Was walking back in from taking an order out and said "I can't do this shit no more, divas". Best friend/coworker heard "Beavis". She goes "okay, butthead" to me. These are now our names in each other's phones.

BobEvansBirthdayClub@reddit

I used to work with a guy who had an unpronounceable Guatemalan first name, but he wore a uniform shirt with a name patch embroidered “Gary”… he was always Gary to me and the rest of the gringos.

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manfrombelmonty@reddit

Don’t forget Kiki Musampa who became known as Chris…

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drsfmd@reddit

I don't understand this one.

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I mean, it's already been explained twice above, so...

A Christmas hamper is a box or basket of nice treats, traditionally given as a Christmas present. It will contain tea, biscuits, some nice jam, marmalade or honey, crackers, some wine, etc.

Here is a link to our most famous brand.

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/seasonal-events/christmas/hampers

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Oenonaut@reddit

So, yes!

MattieShoes@reddit

It's not as cool as that, but Kyle Juszczyk (49ers fullback) is known as "Juice". Because none of us know what to do with "szcz" in a name.

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blessings-of-rathma@reddit

I know someone with the last name Barszcz and I swear when she says it out loud it's just "Bar". The szcz is silent.

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MattieShoes@reddit

It's use-check in this case :-)

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CaptainAwesome06@reddit

When I was in 11th grade, I took a class with sophomores, other juniors, and seniors. And there was one 8th grader, who would have had to get permission to take a HS level class, so he must have been a genius or something.

Man I thought this would be an urban myth but here he is

Oh I’ve heard so many.

Applehead - she looked like a shrivelled old apple

Reptilia - a snake in the grass cheater wife of a coworker

Lawn Jockey - a short man…he had been a literal jockey in his younger years

From my understanding, Military call-signs are often less about being a cool nickname and moreso references to embarrassing incidents.

The one I heard was "Bayonet" which sounds cool but he was given it because he was "dull, outdated, and only useful as a last resort"

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Pookieeatworld@reddit

My favorite was an F-18 pilot who failed to check his ordinance in pre-flight and had a HARM (iirc) come off the rail while he was landing on a carrier. He got the callsign "MOTOR" as an acronym for "Magnum On The Only Runway" since you call "Magnum" over the radio when you drop a HARM.

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Appropriate_Ad9157@reddit

Yep. Can confirm.

Fav call signs :BJ, and BeepBeep

Most won't tell you how they earned it

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os2mac@reddit

he won't do that twice.

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Famous-Response5924@reddit

We had a guy at my fire dept a year ago who put 23 gallons of def into the diesel tank. Truck needed an entire new fuel system.

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KoLobotomy@reddit

That man? Pete Kegsbreath.

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mungraker@reddit

I worked at a toy store years ago with a dude that wanted us to call him "Diesel." I told him that you aren't allowed to pick your own nickname, and if he wasn't careful, we were all going to start calling him "PeeWee." Well, that's all it took, and he was "PeeWee" from that point on. It was poetic and he absolutely fucking hated it.

The NFL had a running back Ben Jarvis Green Ellis.

ibefunlkg@reddit

A 400 lbs. man that we called pipsqueak

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maxman1313@reddit

In high school I played soccer with a guy who really wanted to push nicknames for lots of teammates.

None of them really took. Our coach asked him what he thought his nickname should be, and he replied: "I don't know, but as long as it's not showing stupid like Boobie"

We still hang out with Boobie on a regular basis almost 20 years later.

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ShuttlecockShshKebob@reddit

A woman at work used to call me Eileen because “I leaned” / brushed up against against her cubicle every morning when I walked by on the way to my office. I have inner ear issues and am a total klutz. Her cube wall and another cube’s wall made a hallway/tunnel to navigate through. The fact I cannot walk in a straight line was really evident right there lol. We laughed about it often & I ended up with that nickname.

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comfortably_bananas@reddit

My kid had a friend named Sea Bass. Sea Bass’s birth certificate said Sebastian.

