Names

66Mustang

Does anyone here give people names based on their characteristics?

I make up names for people we meet when walking the dog. We never tell the person their name, we keep it in the family and use it between each other e.g. to say “hey it’s xxx”.

A few examples:

Aloof man - he’s not actually aloof when you get to know him, but the name has stuck

Father Christmas - bit obvious really

Chinese Sprout Man - we sometimes walk through a farm, this is a Chinese man we once saw carrying a stick of Brussels sprouts he had clearly pinched from the field, a friendly guy

What are some names you have come across? Or even been given?

66Mustang

That's cool @Beaver79 :Smiley:

OverlyAnxious

There are a few distinctive people around here, but now I think about it, I've never considered giving them names.  Not sure how I'd describe them to someone else if I had to.

I dread to think what names people might have for me!

66Mustang

OverlyAnxious said:

I dread to think what names people might have for me!

Same!!!

Then again, we probably don't have names, as we are both quite introverted in real life and probably don't come across as having much of a personality at all if that makes sense?  

WelshBlue

Eyebrows - a lady in a local Tesco.  Lovely woman but I wish someone would tell her grey hair and 2 drawn on black half inch wide eyebrows does nothing for her.  I'm not allowed to ... 

Happy - a friend of my wife's.  She's anything but.  

I don't care what people call me - respect, if it's to my face. 
I call myself more than anyone else ever could 

66Mustang

WelshBlue said:

I call myself more than anyone else ever could 

I am always looking back on things I did I the past and thinking "what an absolute bell end". I am sure the things mean nothing to others and are long forgotten but I remember them!!!

WelshBlue

66Mustang said:

I am always looking back on things I did I the past and thinking "what an absolute bell end". I am sure the things mean nothing to others and are long forgotten but I remember them!!!

I'm with you there mate.  Not you.  Me.  Massive ... not absolute. 

Some people love me and some people hate me ... I can see both sides.  
A great friend, horrible enemy ... but now as my daughter is fond of telling me, "Dad you're not man you were ... a toddler would put you down ... " 

66Mustang

There is a saying by Winston Churchill "You have enemies? Good. It shows you once stood up for what you believed in."

kloebear

My friends and family call me bear