nicknames

[Quartlow]

where did you get yours?

many many moons ago I took a job hauling iron local. it was a rather boring and job that simply involved moving 9 loads a day from point a to point b. A whole whopping 3 miles. After a few days I came up with the bright idea that if I hauled 1.5 loads at a time I could get all my work done in 6 trips instead of 9. since we got paid buy the weight we hauled I made the same money in less time.

About the the 3rd day the boss realized i was back in the yard at 1PM instead of 6PM and of course he wanted to know why. so I told him. He just shook his head and said "your about a quart low" It stuck. there are actually people out there that know pretty well but only know me by Quartlow

[Sonny Edmonds]

I iz a Junior.
But my Daddy called me Sonny from day one.
I answer to both my given name and Sonny. And about everybody outside my work (and many at work), call and know me as "Sonny".
Since I approch this forum as my Friends, I want them to know me as Sonny as well.
It works in real life as well as online. Family and Friends pretty much only know me as "Sonny".
It's all but my legal name. And I won't go against my parents given name and change it legally, even though Mom & Dad are gone now.
I even sign it at times.
Interesting question Quartlow! Although we both know our reasons from a while ago about nicknames.
It'll be interesting to see what crops up. :7

:D

[link:www.sonnyedmonds.com | Sonny Edmonds]
"Precision Firewood Specialist"
God Bless America !
One Nation Under God!
"I was raised around lead based paint.
It ain't an excuse, just a fact."

[WoodMangler]

I ran my own business for a few years, and one of the items I "mass produced" was basket handles... I steam bent them, and my wife commented that it looked like I was "mangling the wood"... I said "yep, that's me, the ol Woodmangler"

[Sawduster]

Sometimes I think that what I make the most of in my shop is sawdust, so . . .

[drew725]

My name is Drew, the hull number of the submarine I was stationed on was SSN-725, hence Drew725.

[mapleman]

i got mine from my partner in the maple syrup business (more like fun). in high school i'd see him and call him keeperkiller (he loves to fish) and he'd call me mapleman.

except now i have gained naother from my vintage base ball team - batman. and i have a lathe. you will know the rest. :)

later,
John "mapleman" Fairbairn III
"Me don't know, I justa build 'em" :P

[gritter63]

My nickname since I was in 7th grade is Tex. My last name is Ritter, I grew up in Aledo, TX, a small town about 10 miles south of Ft. Worth, I was heavily into the cowboy thing in school, complete with hat that only took off for ONE thing ;), one of my high school sports was Rodeo (bull riding), and so my first football coach, in 7th grade, started calling me Tex. It stuck. When I came to Arizona to go to college, I was still into the cowboy thing, and being from Texas, my Frat brothers all called me Tex, even though I never mentioned that that was my nickname. It just kinda followed me.

Now, all my old friends from college call me Tex, but noone I've met in the last 10 years or so calls me Tex. Its kinda nice to have my oldest, truest friends call me by that name.

No, I'm not any relation to the original Tex Ritter, or the recently departed (and much missed) John Ritter. Ritter is a German name, and relatively common.

My online handle of Gritter63 is just my first initial, last name, and year of birth.

Gritter63

[Cody Colston]

I used to be called "Bones" until about 2 years ago. I quit smoking, put on ~60 lbs and the nickname no longer fits.

So, I just go by the one given me. :)

BTW - Good question, Quartlow!

Cody

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything

[MorePowerMatt]

The name I use in this forum is a derivative of a nick I was called once by a good friend in college.

I am a Tim Allen fan, especially the "Tool Time" skits from "Home Improvement." (I even had the grunts down pat. I had a lot of fun with that when I took Power Systems my junior year of college. ARH ARH ARH!!!! POWER systems! oh oh OH OH oh)

Although I haven't seen much Tool Time lately (I lost interest in the show when the Tim Taylor's kids grew up), I still believe that more is, well,... more. When it comes to hp ratings of tools, nrr ratings of hearing protectors, etc., I've found that too much is better than not enough. (We need.... MORE POWER...) In the Boy Scouts, I also learned that it is better to have and not need than to need and not have. This is especially true with.... POWER!

ARH ARH ARH! Forget that wimpy 4-cyl, give me an SS 396! OH YEAH! I don't need wimpy one-ounce international target load, I use the full target AA and STS, even the Nitro 27. oh oh OH OH oh.

Matt

MorePowerMatt - Behind the Woodworking on VH1

[saturnme]

I think mine has to do with place of origin . . .

fred
My life is taking a new turn... round and round and round . . .