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maxman1313@reddit

Sponge Bob, the guy has gap teeth

Sharky, guy has fucked up teeth

Crash, guy had crashed his truck twice in 6 months

Pockets, hands in his pockets

Diesel, but gas in a diesel truck

Riddick, guy looks like Vin Diesel

Joto, effeminate Mexican guy

Moco, not sure why they called him booger

We had Typical Tod, because no mater how fucked up the story was if it happened to Tod every one just said "well yeah that's typical"

Got his car stuck in a guy's yard doing donuts and had to knock on the door to borrow the phone.

His "girlfriend"stole his car, drove to Texas, and sold it for drug money. Called him 2 weeks later to borrow money so her and her boyfriend could get bus tickets back to Missouri, he wired it to her.

Moved to a majority Black neighborhood in St louis and yelled slurs at a kid, came home to every window busted, went to sleep, and woke up to his car completely destroyed.

There are so many more.

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elucify@reddit

I heard about somebody who was missing half an arm from the elbow down, and his nickname was "Clocky"

My brother-in-law had a friend at school who was good looking but tiny, and his nickname was "Bonsai"

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provinground@reddit

Ground Score (dope ass hippie with the longest dreads )

Slobbin on my nobin head bobbin Aubyn (girl from my highschool some brilliant jock made it up )

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Global_Friend5300@reddit

My grandfather lived next door to a woman for 50 years. Neither I nor my father ever knew her real name. Grampa always called her Pig Bristles, because she always wore dresses and never shaved her legs.

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NTWIGIJ1@reddit

SHU-FU-FA for short fat fuck

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Mary_P914@reddit

All my friends call me Mary (as in Mary Poppins) because I'm Practically Perfect in Every Way.

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bigedthebad@reddit

My wife is Hispanic, I’m white. We have been married a very long time. We have always made terribly racist jokes about each other.

She started calling me Honky on occasion and that morphed into Honky Donkey somehow.

I could never top that one.

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There was a kid in high school called “bomb” which stood for Bitter Old Man Boy because he was always a bit cranky. Always thought that was a good one.

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Born_Kaleidoscope587@reddit

Somebody I used to work with was called "Ball Cupper" because he always followed one other person around who was doing the work instead of him actually working

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DogTrainer24-7-365@reddit

Was in the military with a guy that had a long and somewhat difficult name. If I remember correctly it was Misiazack, but I'm not 100% certain I've spelled it correctly. Well due to the common mispronunciations of it, he became My Ass Itch.

The other best nickname happened to my dad. When he was about to become a granddad for the first time he was super grouchy about it. In his opinion he was too young to be a grandfather. He growled and complained about it so much that we started calling him Grumpy, and it stuck. For the rest of his life, all of his grandchildren and great-grandchildren called him Grumpy.

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TwainVonnegut@reddit

My own nickname in college: “Jackhammer”.

I was walked in on as a pledge, while in the throes of passion, by 3 of my fraternity brothers, causing one to exclaim “My god, he’s going off on her like a jackhammer!”

The guys who joined the fraternity after me never even knew my real name, to them I was simply “Jackhammer” 🤣

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I work with a guy that's a helluva truck driver, but a shit laborer. I called him "Fancy Pants Lance" once and the boys heard me and it stuck. I love him everyday but he seems to enjoy it. Fancy Pants Lance is a fuckin monument and if he's not hauling I'm not rigging it.

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Dorsai56@reddit

Used to be an NBA player named Joe Berry Carroll. He got nicknamed Joe Barely Cares...

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into_outdoors@reddit

I had a co-worker whose last name was Wen.

Blister- shows up when the work is done. Lantern- not very bright and has to be carried. Foreskin- dissappears when things get hard. This was my old boss, unsurprisingly he was walked off the property.

Not the best but I didn't know my uncles name wasn't "punk" until I was 19. He was never referred to by his real name until he remarried and she didn't like that everyone called him that.

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I have a coworker who is a one-upper, he did all the things, has been all the places. It was like there were multiple copies of him, to have done all of these things that he claims to have done. We were in the midst of learning the National Incident Management System when he was being particularly annoying. In NIMs, the term for a collection of similar assets tasked with a single job was called a “strike force.”

