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Spurious nicknames

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Oh, we had an electrician named Raymond at an old workplace. Known as Ray of Light.

Also not spurious, I'm ruining my own thread.


 
Posted : 04/01/2025 1:45 pm
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More non-spurious teacher names.

Staple Neck - teacher with, you guessed it, a pock marked neck.

Monotone Jim.

Cough Cough.

Doris. Reminded us of Doris Ewell from Please Sir.


 
Posted : 04/01/2025 2:49 pm
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Guy I know from school is known as Empty-head.

He was shot in the eye as a kid,  and the airgun pellet apparently had to be removed from his brain. Aside from losing the sight in one eye, he made a full recovery and maintained his less than average academic career  .. on returning to school a less than sympathetic teacher commented in front of the class that he had avoided permanent brain damage because he had an empty head.


 
Posted : 04/01/2025 7:27 pm
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where to start.......

lad i worked with.  Blackdog.  his was always blacker than yours.

lads i played rugby with.    Baba, he hate a nugget of horse pooh for a bet. Bolly, because his head was harder then a ball bearing.

pot knob, because his todger was longer than a pint pot.

2 mates from school. big pie and little pie. surname is Beilby.

my nickname at school was fenella.   refering to my prominent chin.


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 12:17 am
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Friend from school was known as 'Gramps' - His name was Paul Arnold, which became PA, which became Grandpa, hence Gramps

We had a science teacher known as 'Moylab' - he had a very Johnathan Ross voice and used to bellow 'Get out of moi lab!' if you dared walk in before lesson time...

There were other teachers: Plug, Beppo etc who were all 1970s comic book-related...


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 1:11 pm
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A lad at uni, Richard, was known as Biscuit. It was long after I'd left and lost contact that it suddenly dawned on me completely out the blue that it was because his name was Rich T.


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 1:22 pm
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I also knew a lad at Uni called Richard and nicknamed Biscuit. But he wasn't Rich T; his was because as a naive 18 year old an american exchange student invited him back to hers for coffee and he excitedly agreed and said that he'd go back to his room first as his Mum had sent him off to Uni with a big tin of biscuits to help him make new friends.

'Trish' was hoping to get something in her that night, but it wasn't milk chocolate assortment, and the nickname stuck.......


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 2:00 pm
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A lad I went to school with was known as Skoda. Apparently his dad had dropped him off back in primary school one day and kids being cruel, one mocked him for driving a Skoda (late 80's). The name stuck despite the car not being a Skoda at all


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 2:43 pm
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as a naive 18 year old an american exchange student invited him back to hers for coffee

That's exactly the sort of thing I'd have done.

One time in a nightclub, a really hot girl started dancing with me. This never happens. She leaned over and whispered sultrily into my ear, "do you have a girlfriend?" Totally misreading the situation I replied "yes, I'll go get her!" and was mystified that she'd gone when I returned.


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 2:52 pm
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Used to work with a guy known at Topper for fairly obvious reasons. He was also called "big job" because he'd only ever do one project at a time and when challenged on it, his response was "yep, but it's a big one"

Used to know a guy at school called Dave Etherington. Also heard people referencing someone called Pringle who I didn't know. Few years later, I found out they were one and the same. He was nicknamed after the golf jumpers he wore.


 
Posted : 05/01/2025 3:42 pm
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