Comments on: Sticks and Stones May Break Bones…

By: Tru

Tru — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:26:46 +0000

I was the only one who ever came up with Amberger in elementary school. I guess my classmates weren’t that creative. I thought it was obvious, but I wasn’t going to help them out.

My parents have always called me Am and Ambie. I still sign my name that way when emailing them.

Tru wasn’t even on the site.

By: katie

katie — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:03:24 +0000

stinky flesh mangesh

By: heather

heather — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:08:52 +0000

I was fairly fortunate in nickname-wise in school. I was always afraid somone would call me ‘heifer’ or something, but I guess I was too nice…or small. My friend used to call me Pepper, though, which I HATED. And apparently a teacher called out my name as ‘Hester’ during a roll call.

My main problem was my last name. Whenever a substitute does roll call in the morning (yet another reason I hate roll calls), 4 out of 5 times they’ll mispronounce it. The annoying thing about it is that it’s 3 letters long. argh.

By: Meagan

Meagan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:51:52 +0000

I never had trouble with my name as a kid, other than there being too many Meagans with myriad spellings. I do sometimes go by Nutmeag now, but that works b/c I am a bit of a nut. :-)

My poor brother, Eric, on the other hand, did suffer a bit. Earache (which was on the list) was one of them, but more often Airhead. My personal favorite was one from my uncle: Eric from Kerrick (I always thought it was a town in nearby Oklahoma, but I’m not finding a listing for it).

My sister, Jessica, only got stuck with Messy Jessy, which was often appropriate.

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:46:15 +0000

There are no listed drawbacks for Constance. Obviously they didn’t know the kids in my elementary school who called me “Constipation”.

Oh yeah…

That was fun.

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:54:00 +0000

They missed the Maryellen, Scary-Smellin’ connection. That is my favorite way to refer to my sister-in-law. (We do get along well)

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:51:15 +0000

I’m a Melissa who’s been called “Lizard” and also “Mel-anoma” and “Mel from Hell.”

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:30:16 +0000

Yep, pretty much all the ones I heard as a kid – Watermelonie, Smellanie – but they didn’t have the one that I accidentally gave to a friend (who wasn’t clever enough to think it up himself) in my early 20′s – Melanoma.

By: Anita

Anita — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:26:35 +0000

Thankfully, the kids I knew never got creative enough to come up with Neeter, Neeter, Peter eater. But it took me a while to stop answering every time my father yelled from his workshop, “I need a….”

By: B

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:04:57 +0000

Have to agree that it’s unlikely that anyone will come up with some of these nicknames. If someone called my six-year-old Mallory “Maelstrom”, I would truly be astonished (although on her bad days, it just might be appropriate).