And thus “Strike Force Larry” was born. 25 years later, he’s still Strike Force Larry.

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b0ingy@reddit

friends and I used to frequent a diner where the register was run by a rather portly asshole with a very distinctive mustache.

Had a friend that on day one in college someone asked him his name. He gave it and they mispronounced it and he said it again but this time clarifying it had an LT at the end.

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SuperCrappyFuntime@reddit

I have a cousin who's dad nicknamed him Big Head as a kid and the name stuck.

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nosidrah@reddit

When I started working in a factory in the seventies there was a rather large guy that everyone called “Stick”. I couldn’t figure out why until they told me that he must have been beaten with the ugly stick.

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TheCeilingIsTheRuuf@reddit

My nickname as a kid was Pills. Not because I did drugs but because it was short for Pilsbury and I was fatty, fat, fat, fatty. It was fitting

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DonJovar@reddit

Unlike your clothes! rimshot

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Larry Legenf

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Porchmuse@reddit

Old Army ones, these were specific people.

Multi-tool: A company commander who could fuck up ANYTHING.

Yard Sale: a major who was so disorganized that he was “all over the place”

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cabosmith@reddit

Jawbreaker

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We had three Michaels in my highschool friend group. The biggest one we called Mike, the next largest we called Mike Two, and the smallest we called Mike Three. Eventually Mike Two became “Mike Squared” then eventually “Square”. Likewise Mike Three became “Cube”. So our friend group was Josh, Adam, John, Zach, Mike, Square, and Cube.

Little Big Tim.

The friend group had a tall, hefty guy named Tim. He was Big Tim. The other Tim was slender abd slightly shorter. He was Little Tim. One day word got out Little Tim was well endowed, so he became Little Big Tim.

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MMAGG83@reddit

Good for Little Big Tim. It’s certainly better than being Big Little Tim.

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FaithlessnessEasy276@reddit

Teeni boy. Cock eater. Big horse. Big block (a big boned older woman). That’s just what I can remember at the moment

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MMAGG83@reddit

A shop I worked in had a new guy who refused to spend money on prescription safety glasses, so he used the huge, uncomfortable, usually temporary safety glasses designed to go over the top of regular glasses. We all called him Six-Eyes for the duration of his time working there.

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MostlyChaoticNeutral@reddit

My cousin and I toured an old battleship when we were little. The crew were very excited to explain how the different pipes aboard were painted in different colors to indicate their use. The pipes painted gold were for waste water. Their nickname is "The Poopy Pipe."

SupportPrimary540@reddit

KitKat

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Carrotcake1988@reddit

I’m going to get downloaded to hell for this.

MyUsername2459@reddit

Back in college, I knew someone whose nickname was "Six".

He was someone who nobody really liked, because he kept saying really idiotic things. He had a lot of really dumb ideas and bad takes on all sorts of issues.

Someone described him as being from a village that was now missing its idiot.

So people started calling him, behind his back, the village idiot.

This quickly got abbreviated to "VI"

VI is the Roman Numeral for 6.

So he got nicknamed "Six".

Somewhere along the way, he learned that we called him that and he started openly calling himself "Six".

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os2mac@reddit

I know someone who's last name is really Fives.

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Agitated-Sock3168@reddit

he started openly calling himself "Six".

I don't know why, but as I read that I heard him saying So I says to myself, "Six", I says...and, immediately wondered why - in my head - he sounded like Foghorn Leghorn.

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OnlyDaysEndingInWhy@reddit

A similar bar-regular (from like 35 years ago) for me. He pretty much lived at the bar. Slept in his car, his social security check literally got mailed to the bar 'cause he didn't have an address.

Everybody called him "Six one-Six two" because one of his legs was longer than the other, so when he'd walk, he'd be 6'1" on one leg and 6'2" on the other.

Nice guy.