[TheWoodMan]

My nickname is actually "Redline".. I got it from one of my buddies who used to see me push engines to the redline all the time. I had been around race engines for quite a while, and I still believe that an engine isn't working until it starts to hurt. Push it to the redline, then a little more. As another buddy Rick aways said, (a motorcross racer) "A little is good, more is better, but too much is never enough" Ironically, when we raced blown fuel flats, & hydros, we rarely ever broke the engines. We pushed them hard, but didn't kill them. Anyway, Redline didn't seem like a good nick name for someone working around wood. :o But if you call me redline, I'll answer. :)

Dave

[stlbluesaddict]

I'm a huge hockey fan. My favorite team is the St. Louis Blues. I have had a sticker or magnet with the Bluenote logo on my past 4 vehicles. I will forever display a form of team support for the Blues.

[Cromag]

I used to play alot of video games online. One of my names was Megalodon. Then I changed it to Cromag after drinking too many beers and watching the Discovery Channel (they had a show on the cromagdon man - sp)... I thought it was funny as hell at the time, and people remembered the name, so it stuck. Ive been too lazy to change it....

Paul

[BamBam]

Mostly people are always calling me Batman or Mr. Mom because my name is Michael Keeton. Oddly enough, my dad says that when he was younger he was always called Buster because of the old silent film star, Buster Keeton... BamBam, I just picked it out of thin air, was thinking Bam Bam from the flintstones and Bam Bam is the sound you make with a hammer or well placed tool in a fit of anger....

[Sawduster]

And here I thought all this time you were into the music!

[BigDaddy]

Well, I'm 6'5", 300lbs. Always been a big boy. In college, I lived next to a group of partiers (the guys that play in bands and get all the girls to come to their parties) .. Well, I hung out with 'em, they were cool guys. But from day 1 those guys called me Big Daddy, or The Daddicus. The name stuck.

The name of their Band was "Sounds Like Gravy". They were a blues/rock band and ended up making a CD at one point, got on some local radio stations and played gigs all over Grand Rapids and Lansing. This was back in '94 - '98. Well, on their CD cover at one point they were going to have me holding a TV dinner and doing this stupid grin I used to do .. But decided just to do the TV Dinner. But since that day 1, I was dubbed Big Daddy. I liked that nick better than my golf team in college, they seemed to think I looked like Lumpy Rutherford from Leave it To Beaver, was called Lumpy by them, Big Daddy by my friends.

[_Tony]

Anthony=Tony. Simple enough....... No wait I guess it should be "Thony" Hmmmmm I'll have to check into that... :)

Tony



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"An honest man's pillow is
his peace of mind."

[gritter63]

How about Hardhat, or Roughneck?

[gritter63]

"I liked that nick better than my golf team in college, they seemed to think I looked like Lumpy Rutherford from Leave it To Beaver, was called Lumpy by them, Big Daddy by my friends. "


Hey BigDaddy;

I bet if you play like Tim Herron (Lumpy on the PGA Tour), you would shut those wise guys up in a hurry!!

Gritter63

[BigDaddy]

Gritter,


LOL, I thought it was pretty funny too that Tim Herron is dubbed Lumpy as well. The name stuck, I was always the #5 or #6 golfer on the squad out of 12 players, they took 5 players to the tournaments .. so I was mainly the backup, I would play in about 1 out of 3 or 4 tourneys. As I got better as years progressed and took more money from them in practice rounds, The name still stuck for nickname's sake :)

My funniest moments with the team were in my sophomore year .. I aquired a 48" Yonex graphite shaft/head driver. Decided to try it out .. I got about 40 more yards out of it than my taylor made, but also about +- 10 yards left or right than usual ... I could hit that thing about 320 - 340 with ease, and nobody would go near me with a bet with that club .. However, whenever I played in tourneys, the coach would pull it from the bag and not let me play with it .. I still hit my 3wood 250, so it didn't bother me any.

[cavey35]

As a freshman in high school I was dubbed caveman...it stuck.
Later, when I got a computer and started hanging out in a chat room caveman was shortened to cavey, the 35 was for my age at the time.

Even now, (23 years after graduating) I get called caveman when I bump into someone I went to school with.

Jeff

[rrich]

I wanted my name on my licence plates. RICH and RRICH were taken. (My son had TOWKNEE for a while.) On the Olympic support plates, I could get a stacked CA or stacked US and RRICH. People at work started using the greeting RRICH on E-Mail addressed to me. It just kinda stuck.

