Nicknames given to us
When I was growing up, I had a few kids that I would hang with sometimes on my block call me "Thurman Munson" (former baseball catcher from the Yankees who was killed in a plane crash) because of how "Thurman" sounded almost like my last name.I then nicknamed myself "Thor" (God of Thunder) because of the first four letters in my last name.
And then in 1983, some kids got wind of my middle name (Patrick) and for the hell of it started calling me "Patty".
Since then, I am now being called "Tease (for about the last 15 years), Trouble, Shawna and Shawnda, because I have decided to let my hair grow out at work. People are having way too much fun with this.
Feel free to share the nicknames people call you.
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....also because I've also been singing my whole life
Speaking more on genetics, what's kinda crazy is that both my mom and dad's eyes are brown, just brown. Me and my sister's were both hazel to where we had more green than brown in them. Go figure...
I believe John Edwards (the politician) was also called that because of the hair.
Also back in high school I had a girl (her name was B.J., and no, it stood for Becka Jane, but she wanted to be called "Bl*w Job" in which students called her that anyway. The girl also liked those green M&M's, but that story is for another day. lol) in my class that loved calling me :"Pattycakes" because of my middle name Patrick. Yeah, we have a "Pattycakes" who's a member on this site, go figure...
Some others....
Shawnzee
Shawnee
My co worker is named Mark, and Harly likes to refer to him as "mark of the beast". However, I have called Mark "skidmark".
It was spring time of my 13th year and I was due to leave for CYO camp in 3 days. I guess my mother didn't want me to look like some street thug so she sent me to the barber for a haircut. The barber gave me a trim and asked if I liked the result but I really didn't so he cut a little more off trying to appease me. This went on for about 3 more times when finally I said "Oh the heck with it cut it all off." After asking me several times if I was sure and I said "yeah, cut it off." He complied and cut all my hair off.
I went home wondering what my mother was going to say about my new look and when she saw me she absolutely freaked out. She screamed and told me to get out and threw me out of the house. I was sitting on the stairs that went to the upper floors of the building when "Betty" the teenage daughter of a Spanish family that lived on the 3rd floor came down and saw me crying my eyes out at the bottom of the stairs. I told her momma threw me out for getting a baldy and she felt sorry for me and made me a "Boat hat" out of a piece of newspaper. file:///C:/Users/Tom/Desktop/PICS/Funny/080111_2519.jpg
I wore that the rest of the day until I managed to acquire a baseball cap and wore that until I left on the bus for summer camp. I was determined to wear the cap until my hair grew back but when all us kids went to the mess hall for lunch I was forced to remove my cap because it was a Catholic camp and we had to say grace before we sat down to eat. Of course you can't pray while wearing a hat and I had to remove my baseball cap. A kid at the other end of the table saw I was bald as an egg and he yelled out "HE'S BALD" This prompted all the kids in the room, about 200, to roar with laughter. Can you imagine how I felt? Well, after a few days everybody kinda got used to the fact I had no hair and my new name became "baldy" They never even knew my name was Tommy.
Jump ahead about 3 years when me and my friend Danny were on 86th ST looking in the window of a store and I noticed one of the black kids from the camp named Green was there too. I said Hey Green how ya doing? He said "Hi Baldy" and we had a nice little chat. Danny looked at me and said "Baldy"? I said, yeah, you remember when I got all my hair cut off? He said "oh yeah, I forgot about that".
It was spring time of my 13th year and I was due to leave for CYO camp in 3 days. I guess my mother didn't want me to look like some street thug so she sent me to the barber for a haircut. The barber gave me a trim and asked if I liked the result but I really didn't so he cut a little more off trying to appease me. This went on for about 3 more times when finally I said "Oh the heck with it cut it all off." After asking me several times if I was sure and I said "yeah, cut it off." He complied and cut all my hair off.
I went home wondering what my mother was going to say about my new look and when she saw me she absolutely freaked out. She screamed and told me to get out and threw me out of the house. I was sitting on the stairs that went to the upper floors of the building when "Betty" the teenage daughter of a Spanish family that lived on the 3rd floor came down and saw me crying my eyes out at the bottom of the stairs. I told her momma threw me out for getting a baldy and she felt sorry for me and made me a "Boat hat" out of a piece of newspaper. file:///C:/Users/Tom/Desktop/PICS/Funny/080111_2519.jpg
I wore that the rest of the day until I managed to acquire a baseball cap and wore that until I left on the bus for summer camp. I was determined to wear the cap until my hair grew back but when all us kids went to the mess hall for lunch I was forced to remove my cap because it was a Catholic camp and we had to say grace before we sat down to eat. Of course you can't pray while wearing a hat and I had to remove my baseball cap. A kid at the other end of the table saw I was bald as an egg and he yelled out "HE'S BALD" This prompted all the kids in the room, about 200, to roar with laughter. Can you imagine how I felt? Well, after a few days everybody kinda got used to the fact I had no hair and my new name became "baldy" They never even knew my name was Tommy.
Jump ahead about 3 years when me and my friend Danny were on 86th ST looking in the window of a store and I noticed one of the black kids from the camp named Green was there too. I said Hey Green how ya doing? He said "Hi Baldy" and we had a nice little chat. Danny looked at me and said "Baldy"? I said, yeah, you remember when I got all my hair cut off? He said "oh yeah, I forgot about that".
Wow, I can't believe your mom threw you out of the house for that. When I was growing up you didn't see much of the bald style going on with kids. Maybe a buzz haircut, but that's it. You didn't even see much of that. This is at a time when hair was plenty in the 70's and 80's on kids.