I call a friend of mine Cat because his nickname is Billy. Which is cat in Hindi. I'm fairly sure (not quite) it annoys him. Excellent; I'll keep dooing it then.

This Troper's name is for some reason difficult for people to remember - it's nothing unusual, but she was told that it 'doesn't fit her'. Last year she was on a trip with new people, who had particular trouble with it, so she was simply referred to as 'the girl in the {{Epica}} shirt'. People she's met there still don't know her real name and just call her 'Epica'.

This troper knows several. First, the boys: Rafiki, Narnia, Jewboy (self-given), Bonky. The girls: Riku, Mewmew, Carrie (real name Jacqueline)

This Troper's best friend's...little sister. She has been known widely as "Fleecey" for so long it appears instead of her real name on more than a few school performance pamphlets.

One of my closest friends gave me the nickname Blossom. Her current boyfriend knows me only by that name.

My five man band and I invented nicknames for one another that eventually became so well known that hardly anyone refers to us as our real names. Me:Captain(apparently cause I'm the hero of the group), GF/chick: Samus(she looks like frickin' Samus! Much to my delight. Plus her real name is Erin), Lancer/best bud: Tenor(not sure how this started but he's in the choir so that might have something to do with it), Big Guy/Cute bruiser: Li'l dynamo(seriously what else do you call an Asian girl that can flip a boy two feet taller and sixty lbs heavier than her?), Smart Guy: Gandhi because he's Indian, a big pacifist, and wants to be a lawyer, and finally our sixth ranger is called Angel because he's a devout Christian and his real name is Michael.

I have gone by my nickname for so long, that I introduce myself as the nickname. I actually have a hard time wondering what it feels like to go by your own name everyday. It makes me think of feeling "naked" having your own name out in the open like that. But then again, I'm just weird like that.

On another note (still same person as above), when somebody says my real name when they're calling somebody else, I look around as if I was just called. But if they're actually addressing me, good luck trying to get my attention.

My sister now exclusively introduces herself as Stormy. I don't know where she came up with the name or how, but hey, it works. My roommate attempted to get everyone to start calling me "Fedora" but it didn't stick.

it is common in many larping communities in italy (where i live) to be known to others by your character's name. Even when, later, you change character, you at times remain stuck with that nickname.

This troper has friends known only as Jones and Clayman, even though those are nothing like their real names.

It took this troper until the senior year of high school to find out the real name of her DDR-god game-group buddy..... she'd spent the prior two-and-a-half years calling him Cheese. (If you're reading this, sorry Keith!)

One of this troper's best friends has a real name, but you'd never know it - I've been calling her by her nickname "Yume" for so long I have trouble thinking of her by anything else.

Yume? That sounds familiar to this troper....he has a friend who always call herself Yume, even when a foreign english teacher asks her name, and would sometimes proceed to explain what it means. Apparently, he always call one of her friend Erie (or something like that....)

This troper had a High School classmate nicknamed "Porno" because his mom found his Porn Stash in a very embarrassing way. ''Every student who knew him'' used this nickname for most of his 4 years in High School. It wasn't until a teacher (who was very offended by the name) threatened us with detentions did the name start to fade away (and for most students, this troper included, this was when we finally learned his real name).

Only my family and teachers call this troper by his real name. To everyone else I am "Podgy" even though I am the exact opposite.

This troper eventually trained a friend in early high school to answer to "Frodo."

This troper had a friend in high school who was simply called "Pozar", and I was one of only two people who ever called him by his real name.

I met a friend of mine when his arm was broken and I asked if I could call him Cripple. The cast come off in three weeks and I still call him cripple. I also have a slightly hard time remembering his real name.

This troper is known to teachers, parents and students alike as "Token," to the point where the one time I had sex, that was what she yelled out.

Yeah. That one wins.

I find it very difficult not to call my friend Dodgey sometimes. What's weird is that I ''gave'' him that nickname, and now he uses it as a username in everything, ever.

This Troper is a techie, and everybody has nicknames. We have two shauns, neither of whom I have ever called shaun, and several teachers are now calling me [=McLovin=].

This Troper is Jim to everyone he knows personally, Night or NGT to his online friends, and Mark to nearly every other character in his Rifts game. The respective names are James, [=NGTM1R=], and Marcus.

When this troper was at summer college, there was a guy who everyone called Nemo, due to his real name being something Bulgarian and hard to pronounce, with Nemo being the usual approximation. Well, that's what I heard anyway. I never even found out what his real name was.

