of 'original' (which is what I was shooting for), and it was precisely the sort of thing my parents would've suggested (it had, in fact, been the name they would regularly turn to after I had gotten in trouble).

So I looked at the end of the name. "William" minus "Will" leaves "Iam"... Pronounced "Yam"! Oh, yes, that was pretty good. Well, "Iam" pronounced like "Ian" was OK, nice and quirky, but no: "Yam" was the preferred pronunciation. Brutal and simple--but with a sense of humor. A sort of Popeye sound effect. "Iam" (Yam!) was IT, and I felt a little lucky how it had just fallen in my lap like that.

Well, one friend thought it was funny, and supported the experiment. He used the name I had chosen for myself regularly, and that was pretty cool, but nobody else thought about it at all beyond the initial hearing my idea about it. And then even that one guy changed it--turns out, over in Britain or Ireland or whatever, there's an actual option called "Liam" that people use (just a few years later a Mr. Neeson would become famous, in fact), and so my formerly compliant friend took over the driver's seat in my name-change expedition, and started calling me that, "Liam". I was flattered a bit that he was inclined to take a stake in the matter, but disappointed that it wasn't completely new, and (even worse) it wasn't even my decision.

It still might get used now and then at some very rare get-together, if he's about to involve me in some joke. "Liam", that is.

[cacian]

Kids are nightmare aren't they?
One of my other cousins is still called Sconnie, and his brother is called Twiss. No idea why. A mate was called Froggy due to his bulgy eyes, and another mate was called Squinny because he had a squint. He got really big though, as he trained and played rugby. We stopped calling him that after a while.

well yes if you believe The Lord of the Flies and no if you go with your instincts.

[Kingbob]

Be called title among my colleagues，be called name by strangers or acquaintances，be called nickname among my friends and relatives. That's fabulous~！

[Paulclem]

well yes if you believe The Lord of the Flies and no if you go with your instincts.

Funnily enough I was watching a Golding gocumentary last night. He was a teacher and was kicking against the idea that boys were just small grown-ups who, when left to their own devices, would act in a civilsed manner.

My experience of being a male tells me that he's right in some cases.

[Idril]

The only nickname I had that really stuck was 'Roots' because an unfortunate run-in I had with the roots of a tree as a child. Other than that, it's always been just my name, Lisa. However, 'L's are hard to say for the one and two year olds I work with so at work I'm typically called either Eesa or, my favorite, Seesaw.

[Pensive]

Glady. I quite like this name my brother gave me when I was a baby.
Maybe because my brother didn't have another younger sibling to know children are generally happier than adults (or maybe I was just so unusually highly happy) he always found me to be this smiling and laughing creature to not to resist from calling me Glady! Occured to him from this word 'glad' of English vocabulary that he had just recently learnt! :)

[RicMisc]

My actual name is Ricardo; at home my parents and brother call me Ri (i pronunciated differently than English i); and in school my friends call me Pascal and the rest calls me by my actual name.

The reason my friends in school call me Pascal was because a sub called me so by accident. My friends after that thought I looked like a Pascal and decided to keep using the name.

I would like to be called Fitzwilliam Darcy after the character from Pride and Prejudice, he apparently resembles me and there's nothing wrong with being a little fancy and arrogant ;)..

[tylerdf]

I was called Spanky for a while when I was a teen due to frequent and compulsive masturbation.

[cacian]

My actual name is Ricardo; at home my parents and brother call me Ri (i pronunciated differently than English i); and in school my friends call me Pascal and the rest calls me by my actual name.

The reason my friends in school call me Pascal was because a sub called me so by accident. My friends after that thought I looked like a Pascal and decided to keep using the name.

I would like to be called Fitzwilliam Darcy after the character from Pride and Prejudice, he apparently resembles me and there's nothing wrong with being a little fancy and arrogant ;)..

Haha..interesting.
What does a Pascal looks like?

[RicMisc]

Haha..interesting.
What does a Pascal looks like?

Well apparently like me xD.. I put a picture in the photoalbum a couple of days ago so if you'd like to check you know where to go ;).. Don't hold me responisble for the actions of my weird friends though, I just think I'm a Ricardo hahaha..

[Paulclem]

I was called Spanky for a while when I was a teen due to frequent and compulsive masturbation.

That might be a name that comes back if you ever get into S&M.

[tylerdf]

That might be a name that comes back if you ever get into S&M.

i most definitely own fury pink handcuffs. :smilewinkgrin:

[Paulclem]

i most definitely own fury pink handcuffs. :smilewinkgrin:

:lol:

[Pensive]

I was also called smartypants by someone very special.
Personally I believe he called me that looking at my inquisitiveness and tendency towards learning and sharing. Apparently it was supposed to be a humorous mockery but I always took it as a compliment. Sounded cute to me for some reason (maybe because it was said by somebody really special and it's kind of cute when they invent names for you :p)!