Your Embarrassing Childhood Nickname

[King Toasty]

I was called "Joker".





Because I stabbed a load of people.

Your avatar isn't helping your creepy level. 0.0

What's wrong with my avatar?

It's just... smiling...
And I imagined him saying, "Because I stabbed a load of people."
I may have nightmares tonight.

Picture John Ratzenberger as a pig, holding a knife when you try to sleep. You'll be almost as freaked out as I was by that Eye Patch Lady on Doctor Who.

Or the Weeping Angels. The motherfucking Weeping Angels.
I didn't find Ms. Patchy Eye that creepy, just weird. The Silence were creepy.

I already live in Hull, so I don't find the Weeping Angels very scary personally.

No idea where Hull is, but I'll pretend I do. Yeah.

It#s a town in England. In Blink, Kathy Nightingale gets transported there by a Weeping Angel.

Ah. Yeah, the Season 5 Angels lost a lot of scare. 'Tis a shame, it was a pretty good episode otherwise.

 

[shogunblade]

My dad, and then eventually my mom started to call me "Booby-Bear".

The Bear part made sense to me, because I had this green T-shirt that had a stencil of a roaring Grizzly Bear on the front, and the shirt had been around longer than me, and long story short, the paint on the stencil had started to chip away.

As for "Booby"... I truly can't think of a reason why I earned that as part of my nickname. Perhaps of my weight, I assume.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Mugsy.

Shutr the fuck up, it's not funny.

 

[Count Igor]

Mush.
Though I rather like it.
My girlfriend started calling me that because I was calling her "Sweetling" (Because I'm an evil person, of course), and when the tutors switched around in High School, I introduced myself as that. And it spread.
It's awesome.

 

[HardkorSB]

Most likely your mom gave it to you, or maybe just that friend you never liked, but everyone seems to have that one embarrassing nickname from when they were young. It doesn't need to be mortifying, just inappropriate for your age now, or a bit silly, although the more humiliating the better.

Mine was "Beatie Guy". The family legend goes that it was the first thing my brother called me when I was born. My mother still refers to me by this name. Apparently beatie means "Small and Clever" in Scottish slang.

What about yours?

This is kind of outdated but:
I remember that in primary school (before the 1st erection 'n' stuff , I was called "GAY" for hanging around girls.
Let me repeat that - I WAS BEING CALLED "GAY" FOR HANGING AROUND GIRLS.
Of course, I was very annoyed and embarrassed because of it because at the time, girls were kind of useless to us (actually, if you take the time and think about it, we were useless to them).

 

[Canadamus Prime]

In elementary school I was sometimes called "Walnut" and I hated it, so it was usually by people I didn't like.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I remember I used to be called 'Blerg' when I was a kid by kids in my class. It was the noise I made when I threw up on a school trip and apparently it was hilarious. When I go back home and meet old friends they still call me it, which I actually quite like now.

 

[Jakub324]

Tiptoe. My brother, dad and I went canoeing in Scotland. I'd spent 40 minutes drying my feet off fro when we ran the canoe into the water, and then, when we went to drag them get back onto the shore, I was pretty reluctant to get my feet wet again, so I kind of tiptoed through the water. These days, however, I'm more commonly known (by my friends) as Amish because I live in the middle of nowhere.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

"Wham Bar". It was a 10 penny sweet I loved but had the misfortune to have a surname that it rhymed with o.o

EDIT: Later, I became a fan of X-Men comic books; Gambit was my favourite character...still is. I was also in the school chess club. One thing led to another and a friend unknowingly gave rise to what would later become my Internet handle forevermore. Except for some son-of-a-bi**h who took it first on XBox Live, Myspace and Twitter (not that I use those last two). If any of you ever see him, please beat him up and tell him the real KingsGambit said "HAH!" and that I want my name back.

Oh and check out my post count

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I was always teased at school for having to wear second-hand clothes or clothes that weren't name brand, and my pants didn't fit very well; so they took to calling me 'High-waters' for awhile.

My mom had that same problem and consequent nickname. Because making fun of the less fortunate is cool.
OP: Liberal. I was a progressive kid. I started advocating equal rights and calling out discrimination against homosexuals at a young age. The other kids, being the homophobic, laugh-at-different-people sort, gave me it. And called me it like it was a dirty word. Hooray for living in a conservative part of the country! Another one is Lefty. I have cerebral palsy on the right side of my body. Very funny.

 

[Rhatar Khurin]

"Nobbin" or "Robin hood" as my name is Robin. Not particulary embarressing and i didn't really care.

 

[Rhatar Khurin]

In elementary school I was sometimes called "Walnut" and I hated it, so it was usually by people I didn't like.

I am curious, why did they call you that? did you have a face like Emperor Palpatines?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

In elementary school I was sometimes called "Walnut" and I hated it, so it was usually by people I didn't like.

I am curious, why did they call you that? did you have a face like Emperor Palpatines?

No, it was because my surname is 'Walton.'

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

"Zach Attack"

I think it's actually more badass than embarrassing, come to think of it.

 

[LobsterFeng]

My name is Eric. When I was born my brother had a hard time pronouncing my name so he would call me "wigget". Oh how my family haunts me with that name.

 

[Blow_Pop]

Some called me the corpse groom, because I loved the film Corpse Bride and look like a dead body with my pale skin and dark-ringed eyes.

Others included necro (short for necrophiliac) and Bonesy. The former came because I want to be an undertake and people are small minded arseholes, and the latter from my habit of clicking my bones.

It could be worse; there was a guy called Daisy and a guy called Moses.

You don't look that bad.....I have photo proof that you are not that pale and your eyes aren't dark ringed....at least not anymore.....

OT: holy fuck where do I even begin.

Put it this way: My first name is April. Girls are cruel as fuck. Especially to other girls. Pick a name, I've probably been called it.

One of my best friends called me Lirpa (my name backwards) and still does. And I still despise it. But I think the "April showers bring May flowers" shite that I use to get teased with were the worst.....*grumbles*stupid fucking songs

 

[monkeyonnos]

i have a unique name and people could never seem to remember it, so i used to get called "Rocky" all the time

 

[ultrachicken]

I was called Jimmy in my early childhood. Not really embarrassing, but I remember it being a giant pain in the ass to get people to switch from calling me that to my actual name.

 

[Megabobster]

Little bit o' personal information here. Brace yourself, kiddies!
My actual first name is Nathaniel. My middle name is Robert. One time when I was a baby, I said something along the lines of "bobobobobob." My brother said "He's saying his name!" and since then I have gone by Bob or Bobby. Even when it should technically be Nathan or Nate (I personally prefer Nathan to Nate, but Bob all the way!).

My mom has brought up legally changing my name, but being called Bob is a nice conversation piece, per se.

 

[Condor219]

Stretch? Chicken Legs? I suppose nothing too far outside the norm. "Shitz" was a rather terrible one that went on in a hockey team of rather nasty kids, referring to my last name "Schmitz". Too bad I was their best defenseman, my transfer to the association's other team the reason why they didn't make it to the playoffs (and my new team did).

Gotta learn to try to criticize the crappy players, if you're gonna criticize anyone.