Abbreviating your name

[Glinda]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

My maiden name was very common, and my first name even more so. Nevermind all the other girls with my same first name, I actually went to high school with another girl who shared my first and last name.

So around 2nd grade I picked up the nickname Fergie, shortened from my last name, and it stuck all the way until graduation. Teachers used it too, and I had some friends who didn't even know my real name. (This was, incidentally, during the time that Princess Fergie in the UK was commonly in the news, but the Black Eyed Peas did not yet exist.)

I don't use my real first name at all (unless it's for legal/banking stuff). When I was born, everyone in the whole world named their kid the same thing my mom named me. In one high school class, there were FIVE of us.

By that time, I'd taken to using a nick I got as a tyke in Texas - NOBODY had that name. Imagine my disgust 40 years later, when everyone's giving their damned kids my name (boys and girls alike).

Guess I'm a trendsetter, but sincerely, I'd rather they just ignore me and all my awesomeness.

[Lola Bunny]

Originally Posted by DanaC

We used to just add a 'y' or 'ie' to someone's surname.

Now that you mention it, that's what we do too, but our first names. So, indeed, I do have a nickname. It's my name with the "y" or "ie" tacked to it.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Glinda

I don't use my real first name at all (unless it's for legal/banking stuff). When I was born, everyone in the whole world named their kid the same thing my mom named me. In one high school class, there were FIVE of us.

By that time, I'd taken to using a nick I got as a tyke in Texas - NOBODY had that name. Imagine my disgust 40 years later, when everyone's giving their damned kids my name (boys and girls alike).

Guess I'm a trendsetter, but sincerely, I'd rather they just ignore me and all my awesomeness.

lol

I can relate to that. When I was little there were very few Danielles around. I was the only one in my year, possibly the only one in my primary school (5-11). Even at secondary school(high school) I think there were probably only a couple of us in the whole school. Nowadays you can't move for Danielles :p

[footfootfoot]

a friend of mine went to HS with a guy named Doug Rosenfeld who was aptly nicknamed Drug Resinfilled

[sexobon]

Originally Posted by Lola Bunny

... Since I'm so tiny, and the littlest of them all, they called me Smurfette. I tried to ignore it at first, but after a while, I gave in and responded to that name. So, my name now is either Smurfette or Smurfy.

So, now we're going to need a set of Smurfy's Laws:

#1. If anyone can get small, they will get small.

Original Monologue by Steve Martin
I mentioned that, earlier in the show, a drug joke - and I hate to do that, because it creates a mess, and I'm not into drugs any more. I quit completely, and I hate people who are still into it. Well.. I do take one drug now - for fun - and, maybe you've heard of it, it's a new thing, I don't know if you have or not. It's a new thing, it makes you small. [ indicates size with fingers ] About this big. And, you know, I'll be home, sitting with my friends, and, uh.. we'll be sitting around, and somebody will say, "Heeeyyy.. let's get small!" So, you know, we get small, and uh.. the only bad thing is if some tall people come over. You're walking around going, "Ah hahaha..!" Now, I know I shouldn't get small when I'm driving.. but I was driving around the other day, and I said, "What the heck?" You know? So I'm driving like.. [ extends arms high in the air like he's reaching up to a giant steering wheel ] And, uh.. a cop pulls me over. And he makes me get out, he looks at me and he says, "Heyyy.. are you small"? I said, "No-o-o! I'm not!" He said, "Well, I'm gonna have to measure you." They have this little test they give you - they give you a balloon.. and if you can get inside of it, they know you're small. Now, I've already talked it over with the cast - they've been working all week, it's a tough thing to do, come out here live. Immediately after the show, we're all gonna go out.. and get really small!

Let's get small.

[DanaC]

Oh I loved that concert. I must have watched it a hundred times lol

Me and my Bro used to know it practically by heart. I think there was about a month where we mostly communicated through lines from that show. Drove Mum mental :p

[sexobon]

Smurfy's Laws (cont'd):

#2. When someone says you light up their life, it means they've gotten one of your flashlights.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Glinda

By that time, I'd taken to using a nick I got as a tyke in Texas - NOBODY had that name. Imagine my disgust 40 years later, when everyone's giving their damned kids my name (boys and girls alike).

Guess I'm a trendsetter, but sincerely, I'd rather they just ignore me and all my awesomeness.

Your childhood nickname was Jaydan?

Re: Steve Martin ... I also went through a Let's Get Small period ... loved everything up to about Cruel Shoes, then he became a serious actor and moderate author. When people ask me for advice I tell them To be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.

[infinite monkey]

Jordan?

Brayden?

Morgan?

[Cyber Wolf]

My parents gave me Jennifer and still call me that but I will answer to Jenn, Jenjen or Jay (Jae?). Most of my friends know me as Jenn. I will NOT answer to Jennie/Jenny, though I do have a friend who insists on Jannie and calls it valid on a technicality. I do have other commonly used nicknames... my favorite of which was already taken when I first joined the Cellar.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Cyber Wolf

I do have other commonly used nicknames... my favorite of which was already taken when I first joined the Cellar.

Wolf?
Obvious guess.

[Chocolatl]

My given name is Maria. It was the first name that popped into my mother's head when it turned out "Mark" wasn't going to be such a good choice for her newborn girl. I never liked it for a variety of reasons -- that my mother had picked it at random, that I was always one of several in each of my classes, that people liked to come up and break into song with one of the many "Maria" songs, each one thinking he was original. There aren't really any nicknames to go with it, but I started going by Mia in high school and it has stuck. Only family and the few friends I still know from high school still call me Maria. Some people have tried Mary or Marie, but I never liked either of those.

[infinite monkey]

Mia is one of my all time favorite names, too.

[Sundae]

I was going to be called Mark too!

I hated the name Maria for at least five years thanks to the Evil Ex, who kept breaking up with and getting back with a young woman of the same name. All chewing gum and badly painted toenails.

But the 'rents cat as called Mia (and Mia-cat works so well as a nickname) that I love it.

Had we been friends I might have called you Marry-ah.
Except if you didn't correct me it would have caught on and then annoyed me that everyone called you by my pet name.
The above is not pathos, just experience.

Or me being a sulker.

[Cyber Wolf]

Originally Posted by Sundae

Wolf?
Obvious guess.

Full marks!

That and some derivatives... Wolf, Wolfie, Loba, Okami...