Dumb Kwestion #41 - Nicknames

Driven wrote:

Some people in high school tried to call me J-R, but it never really caught on. I've been known as André the Giant (despite my meagre stature) or Andalé Andalé Andalé (from Speedy Gonzalez). It's hard to shorten André, so anglophones usually pronounce it the English way and francophones pronounced it the French way. I've been temporarily called Andrew in France while visiting my great-uncle André.

J-R??? What's that about?

Jen5 wrote:

Driven wrote:

Some people in high school tried to call me J-R, but it never really caught on. I've been known as André the Giant (despite my meagre stature) or Andalé Andalé Andalé (from Speedy Gonzalez). It's hard to shorten André, so anglophones usually pronounce it the English way and francophones pronounced it the French way. I've been temporarily called Andrew in France while visiting my great-uncle André.

J-R??? What's that about?

I'm not totally sure, because senior year was 5 years ago and I'm not in close contact with most of my classmates. But I think it's because my dad was one of our teachers, and he was particularly popular in my class for being a strict but fair and good teacher. So I was his Junior, or JR, naturally...

lol
That's funny

I was waiting to see if Alldat would say anything but way back when on a certain board he had a nickname. 

Black Rider wrote:

I was waiting to see if Alldat would say anything but way back when on a certain board he had a nickname. 

I am sure I had a few names that people called me back then!!!  



The one I think you would be referring to was:


I AM SHARTACUS!!!

Driven wrote:

Some people in high school tried to call me J-R, but it never really caught on. I've been known as André the Giant (despite my meagre stature) or Andalé Andalé Andalé (from Speedy Gonzalez). It's hard to shorten André, so anglophones usually pronounce it the English way and francophones pronounced it the French way. I've been temporarily called Andrew in France while visiting my great-uncle André.

I like "Andre the Giant" it's a great nickname...(just like me) you are a little on the shorter side....so it is more than a little tongue in cheek.  Also Andre the Giant was a Frenchman, and a super cool guy.  I wouldn't have been upset with a nick-name like that.

There it is. Shartacus rides again.

My big nickname has always been "Stro".  When I was growing up, my friends and I always referred to each other by our last names, but "Strother" didn't flow as easily as their names, so they just shortened it to Stro. 

There was one time our youth group went to do a service at a church in Ohio.  I was singing that morning and they put my name in the bulletin as "Stretho".  Where they got that, I have no idea, but to this day, one of my dearest friends from that era still calls me by the nickname he gave me as a way to mangle my name worse:  "Earache Stretho."

messiaen77 wrote:

 .... "Earache Stretho."

  I think you win the prize for weirdest, most 'out-there' nickname (if there were such a prize that is)

As a prize he gets a free horse ride behind Shartacus.

Jen5 wrote:

messiaen77 wrote:

 .... "Earache Stretho."

  I think you win the prize for weirdest, most 'out-there' nickname (if there were such a prize that is)

Agreed, totally odd nick-name.

Black Rider wrote:

As a prize he gets a free horse ride behind Shartacus.