I was friends with Mormon in high school. It was nearly a year until his real name came out (Bryan). Even now, within my circle of friends, asking about how "Bryan" is doing gets weird looks...he's just Mormon.

This Troper got her nickname at the age of about seven and, since my first name is pretty common, it always just made more sense to use the nickname. A couple of years ago one of my friends was shocked to find out I actually had a name.

This Troper is known in his school only as "A.P." by both the students and most of the teachers/faculty. Many people are unaware of his actual first name. The worst part? Those aren't even his real initials.

When this troper went to high school there were two girls that rode my bus that no one ever referred to by name one girl was referred to as "Rabbit Girl" for her long buck teeth and another girl who everyone seemed to hate was called "Lice Bucket" because apparently she had lice at some point.

There was a boy at this troper's summer camp who found a pair of chopsticks on the ground while everyone was still trying to learn names and became Chopsticks. For years.

My grandmother referred by her nickname by almost every person. After my grandfather had been dating her for over a year, he was asked the real name of his girlfriend and he didn't remember it. After that, for over sixty years of marriage, he refused to use the nickname ever again and always called her by her two names.

This troper knew a guy at summer camp who was known only as "Georgia", the state he was from. This troper herself was referred to by a nickname or description for most of the summer camp.

This troper had a (female) classmate last year whom ''everyone,'' including her own father, calls "Bob". Her real name is [[spoiler:Jessica]].

More recently, there's this one guy who transferred to my school this year, and, because his hair looks uncannily like that of most common depictions of a certain religious figure, it was several weeks before even the ''principle'' figured out that his real name was [[spoiler:Alec]], since everyone just called him "Jesus" (pronounced "JEE-zus", not "HAY-sous", by the by) from day one.

This troper also knows someone who goes by Jesus, but she's a girl who looks nothing like the religious figure. Her real name is June, by the way, not that anybody really calls her that.

There's also Vulture. His real name is [[spoiler:irrelevant]], but it's not like he answers to it anyway.

That's pretty freaky, because this troper also knows a girl named [[spoiler:Jessica]] whose nickname was Bob.

This troper had an online friend start going to a college in her town, said friend preferred to call me by my nickname I used on IRC. since Weazul is a pretty unusual nickname for a gal her friend's crowd started calling me that because it was more memorable than my real name (which is a VERY common name). this troper has also been told by that crowd that even if one of their parents knows every one of their friends by their first name all their parents know her as Weazul.

To everyone I'm known as Dano, and to some of my friends Danomite, which is used as an excuse to sing AC/DC's TNT with the word dynamite replaced. Dano is a combination of the first three letters of my first name with the first letter of my last name.

The camp I am going to be a junior counselor in has all the staff going by nicknames. You must bribe the staff to find out their real name.

For most of the people this troper knows from school, and for many people that he doen't know or recognize at all, he is simply "Padre."

This troper's great-grandmother was known as "Nanny" to everyone (even her own children, apparently), to the extent that he doesn't even know what her real name was.

During a RS class at this troper's school the teacher said something along the lines of "Anyone in this room could be the returned Jesus" to which someone else replied "It's you isn't it [tropers name]". For the next 1.5 years I was almost universally known as Jesus, to the point where one of the teachers marked me absent from class because I forgot to respond to my real name during roll-call. The person who started it became known as Buddha (and still is). Also, this troper is more likely to answer to his on-line name or Bombadil than his real first name (as there are 7 people with the same first name in his year group).

I'm very often called Shippo by a friend at school, she does know my real name, but likes to call her friends by names from InuYasha

Okay, my name is Christine right? But everyone, even family, calls me CJ. I once tried to get everyone to call me by my true name because there was another CJ in the school, in my classes no less, that I was friends will and we kept answering calls for the other. His name is Christopher. He tried to get people to call him by his true name. End result: Nobody could remember to use our real names. After awhile we just gave up.

When this troper goes to college, she plans to not tell anybody her real name, and try to go by the name of Howler. She'll bribe the staff to call her that in roll call if she has to. Why? Because it'll be fun. She's always wanted a nickname. And Howler is cooler than her real name anyway.

This Troper knows a couple who just had their first kid. His first name is Lawrence, for his father, but they're gonna call him Micah.

Why not just name the kid Micah? Or Lawrence Micah?

There is a kid at this troper's school who only goes by the nickname "Hooter". Boy, that name is way off his real one.