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Round_Asparagus4765@reddit

Know a guy that looks homeless. Never shaves, clothes always wrinkled etc. His nickname is Homeless J.McNastynuts

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bloodectomy@reddit

When I was in boot camp we had this one kid in our division whose very long last name nobody could pronounce (I think it was Polish or some other flavor of eastern European), so we called him Alphabet.

We had another guy called Tattoo because he was fully tattooed (except face and hands). It was all HR Giger-inspired and very cool.

I'm late but I have a few good ones!

GrimSpirit42@reddit

"True Value".

Story: Guy was a new supervisor at a manufacturing plant. We also had a HUGE guy that worked there for years. Slow in special way. Knew what he was supposed to be doing, but don't ever ask to do anything outside his scope or anything he didn't want to do.

Special dude was clearing out a ditch with a shovel. New Supervisor came up to him and yelled at him "Get your ass over there and do 'X'."

Supervisor started walking away....and the special dude thought about it...walked up behind the supervisor and *BAM*...hit the supervisor on the head with the shovel.

Luckily, hardhats were required.

Nothing was really done to the special guy. They told the supervisor he should have left the guy alone.

Why True Value? The shovel was from True Value Hardware store and the joke was you could see the imprint of the True Value logo on the back of the supervisor's head.

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LeafyZer0@reddit

Send a wire to the main office. Tell them I said owww

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GrimSpirit42@reddit

*scribbling* "Send wire...main office....tell them I said...'Ow'....Gotcha!"

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Glum_Variety_5943@reddit

Military co-worker called “Squish.”

WeAreTheMisfits@reddit

Hominy is like a corn bean. That’s great.

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Lazy_Ad2099@reddit

My boss has two for me that he uses occasionally. For whatever reason if I’m at work I’m hungry. So I’m always eating something. For a while when I first started I just had a bag of chips at all times, so he called me Chip. Then that got expensive so now I just bring whatever I have. My name is Ethan so now he calls me Eatin. Bc of the always eating. Never had a nickname before. Pretty cool I gotta say. On the other hand one of my coworkers keeps bringing up that everyone at the last course he worked at called him Hawkeye because he was always finding golf balls. It is very clear he wants us to call him that. We will not be doing that. Don’t be that guy. Nicknames gotta come naturally

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Radicalleek@reddit

Met a guy who survived a ruptured brain aneurysm, his friends called him "Bubbles".

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HooptyDooDooMeister@reddit

I went to high school with a Bubbles. But it was because he had a very high voice and brought bubbles to class one day.

His voice dropped, and it just wasn't the same anymore.

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i_drink_wd40@reddit

Might be doxxing myself, but only for a very specific crowd. So fuck it, here goes: I knew a guy in college called Vag Glasses. Because a stripper took his glasses off his face, created the nickname, and then put them back on his face.

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Donald_J_Duck65@reddit

There are a shit ton! But easy ones to explain:

There was a guy ate work that would start a conversation with you and you could shake him, even if you walked away he would follow you, making it hard to get things done so we called him Time Thief.

Another guy showed up to a company outing wearing shorts and he had insanely skinny legs so we name him Chicken Legs.

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2quila@reddit

I heard a story of a guy riding in the back of a trailer... Think farm setting... Trailer hit a bump and he fell out and apparently got run over by the rear wheel...

Roadkill

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tarheel_204@reddit

Old man in my community is nicknamed “Dog”

His real name is Doug but when he was a kid playing baseball, he slid into home plate and the letter “u” came off the back of his jersey and it spelled “Dog”

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Kencleanairsystem2@reddit

In Boston there was a bar across from the office I where I worked and the "B" fell off the sign, so it was called "The Ar".

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alma2554@reddit

We had a favourite Chinese restaurant in the eighties called Good Food. Unfortunately the last three neon letters were unlit, so the place was known as The Goof. Lived there for nearly ten years and never saw those letters lit.

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notonrexmanningday@reddit

I used to work on Navy Pier and one summer the R on the sign went out so we started calling it Navy Pie

Son had a friend named Jon Paul. Nickname was "Pope".

