Do you have a nickname? Not online, I mean?

[Wombat]

I seem to have collected nicknames over the years.

Okay, you have to start with my real name -- Angus MacDonald. This is an unusual sounding name to most Americans, but it is about as common as mud if you go back to Scotland

With MacDonald alone you get all the usual ones -- Ronald, Old, etc.

Angus has led to a lot of variations. There is the inevitable Agnes. I have been called Angee (hard "g") by several folks, but hate that one. A few people tried Gus, but, thankfully, it never stuck. I have Catholic friends who have dubbed me Angus Dei, which is amusing. The big one at the moment seems to be Angoose, or simply Da Goose. **shrug**

But my REAL nickname was given to me back in 9th grade -- The Ref. This was before D&D, mind you. This was because I knew the rules of all sorts of games (boardgames, sports, miniatures rules) and preferred to act as umpire, judge, whathaveyou, rather than directly participating (due to some bad experiences with the games and due to discoordination with the sports). At one point I even made myself up (standard 70s bit here) a t-shirt with the name on it -- purple shirt, bright yellow letters. Sadly, that shirt disappeared years ago

Now my brother, sister, and brother-in-law tend to refer to me as Ref (or The Ref) first, Angus second. Oddly my sister-in-law tends to refer to me by my standard name. Different strokes.

 

[Hand of Evil]

For some reason I get "your name is crazy", no TRACY, must be my accent, and I get called 'Chris' a lot, I have not a clue why, guess I look chris-ish. I dislike people that say Stacy but understand why it happens. Then there is the Mody Dick Tracy and Tought Sh#t for the TS and a few others.

Mmmmm, maybe I need to change something. :\

 

[wingnut_dc]

I have had several through the years. In the military I was called; Wingnut or Bam Bam. The main one is Guff, a shortened version of my last name.

 

[loki44]

In middle and high school I was known as Shoe. There are still people to this day who only know me as Shoe. In college I was know first as Bong and later as Low-Key, hence Loki. My first name is John and nobody but my grandmother has ever used a variation of it. To her I am Johnny.

 

[Crothian]

Gathe with a long a sound. No one really uses it anymore, but in school (high schoole and College) most of the teachers would misprounce my last name that way so it stuck.

 

[The Sigil]

Well, my given name is "Spencer." I've been called "Spence" a couple of times, but I absolutely detest that and a withering look has always stopped any one person from repeating it.

Growing up, when I was in the drug stores, and they had the "pencils with your name on it" or "mini-license plates with your name on it" or "mugs with your name on it" I could NEVER find one that said "Spencer" and one day in frustration (I was probably about 10 or 11) I told my mom, "you know what, just call me 'Bob' - then I could actually find something with my name on it!" And within my family, anyway, the nickname stuck. I even expanded on it, going by Robert Q. Generic (a play on "John Q. Public") with my family sometimes. Of course, a couple of years later, the cartoon "Bobby's World" - with "Bobby Generic" started running, so sometimes I'd get "Bobby" as well (which I hated).

To this day, my family (parents, brothers and sister) still call me "Bob" about half the time... except my youngest brother, who has called every member of the family "Steve" (I think it has something to do with the movie "Multiplicity") for the last couple of years.

And, of course, most people here at ENWorld know me as "The Sigil" - a nickname I picked up in high school because I always initialled things, and my initials looked kind of like a wizard's sigil (nobody could actually read the "STC")... since all my stuff had "my sigil" on it, my D&D buds started calling me "The Sigil" - and I adopted that as a pseudonym when I wrote for a literary publication for the school in 1993, and started using it as an online handle on some local BBSes even before that... it later became my primary internet handle.

According to pen-paper.net, the Planescape campaign setting was published in 1994, so it was "parallel development" at the worst, and I actually used the name before TSR did... so no, my handle has NOTHING to do with Planescape (a common misconception on the boards here).

 

[IronWolf]

Back in Tucson I was known as 'Snoopy' by more than a few people. That wasn't cause I was nosey (at least I don't think it was) but the Jeep that I did a lot of off-roading/rockcrawling with was White and Black. People started calling me Snoopy and it grew through a small circle of friends.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Almost everyone only knows me by my nickname -- I'm 'Jonathan' but have always gone by 'Jody'. Even to my parents, except when I got in trouble. 'Jody', btw, because my mom knew no one would call me 'Jonathan' and she hated 'Johnny'.

It's kinda handy, since I know for sure when someone calls me or mails me and refers to me as Jonathan that it's someone I don't know.

Was also known as 'Fox' in college amongst one group of friends (pre-Mulder - it was either cause they thought I was too clever for my own good or crazy), and the building crew and security at one job always called me 'Spock'.

'Jody' is so ingrained, as a matter of fact, that when I first read this thread I didn't think of 'Jody' as being a nick-name...

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

My real name is Scott, but I'm sometimes called by the name my grandfather, a fullblood Seneca, gave me: Hawk.

After a couple halloweens with a $100.00 costume piece I bought for ten bucks used and refurbished, I was known as Batman for a while in one neighbourhood. Espescially since I do tend to do the "leap over fences, appear from nowhere in a corner" bit.

Mostly, though, I get called Superman, Kal-El, Kal, or Clark. Most people assume its because of my hobby (I collect Superman and studied his mythology for my second degree), but they usually mean it later after I demonstrate that not all muscle conditions are dystrophic.

Oh yeah... Thse weird teenagers around the house I can't seem to fumagate for call me "Dad" or "Old Man".

 

[Mystery Man]

My name is Brian, 90 percent of the people who know me call me "B". I don't know why.