One boy at this troper's school goes by Alex, but his real name is John. According to his on/off girlfriend (long story short, he's pretty much manic-depressive and emotionally abusive), he'll get extremely angry if you call him John. Meh.

Also, at this troper's school the Japanese Entertainment Club likes to give nicknames to their more popular members, such as Mongoose, and sometimes there are people who know them only by these nicknames. The JEC is generally considered the more "insane" club, and not in a good way.

This troper went to school with someone that everybody called "Oobie." This troper thinks it came from some badly-pronounced backwards-day word when he was little, but anyways, that's what everyone called him. Nobody knew his real name, because it was cut off on the class attendance because his last name was so long- this resulted in the {{UnReveal}} when someone had the bright idea to look it up. (It MAY have been Elliot. MAYBE.)

Everyone on my dad's side of the family has always called my cousin Krissy (it's even written on her door), so I was rather confused when her husband (then-boyfriend) and their friends kept referring to someone named "Kristen". On the flipside (both in terms of the trope and my family), my cousin Kikuo is only called that by family; his friends call him Key, from his hip-hop moniker "Key Kool".

This extends to my maternal uncles Kats and Tak, short for Katsuhisa and Takahisa. There's also Teruhisa, who goes by Teddy.

Taken to the extreme, my dear friend is known pretty much solely as "Ogre" by everyone. Most don't know his real name. The part that nails it is when i was talking to his mother about him once. For a moment, she blanked on his name before finally just sighing and referring to him as Ogre.

Almost inverted by someone this troper knows - we all called him 'Clark.' His real name is [[spoiler:Moody]]. It almost seems like these should be the other way around.

This troper's nicknames are "God" and "Dude". First is by my friends, second is by my parents. Also, one of this troper's friends is named Jon, but everyone calls him Bob.

This troper is also somewhat known as "God."

This Troper is known as 'Graf' to a majority of his friends, mostly because the one time he decided to tell someone his real name (which he hardly every went by '''before''' since he goes by his middle name usually), they misheard it. He pronounced it as Geoff, and somehow they heard that as 'Graf'. After hearing it and thinking it was pretty cool, he kept it. It was only after about a year of having said nickname that he found out it basically meant 'count' in German.

This Troper's former art teacher was named Desirée Annabella. How she was known by faculty, students and parents? Daisy.

This Troper has a friend who was introduced as Midget. It took him 4 months before figuring out what this friend's real name is.

I knew a guy who's called Cheese(real name Miguel) long story short it took me four months to find out his real name and no one else even mentions it.

This troper's best friend for years has another friend who shares first names. So this troper is known as "Drac" or "Dracula" because of his liking for black and red clothes, constantly popping his collar up (resembling the stereotypical cape of Dracula), and hating sunlight to the point of wish every day was dark and cloudy.

A strange case--a friend of this troper's father legally changed his name to Head Bubba. )-)

A guy named Mike is known as "Trevor" to everyone who was in AP US History last year at my school. And this year a guy named Zach in my french class is called Jerry.

This troper found out only yesterday that her friend "Conner"'s real name is Ryan. The confusion came from one of her teachers, who calls all of his students by their lasts names, but she just couldn't put two and two and two together.

This troper has a peer that they can't address with a straight face. Why? Said peer's last name is "Smiggles", and you can imagine no one cares about his first name after learning that.

I didn't realise until after I quit my first job that the waterfront director probably wasn't really named Swiffer.

This troper enjoys averting the trope as much as possible, calling most of his friends by first name. In more than one case, this ticks them off.

This Troper is a member of two social circles, one of which calls him Arron (his real name being Arronald) and the other that calls him Sasquatch Jack...

This Troper is known at school primarily by diminutives of her own name...and, in the third grade, an {{incredibly lame pun}} concerning a certain cheerleader who can do anything. However, one person has managed to get her to respond to the nickname of Sonic due to my walking speed (I'm walking past people with a 35-pound backpack on my back), my running speed without said backpack (one end of the school to the other in 30 seconds), and being somewhat knowledgeable about the games.

She also knew a senior in her freshman year who went solely by the nickname of "Jesus" (like the Jesus example above). She can never remember his real name, only that he was known as Jesus and could easily be picked out of a crowd due to a rather distinguishable white trenchcoat and long hair.

This troper was known, from the first day of freshman year to the end of high school, only as Tito, to the point where people thought that was his real name. His closest friends in college from high school still call him that.

