Nicknames
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I heard a good one in local footy that a team gave one of their players as a bit of a joke. They called him Mailman because he never delivered on the weekends.
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The best I've ever heard was a premiership footballer, Kiki Musampa. His nickname was simply Chris.
Say his nickname followed by his last name out loud if you don't get it.
I'm massively outdated as a person, and I think the nicknames amongst my closest groups of pals reflects that. Almost all of them are plays on being homosexual.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Nicknames:
I heard a good one in local footy that a team gave one of their players as a bit of a joke. They called him Mailman because he never delivered on the weekends.
Like Darryl Halligan was nicknamed Milo becasue he wasn't Quik
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@MajorRage said in Nicknames:
The best I've ever heard was a premiership footballer, Kiki Musampa. His nickname was simply Chris.
Say his nickname followed by his last name out loud if you don't get it.
I'm massively outdated as a person, and I think the nicknames amongst my closest groups of pals reflects that. Almost all of them are plays on being homosexual.
I'm struggling with that still......
said Chris Moo Sam Pah?
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we had a prop in our team (cant recall his real name anymore) and one game, it was tight, he had the ball, head stuck in a rolling maul, as he crossed the tryline, everyone else broke off, he saw space and gapped it, dead...and kept going for a bit before reasling...
He is Forrest.
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Reminds me of a winger that got the ball on the half ... over 40m line ... over the 22 ... over the 5m ... over the try line ... over the dead ball line ... over the NEXT dead ball ... over the NEXT try line ... around behind the posts !!!
Seriously. Senior Reserves* in the Waikato. (* may have been called Sen B ... 2nd XV senior 1st div club rugby ... Putaruru v Tok HSOB ... thankfully they weren't very good and we won by 40)
"Forrest" would have been ideal ... but it may have been before the movie came out ...
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@MajorRage said in Nicknames:
The best I've ever heard was a premiership footballer, Kiki Musampa. His nickname was simply Chris.
Say his nickname followed by his last name out loud if you don't get it.
I'm massively outdated as a person, and I think the nicknames amongst my closest groups of pals reflects that. Almost all of them are plays on being homosexual.
I'm struggling with that still......
said Chris Moo Sam Pah?
And that's why its' the best nickname ever ... it's not immediately obvious and then you finally get it. To be fair, it's probably more a British thing than a NZ thing.
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My best mate in Whangarei never called anyone by their real name. He made up nicknames for everybody and they always stuck. We had Fatpack, Bristlehound (and his girlfriend Pupnibbler), Scrotumtickler, Pixie, Handshandy, Flog-it, Threethumbs, Half-dose and god knows how many other. His own name was Weetbix, his elderly Mum was Doris the Wolf and his own girlfriend was called Flange when he was being nice to her and Blowhole when he wasn't.
He called one of our mates' Dad (who was a permanent fixture at the bar at TR's old rugby club) "Mini Tanker" after he worked out one day how much beer the old boy put away in a year. We called him that forever after and he didn't mind.
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@MajorRage said in Nicknames:
@MajorRage said in Nicknames:
The best I've ever heard was a premiership footballer, Kiki Musampa. His nickname was simply Chris.
Say his nickname followed by his last name out loud if you don't get it.
I'm massively outdated as a person, and I think the nicknames amongst my closest groups of pals reflects that. Almost all of them are plays on being homosexual.
I'm struggling with that still......
said Chris Moo Sam Pah?
And that's why its' the best nickname ever ... it's not immediately obvious and then you finally get it. To be fair, it's probably more a British thing than a NZ thing.
Yeah - does seem to be a British thing, or more common at least; I only recently discovered why a mate of mine calls himself "Mabozza". I overheard him telling somebody that everybody in Scotland with the surname Ritchie is called that.
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I didn't read the original article, but considering most kids have an Instagram or YouTube account, they still probably use nicknames, even if it is just online.
In high school I had a very ethnically diverse group of friends and our nicknames would probably have us in jail in these absurdly pc times. Being half Kiwi, half German I was called everything involving sheep and Hitler.
Another mate was Burmese-Italian, the Greasie Burmesee.Malaysian Chinese: Yellow, Mr Slant or Monkey Magic.
Indian named Russell: Rissole or Burnt Rissole
Another Indian: Curry Muncher or just Curry.
Bulgarian-Pole: CommieIncredibly enough, none of us have been irreparably scarred by these base insults.
Another friend who was a rather large, hairy chap was called at various times: Horse Head, Meatloaf, Quasimodo, Yeti, Big Foot, and Bfnas (bum fluff needs a shave).
But by far the worst was: Phantom Bogger.
What happened is that during class at school, some sick bastard crapped all over the toilet seat in one of the toilets. Fark it was disgusting. My mate was jokingly accused of being the culprit. Unfortunately for him the name , or variants such as Bogger or Phantom, stuck like the shit on that toilet. The bizarre thing is he didn't protest at all, but it made no difference. I often wonder how he explained that one to his wife and how he'll explain it to his children.