Personal nicknames or terms for things.

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

Have you ever seen a character group of characters in a movie ot TV show and come up with your own term for them, whether or not they have a fandom term already? For instance, I have a friend who calls Star Trek's redshirts 'suicide squads'.

So how about you?

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To start: I call the three UFOs In Close Encounters of the Third Kind that appear at the base and initiate conversation with humans 'The Magi'.

There were three (Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar) and they bore a gift (in this case, true contact with alien life).

 

[Prime_Hunter_H01]

When ever my cats wipe their ass on the floor we call it Toby.

Its from this commercial.


We call it out in the same horrified way.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

My bro and I always joked going to Sub-Level 3 was suicide. There is no reason to go to Sub-Level 3.


So whenever one of us was watching a movie or playing a game and the other asks "Hey, what's up?" if shit is about to hit the fan, you say "We're about to go to Sub-level 3."

 

[JoJo]

For some reason, my siblings started a habit of calling pigs bacons. Piglets or other cute pigs get to be baby bacons. Yumm...

 

[Just Ebola]

I like to call birds "wind rats".

Also, I hear in the UK people call gear shifts "rickety-pop-and-locks". I wonder if there's any truth to that.

 

[Catfood220]

I like to call birds "wind rats".

Also, I hear in the UK people call gear shifts "rickety-pop-and-locks". I wonder if there's any truth to that.

As a UK citizen, I have never heard that term before in my life. Mind you, I am approaching 40, so you never know what the kids today are saying. Seems like a stupid way to say "I'm going to change gear" though.

 

[WorgenHunter]

I call my black cats niglets.

 

[pookie101]

I like to call birds "wind rats".

Also, I hear in the UK people call gear shifts "rickety-pop-and-locks". I wonder if there's any truth to that.

wind rats hahaha im so going to be using that now

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

I like to call birds "wind rats".

Coincidence, but I call pigeons 'skyrats', while seagulls are 'searats'.

They're not terms of endearment.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

We have a few of these at home.
The cake/biscuit/treat viennese whirls are renamed 'Vanessa Whirls' in our house since my Lil sis couldn't say it as a kid.
Dummies are noo-noos.

Hmm... I am sure there are more, but I'm drawing a blank.
The difficulty with this is that you can only remember ones you knowingly call by a different way. If you just honestly know something by a way that no one else does then it's difficult to remember on command.

 

[Sonmi]

I call my grandmother "gamo", due to her being english speaking so she told me and my brother to call her grandma but it eventually became this.

Concerning grandmothers, my father referred to mine as "Mutti", German for "Mum", so when we were young, my siblings and I called her "Grandma/Grand-maman Mutti" believing it to be her first name.

We know better now, but we still use it.

 

[Captain Chemosh]

Me and my room mate call the House Sparrows that are multitudinous in this area 'Floofs' because the males will puff up their feathers up whenever somebody happens to walk nearby.

 

[wings012]

I misheard something my friend was saying as 'Sexual Elevator'. Don't remember what the hell he was actually saying. We also happened to be playing God Eater.

And from then on, we referred to those elevators as the sexual elevators. Accept a mission. QUICK BOARD THE SEXUAL ELEVATOR.