This troper's friend is known as Toby by all. This is not his name. I have personally asked him his name no fewer then three times and I STILL can't remember what it was. I think it may have begun with a J

This troper is abnormally tall (I was six feet by the time I was thirteen) and when I went to a new high school a kid gave me the nickname of Gigantor. I never minded, but it was pretty funny when my friends realized that they had no idea what my name was.

Sounds like that guy was a fan of Night at the Museum.

This troper had a running joke with his friend where we called each other by random names. I then realized I didn't know his actual name. At first he wouldn't tell me, and told me his name was Awesome Bigd*** , but after a couple of days he relented and told me his name (which begins with a D). I now refer to him as ABD

This troper's friend, a dairy major who always wears a very cool cowboy hat, is known by everyone as Tex. He has lived in the north all his life and has never been to Texas.

Let's just say that on no known planet is Tracy anywhere close to my real name.

There is a chap in this troper's RPG group who is always referred to as Green, which isn't a surname in our language. He uses it at ''all'' occasions and has never told us his real name. He always wears mainly green clothes.

My friend's name is Ivonne. We all call her Eevee. She insists that the Pokemon was named after her.

This troper was shocked when after knowing a friend for almost a year to find out Luke was actually his middle name/nickname and his real name was Steve.

This Troper has an African-American friend at school who is only known by his nickname. His nickname is "Token Blackguy". I am ''not'' making this up.

I go to school with a guy known only as "Tiny". Nobody, even teachers call him by his actual name and when it is needed people usually have to ask him what it is. He isn't the shortest guy in the grade, either. I sometimes wonder if it will cause problems down the track, with his mental health.

This troper is called Kiri on the internet. Although he's not a girl.

kiri kiri kiri...

My dad is known solely by "B". Calling him by his real name prompts looks of confusion and giggles from everyone. Also, my friend is known only by Lulu (and her real name is completely different).

This troper's cousin once had a classmate nicknamed "Gerbil". Most of the students at their school wound up forgetting or never learning her real name (Anna). Likewise, this troper is known among some circles as simply "Dutch" (how the heck I picked up that name I'll never know).

This troper is called Tito by his family and friends. His uncle was the one who first called him that after a Mexican radio personality named "Tito in the Morning". At least that's what he's told.

This troper has a friend named Shelby. Everyone called him Mike Jones for a while. I thought that was his name until I looked in the church phone guide.

This troper has earned the nickname 'Macleop' after a rather humorous typo on his '08-'09 school ID card. For some context, his real last name has the 'p' doing a 180 degree turn into a 'd'.

Same troper, different example: After proclaiming, at the tender age of four, that Baby bop was this troper's favorite character on Barney the purple dinosaur, this troper's cousin called him 'Bopper'. How this name has spread to his current group of friends, despite the cousin in question now living in Toronto and it being 14 years since it was first used is beyond of three}} this troper.

Happened when I took up Geocaching. First time I went to a meeting of geocachers, turns out most of them are like this. I ''did'' manage to learn a few real names at several gatherings, though most will answer to their "handle".

Even teachers call him Crank-Diesel.

This troper is known by many different names at many different places. To one forum on the internet, she is MJ. So much so that many people thought it was her real name ("Mary Jane"). Her real name is Jessica; MJ comes from a person she is often nicknamed for in real life: Michael Jackson. To the point that an entire church knows her as Jacky.

This troper met a few. Three involve the name Eduardo: one which was also called at home by his middle name, so got lost at kindergarten when they requested him by the first, and nowadays is basically known for the nickname (the name of an African nation); one which still puts Edu/Du in his username in some places; and one which is called Dudu... when his name is Henrique (apparently he would be called Eduardo, but after not receiving this name, his family still called him Dudu).

ThisTroper was skipped into High School in the middle of the year. On the first day of showing up, he decided to visit the library, and found a small group of teenagers playing {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}. Now, ThisTroper lives in Puerto Rico--keep that in mind. One of them summoned the Penguin Soldier card, except he pronounced it "Penguin '''SOLDER'''. I corrected him--in English, since they were all speaking Spanish, and he replied (in English), "Oh, well, see, I say "solder" because I'm not an American." But, the guys seemingly liked me, and I kept hanging with them. Eventually, they came to know me as "The American", because I was always speaking English. Even in college, I was always "The American". This all came to a head when one of my friends said my name, and another one of my friends asked, "Who's that?". When I popped up, I managed to explain things. What's more, this troper's name is "Jean-Karlo". People who don't call him "The American" usually just call him "Jan" (not even "Jean"...). Yeah, feels bad, man, but they're my friends. ^_^

One of the former managers of this troper's local Gamestop rarely went by his real name; preferring people to call him "Yankee" (Although, I knew his real name before I learned the nickname, because his real name was printed on his nametag).

