@dannym3141 twisted my arm. I changed it.

Grumble grumble grumble.

To soothe my need for my affectionate nickname, allow me to say here:

GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY GRAMMY

I feel better now.

On couch:UK Weird Nickname Culture (Is Ashton in makeup?) has been added as a related post - related requested by bareboards2.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/On-couch-UK-Weird-Nickname-Culture-Is-Ashton-in-makeup

All of his kids have -tard on the end in some way. I think one of his girls is nicknamed princesstard. Even the mom is -tard something, maybe momtard I don't remember atm.

4 kids and one more on the way. Seem like fun people from all the videos I've seen, plus the wife is very attractive.

This guy goes by the sports nickname: "The Naked Truth"

Gonna nickname that thing The Jackrabbit. When do they build the theme park ride?

In this case it means a crash. It usually means push, or move aside, as in moving railway trucks around and the medical and electrical terms derive from this usage, i.e. moving stuff around.

Google "hunt the shunt" for James Hunt, who got the nickname from his crashes early in his career.
>> ^Yogi:

What's a shunt other than something medical or electrical? What did you mean by Shunt?

Roundbalewrapper - the produced rundballes are fittingly nicknamed "tractor eggs" in norwegian.

..You should see them when they hatch!

You're welcome! Doesn't seem to have done much good so far. I voted for it when I discovered the link... it may yet get sifted!


In reply to this comment by alien_concept:
Thanks for putting up a link to my video bb : I thought Ashton made a total knob of himself here by the way!

She told me last night.>> ^rottenseed:

How'd you know my mother's nickname for me?>> ^Lann:
Anyrate, congrats pizza dick face @rottenseed!

How'd you know my mother's nickname for me?>> ^Lann:

Anyrate, congrats pizza dick face @rottenseed!

>> ^hpqp:

Poor @shinyblurry, methinks you grasp the straws too much. Ask the majority of Americans who America's N°1 enemy was during the Bush years, and you'll get "Bin Laden" or eventually "Osama Bin Laden". Hardly any (if any) would properly name him as "Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden". It's no wonder a first century writer and political activist writing against the person in power would use the name his audience knew.
I can't believe I actually had to spell that out to you (oh wait, yes, I totally can).


I would say you're the one grasping at straws here; is it that you will just believe anything anyone says that agrees with your preconceived notions about the bible? It doesn't say the number of the nickname or title of the beast, it says his name. More importantly, the number 666 will be so identified with the antichrist that you could use it interchangeably with his name and everyone would know who you were referring to. This clearly wasn't the case with Nero. Further, he didn't fulfill the prophecies which would identify him as the antichrist.

This week I taught my first classes with a new set of Thai HS Seniors (the semesters start at a different time here). I always start out by getting a roster with the students' full names in Thai and having them write their nicknames in English, then taking roll call to make sure I am pronouncing the names correctly. There is no set way to write Thai sounds in English, so there is a lot of variation in how to spell things.

Anyway, one boy on the list wrote his nickname as "Kok". I correctly assumed that he wanted that to be pronounced "Coke", but then explained to him that if he goes with the other spelling an average westerner will probably call him "cock" which is rather unfortunate...

In 5 years of being here I've seen a lot of semi-unusual or unfortunate names and nicknames.

Odd: Dollar, Bible, Bird (hordes of those), Blue, Oil, Dump, Bomb, Gun, Nuke, etc.
Unfortunate: Fook, Fluck ("fluke"), Gook ("guck"), Poo, Poopae, Dodo, Porn (loads of this one also), Titee (girls name)

The worst and/or funniest one I've seen was a girl who converted her full Thai name into an English spelling of "Titteeporn Suksonmanee". Considering Thailand's ... reputation, that one is particularly unfortunate, although the actual pronunciation of the surname is more like suke-sawn-MA-knee.

On the flipside many western names translate phonetically into rather unfortunate things in Thai, or are commonly mispronounced into something bad in English. For example, Jim means "pussy" in Thai, Chris will usually be pronounced by Thais as "Clit", etc. etc.