Childhood nicknames?

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Loopy Lou

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So what embarrasing (spelling?) nickname did your parents lump you with?

When i was around 1-3 years old it was Slimer (ghostbusters), because i was constantly getting dirty and drooling. Up til about the age of 12-13ish i was Lurch (addams family) because i was always really tall for my age and by the age of 10 i was already taller than my mother. God i hated that one.

Now some of my aunts and uncles call me Lulabelle. Yup, it annoys me, but it's better than the alternatives :P
 
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tomboy

definitely. I would wear my brother's old clothes as a kid. I loved basketball, and was a really good player. I'm still okay, but I'm disabled. Also when I was young Michael Jordan was on the Bulls, and I'm from the Chicago area. I would wear backwards basketball hats.

I think it started from camping trips, and me running about tirelessly like an animal. Also just the way I was.

A story that a family friend loves to tell is me when I was five years old. Apparently angelic looking (I still get lots of complements on how beautiful I am). A woman came up to me and said, "Do you like Barney?" He's the purple dinosaur who says, 'I love you, you love me, etc.'
I said, "Barney loves me, but I hate Barney."

I was definitely not afraid of dirt and I liked playing with boys, and other girls who were feral.
 
I started out as "Chookie" because I was my mom's "Chookie Baby", but some how over the years it has turned into "Gookie", don't know how that happened! I call my mom "Oh-Mi Mi", so I guess we both have some wierd ones.
 
i got called turkeybutt as a kid. gross

duck scmuck is another name i really didn't like.
my male cousin's nickname is bunny lol he's only 3 now, but he'll hate it when he gets older
 
I had many my sis called Bubba, my parents called me John-son the mule because I would always try to lift more and do more work than others to compensate for my disability. Bullies called me the eight fingered freak and spaz when I was twitching, until I learned jujitsu from books and a state trooper and beat the holy heck out of the biggest bully (schools ignored bullies back then)! Nick names can be endearing or hurtful my favorite is Bubba as my big sis will say I am sorry you feel bad Bubba or I love you Bubba or quit bullying my little Bubba she would get like an angry bear with a cub (she is six years older).
 
My nickname as a baby was Le petite Chou Chou. Which means little cabbage or something because my dad said my diapers were very unpleasant!

I also had the nickname of crash, because I am such a clutz.
 
Mine is

Meetzaltzmeerkick. :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao: Now, before you alll die laughing trying to pronounce it, think of the the words "Me saw the mirror kick" all run together.

When I was quite young, I was evidently sitting in front of a mirror, and saw myself do that, and said that phrase. My father thought that it was adorable, and came up with the nickname.

He came up with some other odd nicknames for my siblings as well.....:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
 
I've had a LOT of nicknames:

Piglet, fata$$, fatso, fathead, larda$$, Tundra...My father's choice of endearments even though I wasn't an overweight child. You can probably guess what this resulted in.

My step grandfather always called me Pussycat

THe one I dislike the most is a diminutive though and that is PAMMY BETH...lotsa reasons...hate the hell out of it, the whole family will STILL call me that half the time and my brother refuses to call me anything other than PAM which I dislike almost as much.
 
BUCK ROGERS, I asked if I could change my name to the tv character... errrr my mom insisted I call and ask my dad and he never let me live that down. Matchu is my childhood nickname as well. Allergies.. but it has morphed to chu, chubacka, chubukan, chuey, chu chu.
my granmother still calls me skuttle butt, she has funny names for our dog MOJO too. She recently told me I was as nifty as a pocket on a shirt. so I told her call me pocket!
 
*sigh*

My dad had two nicknames for me....Flash (from the dukes of hazard) because I moved at my own pace...and Lucy (from the Peanuts) because of my propensity for questions and general attitude.

In school I was known as Thumper....
 
My Nickname as a kid was Carebear I think they got that from that carebear show I was always watching it LOL
 
Believe it or not, I was bones/bonesy for being so skinny. Now at 225 lbs,:paperbag: only my oldest brother calls me that.

Used to be called turtle in elementary because I wasn't very fast at sprinting. That kind of went away when I beat the whole class in a distance run one day.
 
My nickname when I was little was La-la. It is how my brother said my name (Laura) when he was first learning to talk. There were a lot of additions to that also, but the one I can remember the most is Lalapalooza.

My daughter's nickname is baby girl or Tater. She had a day care provider that used to call her Tay-Tay. I don't know why, but I really dislike that nickname. I kind of like Tater though. She's my little tater-tot. Hehe.
 
rather cruel

Mine were toothpick, stupid, retard.
I was never able to defend myself against this, or any of the lies spread about me.
That's probably why I don't tell a lot of people about my epilepsy, I didn't have a normal childhood.
 
Shelley said:
Mine were toothpick, stupid, retard.
I was never able to defend myself against this, or any of the lies spread about me.
That's probably why I don't tell a lot of people about my epilepsy, I didn't have a normal childhood.
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awww i;m sorry :( i had a very similar childhood, and i'm here if you need to talk
 
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