I picked up Radar, at my first survey job, shortly after I started: 1975. Pretty much everyone at this company had a nickname...
My first party chief was Ernie, but everyone called him Zeke.
Radar eventually was shortened to Ray; there was a lot of people who thought my name was Raymond.
As a sophomore I was on a ladder in the HS gymnasium helping the coach changing light bulbs.
I thought you were going to say, "and from then on they just called me Horse."
As a kid I thought my first name was 'Heyboy' and my last was 'Getmeabeer'... After surgery 18 it became 'the bionic man'.
I wasn??t remarkable enough to have a cool nickname. ?ÿIf you guys want to call me remarkable you have my permission. ?ÿLol
With my name I never had a nickname. My Brother in law always nick-named my niece's boy-friends. My favorite was "roast beef" for an english guy she dated.?ÿ
Knew Professor Fairbanks.?ÿ We called him Gus, same as the faculty members did, when he was not around.?ÿ His first name really was Gustave.
Quite a few of my high school male classmates had nicknames, many assigned before I joined them as a freshman.?ÿ Rabbit, Tater, Buns, Tank, Wags, Waldo, Jake, Willie A., Hawkeye, Buh, Merle, Red (short for red on the head like the............dog)
Had one girl in our class known as Cooker or Cook for short.?ÿ I believe the story went that her mother gave her that nickname when she was just a little gal.?ÿ Last name was Olson and the first name was a common girl's name, so nothing related to that.?ÿ Her 90 year-old father still calls her Cooker all the time.
In 1968 our basketball team had Razmataz, Feeb (coach told him he was a feeble jumper on rebounds), and Mo (his name was Duane but his dad was Maurice). Probably other nicknames I've forgotten.
I was a three sport athlete in HS and two in college (football and track and field). I was the QB and played linebacker my freshman year (defensive back after that) and loved to hit people so I got the nickname of "Nails." Only a couple people I know now know that, as it left me when I went off to college. Unfortunately my 62 year-old body (neck especially) is paying for all that punishment I delivered. My motto was "It is better to give than to receive."
I surfed with a bunch of guys from the mid 80??s through the mid 90??s that all had nicknames. Dud, Speedy, Star, Boogie, Lima Bean, Walk, Cracker, Lamb Chop, Radar, Manus, Stoney, & Lark. One of those nicknames was mine, given to me by Dud. I don??t see him much anymore, but he still calls me by my nickname.
My dad called me Big B when I was a kid.?ÿ Not because I was actually big for my age; it was just because I was the oldest sibling.?ÿ When I had roommates in college we owned a racing video game where we each had a custom car, and I labeled mine BStrand's Ride.?ÿ Somehow that turned into a nickname for me for the few years that we shared the apartment-- I ended up being called Ride or Mr Ride.?ÿ
I thought my name was Dammit David for the first 3 years of my life.
My Dad called me the Caboose because I was the youngest child.
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Stump was the name given to a fellow I know well.?ÿ When he was playing football, the ball carriers said that running into him was the same as running into a stump.?ÿ He was short, but powerful, especially in his arms and his grip.?ÿ He had been milking cows by hand and toting five gallon buckets of milk plus full 10 gallon milk cans since he was old enough to walk to the dairy barn on his own.?ÿ Later in life he ran a bar for a few decades.?ÿ He was his own bouncer.
@dave-karoly For a while there growing up I thought my name was a combination of all my brother's names as he would nearly always run through the complete list before getting to mine last.
