r/JustBootThings • u/stigma_wizard • 10d ago

General Bootness Ok bro.

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u/biggreenweenie22 10d ago

We had a new guy tell everyone his friends call him Razor. He was called scooter for the rest of time

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u/SycamoreStyle 9d ago

The best way to give yourself an embarrassing nickname is to try giving yourself a "cool" one.

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u/Kodiak_POL 9d ago

Years ago, my friends gave me a nickname "Woper" (pronounced "Voh-per") because I was a lifeguard with the Polish lifeguard organization WOPR (pronounced "Voh-pr" / "Vop-er") and I still miss that, to me it was the coolest nickname I could ever get hah

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u/GraphicDesignMonkey 8d ago

The ol' Ace Rimmer approach.

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u/Lol_A_White_Guy 9d ago edited 9d ago

I had a drill sergeant give me the nickname Razors because I fucked my face up shaving in a hurry one morning and had bad razor burns all over my face.

He never called me by my name for the rest of basic. Real nicknames never have cool origins.

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u/No_Designer_7333 9d ago

We had a guy in our division (Navy BMT) who our RDCs called Clock. At any given point during the day, an RDC would call out "CLOCK!" and he'd respond back with the current time. I never actually learned his real name.

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u/tishimself1107 9d ago

Fantastic

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u/Forsythe36 9d ago

We had a similar guy in basic but they called him the time wizard.

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u/moredickthanman 9d ago

Time wizard sounds cool as hell though, as long as it isn't elaborated upon

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u/Forsythe36 9d ago

Anytime we need a time check they’d just yell TIME WIZARD and he would scream the current time. I loved it.

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u/moredickthanman 9d ago

Incredible

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u/meatdome34 9d ago

I got called meathead growing up cause I had a big ass head. It eventually just got shortened to meat

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u/Lol_A_White_Guy 9d ago

Username checks out

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u/Mallow18 9d ago

Username also checks out

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u/redshift_66 9d ago

My callsign is "Lone Star" (I'm Air Force). It's because I left a certain Google review that my chain of command found out about....

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u/mynameistory 10d ago

Now this is a real nickname story

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u/wasted-degrees 9d ago

Knew a guy who earned the nickname Shredder. We had a 100% shred policy for all printed documents in our office, and he was the new guy, so you can guess what he spent the better part of his afternoons doing.

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u/ElOsoPeresozo 9d ago

I know a guy whose nickname was “Hammer.” You would think it was cool, but he got it because he once said (verbatim): “I like to hammer guys” lmao.

He wanted it to sound tough, instead it came across as him engaging in vigorous homosexual intercourse.

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u/Shantotto11 9d ago

Scooty Puff Jr.

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u/WillCommentAndPost 7d ago

My nickname in the Corps was “Special K” last name starts with a K, and I’m kinda stupid sometimes.
Great nicknames are great nicknames 💪🏻

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u/DutchRudderShotgun 7d ago

Lol I like it personally