This Troper didn't find out until she signed as witness on her best friend's marriage certificate that his real name isn't Angel.

A girl this troper knows is so this trope that on official pamphlets for band performances list her by her nickname "Fleecey" even though they have ''her real name on file.''

This troper's class is filled with this, to the point that all teachers are forced to learn our version of the name list. We have an Ocean's fan nicknamed Rusty, a guy nicknamed CNY, and this troper is nicknamed Bowser after his favorite bag that looks awfully like Bowser's shell.

This troper is known by most of her school's younger students simply as Schumacher thanks to her habit of walking around the school yard. Thanks to her all encompassing clothing, most do not know her gender either.

On the bus I rode to middle school (grades 6-8), there was a sixth grader who always wore extremely baggy pants and had his hat turned sideways. Someone stole his lunchbox once, and, much to everyone's amusement, he began yelling, "Give me back my lunch box! I'm on a special diet!" From then on everyone in my (8th) grade, even the ones who don't ride our bus, called him "Diet Kid". I was also referred to by 6th and 7th graders as "Ninja Star", and by most 8th graders as "John".

I got the nickname "Ninja Star" because I brought a paper origami folding star to school as an art project. When some kid on my bus stole it that morning, I kept yelling at him "Give me back my Ninja star!" Thankfully I got it back, but now that name lives in infamy.

"John" is much less interesting. My friend Quinn accidentally called me "John" once, and I told him it was annoying. Since then he insisted on calling me John, and it kinda caught on. So from then on I have always introduced my (very androgynous) friend as a female, though usually behind his back. Also, I convinced a male student that Quinn was a girl, and since then that student has continually hit on him. Ha ha.

Ever since discovering people who played Pokemon in my school, most of the local nerds only call me Crispee, my name in the internet, and on games.

This troper hates being given a nickname, to the extent anyone shortening my name tends result in getting ignored. This hasn't stopped my former Citizenship teacher calling me Will, which I don't mind anymore: in fact, it is my nickname amongst my friends now. My real name, as you may have guessed, is [[spoiler:William]]. Also, this troper recently learnt that his dad was known as killer when he was at school, somewhat ironic considering he was the son of two teachers at his school (also appropriate, considering he had been the army).

A guy this troper works with is only known as "Skryblä", even the boss calls him that and this troper has absolutely no idea what is his real name.

This troper is called Phys by many of the first years in his department, which is short for a nickname I aquired in /my/ first year(and loathed at the time. Since some of my fellows are known only as Bob, Box (most people don't know their real names at all), moot, sensei, and sleazy, he considers this perfectly normal practice.

I was also at school with a bloke called bill, which had nothing to do with his real name either.

This troper somehow got the nicknames Rasiel and Dibbers. Though only her friends refer to her with the names and it is cool to be a king or a savior of humanity, reality kicks in when a good number of these friends tell her they have no clue what her real name is.

This troper is usually referred to by "Izzi" or some form of that, but when she wrote her full name on her report instead of her nickname, her teacher got up and asked "Who's Isabel?" She facepalmed and said that it was her. Her teacher? "Oh, but you're Izzi, OH."

Same troper as above, but because of being a Katekyo Hitman Reborn fan, they call her "Mukuro." So one day, she and her friend "Hibari" were on the swings, and all of a sudden her other friend yelled out "6918~." all girls

This troper goes by one of two nicknames. What name you know her by depends on how you meet her. Anyone who knows her through any sort of online comm or art circle knows her as a pen name. Anyone who knows her from anywhere else knows her by a legitimate shortening of her name. She has friends who have known her for years and don't know her real name.

For his final two years of highschool, this troper was known only as "Thor", a name given to me by a person who thumbed through my book of {{NorseMythology}} while I was out of the room. Similarly, my roommate and I refer to each other by our online code names, his being MasterWabbit and mine being ''The'' Shadow.

At This Troper's college radio station, this trope was there for some of the on air djs, a couple of whom were an older gentleman who went by "Mr. Boogie" and a girl who went by "Irish Bob"

Since my best friend from the internet moved into a house just up the street from me, I no longer even think of myself as my real name, which only my family call me by. In my head and when introducing myself to people I go by my username on the forum we met on, so a lot of people I know do not know my real name.

