Just the one really, Binn, originally it was sin bin but my other half shortened it to Binn.

How I ended up with it I’ll never fully know but I use it as a moniker on all my games. LOL

The one that Im known by is drosdelnoch (a fortress from David Gemmell’s Legend) (Im not that big honestly) however I’m generally known as a mine of information on that author so Im also known as dros or DD. I tend to specialise in his Drenai series although I do know his other works pretty well.

Tori is actually one of mine – I too am a 8 letter-cursed soul and my mom hates the name vickie.

Other than that I’ve a lot. Everyone tends to call me something different. Most hated was an ex calling me toto. Yeah. He didn’t last long.

When I was younger I was called Toots or Tootsie (as in tootise rolls) *shakes head*, I don’t know how it started, but I think my brother called me it first and it stuck – it has still stuck til this day. Oh, and it might have been that Tootsie Rolls are my Mom’s favorite candy – I really don’t want to know why they called me that. Too many ideas.

Then my best friend calls me monkey – he gave all of his friends animal nicknames when we were in high school, so that stuck too, which is not too bad since I like monkeys. He gave himself the nickname of Koala (because he thinks that he is a flying-man-eating-koala) – so not too many complaints from me. .

Oh, and when I broke my toe in high school I was also called gimpy, because it hurt to put any pressure on that toe so I limped around – I tried really hard to cover up the limp, but unsuccessfully. But that one didn’t last long – because the person that called me it ended up limping around himself with a dislocated knee I think – I can’t remember, but I ended up calling him gimpy as a fair reminder.

I once had a nickname of jean jean the dancing machine. My middle name is jean.

this was used mainly by my neighbor who also baby sat me a lot. I guess I used to dance whenever they said this and she thought it was cute so it stuck for a while. She now sits for a few other little girls and the name has come back a few times.

My mom has always called me “Peanut” because when I was born early, I was really small–I guess that’s why–she hasn’t told me yet. Also, there are so many variations of my name:

Mel
Mel-Mel (my cousin calls me this)
Melly-Welly (my BFF uses this for me)
Melly (my family torments me with this)
Molly-Polly-Olly (thanks to my little brother)
Melly-Belly-Welly (again, courtesy of my brother)

Most of them are annoying but the ones by my brother are by far the worst! Argh! And I can’t even come up with any for him! What do you call someone named Damien as a nickname? Damie? That’s what we use and it’s not embarassing…at least, I don’t think so…

I get called Penny, Pen or Pe. I also have an 8 letter name.
As a kid I hated being called Penny, used to jump up and down and say “not ‘enny, ‘nelope. Actually some family still call me ‘nelope.

I too call those nearest and dearest things like sweetie pie And shorten everybodys name.

I got Ellie Belly because I was a never ending eating machine when I was born. …come to think of it, nothing’s changed.
I also was gifted with Crow, mainly because of my trench coat wearing habbits back in high school, or my apparently annoying habbit of fighting back when the bullies out numbered the bullied six to one. Go figure, eh?

Tess is my primary nickname, short for Teresa (only 6…I almost know how you 8 letter-ers feel) but my dad (who strangely enough just called while I was typing this…creepy) loves to remind me that I was given a perfectly good name. lol Dads.

My friends from high school call me Keara. We were total Trekkies, still are in fact, and we came up with our own ship, the USS Challenger. I was Keara Riker, daughter of William Riker and Deanna Troi and chief engineer. I know I know…dorks to the max, but it was some of the best time of my life!

There is also:
EMT Tessie – I’m Tess and an EMT

Aunt Test – because my middle neice has called me that for the last three years

Aunt Testies – because said niece thinks it’s funny that all the grown ups laugh when she says it

Tesla – both after the band and because I work in a radiology department and Nikola Tesla invented x-ray

Tessie Tura (the Kansas City Bombshell)- my best friend loves the musical Gypsy and she is one of the strippers, then my boss added the KC part since I’m originally from KS

Tori I got called Toto too (ha line from the movie!) because of the whole being from Kansas thing..also got called Dorthy.

There have been many others, including Mrs. Tickle (put Tess in front…yeah my brother in law is so freakin’ funny). But the above mentioned are the ones that have stuck.

The really horrible thing about having a one syllable, five-letter name is that you hardly get any nicknames.
I do get the occassional Clo or Chloe-chan but nothing terribly witty actually deriving from it.

I do get called (the) Cat or Kitty as I meow and sometimes freak people or other cats out by sounding like a cat and not a person trying to sound like a cat.
There are a few others, like Uta, Sofu, Grassy and Angel that are the results of usernames on various websites. I quite like Uta, though some of others I’m not too fond of.

Well, my real name is Eloise. As I used to have hair right down to my bottom my sister and her hubby used to sing “You can tell a Wella woman by the way she wears her hair” (as in Wella Balsam shampoo). 15years later I am so stuck with the nickname ‘Wella’ that my nephew didnt realise that it wasnt my actual name. LOL. He is 9yrs.

Everyone I know calls me Em-bar my mum who hates it…all my friends and my dear darling not so little brother avoid the abbreviation when my mum is about.

My mum, however, gave me an unual nickname years ago and I don’t mind it.
Emmie-Emily…I have no idea why, but it may have to do with my actual name being Emma-Louise. To be honest I’ve never thought to ask her.

umm im called possum by everyone who knos me from wen i was bout 5, coz i had a possum jump out of a tree nd land on my head nd nibble my ear, now im terrified of them so people now call me possum

umm my other awful one is the big boss at work (KFC) lol…he calls me the hat girl..coz at our orientation he used me as an example of how to wear your hat correctly…so now after 3 long years i still get referred to as the hat girl or sometimes puddles…coz its garrentied that i will end up on my butt if you put a puddle of water near me..sad but true

These are all so awesome! Miles better than choo-choo!

