Did you ever learn to love it? And how long were you stuck with it?
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"Hey, Jane, where's Tarzan!" It wasn't a typical nickname but that lame joke dogged me all through childhood. Usually came from middle-aged men who thought they were the first ones to use it.
Terrific story -- especially the part about men being more likely to have a nickname because of their social bonding in sports and the military. The whole George Bush thing of giving everybody a mocking nickname.
You would think they would have come up with something more creative and original, but it was still there at my 35th h.s. reunion. Of course, I told them they were still a-holes, even after 35 years. They didn't particularly like that. The good news is I've finally decided to change my name. "Jane" is going away. I've disliked it forever, and I can choose anything I like. Another (soon to be ex) Jane.
My name is Jane too, but I like my name. I never meet other people who have it. There's obviously a few plain jane jokes when people get to know me, but after about five minutes they realize that it couldn't be farther from the truth. It's a name that gives me room to move, and be original. I'm a complicated person, and hey, something about me had to be simple. I'm just glad I'm not named ashley, or jessica, or brittany like everyone else my age. You should own it! When someone asks where tarzan is you should just be like 'oh, he's back in the jungle. you know how men can be never want to go anywhere if it doesn't involve vine swinging or bananas.' See what they make of that. :)
Any Nickname is better than not having at least one nickname... Most of my friends have 3 at least. The more you hate it the more people will call you it. You gotta learn to embrace it.
Not when that 'any nickname' is something like 'nazi'. I have only hated two people in my entire life, and one of them was the guy who consistently called me nazi all through high school because I used to live in Germany and have arian features.
Insulting nicknames, used despite the wishes of the person being named, are just another form of bullying.
Embrace it and improve on it if you can, especially if it was meant to be a cruel nickname. Really punctures the balloon...
Kids used to make fun of my curly hair in grade school and make up stupid jungle-related nicknames. One day a kid was poking my hair and laughing about "the Jungle," and I told him if he kept it up, I wasn't going to be responsible for what the jaguar did to his hand if he woke it up. Never had to deal with it again.
1. Damn it Janet...
2. Carrot top.....carrots have GREEN tops
Yup Mort you are right. I'm 35 and have NEVER had a nickname in my life!!
My dad was a penis wrinkle, he nicknamed me "turkey caca with cheese drippings coming out of your ears". So I now call him by his middle name if he even tries it.
Oh sh!t, that's f^cked up!
For some reason at 7th grade I got the name Goober...which then transformed to Goobs and now most of my friends don't even know my first name...haha But it's grown on me and it probably fits my character totally....
LOL I had that same situation. I am very petite person in and my friends found it amusing to call me Bubba. It went on so long that they just stopped using my name. It never bothered me because I found it amusing as well.
Actually I don't think any of us went by our real names. We all had a nickname. LOL
That's what my buddies were doing...we all made up nicknames for each other...My buddy Jon got the name Hoebagger...I wont spill out the reason why. He is now married somehow and I'm not but I was the best man...what a wedding! :)
LOL with a nickname like Hoebagger I'm not too sure you have to. Although the possibilities are endless and funny.
Most of my friends had names that had to do with foods. I guess growing boys just love food as much as um.. garden tools? LOL
I went to school with a "goober" and he was the sweetest guy. Never minded the nickname ,actually thought it was kind of cute.
My mother always has some wierd variation of our names for all of us kids and grand kids...Mine being Stefanie turned into "Stefaroochie" pronounced "Stef-A-Rooch-E"...One time in walmart my sister and husband went to the customer desk and had them page me first name Stef, last name Aroochie. I wasn't quite sure who they were calling until I found them laughing their you know what off.
I love it! My mum used to say 'stefanotis' or Peppy (like Stephie) which turned into Peppentine. It can get ridiculous. Those were better than my sister's favoritefavourite: Stinkanie or Stinky Steph or just plain ol' Stinks. Family can be worst of all sometimes! I always found it somewhere between mildly annoying to funny.
hey, consider yourself lucky! have a niece with a similar situation - but she REALLY has it much worse. am the guilty auntie that keeps her on her toes and then some. walmart is a great place to practice some "toughen up" drills. but i've loved steph for every single second of her life and this shall always be the case. the rest is just the demonstartion of that love. take it for what it's worth and enjoy these moments.
just what walmart needs, more white trash who THINKS they're funny................toughen up my ass, save your juvenile BS for the trailer park twits who are the only ones who think you're actually funny. course their IQ qualifies them for SSI & many other programs set up for the mentally challenged.
In parts of asia the men are not hairy and I am but not the the extreme but I was called monkey man because of my hairy arms and while in El Paso Texas I was called big bird because I had 33" thighs.