Kind of averted for this Troper, since all of my friends know my real name, but ever since my friends and I saw the movie 9, only one of them has been calling me 'Seven.' This was inspired when said friend decided that we should dress like the stitchpunks. To this day, I'm still called Seven, sometimes even Mama 7.

This troper had a schoolbus driver known only as "Turtle".

This troper met her best friend's younger brother on the bus in middle school; he introduced himself as "Cheese" (for a heretofore unknown reason). This troper didn't know his real name until two years later upon befriending his older sister. And once he got to high school, she had most of her friends calling him "Cheese" again. This troper and another friend also exclusively refer to him by his nickname.

This troper has an adorable Chinese friend (actually born and raised until she was six in Surinam) whose real name is Xiaomei. However, since like most Chinese names it is impossible for Westerners to correctly pronounce, her name in the school system and in general is Xiomara (why her parents thought that would be easier, this troper has no idea.) When this troper finally found out her real name, she and her friends started calling Xiaomei "Meimei," as a pun on "little sister." Thus, it's extremely confusing to everyone around us when we try to talk about her. Also, this troper's full name is Meredith, but has gone by Merry literally since she was a baby. She often gets letters written to "Mary" (even from her own ''grandmother'') and hardly anybody knows that her legal name is Meredith.

This troper is known almost exclusively as Nemo to a small group, to the point where a few of them may not know my actual name. Another example: My sister's friend is pregnant, and they plan on telling the baby that my sister's name is Pancakes. Not her nickname, her actual name. I hope the child will be around 15 before she realizes that there's no way that's real.

This troper knows several: One of my friends only goes by the name Tobi and constantly refers to herself by that name. It took me half the school year to learn her real name, and most of my friends ''still'' don't know what it is. Another friend's actual name is Ailey, but goes by the name "Fishy". (She was a freshman when we first meet her.) Ever since then, I call all the freshman I know "Fish #n", in order from how much I like them to how much I dislike them. I also knew this guy named Alvin. I can't remember his real name, but it was Vietnamese and sounded a bit like the french phrase "J'ai t'aime". There are actually more, but I'm not going to list them all because I'm pretty sure everyone I know has at least one nickname. Except me.

I have had a few friends I only knew by their nickname for a long time-in fact, I started off not knowing the names of my three best friends. We all have our own nicknames for eachother-mine is Jellybean, cause I love jellybeans, and mentioned them in conversation when I met a new friend, and it stuck.

I go by a nickname. Always have. People only call me by this nickname. Unfortunately, evrybody knows what my real name is.

Every one of my friends knows my real name, but just about everyone calls me Toki. The only people who refer to me by my real name on a regular basis are adults and my girlfriend, and even she uses my nickname when around my friends. Most of my friends usually call me Toki, but a few of them either don't know that I'm called that or aren't used to the idea, so instead of addressing me by name, they simply find new ways to avoid using it. "Hey, man. What's up

During his military technical training this Tropers instructors were very impressed with his impressive intellect in a career field that is not known for attracting the brightest in the Air Force. On the very first day they nicknamed him Google, the human search engine... it got to the point that over a year later he ran into people from training on a deployment... and none of them refereed to him by anything other then Google. A guy In my 7th grade grade class known only as junebug or junior I Don't think anyone but the teachers ever knew is name. And maybe not even them.

One of my youngest cousins is named Eugene Randall II but everyone calls him Randy which is derived from his middle name.

This Troper has troubles remembering names, while is perfectly fine remembering nicknames. It helps that all of his friends have nicknames, although it does lead to some funny moments. Once, in a bar, he and some of his friends were tasked to bring beer to their friends at the table, so while counting how many they actually have to bring, they started to say nicknames of people they have been sitting with. That included: a bird, 3 animals, 2 mythical creatures, 1 diary product, 1 piece of furniture. All while referring to each other as a type of bread, an animal and a norse goddess of death (And it happened in Norwegian Metalheads Bar). Bar-woman was forced to take a break, because she couldn't stop laughing.

I've obtained a weekly nickname cycle, and people generally know me as 'Lozenge' or 'Lozzie', only referred to by real name by adults. Some have adopted calling me 'Mungo Mc Mooham'(spelling unknown, closest to pronouciaton) on Wednesday; I find this embarrasing as 'Mungo' just isn't a girls nickname!