Inspired by a post on another thread and Johnny Vaughan, thought I’d start a nickname thread. Nickname & why. Couple of folks at work: wheelbarrow - he only works when pushed. the missile - always nearly being fired
An old mate was nicknamed Slip, I knew him for about 3 years before I realised his name was Mick Hockin
I'm going to bugger off soon so best put you out of your misery She was called seaweed as 'even the tide wouldn't take her out' very cruel......
We used to call a guy at work (surname Streicher) 'Nazi' - his forefather was hung at Nuremburg after his trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher Who actually looks uncannily like our very own El T
As I've already mentioned in the last 24 hours, Luke Sidetalker.......he talks out of one side of his mouth, Knocker......he looks like the knocker on the door of Durham Cathederal. The clock......he has one hand bigger than the other. He occasionally gets "Jeremy" (Beadle) African / Indian......his ears are different sizes. John the pipe......There is a quality graph on a wall and to the right of this there is a red water supply pipe for a sprinkler system. That's his bar on the quality graph. I could go on.
Slightly off thread but we had a lad that looked like Steven Hawking. He was inevitably labeled 'the walking talking Steven Hawking'