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TheActuaryist@reddit

Mallet. There was a guy in 4th grade summer camp doing an activity with a little hammer so we called him Mallet because we thought it was funny. It stuck. He would introduce himself as Mallet in high school. We weren’t even his friends or anything just in his class.

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Traegs_@reddit

No particular story behind it but there's a guy at my work named Sebastian and people call him Sea Bass.

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“Peanut butter legs” because they were easy to spread. Poor girl!

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Perfect-Jicama-626@reddit

Had a friend whose family had a lot of John’s and Gerrys. An uncle with one of those names they called “Nicky;” it was short for “nickname.”

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mrOwl_1312@reddit

Always enjoyed Whiz Bang

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admiralacorn@reddit

I work at a coffee shop near a very interesting side of town near downtown and a hospital, we tend to get a lot of recurring transient people with quite the personality. Our team likes giving them nicknames sometimes

One guy had no nose so we called him Voldemort. He'd come in absolutely shitfaced and for some reason he would hang around construction sites a ton? You could also find him way across the city doing the same thing like we have no idea how this homeless guy gets around

Another guy kept coming in for a few seconds and yell three random numbers to us before bolting out. Turns out he thought he was delivering nuclear launch codes to us to save the city, and those numbers were conveniently the prices of gas across the street. Needless to say, Man on a Mission probably actually did save the city now that I think about it.

Autumn is just sick that's her actual name and she's worth a mention. She would buy a drink and sit at the cafe with a different weapon every time. Like those lobbies where you kill someone and upgrade your weapon she had a baseball bat at one point, and then one day she had a katana and we had to ask her to leave. When she sits down a ton of random homeless guys will give her lottery tickets like dozens of them and she would compile all of them before leaving. I respect her game honestly she was sick.

There was this gentlemen that would constantly shit on our patio. His name was Jay but he was genuinely a good guy when he wasn't shitfaced causing problems that we would have to clean up. My best friend renamed him Abraham and I constantly would be like "hey no dude his name is Jay you realize that?" Turns out he just renames everyone he deeply hates Abraham. That sounds so sick to me like he just picked a name to categorize every person he hates that's great! Anyways Tiffany is the name I bestow on my enemies now

There was a crazy drunk guy in a wheelchair with knives that would come in and try to steal stuff. Yeah we called him wheels he was an absolute asshole.

A bunch of people at the cafe used to live together with super wild personalities. The Scooby Gang threw some awesome parties and they're super soulful people when they're not causing drama

There's a crazy homeless guy who sleeps outside the cafe and sometimes touches himself while walking around. He has super overgrown nails, smells crazy horrible, usually just has some shorts and a blanket. But homie somehow still finds a way to buy a coffee every day. I don't mind the service but sometimes I have to have him head out I mean can't have a crazy guy walking up to people outside and blocking their way in. Everyone I do I say "Goodbye Mr.President"

Gazelle is insane. He smells absolutely horrible but he can jump over like 6-7 feet high? He was in our dumpster area I smelled him from like 20 feet away. I was like hey bro you can't be in there that's dangerous. He just grunted at me and proceeded to JUMP over on top of the enclosure that I was trying to undo the lock to let him out. I was absolutely gobsmacked I only saw the guy a few times again but homie had insane hops.

We had an obese and rude regular who would come in and exclusively be a nuisance to the barista women on our team. He was really vile and had complete unawareness to what he said. He always wore Champion gear so that's what we always called him, Champion. He freaking loved that nick name but everyone seemed to prefer calling him that in a tongue in cheek way over John. He also would stay in the coffee shop for hours and disrupt every woman in the cafe to talk to them I actually hate that guy so much people would avoid our store because of him.

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Comprehensive-Menu44@reddit

I worked with a guy that everyone called “Burger”

A guy whose last name is Newton is called “Fig.”

Annoying new guy on campus started following girls around and would not leave anyone alone, even other guys, always trying to attach himself, was nicknamed Kang (the captain of a Klingon ship from Star Trek.)

