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Mr. Pockets: My universal forum name; originally made for a make-believe character I made up (one which I've never actually written a book around though). I just chose it for my team hoodie and such and for some reason people actually started calling me by the name. People seem to find it quirky or something.

Miss Masterlink: Nickname for our master of chains (she had it as her title on here for a little while)

Welda boy/The little welder boy: One of our rookies who already possesses great skill welding.

Milhouse: I'm not even sure. I guess some people just thought he looked like milhouse from the simpsons. Working on actually using his real name instead though.

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Our first year, our team captain, a senior, accidentally used touched both terminals of the battery with a screwdriver earning the name Sparky.
I did the same thing a few days later, and got the name Sparky Junior since I was a freshman.

Although not a nickname, my team now has a new way of measuring error:
Ace--1/8th of an inch or less
In honor of one of our freshmen this year, who consistently drilled holes that were an 1/8th of an inch away from where they were supposed to be.

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Haha, mine is a self-proclaimed title, nobody actually calls me that :P

Very few people call Milhouse by his real name. He's even in my phone as Milhouse, and I've gone to school with him since elementary school.

There are also a few other odd ones from our team...

Newbie - He's a senior now, but he was the only rookie from his rookie year that was actually active on the team. Nobody who's younger than him really knows him as Newbie, but a lot of the alumni do.

Millory - Well, her real name is Mallory. Her specialty from freshman year has been using our mill, and somebody made the connection one day.

Kallory - What happens when someone tries to say "Kara and Mallory" too fast. Mallory and I are the team captains this year, so we're often referred to as a pair. In emails, we're often "K&M"

Wrenchie - (I THINK this is how the story goes) Last year, one of our rookies was holding the doors open for someone carrying in donated items from GM. Someone had opened one of the boxes and pulled out a giant wrench, which, from quite a distance away in the dark, looked like a gun, so she flipped out a little bit. She was known as Wrenchie for the season (unfortunately, she's not with us any more due to a commitment to Tae Kwon Do)

I don't really have a nickname any more. It used to be "Karibou," but after using it for three years, it's gotten old. I really wish I had one, though...

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There's another Chris on 2791 who is a senior design leader. It's cool to work with him since he knows a lot about what I don't (machining), and I know a tiny bit about the reverse. Regardless, this leads to a lot of confusion, so people call me "RPI Chris", "Chris is me", "Picone", etc.

I never really got a nickname on 1714, probably because I was the only Chris on the team.

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they call me Gorrilla, because I broke some stuff, specifically our last piece of 1" AL. square tube...

We were building the scissor lift for our 2008 robot. We had one 28" piece left that needed to be cut after I had cut the 7 other ones, I clamped it under the miter saw, pulled the handle to turn it on, and pushed down too fast because I wasn't really paying attention. The saw then proceeded to bend the tube into a nice U-shape.

It dosent help that im 6'3 and 200 pounds either lol

I dont mind it usually, but its kind of embarrasing when you break something and 12 people tell you to sit down for a banna-break. :rolleyes:

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I am Canada on our team, largely because I'm pretty vocal about it :) ( I have a couple of Canada shirts I wear, plus, I let everyone hear it when Canada won the gold medal after losing to the US the previous Sunday... GO CROSBY!).
Sometimes I'm also called by my last name, Szechy, just because it's pretty cool.
Our head mentor occasionally called me Cheese, because Szechy is pronounced SAY-chee which is an easy transition to Say Cheese.

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I'm "Grapie" because there are multiple Katie's, but it didn't really stick.
We have a Lobo (Laura) because I got lazy. :)
We have Itchy, for no reason other than a senior needed to get his attention and just said names till he turned around, and Itchy worked.
Yoda was a self-proclaimed name, but I met him as Yoda, so it stuck.
J-hawk: One of our teachers has a long name that doesn't follow the rules of pronunciation, so we just call him Mr. J, J-Dog, J-Dizzzle, etc... J-Hawk is our favorite (often followed by a loud "PCAW" from someone in the vacinity)
"The Twins" was given to two freshmen girls because they were almost always together at the beginning of the season (they don't look anything alike)(at all)
And Slurpy, because as a Freshman, he had newly aquired a retainer and slurped.... ALL THE TIME.

We take pride in the names we give.
I also have nicknames for everyone:
Janedawg (Janelle)
Jackson-bear (Jackson)
Kev-Bev (Kevin Kolo-J)
SarSar (Sarah)(Which also stuck on the entire team)

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The Penguins of Madagascar are our mascots, so they call me "Skipper", the programmer is "Kolalski", the awkward freshmen is "Private" and our driver is "Rico"

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People on the team many times call me KStarr (often written with a K and a star), seeing as my last name is Starr. I like that one a lot. Some people also call me mom...that I wouldn't mind changing.

As far as other nicknames:

"Cruddy" Spin off his last name, McCrudden

There was a period of time when we had two Phils, so I called one "Phil with the hair"

"Carlos" I have no idea why we call him Carlos, his name is Nick, but we do.

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Chris, I have to correct you on this one. We called you the "Dancing Strategist" Just put him as coach behind the drivers station and you will see what I mean:)

Last year our team captain came up with the idea to nick name the veterans on the team, they went something like this
Sarah - Salt
AJ - Oregano
Abby - Ginger
Joseph - Garlic
Mary - Pepper
My favorite was, Collin - Peprika "OK Peprika, what are you doing now?"

Seasonings - because they were seasoned veterans.

I think I will bring back that Peprika one

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How much money do I need to donate to footage of that?

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Captain America is my nickname. I'm not sure why. A guy who's not our team started calling be that and it just stuck.

The Temptations-One of the guys on our team started randomly singing a version of "My Girl" during one of our meetings. We don't call him that regularly because it is kind of awkward to say in regular conversation.

Rosie the Riveter-The nickname of one of the guys on our team who did most of the pop riveting.

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A lot of money, equally matched to 2791 and 1714. :P

Or you could just wait until the off season. I might be able to push my way in the box there... (*cough mentor matches cough*)

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Josh / Muscles / Pico / Yotta
Mine's Beamer (my initials are BMW)
My friend is JJ / J^2
Our driver is Hammy

And that's all I can think of.

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On my team one of our drivers nickname is "8 Dollars". lmao!

His nickname is that because he said if we go to Atlanta he wants to order a big pizza for himself with room service. We told him it was going to cost about 8 Dollars. He said ok and has saved the same $8. 6 one dollar bills and a 2 dollar bill. He brings it to all our comps. for motivation. lol