Do you have a nickname?

[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".

[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.

[milkbone]

Wow, funny to see all those different nicknames... I've had a few too...

Badger - while I was still in the Corps had a 1stSgt call me Badger, small and
cute, but vicious when provoked

Motivated B@#ch on wheels - another one from the Corps

Milkbone - was on a call, went back out to the truck to get supplies and a
dog blindsided me and tried to have my thigh for dinner, my EMS
buddies call me milkbone and even came up with a safety kit for
me a, P.E.E.D.D - Paramedic Entry Exit Diversion Device, 2
milkbones in a ziplock with instructions to throw at dog and run
like crazy person. So my last nickname is "Kibbles" some RN's in
the ED have decided to call me that instead of milkbone. LOL

Milkbone so far is one that has stuck with a lot of people, heck I answer to it if they can't get my attention any other way

[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!

[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!