Witty Nicknames

[Percy]

1. A guy named Keth worked at the plant, it was found out later his name was Keith but  he had an eye missing

2. There was this guy who had one arm shorter than the other...we called him "The Clock"

3. There was this other guy who had one leg shorter than the other. When he walked, his head bobbed back and forth. We called him
 "The Snipers Nighmare" :D :D

[rusticretreater]

Sounds like working at this plant could be damaging to mind and body.

[barbender]

 This reminds me of a couple of coworkers, a father and son. The son was just out of school, and his circle of friends had a bunch of nicknames, like, "Fat" and, "Sloth" among many others. Well one day the young guy was telling us how when he was in trade school, they were having a party at Hitler's apartment. His dad and I both chuckled and shook our heads, and his dad said, "you guys and your nicknames!". The kid was incredulous, he said, "What!? That's the kid's name! Bobby Hitler!!"😂😂 He said the kid kinda acted like Hitler, too🤔🤷

[sawguy21]

I worked in a camper plant we had two Sikhs (uncle and nephew) we called number 1 and number 2. They were quite friendly so I asked them what their names were. They laughed and said "You not able to say our names, just call us number 1 and number 2". :D

[SawyerTed]

I worked with a woman with an artificial leg.  We called her Ilene.  

I went to school with an Asian girl with one leg, we called her Irene.

[WV Sawmiller]

  Like the cruelty jokes when we were kids:

"Mrs. Johnson, can Matt come out and play baseball with us?" 

"Children, you know Matt doesn't have any arms or legs."

"Yeah, we know but we need a 3rd base."

[Magicman]

 

 This guy's nickname is "Shaky".

[Ron Wenrich]

My BIL had a pet snake he called Lefty.  It had a scar on its left side.

I worked for a guy we called "Droop".  He had droopy drawers.

[Magicman]

 

 Here is a picture of Droop when he was much younger.  ;D

[doc henderson]

We had an auto parts store in my hometown.  the owner was about 5 foot 2.  he had a guy working there who was about 6 foot 4 and 400 pounds.  His nickname was tiny.  at Christmas, they would dress up as Santa and Mrs. Claus.  Of course, Tiny wore the dress as Mrs. Claus.

[newoodguy78]

Few years ago had a young kid come to work here. Was a friend of one of our employees. When we first met
I was pulling in on the tractor, got waved down to get introduced. Hopped off and stuck my hand out to introduce myself. The new hire put his left hand out to shake mine... the whole time he worked here I called him lefty.
This spring we hired a guy in his early thirties. Couldn't show up on time to save his life. About the third day he was late we questioned him. His excuse was he had been in the ER all night cuddling with a friend of his so she wouldn't be alone. His name from there forward was cuddles, he didn't last long

[barbender]

 We had an ol fella that was an owner/operator dump truck driver on the paving crew. Ol Denny was as thin as a rail, but always willing to jump in a pile of hot mix and shovel. There would be a group of us shoveling a pile, and I'd notice someone grimacing and trying to look away from something that had to be just terrible! Well then I caught a glimpse of what was terrible, that being Denny with his back to us and about 4" of butt crack showing😬😬 It was a regular occurrence, and rising to the level of an OSHA hazard. Denny picked up the nickname "B.C." as it was his defining feature😂

Every spring we'd have our crew safety meeting, and be issued a new safety vest for the year. The intrepid Denny took his new vest, and had his wife modify it by cutting about a foot of material from the prior year's vest, and sewing it onto the tail of the new one😂 Ol BC said it worked great, we weren't complaining back there and he could still get a nice cool breeze through the mesh material (onto his about 80% bare bottom😂)

Denny passed on a few years ago. He was a good man and I thought a lot of him. He'd had a varied career, including quite a few years as an owner/operator of a heavy haul rig up on the North Slope in Alaska. One of those been there/done that guys.

[rusticretreater]

One day a fella in my Boy Scout troop had an accident kinda like running with scissors.  He tripped and fell on his hatchet.  He got a pretty good cut on the inside of his leg in the groin area and rumor had it, he had also knicked his little johnny too.

So we started calling him Susie, which we later just changed to Sooz.  Then we all learned the words to Johnny Cash's A boy name Sue and wore out "How do you do?".

------
I think of that boy from time to time
and I hope we didn't break his mind
makin him end up in Folsom Prison like some men do

Cause it can be really hell
when them boys they start to tell
of the day you fell and got the worst name of all, ol' Sooz

[WV Sawmiller]

Rustic,

   I'm just glad you didn't all call him Shorty. :

[SawyerTed]

This one is backwards, a nickname to minimize an awful given name.  

We have a prominent attorney in our county V.L. DeHart.  Everyone calls him V.L. as he gladly answers to it.  The family  is among the county long time elite established families here. 

My wife asked his mother, a staid and proper rural southern woman, what V.L. stands for.  With a haughty lift of her nose she answered in her proud thick accent, "Velver Lee."

Well, we nearly lost our composure.  I had to excuse myself to keep from laughing out loud.

Almost as bad as Sue.  

[Broncman]

I work in Industrial Maintenance.  Have for over 30 years.  You do not get to choose what you are called. Most of the time it ain't nice.

I have worked with one guy for 30 years and never nee his name. He was always Po Daddy.

We have a UPS..(useless piece of ....)

We have Beavis and Butt Head.
Jody 1 hole and Jody 2 Hole, Bull, Stump Daddy,  Mouthas, Snake, Pink Soap (useless mechanic that never got dirty), Beater, DB (his last name was Massengale) and a bunch more.

[Magicman]

I accumulated several different nicknames during my years "working for the man", but the one that stuck was.....Magicman.

[muggs]

When I went to Viet Nam. I was told by the crew to pick a nickname, because you should not use your real name on the radio. I thought of the deadend kids. So now you have the rest of the story, Muggs

[Log-it-up]

Is there a story behind the "magicman" name

[Magicman]

Analyzing and trouble shooting has always been my strong suit.  During my years as a telephone co. PBX repair technician, when the other guys got bogged down I would get a call and the problem would get fixed.....like magic.  The other repairmen hung that nickname on me back in 1970.

[Old Greenhorn]

Is there a story behind the "magicman" name

Well he already let the cat of of the bag, but you could find the answer to that in THIS THREAD. Of course you would have to do some reading to find it. It is an interesting thread though. There is another similar thread I have not yet found.
At one of my jobs I had a similar rep as MM did. I was the troubleshooter they called when they gave up. But they were not so kind to me, they called me the 'sh--magnet' because all the jobs of that type eventually fell to me when others gave up.

[Old Greenhorn]

I found the other thread HERE, also interesting reading.

[barbender]

Yeah, Jeff wouldn't have let that username fly, although it does have a nice ring to it😁