Ten favourite types of Nicknames
September 20th 2006 10:43
When one lands in a country town, one discovers that most men don't go by their real name, so you need to match their nicknames with their character, if you are ever going to work out who is who around the place.
1. Some have to do with the size of the bloke: Booty: because he is as thin as a bootlace and Pip (pip squeak) and then Horse and Bear because they are the opposite - large..
2.Some are people that others don't want around much: Arget (Agh Get....) and Opium (slow working dope)
3. All Kelly's are called Ned, and all Taylor's Squizzy - after the gangsters.
4. Some talk too much: Motormouth and Diahorrea.
5. You would think that Bulldust was a bit the same - talking a lot of rubbish, but he only got his name because there were three people in the district with the same name and he happened to be the youngest!
6. Gunner: because he is always going to do something.
7. Vandy: because he looks like the character out of F Troop - Van der Veld
8. Lefty - Mr Wright
9. Oz , because he is a typical Aussie,
10 and finally The Whiz - who of course is Jeff Farmer: who we claim as a district hero - who can do things with a football that others only dream of.
I am sure this is not just a country town activity - boarding schools are also a hive of wonderful imaginative nicknaming! Does it still go on or are we getting so politically correct that it is becoming a dying art? Is it the art of being clever and not hurtful? Or were people always hurt but we were insensitive to it?
Have you got any favourites?
1. Some have to do with the size of the bloke: Booty: because he is as thin as a bootlace and Pip (pip squeak) and then Horse and Bear because they are the opposite - large..
2.Some are people that others don't want around much: Arget (Agh Get....) and Opium (slow working dope)
3. All Kelly's are called Ned, and all Taylor's Squizzy - after the gangsters.
5. You would think that Bulldust was a bit the same - talking a lot of rubbish, but he only got his name because there were three people in the district with the same name and he happened to be the youngest!
6. Gunner: because he is always going to do something.
7. Vandy: because he looks like the character out of F Troop - Van der Veld
8. Lefty - Mr Wright
9. Oz , because he is a typical Aussie,
10 and finally The Whiz - who of course is Jeff Farmer: who we claim as a district hero - who can do things with a football that others only dream of.
I am sure this is not just a country town activity - boarding schools are also a hive of wonderful imaginative nicknaming! Does it still go on or are we getting so politically correct that it is becoming a dying art? Is it the art of being clever and not hurtful? Or were people always hurt but we were insensitive to it?
Have you got any favourites?
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