Do you have a nickname?

[SouthernBelle]

I've never really had a nickname.

My grandfather, Leslie, had 2 brothers, Alan & Floyd.

Their nicknames were Eckie, Skeets & Happy. For their entire lives.

[Tuckervill]

OH, oh, oh!!! I forgot my FAVORITE nickname of all time.

Ama. Like Mama without the m. My sweet little almost-3 grandson calls me Ama. It melts me.

Karen

[Raindrop]

Evil Midget. One of my teammates also employs me as her Personal Trainer. She's the one who gave me the name. Others just glomed onto my personality and height.

My sweet grandson calls me "Bobbi".

[shootingstar]

Nothing to do with cycling. My partner uses diminutives Jeannie (not my real name at all), or Dearie or Poopie. Not sure HOW the last one came about. But we do use nicknames on each other while cycling with one another..it makes a great distinctive signal above other people talking around us nearby.

Anyway....I struck upon a great one, one day while I was cycling with him. His real name which is German, Hans-Jurgen. ("J" is pronounced as a "Y" in German). So nickname for him is: Honey-Jurgen. Or Honey-Jurgen-Bear. ...since he genuinely buys and uses real honey to sweeten his yogurt every wk.

My real name in Chinese, is seldom used even by my own family. But when used, it sounds like an endearment/nickname to me. My Chinese real name is translation of: "Precious" or "Highly Treasured".

[makbike]

Nickname update:

I've how been tagged with "legs" and "goat" due to my climbing abilities. I'm also still known as "hairball." I just hope they don't combine them all into one - like "hairy goat legs!" The joys of cycling!

[cyclechick2008]

I've had several. In school I was "berly" there were 2 kimberly's in my grade. She got Kim I got "berly". That turned in to burlap by the bad mean boys.

My grandma and my favorite cousin called me "Kimmie".

My husband calls me whatever he wants to, usually "sexy momma".

We nicknamed our kids.
Son was "Hot Rod" because he was running by 9 months.
Daughter is "Bug" named at day care by other toddlers trying to say Elisabeth.
Her name has very interesting nickname possibilies. You will notice there is no Z so lizard isn't an option like we called my cousin.

Kim

[jesvetmed]

My name is Jessica. Usually went by Jessie until much later in life. So, as a kid, the neighbors called me "James"... ie, jesse James. that stuck for years.

My maiden name was Boltz.... and so the "Lightning" for sports.

These days, I answer to Jes, Hon, or Doc., and an occasional Jessie-Loo-Hoo. Ok .. I'll answer to anything if you're calling me for food or martinis!

[Tuckervill]

I have a friend named Jessica, and people call her Jake. ?

Karen

[Jen-Jen]

I have many nicknames by DH: Scoots, Beans, Super Jf, and lately it's been Queenie.

My friends, however, have a very different nickname for me: Va-j-j. I can thank my best pal: Kitty-pee for that.

[sundial]

LOL!! Some of the nicknames are toooo funny!

Tuckervill, I think you should add Mother Goose to your collection of nicknames since you are heading the women's cycling club.

[Tuckervill]

That's probably a good idea. I've just volunteered for it, though--they haven't accepted!

Karen

[Crankin]

I've never had a real nickname. My family used to call me Rob, for Robyn, but that sort of went away after I went to college. My boss calls me that and it used to annoy me until i had to do a writing piece about my name in a workshop. The workshop was run by a very good friend of my boss. When I read my piece, and I said it annoyed me when she called me Rob, the woman said I should tell her. I then realized it was stupid to be annoyed. She doesn't mean anything by it!
My uncle used to call me "Cousin Nybor," which is my name backwards. My younger cousins really liked that when they were little.

[Meg McKilty]

I've never really had a nickname.

My grandfather, Leslie, had 2 brothers, Alan & Floyd.

Their nicknames were Eckie, Skeets & Happy. For their entire lives.

I occasionally call you "Q" when we ride, short for Susie Q.

Um, mine are Charlie Mayhem (from the bar scene) and Megative at work.

[bmccasland]

From my riding partner. Early last season while out on a training ride, some other rider did something that yanked my chain, I was grumbling, and was harrassed about my grumbling. Then I replied something to the effect that I didn't have any sugar in my morning coffee, but Mike heard, that I didn't have any sugar in my pockets. He wasn't sure why I said that, what sugar in my pockets had do do with anything, and why would I have coffee in my pockets... and I've been called Sugar Pockets ever since.

[Jolt]

Some of these are really funny--the ones that have interesting stories behind them remind me of "trail names" that long-distance hikers often have. (Some good ones I have heard are "Sir Pees-A-Lot", "Flameboy", who must have had some sort of accident with his stove, and "Vagus" as in cranial nerve X). I've never really had a nickname other than "Andi" (short for Andrea) when I was little, and that one was really only used by my family.