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Post by jonnygrouville on Feb 15, 2011 15:31:51 GMT -5
I'm a big fan of nicknames and thought I would post up some of my favourites from people I have been on golf teams with in the past.
'Disco' had so many moving parts in his swing that his moves looked more at home on the dancefloor than the golf course.
'Wedge' had a dictionary definition to thank for his moniker. wedge, n. simplest form of tool known to man.
'The Flame' was not the most social guy and would normally make his excuses and head home instead of joining us for drinks after matches and so on. Just like the Olympic flame, he never goes out.
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Post by Richie3Jack on Feb 15, 2011 16:12:05 GMT -5
One of my friends got the nickname Gumby, but it had nothing to do with being tall and lanky or stretchy. It's actually one of the most disgusting stories I've ever heard of getting a nickname.
Another friend had the nickname 'Ni-Mo.' You see, for most of the state of NY, the power company that was most prevalent for decades was called 'Niagara Mowhawk.' It's named after the Niagara and Mowhawk Rivers in the state of NY. And for short, it was called 'Ni-Mo.' It had a dubious name to it because it was pretty much a monopoly and they would pretty much employ anybody. So lots of people that couldn't get jobs anywhere else would wind up getting jobs there. And you'd have stuff like electrical linemen with a drinking problem working there.
In fact, my dad worked there for 33 years. My grandfather and his uncles worked there as well for 30 some-odd years. No, I never worked there.
One of the things Ni-Mo was known for was everybody there played in there golf league at the course I grew up on. Now, it wasn't that they were all into golf...they were all into getting together and getting shit-faced at any time. Believe me, growing up with my dad working there I never met so many people that were either going to rehab or had been to rehab multiple times.
So again, very dubious reputation (but overall, great people)
The course I played at had parallel fairways throughout the course. So at one time they had on-course O.B. stakes as an attempt to persuade golfers to not hit into the other fairway. Of course, the Ni-Mo guys wouldn't know an O.B. stake from a flank steak and would be hitting the ball anywhere they found it.
One day me and three of my friends were playing in a foursome and we were all pretty good players, all 5 handicaps or less. One of my friends skulls his second shot that goes wayyy over the green and across a small little highway into the lot across the street.
He starts walking to his ball and we thought he was just going to pick up. But he cross the highway with a club in hand and starts to address the ball.
He gets to the top of his swing and my buddy Jeff yells:
'Mark, whaddya think this is...the FUCKING Ni-Mo League?!?!?'
Man did we laugh hard.
And the nickname stuck and still does to this day, about 17 years later.
3JACK
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Post by jonnygrouville on Feb 16, 2011 1:09:39 GMT -5
Splendid. Like it. There will always be one on every team based on something disgusting. We had 'Earl'. Nothing to do with television shows about lists. I'm let your imagination run riot on that one.
A friend of mine rowed competitively and told me about a guy on his crew called 'Penny' because he had a big head. They were in Switzerland for some rowing event, all on a mini-bus with an American crew, one of whom could not take his eyes off this kid. Eventually someone asked him what he was doing and he replied, "I'm just trying to work out whether I would have a million dollars or that kid's head full of pennies".
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Post by jonnygrouville on Feb 20, 2011 3:28:33 GMT -5
Are there any decent nicknames on tour?
I like Figjam for Mickelson, but can't really think of any other good ones.
I have always thought that some advertising guy somewhere is missing a trick having two of the longest hitters on tour called Holmes and Watson.
"By jove Holmes! You have simply mashed that a furlong past Lord Derbyshire. I venture that ball felt as if it has suffered the wrath of the gods."
"Elementary, my dear Watson. Now shut up and see if that pink shafted excuse for a driver can knock it past me."
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Post by slice_oftheday on Feb 20, 2011 16:55:38 GMT -5
clearly you need to tell the story about the gumby nickname
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Post by Richie3Jack on Feb 20, 2011 19:14:01 GMT -5
********WARNING, EXPLICIT***********
A friend of mine got the nickname Gumby because he was at a party and spent the night at where they were having the party.
He woke up the next day, got dressed and slipped his shoes on. When he did, he noticed that...somehow...a used rubber was in his shoe (with his foot in the shoe).
So he had cum on his foot. So they wanted to make a nickname out of it and all they could make out of it was to take the word cum and the closest word to it was 'gum' and then that became 'gumby.'
Strangely enough...he really liked the nickname.
Another friend of mine went to junior college up in NY. Since I went to college in South Carolina, when I got back for winter break everybody was calling him 'Sammy', even though his real name was John and his middle name was Stephen.
Finally I asked him why he got the nickname Sammy and he wouldn't tell me.
So I asked around and finally found out why.
His mom gave him a check for the entire semester worth of school, books, rent and some spending money. Even though he was going JUCO, it was about an hour away from his home so he had to get an apartment with 6 of his friends (a 3 bedroom apt., too) near the school.
He decided to not even go to school and just take the money and party. Which he did...every night.
In fact, he was known as 'the guy who never sees the light of day' by some other people that went to JUCO with him that I knew.
The reason being is that up that far North it gets dark about at 5-5:30pm during the winter. He would basically wake up around 6pm or so, take a shower, eat some food and then go out drinking and partying until 3 or 4 am and repeat the process. So he was the 'man who never sees the light of day.'
But...he did get up once during the daytime.
To watch re-runs of 'Quantum Leap' on the USA Network. The main character's name on the show was 'Sam' and everybody started calling him that and he's still called that. He's now a firefighter.
3JACK
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Post by slice_oftheday on Feb 20, 2011 19:22:13 GMT -5
fantastic story
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Post by slice_oftheday on Feb 21, 2011 2:32:45 GMT -5
richie's stories never disappoint, also I just saw "the flame," that is hilarious
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