Can you tell us your nickname?

[Clio]

My mom calls me Lu, and some of my college friends call me Jules.

 

[elrohwen]

I'm with you on this one, by the way. We really speak in movie lines in my family, and I'm always botching them up. The worst was when I tried to evoke Ron Burgundy and yelled "I want to be in you. I want to be in you!" to my sister across a parking lot. The real line, of course, is "I want to be on you." Ahh, the horrible, horrible embarrassment. At least I've never invited anyone to the pants party.

DH speaks almost exclusively in Ron Burgundy quotes. He grew a beard for the last few months and as part of the shaving-off process he left just the mustache, dressed up as Ron Burgundy (yes, he already had an outfit) and made me take a bunch of pictures to post on Facebook. He's a special one.

In college we could do a joke presentation as part of an engineering class where we could dress up, do skits, whatever (as long as we presented the engineering data, which made it even funnier). DH's group dressed up as the whole Anchorman team and did their presentation as a news team. Funniest thing I've ever seen.

 

[Amber St. Clare]

Slugger

My husband christened me when my first husband and I were divorcing--bitterly. Long boring story. I was anorexic. My ex claimed in his complaint {this was many, MANY years ago in NYC when ther was certain, definite criteria} that I BEAT HIM UP. Mr. St. Clare took one look at the complaint and began calling me Slugger. It stuck with me for many years.

 

[PilsnPinkysMom]

When I was younger everyone called me Bubbles because I was a bubbly kid and enthusiastic reader/performer with a light, high voice.

My sister and I call one another Sisterface.

My close friends from childhood call me Meeba... short for Amoeba. It's a long story that I hardly remember, but dates back to when I was a preteen.

 

[luv2sparkle]

My husband calls me Gorgeous, my son calls me Beauty, neither of which do I think are particularly fitting.


When I was young, my Dad called me ValerieJo from cocomo. Can I tell you how much I hated it. Never did like that man.
He is dead now. Maybe a few issues remain....

We have a few nicknames in our family. I have always called my son "Little Cody" in a scottish brogue, and my son Shane,
Shaney waney do dah, later shortened to just 'do dah'. I have no idea where any of that came from!

 

[portia]

My dad has called me Fritz (short for Schnicklefritz) for as long as I can remember. I guess it means 'funny little fellow' or something like that in German.

DH calls me HP - short for 'honey pie' which was derived from the nickname 'lemon pie' (from Pulp Fiction).

 

[portia]

I'm with you on this one, by the way. We really speak in movie lines in my family, and I'm always botching them up. The worst was when I tried to evoke Ron Burgundy and yelled "I want to be in you. I want to be in you!" to my sister across a parking lot. The real line, of course, is "I want to be on you." Ahh, the horrible, horrible embarrassment. At least I've never invited anyone to the pants party.

DH speaks almost exclusively in Ron Burgundy quotes. He grew a beard for the last few months and as part of the shaving-off process he left just the mustache, dressed up as Ron Burgundy (yes, he already had an outfit) and made me take a bunch of pictures to post on Facebook. He's a special one.

In college we could do a joke presentation as part of an engineering class where we could dress up, do skits, whatever (as long as we presented the engineering data, which made it even funnier). DH's group dressed up as the whole Anchorman team and did their presentation as a news team. Funniest thing I've ever seen.

LOL! My DH is always quoting that movie. It's one of our favorites. Always makes me laugh!

Haven, that's too funny! I could totally see myself doing something like that. I can never remember movie lines or jokes correctly. When I say them they're either not at all funny or I take them to an new/embarrassing level.

 

[aliciagirl]

This is kind of embarassing - but I'm really bad with phrases (I can never for the life of me get them right) and I couldn't remember the phrase "What you talkin' about, Willis?" from Different Strokes and I butchered it big time, getting basically only the Willis part right. DH made fun of me for it for a few weeks and we somehow started calling each other Willis.

The name Willis has stuck around for everyone in our household. I'm Willis, DH is Willis, the cats are Willis-cats. Sometimes it's shortened to just Will.

That's a great nickname, Aliciagirl!

I'm with you on this one, by the way. We really speak in movie lines in my family, and I'm always botching them up. The worst was when I tried to evoke Ron Burgundy and yelled "I want to be in you. I want to be in you!" to my sister across a parking lot. The real line, of course, is "I want to be on you." Ahh, the horrible, horrible embarrassment. At least I've never invited anyone to the pants party.

Haven - that's too funny! I feel a little better knowing that I'm not the only one goofing up movie/TV quotes in an embarrassing way. I try to only do it in front of DH/close friends if I'm not 100% sure since I've been wrong SO many times.

 

[Arkteia]

My mother used to say I resembled a bunny (soft and peaceful but hyperalert). I have no physical resemblance to a bunny but the name stuck. All my friends and my husband call me Bunny.

 

[Imdanny]

My SO has several pet names for me. Will I post them? Not bloody likely.

 

[Prana]

I have a few...
My late grandma called me 'Dollface'
My extended family calls me 'Katie-did-it', or 'did-it' for short
My DH used to call me 'girlface' in highschool. Now he calls me 'kiddo', 'miss' or 'misses'

I call him Hunk.

AHA! NOW I can finally place your old PS name.
FINALLY! I've been trying to figure it out for weeks!

Sorry Haven, I didn't know you were trying to figure that out!