Uhhh, my friends call me Lee Lee when they want to annoy me(my name is Lisa), my family calls me apple-head because apparantly thats the fruit that comes to mind when they look at my head(the jerks lol), and my friend Rob calls me Pickle because he says when i get super excited i stick my tongue out and stand like tommy pickles. I think he’s dumb lol.

my friends reynolds and kenworthy (i don’t know why but we call them by their last names. funny!) are both jesters and we’re always making names up for each other.
they both call each other gaybean. i think we were having a discussion about different types of beans. somehow we came up with that.
but they usually call me alfred. this came about because one of us had watched the film alfie a few days before and i was talking about the play wicked saying how much i wanted to play elfie. same then said “you’re such a alfie.” i said “what the green witch?” and then they both said “no, the guy who had a STI.”
and that’s how one of my nicknames came about.
not as cute as choo-choo.
also i’m usually called just em. that didn’t even have any reasoning behind it. it just started. couldn’t say my name even though it’s only four letters.
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I have had many nicknames, many originated from my father. When I was little my best friend and I were rarely apart. If I wasn’t at her house, she was at mine. My dad being a fan of the Archie comics, started calling us Betty and Veronica. Since I was the blonder of the two I was Betty.
In high school Jennifer was a common name and most shortened it to Jen. I had three friends named Jennifer and when we would go shoot pool we had to give our names. We told the guy to just list Jen which for some reason was hilarious to the guy working the cash register that night so it stuck, but even to this day, few people can get away with calling me Jen. I kinda hate it.
And then there is the pearl my dad came up with when my closest friend in high school, Jennifer came camping with my family. My dad had trouble getting one of ours attention without getting both by calling Jen, so he started calling us “Na” and “Nifer”. It still makes us laugh to this day and we both respond to those when called.

I don’t have many nicknames, since my name -Tanja- doesn’t need any shortening.
But my parents love to call my “little elephant” or “lil’phant”. It refers to the way how I come down the stairs in our house.
Usually I’m a very quiet person, but I tend to run down the stairs like a … Well, that earned me this nickname.

My other nickname, which isn’t used often anymore, is milly,which refers to my last name.

Elle is actually one of my nicknames, real name being Leanne. I used to sign everything ‘

My wife’s name is Summerwine Vodka Salazar, and she has so many nicknames. My parents (her in-laws) call her Summer; most times, Sam.
I call her Sam, sometimes Tammy.
Friends at work call her Vodka. Close friends call her Vodz.
When her parent’s relationship went south, both remarried a few years later. Then her mother changed her name from Summerwine Vodka to Ivy (— she was furious).
Also, her last name was changed to her stepfather’s surname. Now, another set of nicknames emerged. Some people she knows called her Yves. Some call her AJ.
Then her bestie call her V.
When we first started dating I couldn’t keep up. She has so many nicks for one person. LOL
Btw, she’s a big fan of yours.

Queenie. My mother says it comes from my “oldest child” personality.

Za. My nephew cannot say Marissa, so Za I have become.

Priceless. Clearly you are all way-cool or you’d never earn such unique nicknames. But I figured as much.

In junior high I was QB – for Quarterback, as I was the tallest in my class, including the boys! Yay me and my overdeveloped hormones…

Then in high school it was… ho (my last name ends in “hoe”). I never thought I would long for the QB days, but there you have it.

Being another Jennifer myself, I usually go by Jenny. And yet my folks just call me Jen… I would say that perhaps they too are just getting to old and tired to say the full thing, but since the are still on the near side of 50 I’m guessing they’re just lazy.

I’m always known as Uniasus, or Uni, around the web.

But on the soccer field, while I’ve been called a beast the only name that really stuck was Crazy J. I’ve always been one for making weird faces and noises (to the point that during reunions with high school friends during breaks they must spend at least 15 min forcing them out of me with physical attacks). Take that with my ability to knock my opponents down hard, and I became a crazy person you really didn’t want to go against.

Oh, and I once was given the title Queen of the Fuzzy Bubbleflies. I still hold it, but my subjects get along well with out my consent ruling so I’m not called that very often.

Okay, so my name is Elreze (ell-rees) so I have the obvious ones; Ella, Ell etc.
Then one of my friends call me Eel.. Duno why!
I’m also called cow.. not as an insult, but because all my friends have animal nicknames starting with a c..
My dad used to call me ching-chong, and I really don’t know why. It probably sounded cool to him?
And then there is my (not so) fave, Lil Miss Perky.. I don’t think I’m gonna elaborate

my friends are really unoriganal. the only person who dosent call me jade all the time ocationally calls me name from the books she reads so as to get me to read them.
she was reading Another one bites the dust in school and she started calling me jaz. we argued for so long about that. she said i was exatly the same as her (like shes said a thousand times) and we eventually made up a list of difrences untill i surcumed and read the AWSOME series. it was funny though all my friends got in on it. aparently i have the same temprerment and i say the same things… and they had a billion other resons. they kept making up new ones as i picked at there thery.finally they pulled “belly dancer” on me and i gave up. it was embarrising!
now i call her twilkle toes. revenge is sweet!