[Limey]

I once worked in Liverpool..home of the Beatles and reputation for producing fast thinking wit. Many of our best comedians came from this area.
At every worksite most everyone had nicknames but some never found out how they were referred too.
The selection below are the most humorous and non offensive.

"Blister" always shows up when the work is almost done.
" The Balloon" favourite expression "Don't let me down lads "
" the Sheriff" ..my boss..."where's the hold up then"
" the Illusionist " favourite expression "well lads it appears to me"
" the sad crab " ..sorry I'm late boss but I had a bit of trouble with me nippers (slang for children)
" the escapologist" forever saying "I can't wait to get out of here"

as for me ...why not

I was "Valium" "don't worry about it... it'll be OK"

I wormed it out of them at my farewell booze up !!

Never been or worked anywhere since that has this tradition..unique environment...unless you know of somewhere similar....

Limey

[ASLNROX]

Hey Drew, I din;t know you were a bubblehead! Never went on a patrol but visited a boat couple times. Great folks!

Blessings,

--Mark

[link:home.earthlink.net/~maspaulding/ | Mark's Garage Shop]

[ASLNROX]

Robert,

Fun question. Great to see some of the deatails I had not heard before.

Aslan was the name of my band for a number of years. Just a bunch of teenagers and their priest. We had a ball. Did a number of tours and produced three albums together. When I left the parish, the kids got me a license plate ASLNROX "Aslan Rocks" Has stuck with me ever since.

Blessings,

--Mark

[link:home.earthlink.net/~maspaulding/ | Mark's Garage Shop]

[Billy B]

C'mon Sonny, you gotta let us have it, we promise to be gentle, even if it is Sue or something like that. :7

Billy B.

Live a life of thankfulness; if for no other reason, that you have life

[Billy B]

Everyone calls me Mr. Bill, even people I don't even know that well, call me Mr. Bill then laugh histerically like it is the first time I've heard it. My big dum brother still buys me Mr. Bill action figures when he finds them at card shows and garage sales.
Believe me, he is one little ba$-turd I can really identify with so I kinda like it!!!

I made the same mistake one time with a (one time) client named Steve Miller..."Fly like an eagle, huh Steve?" yuk yuk yuk...he probably thought..."whadda dumma$$$".

:7

Billy B.


Live a life of thankfulness; if for no other reason, that you have life

[Super Ry]

Well - Super Ry

Super (cough cough - honesty counts on this one :))

Ryan - what Ma and Pa gave me

[PastorPaul]

I got mine from a friend when I graduated from the seminary and accepted the call to the church here in St. James. She bought me a coffee mug that was hand painted with "Pastor Paul." I really hated the name because I'm old fashioned about not calling your pastor by his first name. Also, to me it sounded like a TV character: "It's cartoon time with Pastor Paul!"

Some of my close friends started calling me Pastor Paul, and I needed a screen name for a few websites, so Pastor Paul just kind of stuck. On some internet groups my nickname is Smokey Skypilot, which is slang for a police chaplain. The Smokey should be easy to figure out with the connection to the police, but for those who are not veterans, Skypilot is a term of endearment (I think!) that military personnel call their chaplains.

Then there were those great high school days. My older brother was tall and lanky, so he was called Snake. I became a freshman his senior year. I wasn't quite as tall, and skinnier than twiggy, so being Snake's brother I got dubbed Worm.

Pastor Paul
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"If they don't have woodworking in heaven, I ain't going!!!"

[deathwish2]

I'd used mine back in the pre-internet dark ages of telecommunications (early/mid 80's, think 300 baud modems and text-line BBS) when they were still making sequels in the Charles Bronson vigilante franchise of the same name.

Anyhow, it had fallen out of favor with me for a while . . . then at my last job 6-7 years ago, we had been playing some networked FPS's (first person shooters) to blow off steam (Marathon Infinity was a favorite back then) . . . and there were some maps that you could either hide and play the sniper role, or stay out in the open and try and get the snipers . . . I did the latter ;) . . . very successfully }> . . . they all said I had a deathwish . . . hence the name "Deathwish2" was ressurected . . . and I use it on most boards I go to these days. . . since on the bigger ones, "deathwish" is more often than not taken anyways.

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[Quartlow]

>
>I think mine has to do with place of origin . . .
>
>fred
>My life is taking a new turn... round and round and round .
>. .
Your from the planet Saturn?