My maiden name was Peck, and in 7th grade, some boys decided to give me the nickname "e-r". They would yell "e-r" at me to get my attention, referring to adding "er" on to the end of my last name. It lasted through 10th grade at least and it was awful.
Dang! That's nasty of them.
For some reason - and I have no idea why, I got called "Gluggo". The idiot guys would yell my name down the hall when I approached. I did everything to ignore it but they just kept it up. Ugh. Finally I told my mother there was no way I could go back there for my senior year - I really was about to quit - I went to another school for that year. What a relief that was.
I ran into one of those guys at a community college later, and I just gave the look of death - he stayed away from me. Not so tough when he didn't have his gang of thugs with him.
My grandmother and mother called me Penny Pooh when I grew up the name had faded away, until my young nephew was at one of my daughter's HS basketball games and called me aunt Penny Pooh in front of her friends, they all started calling me Penny Pooh from that day on, then the man I was dating started calling me just Pooh, now it is Pooh to me from many people. It does not bother me, it was a name given to me in love.
As long as your okay about it, that's all that matters..
I played soccer all throughout high school. Somehow, my crotch was a magnet for that soccer ball. So much so, that my nickname was "Sperm Cell" because they doubted I would ever pro-create. I actually embraced it as a matter of pride. I made my own t-shirt with the nickname. However, the girls avoided me like a plague.
Hannah Banana is the worst!!
Agreed! There was also Hannah Barbera and Hanibalector though and i'm not sure which one I despised the most.
Hannah Banana is not nearly as bad as Hannah Montana! I get that a lot.
I called my sister Hannah Banana all through childhood. It eventually turned into Banana-head, Nannerhead, and occasionally just Nanner. During my graduation from college, she was in the ladies room with me, and I addressed her as Nannerhead. There were many other women in there with us, and she looked at me, completely mortified. It was the first time I ever thought that maybe she didn't mind it used in private, but definitely not in public. And then there is my niece, who at 3-years old thought I was referring to her Nana, and started calling my mother Nannerhead... Oops... LOL.
my older brother calls me nanners. he has since we were toddlers. im 17 he is 20...
Big Bird - for my large feet and height at an early age. That's what my parents called me.
"Friends" called me 'croaky' because it's similar to my last name. So they always gave me frogs in some form or another. Nice huh?
No, I didn't embrace the nicknames. They were disrespectful and mean spirited. I have nice friends now.
I was nicknamed "Hot Dog" because of my last name. Even my teachers in elementary school was were calling me that. Although I hated it and still do, I would never let the person see it. Eventually they stopped. Remember the adage..."stick and stones will break my bones but names will NEVER hurt me"
Yeah right. That's one adage that I do not believe one little bit. This is coming from someone who was verbally abused by a step-father and later my now EX boyfriend. (thank the heavens I never married the moron)
I agree that sometimes nicknames are just plain hurtful and rude, with no positive attributes whatsoever. In grade school I had big lips and some of the meaner kids called me [N-Word] Lips. Even though this was back in the 70's when that word wasn't as bad as it is today, it was still pretty hurtful.
Whoa - you seriously believe that in the 70s, the N-word "wasn't as bad as it is today"? It's obvious you were only in grade school back then. Trust me, it was much worse in the 70s than it is today - you risked getting punched out if you used that word to, or in front of, the wrong person.
..you risked getting punched out if you used that word to, or in front of, the wrong person.
..then you'd have 2 people with [N]Lips..
I was called Grimy in junior high school. My nickname in grammar school was Dreamy because I was always looking out the window in class. When I got to the new junior high school someone asked "What's your nickname- Grimy"? I said "No, it's Dreamy". Grimy stuck. Bummer.
Growing up with the last name of Sanders .... I have and always be "The Colonel" - the worst was when the slogans started in the 70's like "Col. Cluck for under a buck", "sticky chicken" and "finger licking good" .... not fun, especially being a girl. Thankfully I'm marrnied now and changed my last name. But I will forever be the Colonel to my childhood friends ;)
Some in high school called me "Big Nose" until I punched one of them in the face hard enough to break HIS nose. He actually asked me, in a daze, "Why'd you do that for?" I guessed I knocked the sense out of him, too. My reason should have been rather obvious.
Such nicknames as that are outright nasty. They made me so self conscious that I eventually had a nose job.
You said, " They made me so self conscious that I eventually had a nose job."
That's sad...
I was "Pinoccio" and 'Big nose' for years too... Until I started constantly reminding the public that my nose WASN'T the only thing that was Big! The trick to overcoming physical attacks is attacking them with wits!
Unfortunately, these days, a kid punching someone out for that would wind up in more trouble than they can imagine. Kids who are bullied are damned if they do and damned if they don't fight back.
