[Golden Legacy]

Eugine gave me the idea for this topic, so here it goes.

I have a few nicknames, the one that most people tend to use, including my close friends, (and that I find eternally amusing): Raid. :P

I've also been called Elmo, Elmer Fudd, Elmer's glue (all puns of my last name), and for a while I was called Malik because that was what my mother was going to name me when I was born.

So, what are some nicknames that ya'll have?

[Blue]

KyKy was the one my family chose to call me when I was a child.

[Platinum Sun]

A few people call me "Texas Ranger" because My last name is Walker. Yeah I don't roll with a very creative crowd. :P

Although this does bring me one step closer to being Chuck Norris. A small step though. Thus far I have failed to perform a spatial-rending round-house kick, sucessfully order a Big Mac at Burger King, or slam a revolving door...

[Eugine]

I'm sitting here, just laughing at myself GL.

I always mentally pronounced your name Raid, and didn't even realise it's Riad. How exactly is that pronounced? I guess your friends have a good reason for calling your Raid.

Anyway, when I was young I had the nicknames bluejean, bertie and engine (weird, and never liked them)
In secondary school, my nicknames were my surname (everyone tells me my first name sucks ;_:P and winterfresh (anyone who has my Facebook will realise why.)

[Someone Else]

Hippy, White boy, Hey you, Stripper Cowboy (don't ask), Idiot, Dumbass, Jesus, That guy, [insert last name]...

I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

[Golden Legacy]

@ Eugine: Haha, it's all right. I'm not even sure if there is a right way to pronounce it, since it's taken from another language (Arabic). The pronunciation I use is "Ree-add" ("ree" rhyming with "tea" here), and that's what I get called most - but strangely enough, I've also lived with a fair few people calling me "Rye-add" ("rye" as in "right").

And of course, plenty of people find it so difficult that I just let them call me "Raid". My friend Zach (who called me the "normal" way) used to call me Raid just for fun though (a few references here and there to the bug spray), especially when we used to play Ultimate Frisbee together, and that's when it started to catch on.

Eugine, I'm so certain and glad that you're name isn't as unusual as mine. :P

[Someone Else]

Golden Legacy, on Dec 25 2007, 09:18 PM, said:

I've also lived with a fair few people calling me "Rye-add" ("rye" as in "right").

Haha, that's the way I've always pronounced it in my thoughts. Ree-add sounds better, now that I think about it. Riad's a cool name, though.

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[Split Infinity]

I don't have nicknames. People choose to make fun of my real name instead, of which there are endless possibilities, my personal favourite being, 'Eh Jack, you're late!'

I didn't notice the joke for an entire year. Probably because I usually am late to class.

[Laharl]

i has a few

Laharl (because that was my usename on a local board and they couldnt be bothered learning my real name)
Skeletor (for my thinnes and evilness)
Jim/Jimmy (t'would appear the people at work are allergic to james)
Minion (only get this when one of my bosses goes on a power trip)
Jesus (last time i checked, Jesus wasnt white, wore black, listened to death metal and wasnt atheist)
"Mosher" (The musical knowledge and awareness of chavs is truely astounding)

and my personal favourite

"slipknot" (for liking Dragonforce) someone explain this to me, my brain starts melting if i think about it for too long

[Aquamarine]

Golden Legacy, on Dec 26 2007, 06:18 AM, said:

@ Eugine: Haha, it's all right. I'm not even sure if there is a right way to pronounce it, since it's taken from another language (Arabic). The pronunciation I use is "Ree-add" ("ree" rhyming with "tea" here), and that's what I get called most - but strangely enough, I've also lived with a fair few people calling me "Rye-add" ("rye" as in "right").

I've also always pronounced your name that way. And Rye-add sounds better than Ree-add to me. Rye-add is awesome.

Anyhow, my nicknames are all different ways of saying Steven. Some friends call me simply by my name, others call me Steva(a Serbian nickname for Steven). Then there are the more English than Serbian nicknames given to me by my friends because I'm part English: Steve(sounds like "cleave") and Stevee(like "Heavy").

[R-dog]

The kids on my basketball team call me R-dog.
My more common nickname is Pocky. It happened because I bought a box of it for my friends. Then they started associating me with Pocky and it just sort of stuck.
In case you're wondering, this is what Pocky is.

[Caael]

Timmy, Timmi, Timdawg, Timoffey, Timaah, Timster, Timstafer, Timseph, Timbo, Steve o_O, Tinkerbell, Timkabell, Sabrina.

Thats probably about it.

[Folcon]

I don't really have any nicknames that are worth mentioning, excpet in the Smash League I take part in. It's a league for SSBM. I use the name Red Dragon there, and that's what I'm know as among my friends there. And because a few of the are also in my kendo group, the name has carried over as well. Unfortunatly, I'm going to have to drop out of kendo for several months because of an ankal injury. Anyway, apart from Red Dragon, and escout here, I don't have any nicknames that I go by.

[Eugine]

I haven't any friend who doesn't have a nickname. Most are used for convienience though, like Simantha being called Sammy .

[Quacnar]

Coz, killercoz, cozmo, cozzy, Colone, colon, colin powell, Triple C. There are others that I can't remember know.

[kate]

:( i've never had a nickname. my name's always been too short and boring for one. *sniff* someone give me a nickname!