My daughter does unified track, which is a track and field program at her high school that mixes kids with disabilities with non-disabled kids. My daughter is one of the non-disabled kids. Her and her boyfriend (we'll call him Bill) got matched up with a kid who, if I had to guess, is severely autistic. He's also hilarious AF. We'll call him Hank.

Hank loves everybody. He is super outgoing and says hi to everyone. When they called Hank's name at the end-of-season award ceremony to collect his letter, all the athletes cheered. Everybody loves Hank.

Hank also refuses to learn my daughter's name. He either calls her Bill's girlfriend or calls her Kevin. Now we refer to her as those names at home. My other daughter is doing unified track this year. Hank calls her Bill's sister.

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MotherofaPickle@reddit

This is the most heartwarming story ever.

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Big_Tap3530@reddit

This makes me happy

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60MinMan-13@reddit

"Stroker"was a guy who got caught jerking off in the men's room at work.

"Snoot" a coworker who was a "nosey",loud mouth a-hole. Both his brother-in-laws worked at the same place and gave him the nickname and he was to stupid to even realize it.

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Used to work with a guy who’s nickname was Arthur because he was quiet short so was ‘half a’ man

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StudleyKansas@reddit

https://imgur.com/a/hhSZ0Qd

I had that made for my brother. You can probably surmise how he earned it.

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SheaTheSarcastic@reddit

Jhonkensy Noel is a baseball player who is nicknamed Big Christmas.

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notonrexmanningday@reddit

We got a guy called Soup Can. I've never asked why. I'm afraid I don't wanna know.

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Specialist_Stop8572@reddit

There was a guy at a party named Kenny that I misheard introduced as "Kitty", so I started calling him that

Even funnier, it was his friend next to him that was actually Kenny, and his name. was Ryan

But it's been 15 yrs and everyone still calls Ryan "Kitty"

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BZ2USvets81@reddit

My oldest granddaughter couldn't say Grandpa very well so her other grandfather is called Crappa.

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Free_Four_Floyd@reddit

College friend named Richard (Dick) Ray immediately became Cos - The Cosmic Genital Weapon

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RecommendationAny763@reddit

New a guy called foot. Apparently because he has 12 inches- a “foot” in his pants. Terrifying guy, he was easily 6’8” or taller.

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clintj1975@reddit

I worked in a machinery repair shop for a couple of years. I went down to a job site one day and asked the guys down there where the piece of gear that needed to be worked on was. They shouted "Hey Mongo, go show this guy where that pump is!" "Mongo" was easily 6'6", and I figured it was a reference to the movie "Blazing Saddles". Then I noticed after talking with him a bit about the pump and what was wrong with it that his name tag said his last name was Lloyd.

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_WillCAD_@reddit

In high school I once dubbed a guy Three Cheeks, because he was an ass and half.

It didn't catch on. But I stand by my assessment.

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ccoakley@reddit

There was a dude everyone referred to as "Serl." Turns out, it wasn't his name. It was short for "surly." It apparently started at a neighborhood potluck. Someone decided this guy was extra surly and just started referring to him that way in front of all the neighbors. It stuck.

I knew a pilot "Franken." It was because he was massive and it was short for Frankenstein('s monster). Someone talking to him was the first time I heard the phrase "5-head" as well. I also new a pilot named Beavis (he looked, and kind of acted, like the character from Beavis and Butthead).

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Amazing_Divide1214@reddit

This guy who goes by "Lefty" who happens to be missing his left arm.

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KittiesRule1968@reddit

Diaper Donnie.....for you know who.

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MyUsername2459@reddit

Also known as:

The Malevolent Mango
Tangerine Palpatine
His Royal Orangeness
Don the Con
Donnie Drumpf

I have an uncle who is referred to as "Crowbar" on the town's historical page.

No one from that generation is still alive. No one has responded to my questions about why and how on the FB page

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Strict_Berry7446@reddit

I was once looking for an underling at work (seafood manager). I thought he was annoying as hell, didn’t realize how many people shared that opinion till I asked another manager for him. “Who? Oh, you mean Vagina Boy?”