[sundogbrew]

I was at work and trying to think of a name for IM, one of my friends came in and looked around. I am a UNIX system administrator (computer geek) that specializes in SUN Solaris systems (SUN.) I love dogs and have a picture of one of my GSPs (German Shorthaired Pointer) on my desk (DOG) and I LOVE BEER and have tried to brew my own (BREW.) He said how about sundogbrew? I said I like it and people started calling me it. Not very exciting but it works and it is unique.
Joe :)

[sundogbrew]

I just need to come up with one of those crafty signature quotes like everyone has!
Joe :-(

[horseface]

way back when i was a teen my best friend (now my BIL) gave me the name horseface. dont really know why, except i did sneak into a couple of farmers pastures and rode their plow horses around the pasture. he still calls me that to this day. nothing exciting but it has stuck.

[PastorPaul]

No, I think he means he was conceived in the back seat of a Saturn. :P

Pastor Paul
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"If they don't have woodworking in heaven, I ain't going!!!"

[PastorPaul]

With an attitude like that, you can't be all bad!! :) The Blues are only about 90 minutes away, but major league sports is something I can only watch on TV.

Pastor Paul
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"If they don't have woodworking in heaven, I ain't going!!!"

[Danial]

I worked in technical support for a few years. We were not suppose to use our real names when talking to customers. I chose to use A. Lincoln. One night I had a bit of a difficult customer who got way out of line with me on the phone. Since I was working another shift for a buddy and our manager was on vacation, I figured if I gave the customer a bogus name it wouldn't get back to me.

I used to love listening to Bill Dana records. At work to blow off steam I used to imitate his Jose Jimenez routines. So as I was giving the customer my name, in my best impersonation, "My name is Jose Jimenez!"

The customer ended up sending in a letter. Since the boss was gone it went to the VP of our area. There was big deal made about finding the person that went by Jose Jimenez. Of course nobody knew who was using that nickname. So the letter got posted on the bulletin board. It turned out to be an appology from the customer for being so difficult. At that point I was trapped and couldn't speak up.

When the boss got back from vacation, he took one look at the letter and I got called into his office. He told me he knew I was Jose. Then told me that since I did not admit it right away the letter wouldn't make it into my personel file. Also, I was not suppose to talk about it to anyone else because they didn't want others to try the same thing.

A couple of weeks later we were suppose to change our nicknames as a result. The whole tech support team was white middle class at the time. Everyone was chosing nicknames like L(iberty) Bell, J(ohn) Glenn, S(teven) King, etc. I was a bit of a smart a$$ and wanted to let everyone else on the team know that I had gotten away with it so I chose J(uan) Valdez. :) Dan 1 Boss 0

I used it for 5 or 6 years. Of course since then I've had to drop it in interest of political correctness.

Dan

[BigWood]

No explanation needed ;)

Mike

Be Good Humans

[cracker]

LONG AND BLACK AND NEVER COME BACK. I was on the Canopus and the Simon Lake, Stationed at Sub Base Pearl, Kings Bays Ga, Charleston S.C., Holy Loch Scotland and Rota Spain. Spent alot of time fixing Subs out of 38 Shop.
Everette

[cracker]

Actually I grew up outside Atlanta and back in the 50's and early 60's the baseball team was know as the Atlanta Crackers. I use to go to the games and dream of being a cracker. In the 70's CB craze I had the handle of cracker.
Everette

[ChippedTeeth]

My brother is the one who started calling me Chippy. It started several years ago (long before woodworking became a hobby, and tools became an obsession). My brother came over to help with a project and quickly noted that every blade on every tool I owned, whether a hand tool or power, had chipped teeth.

But the name didn't stick until a few years ago when we started to demo my kitchen for a remodel. On the schedule start day I woke early to get a head start on the demo. Being the meticulous person that I am, I started removing the ugly tile from the old counter top one tile at a time with a flat bar and a hammer - I figured I'd keep it neat ya know? Well in comes my crazy brother with a huge pry bar and a 20 pound sledge and yells "WHAT'S THIS CHIPPY CHIPPY &*%#!, GET OUT OF THE WAY!!" I barley got out of the way as he swung the sledge, and collapsed all the counters into a pile in three or four swings.

My wife and kids thought it was the funniest thing they had ever seen, and now frequently refer to me as 'Chippy' when they feel I am being somewhat obsessive.

Alan

[PopaBear]

I am a big guy like BigDaddy. 6'2" and about 320 lbs. One day in the Marine Corp I had an itch in the middle of my back and couldnt reach it to scratch so I slid over to the door jam and had a great time. Next thing ya know everyone was calling me Bear. Thats when it really stuck but my family had compaired me to a bear all my life. When I got married my wifes youngest started calling me Pop and POPABEAR was born. I have been using this nick online for about 8 years now.

Popabear