[Quacnar]

kat, katey, kite, crate, kate bait, late kate, hurricane katerina, they're KKKKKKKKKKATE, Katerrific, etc.

[Split Infinity]

Evangeline. :(

[Lightning Star]

kate, on Dec 26 2007, 11:53 PM, said:

:( i've never had a nickname. my name's always been too short and boring for one. *sniff* someone give me a nickname!

ZOMG you're Penguin Number 1, rememberrrr?!

Anyways, as for my nickname, it's pretty hard to guess.

I bet you couldn't figure this one out.

Nope, not one bit.

It's Icy.

I know, tough, huh? :(

[Aquamarine]

.eugine, on Dec 27 2007, 05:54 AM, said:

I haven't any friend who doesn't have a nickname. Most are used for convienience though, like Simantha being called Sammy .

Yeah, almost all of my friends have nick's. One of my friend's is called Branko and we call him Bane, which is a very common nickname in Serbia. We refer to another of my friend's as Taki, though that has nothing to do with Soul Calibur. None of them even know what SC is.

[Lightning Star]

One of my friends is named Katherine, but she goes by Kat. That's pretty normal, though.

I like my nickname. It's totally random and easy to remember :(

[My Best Wishes]

I can assure everyone I do not go by 'watch'.
The only names I ever get called are my last name (Facebook people) and Benny. Benny got started from my sister watching 'How to lose a guy in 10 days' and it caught on. It's not bad anymore, and it's a great way to differeniate people who know me to people who know me better. I only get called my last name at school though, so I rarely get called my first name anymore anywhere, except maybe at work.

[Eugine]

Yup. My most common nickname is my last name.

[Kuchiyose]

Hahaha :( My nickname is either: Smurph or Robo cop XD (since my name is Alex Murphy).
Murphy =Smurphy or just smurph (thats what most people say) or Robo cop, since in the movie robo cop was called Alex Murphy, I can never escape that nickname ^_^

[Drizzy Drake]

Poo-streak-on-underwearzorz for life.

[Eugine]

Wait... Your nickname is Poo-streak-on-underwearzorz for life? o.O

[Split Infinity]

Or maybe it's black-rubbery-streaks-on-the-roadzorz for life...

[Lightning Star]

Oh, and for some reason, my teachers get a kick out of calling me Miss Musante. Like I have no first name or something...

[Split Infinity]

How do you pronounce that?

[Moonear]

I don't have a nickname. But people always pronounce my name wrong. Since it's Arabic, It's supposed to be spelled and pronounced Haaris (Ha as in HA HA!) People pronounce it as Harris.
My cousins call me Haaroso for some reasson.

[kate]

dang see now i want a more complicated name. I'm thinking of changing kate to Princess Quinsweilla. then you could get a ton of nicknames.

[Split Infinity]

Is that based off Princess Consuela Banana Hammock?

[kate]

yeah but i spell it cooler ^_^ i think everyone should have a q in their name.

there's a girl at my school whose name is pronounced jessica, but spelt jys'ca...i would love to have some form of punctuation in my name.

[Split Infinity]

That sounds like Jyscal. I bet her parents worked for Squaresoft.

[Lightning Star]

Spam King, on Dec 28 2007, 08:27 PM, said:

How do you pronounce that?

Musante: Moo-sahn-tay

Oh yeah, and the kids used to get a kick out of making cow noises around me in elementary school 'cause of my last name (And I was fat ^_^ )

[Envy]

People don't usually give me nicknames, but a few years ago some people at my high school started calling me "Bassoon" due to my obsession with the bassoon. XD

[Split Infinity]

The bassoon is apparently the second-hardest instrument to play. ^_^

[Envy]

Really?

I didn't really think it was that hard to learn. On the other hand, I had the experience of playing the trumpet, clarinet, and a little bit of alto saxophone before I started learning the bassoon, and then I had lessons as well.

Clarinet was the hardest for me. I don't know why.

[Drizzy Drake]

Alien. Don't ask why.

[Split Infinity]

Oh wait, I think it was the clarinet. XD

It was in the book of records, I'll take another look.

[Envy]

Nah, I'm pretty sure the bassoon is ranked as one of the hardest instruments. That's just how double reeded instruments are.

[Split Infinity]

Crap, now I can't remember which woodwind instrument I used to play. I think it was the Oboe. Because there were four to choose from: Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and Bassoon. And I picked the one with the middleish tone.

The French Horn is the hardest, by the way.

[Envy]

None of them really have "middleish" tones except for the bassoon it has a great range!

It had to have been the oboe or clarinet. Flutes play really high.

That figures that french horn would be the hardest. I only know of a few people who play it right and I was in a huge high school.

[Mathak Kraven]

People call me Tich, because that's shorter then mah Display name, but GT people still call me MK ;;

[Mallick]

My guildies call me Mall/Jake/Alec/hey noob.

[ZephyrAnalea]

I'm "Starcraft Girl" at school because of my hat, Kaitlynn-Town in class because my teacher doesn't like normal sounding names, and ZA or Zeph absolutely everywhere else :P

[redchi]

my nick names when i was a kid my mom and dad call me tata as i grew up my nick were mothy,chii,reddy,tama-chan