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2dznotherdirtylovers@reddit

Mofe. Which is short for MOFO. Which is short for ———

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Big_Tap3530@reddit

Foreskin as soon as things get hard he vanishes.

From 1995-2004, I lived in a two bedroom apartment with anywhere between 2-5 other roommates. We called the apartment the Do Whatcha' Like Palace, because we made it a place that any of our friends could just come and hang out; and in that environment, nicknames just abounded.

I had a roommate that we ended up calling Beast. His name was José, which became Hose B, which then became Hose Beast which then became Beast. The evolution of a nickname that we still use to this day.

Another roommate of mine had a girlfriend named Amy; but we all called her Peachy, based off a line from the movie Face/Off.

Yet another roommate's name was Lowell; but we all called him Roar, because our Asian next door neighbor could never say his name right.

My name is Jer, but my nickname became Tree Quarters. At first it was because I wasn't a complete jerk, just three quarters of one; but it lost the H after I had a drunken one night stand with a girl who got nicknamed The Tree.

At one point, we had two Tonys. One we called Yoo-hoo because of the reek he created one night after drinking a case of the stuff. The other we called OT, because he was the Other Tony.

There were plenty of others, but I think those were the best of them.

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SunshineBLim@reddit

My son is in hs theater. His teacher gives nicknames to students whose name is longer than 2 syllables. There are 3 kids with my son's first name, he's a senior, so one of the freshman with the same name is Crutches. Because he started school using crutches 🤦‍♀️

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bluegrass502@reddit

Medium Rare. He was a ginger who'd get sunburned but never tan

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SunshineBLim@reddit

A friend i had was nicknamed PITA. For Pain in the A$$. She hated it.

A classmate in my Latin class in high school had the nickname Peaches. Our Latin teacher called her Mala Persica which tanslates to Persian Apple as there is no word for peaches in Latin. It stuck. She loved it.

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metricnv@reddit

I coined "Potshot" for our neighbor who frequently practiced on his shooting range and wanted us to keep the cannabis away from his young sons.

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NCSU_252@reddit

I know a guy who got hit by a car when we were kids like 25 years ago and a few people still call him Roadkill.

I also know a guy who shot a hole in the floor of his truck while hunting like 25 years ago, he still gets called Floorboard every now and then.

Not the most original nicknames but they crack me up just because of how long they've stuck around.

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ParadoxicalFrog@reddit

One of my dad's friends was in the Air Force. He served with a guy whose callsign was Gimli (after the dwarf from Lord of the Rings) because he was short and grouchy.

Why Skillet though?

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Effective_Coach7334@reddit

it's from a derivative of a street slang term homeboy, aka homeskillet.

Skillet sounds like Scarlet.

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zion_hiker1911@reddit

Ah gotcha

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BasterdMalloy@reddit

Maybe when they were young, they had trouble pronouncing Scarlet, or had a speech impediment that made Scarlet sound like Skillet.

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zion_hiker1911@reddit

That makes sense. We had a friend who had a butt so flat they called her frying pan, so maybe that's why? Im still waiting on a reply with an explanation 🤷🏽‍♂️

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ICouldUseANapToday@reddit

I met a guy in college who introduced himself as Butt Cheese.

He was in the school marching band. Apparently on a trip he mooned someone from the buss carrying the band. When his ass came off the window he left behind a line on the glass.

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j4kefr0mstat3farm@reddit

There was a kid on my soccer team one year (this was when Atkins/South Beach and similar diets were trendy) who wore a shirt on the first day of practice that said "This Shirt is Low in Carbs" and everyone called him Low Carbs all season.

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Valcyor@reddit

When studying abroad in Germany, there was a Finnish girl in my class by the name of Kyllikki Mäkinen.

The Hawaiian student in our class then began singing "Mele Kalikimaka."

Apparently she liked the nickname of "Mele" so much that she kept it for the entire semester and now answers to it at home because "mele" is apparently a form of "noise" in Finnish and she played trombone.

