Embarrassing childhood nicknames

One of the meaner guys called me blind *******, as I hardly got any eyesight. Others just called me by my surname which is quite common in schools.

Please don't delete mods as this is true, but one of my classmates' surname was "Wanklin", so you can imagine the sort of names he got called :p
 
Skidmarks, as my second name is pretty close.

It never really bothered me at school but teachers would often put people in their place if overheard saying it. Turns out I had no idea what skidmarks referred to most of my childhood :D I much prefer Benski which is just the first 6 letters of my full name, that stuck in my late 20s.

When we were about 12, me and a friend started calling each other Dave after watching loads of Only Fools And Horses. We built a whole set of other characters like Dave's mate Phil and his dad Big Dave. The friend moved towns for secondary school and somehow a few years later ended up being known as Dave. To this day he's Dave, not Martin!
 
Mr Bean. Hated it at the time.

To be fair for a few years (11-14) I did sort of look like him, until I changed my hairstyle.
 
Selekt0r said:
Yep - you got it. It's a classic, but that scene from Porky's has a lot to answer for ;)
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When me and my Mum both worked on a large factory she used to do draws and hand out prizes.
One day she was walking up and down about 5 assembly lines shouting out the name when she came back to me and asked why everyone was laughing :)
I had to keep repeating it until it sank in.
 
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