Whatever.
I went to junior high with a guy who called me "squid"- I have no idea why- but it made me crazy. I was so glad when he went to a different highschool. BUT imagine my extreme disappointment when I walked into my sophmore English class and there he was- and he called me squid. Then other people started calling me squid. One day I just lost it as he sat behind me chanting quietly- "squid, squid,squid,squid..." I got up turned around, and punched him the face so hard he fell off his chair. The teacher was less than amused- but the ass kicking he endured from a girl in front of the class killed his desire to call me squid anymore.........
Nice. way to go.
You shouldn't have done that. You should have informed the proper authorities (like we are taught today) and had him sent straight to timeout. In his "timeout session" a life counselor could have explained why what he is doing is wrong. He could have written a paper and a power point about it, so he could educate the other children about hurtful names. Then he would have never bothered you again.
Please note the very very heavy sarcasm in the above paragraph!
Sarcasm noted and greatly appreciated!
I was also called a freak and a bitch- but those never pissed me off quite like "squid"-
I haven't been called by my nicknames in years. But years ago I was best friends with a girl who was very flirty and had red hair. They called her Skully or Laverne, and I was Shirley or Mulder! It was always one or the other, heh. It didn't bother me at all. I especially liked the Mulder name because that was just cool.
I have a ton of nicknames I call my 2 year old. Someday he'll ask me to stop, I'm sure. But for now he's Wubba. Or Wubby, or Wubbas, or Wubbies, or Wubbydoo, or Wubbydoodledoo, or Wub, or Wub Dude, or Doodle Doo, or Doodle Dude, or Wubbiesdoodledoo... anyway.
This kid is in for a lot of heartache. When you call him one of these names in front of his friends (and you will, if you don't stop now - it's inevatable). He will carry that name for a long, long time. What's cute at 2 is not necessarily cute at 12 or 16 or 18.
That second paragraph makes me realize how you got the name "brokenrecord". :-)
LOL yeah. That wasn't even half the nicknames I've called him but I figured I better stop.
i got a niece nicknamed Wubby n we call her wubbzie or wubby lubby or just wub lub dub lol!!!!!!!
CUTE Nickname 4 your kid~ I raise chickens & call them my "Chickie-Roos"; my Chickie- doodles,etc. My hen is "mean": very protective of her eggs when she's "broody & on a nest with eggs or has a bunch of "peeps"\Chicks under 1-2 months of age. She BITES so hard- she must be "handled" with leather (work) gloves.Touch the chicks-- she'll BITE them,2! My nickname 4 her is: "MAM"!!!(Mean A**{Donkey}Mama)!!! ;-) LOL
I learned in my freshman dorm in college that a person can select his own nickname if he wants to. One of us new students started calling everyone Herbie, since at first he couldn't remember everyone's real name. When greeted by him with "Hi, Herbie", most people would respond likewise back to him. Soon everyone was calling him Herbie, although his real name was Tom, and that nickname stuck with him until graduation.
One of my older brothers had a friend who's nickname was booboo, all I ever knew of his real name was the initials JW, I figured that JW must have been pretty bad, because even as a grown man everybody still called him booboo
I was given the name Porky at birth. only family and friends I grew up with call me that now. I'm sure it will be on my obituary when I die. It's as much my name as my Christian given name. I joke about it with people I meet now. I tell them I will tell you my nickname but I will have to kill you afterwards!!! It's always good for a laugh. And I always remind myself I've been called much worse. As have we all.
In grade school, I got stuck with the horrible nickname "Waldo Munchmouth" It stayed with me until I went on to high school, probably because most of the kids went on to private high schools and I went to public. Then in high school, some of the kids started calling me "Freak-of-the-week" because of my long hair and tendency to party. I didn't mind the second nickname, but I hated the first one.
When I was a little girl I was very ornery and my mom would call me a "Li'l Stinker". As time went on, "Li'l Stinker" was shortened to "Stinker" and eventually to "Stinky". Thankfully she very rarely used it in public. She did let it slip once cheering during one of my high school volleyball games. It's a good thing I already had a different nickname among my friends. "Sparkles" for my shining smile.
Back in grade school, I was Pignay to everyone, because of my weight. Almost 40 years on, it still haunts me, especially when I meet an old classmate and they bring it up. And still think it was funny.
My brother would call me "pill", and in school some of the kids called me "half-dead".
In grade school people tried to call me Step-On-Me. That was the worst they could do. So I stomped on their toes...That didn't last long. My husband has nicknames for me (although we swore we would never be "that couple" but we are) and everyone else calls me by my maiden name. I grew up with a lot of Stephanies....