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MC_Gusto69@reddit

Buddy of mine is a sleep doctor. His gamertag is Deputy Dong. Over the years we just started calling him "Dick Doc."

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LockNessCrotchMonst@reddit

Round Mound of Rebound - Charles Barkley because he is fat.

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Leading_Swing8794@reddit

I worked with a guy everybody called Short Bus. He.... wasn't exactly smart.

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mykepagan@reddit

One of my fraternity brothers was dubbed “Mr. X”, later shortened to just “X”

When last I checked, DECADES after graduation, he still goes by X, even at work.

If it matters, he was called Mr. X by the frat guys as a freshman because he was quiet and reserved. Inscrutable, even. This turned out to be his actual personality, but the name stuck.

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"Dirty Steve"

"Isosceles"

"Doodle Bug"

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RunsWithSporks@reddit

pee-pee short for Peter. Was a random house party in HS with some guy from another school who couldn't remember my name. So he went with that.

I have a friend that I've known for many years. Her nicknames was "chicken" because our families were out at the lake for a week and she was running across the shore. Her dad said, "look at that chicken run" because she had long legs and she was kind of awkward at the time.

She was only 12 or 13 years old at the time but the nickname stuck. It became an endearing term, only her family and my family use it.

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Ubongah.

When I was in the Army and stationed in Korea we had KATUSAs - Korean soldiers that lived and worked with us. There was one of them that we didn't really care for and you didn't have to speak Korean to figure out that the other KATUSAs didn't really like him either. We kind of figured out that they were calling him this and we started to do it too and it REALLY pissed him off. Bad enough to be insulted by your colleagues in your own language, and so much worse when foreigners who don't even speak it do it too. I had to ask a few of them what it meant before one of them finally caved. This was about 20 years ago so I might not have this totally right but "Ubong" is slang for a woman's breast and the suffix "ah" kind of turns it into a verb? So it's like Korean for "Boober".

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No-Contact6664@reddit

Beaver Dam Piece of Shit is my fav.

He was a new guy to the scene from Beaver Dam. Piece of Shit was term of endearment.

It's been 30 years and he's still Beaver Dam Piece of Shit.

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No_Stand8812@reddit

I met a kid at summer camp whose last name was hymen. We called him busta. His little brother was called poppa.

I was 10. I don’t get why it was funny for too long

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drunkenwildmage@reddit

At the telecommunications company I used to work for, we had someone we called “Captain 911” because he accidentally dialed 911 one day while working on a 911 report.

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pikkdogs@reddit

Was just listening to a podcast a month or two ago with someone who used to work with a guy named Dead Richard. That's the best one. I guess someone with his name had died that weekend and on Monday he didn't show up. Then at like 3:00 PM he walks in and yells "Not dead Yet F-ers".

Where I'm from everyone gets a nickname, but they aren't that innovative usually. My dad was called The Big Unit, not sure why a good lineman in football was called "The Cooler" after William the Refrigerator" Perry.

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FlyLemonFly@reddit

An ex-boyfriend used to work with a former alcoholic. The guys at his job all nicknamed him Mr. Thirsty.

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doublebogey182@reddit

There was a great post somewhere about how call signs happen for military pilots. Movies make them seen cool and like they get to pick. Apparently not true. My favorite I saw was a pilot who had a large forehead. Ended up with call sign Imax.

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LABELyourPHOTOS@reddit

I was poor so getting to do the class trip was super amazing for us poor kids from Massachusetts. One kid talked about it so much they called him "DC" for the rest of his life. A lot of people that knew him didn't even know his real name.

My buddy I gave the nickname Uncle Kenny.

We were in Iraq together and I had just got back to the FOB after patrol. While I was breaking down the 50 cal I heard him calling football routes around the corner. I figured I’d clean the 50 later and go play some football. As I turned the corner it was just him throwing the football to some plastic lawn chairs. No one else was there, he was calling plays to plastic. I called him Uncle Kenny after the character Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite and he’s had that nickname for 20+ years now. My family and other friends all call him that too.

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XuWiiii@reddit

Padre ocho. À priest with 8 fingers