Do you have a nickname?

[shootingstar]

Well, not really..people have tried to use Jeannie on me...I'm not warm at that moment. I truly dislike the diminunitive of my name on me, but on someone else it works...like another cyclist, she's a good friend... but it's her real name.

Unless you count my name in my mother tongue..which it is used in that language and I will respond. It is actuallly a beautiful translation into English : "Precious" or "Highly Treasured" and with my middle name which translates as Orchid. So the 2 together is poetic (to me).

Well, sorry, come to think of it, he calls me Poobie, if it's not dearie.

And I call him....honey-jurgen-bear...... his German, legal first name is Hans-Jurgen (he has an English name)...because he does have honey everyday...

And yea, we call each other these names while cycling..

[crazycanuck]

Grasshopper, Chezza,

[RoadRaven]

Grasshopper

Ah... now I know why you are so wise...

For you have learned, Grasshopper...

[lph]

"Andemor". It means duck-mother, and was given to me by the 4 friends I spent a year or so in 2003 teaching to rock-climb. We had a blast They're all colleagues, and my son still calls them collectively "the ducklings".

Also because I love ducks. They seem so contented. Try to feed them whenever I can

[Aggie_Ama]

In my past life I was a bowler and acquired two nicknames that have stuck (one for 15 years):

Ama- short version of Amanda. The scorekeeper only showed the first three letters. My brother started calling me Ahhh-Muh and it has stuck in my family. So much better than shortening Amanda to Mandy, which I never liked.

KrakHo- seriously. When my husband and I started dating his buddy (who liked me) started calling me that. I don't know why he did it, I think it had something to do with SouthPark but to this day my husband and some of his friends call me that.

My Nanny and Pawpaw always called me Sissy. To this day my Nanny only calls me that. In fact she only called me Amanda one time when she was angry with me.

No one calls my husband by his first name. It is either Alejandro or our last name.

[GLC1968]

I've had tons of nicknames, but none related to biking, oddly enough.

At some point when I was a kid, I was dubbed GooGoo by my family members. It stuck so badly that for awhile, the whole family revolved around me. My mom was referred to as GooGoo's Mom, my brother was GooGoo's Brother, and so on. Pissed my brother off to no end!

When I was in highschool, I was Boo which is part of my maiden name. No one called me by my first name except teachers. In college, that got morphed by a friend into Skidoo - so that stuck for a few years.

On my soccer team, I was Treads. My coach gave me that name the first time I basically ran over an opponent to get to the ball.

When I was living in Boston in my early 20's, I was also called Scoop. That was because I had the bad habit of "scooping" (making out with) guys every single time we went out.

At my last job, I was Queen Catherine (or QC). I believe that started out as a derogatory name handed out by a couple of techs when I was super demanding of them before I'd even gotten to know them. After awhile, it stuck...but it became a much more friendly name and everyone in our group used it for me (partly because I was the only woman, too).

My given name is Catherine, but up until I went back to school for my masters in my early 30's, I was Cathy (which I never liked) or Boo (in high school). I believe that Catherine started to stick because that's what the professors called me (when they did roll call) and everyone kind of picked up on it. Now, everyone calls me Catherine including my husband. It actually freaks me out when he calls me Cathy! Actually, my SIL also calls me Cathy and that's super weird since I've only known her for a few years. It makes sense because that's what my brother calls me, but it just feels really odd coming from her!

[gnat23]

Heh. Yesterday when a car got frustrated and passed me in a hurry only to turn right directly in front of me, putting me hard on the brakes and in a cussing fit...

I dubbed myself "Dances with Cars"

-- gnat!

[nic840]

Had to chime in on this one because luckily it is past me and only comes out on special occasions...
When I was a freshman in highschool my friends and I were swimming. We were yelling and playing when one of my girlfriends popped out of the water and said "What did you call her? Sportwhore?" So that was my nickname from then on. It fit very well... I played every sport under the sun. My friends were not at all athletic so they thought it was funny. And no I was not a "ho" in any way shape or form unless it involved some kind of game. Now it only comes out on reunions with my old pals. And yes I am still a "sportwhore!"

My DD is nicknamed Turtle. Her sister wanted to name her that when she was in my belly. "What do you want to name your baby sister?" She replied "Baby Turtle." So she is now turtle. She is almost 3 and she now says my nickname is Turtle. I think it will stick...Poor thing. Hee Hee!