Team member Nick Names

[DUCKIE]

I was given the nickname Duckie by our Pit Lord in 2002 because [as team co-captain/pit-crew member/pit & rca ambasador] I pretty much lived in the pit; and always had or knew exactly where the duck/duct tape was at all times. It was used quite a bit that year, but it's only grown since. My youth group started using it (and gave me the left over rubber ducks from a carnival we held), and then it ended up becoming my summer camp name when I started working at camps the next summer. I now own +300 rubber ducks [including the neat light-up one Koko Ed gave me in Atlanta! -thx Ed!-]as well as almost every duckie-themed item ever made... including a toilet seat cover and rug to paperclips, mardi gras beads, and loads of keychains.

I never really though much about how many people (excluding summer campers) only know me by Duckie; until I learned that some of the crew were trying to claim me ahead of time to scorekeep on their fields at Championships... but they didn't know my real name.

I'll have to include it into my VIMS account next year.
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Team Nicknames:
-"Action Joe" Perrotto: was always moving... so much so that it was rare to get a non-blurry picture of him before digital cameras became commonplace. Now it's only mostly-rare.
-Battery Boy/Girl: have one every year
-Father & Son Carlos... known as Carlo Sr./Jr. or Carlo/Carlo Lite.

We've had loads more through the years, I do not know all/the true stories behind them all though. Including... Scrappy, Mooch, Vicious, Big-Foot, Papa John, Hacksaw, Coco, and Matt "Hazmat" Hazzard... Loads of jokes were had at his expense when traveling to events... especially through tunnels.

[ttldomination]

Uh...back in the day, we had five Michael's in the club. So we resorted to use their last names.

Strain
Kapp
Short
Parker
Egypt(His last name was actually Ruddy, but for some reason we called him Egypt)

There's also squirrelly...and that's pretty much about it.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Purple

AND

Jimmy Neutron/Orange Hat Kid
Ra Ra Ra Ra Romit/Brett Favre
Clicky
Schreindawg

We also have a Tanvir and a Tanmay who switch names with each other

There's also...

Clicky
The Legend
Hess Truck


Geez our team is weird.

[hallk]

This isn't a nickname from the team but on the first day of my internship at Rockwell Automation, I accidentally crashed into the CEO. Everything was fine though because he recognized me as the "robot girl" from demos, events, etc.

I once worked with a student nicknamed "Manbear" but I have no idea why he was called that.

[EricDrost]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

There's also...

Clicky
The Legend
Hess Truck


Geez our team is weird.

Nick Muscles

I'm sure there are more that we don't remember

[littlenarniaa]

Well as my screen name says, I'm "Little Narnia." This happened when one of our senior members was working on a project with me and she couldn't remember my name. She stuttered saying "Na-Na-Na-Narnia! Get over here!" I burst out laughing! The little part had come into affect as soon as they found out I was the youngest on the team. Ever since then everyone including our mentors calls me Narnia. Even during build sessions & meetings to ease the tension, I'll get on one knee, with one arm up, and yell "FOR NARNIA!" So if you are to ever see a girl with a cape and crown on, yelling "FOR NARNIA!" That's me (:

[DezNacario]

This year's sweaters say "MADE IN CANADA" on the sleeve, so we all have something related to that on the back. So I'm Scale Model, and we also have Master Mold, Prototype, Biohazard, and Defect among other things

Also, we have a kid on our team who's birth name is Cory. When he joined the team as a niner last year, one of the guys couldn't remember his name and said, "Hey you...um...um...Owen" and it's just stuck. We all get Really confused whenever anyone calls him anything but Owen. Even his mom calls him Owen when she's impatient!

[Born2killx]

Our team has a bunch of people with nicknames.

Snooks, Po, Go, No, Chairman, Mini-Mao, The Beast, Q, Obama, Dropti, among others.

[rotolomi]

Philip. To set the scene: it was build season 09, later on into the night, and I remained with some upperclassmen and some mentors. The seniors decided since I was a freshman, I needed a nickname. They asked for my middle name and I hinted that it started with a P to make them guess

Unfortunately this backfired when they asked one of the mentors on the team, my father Don, what my middle name was. Before I could save my poor soul from eternal nickname torture, my dad jokingly told them it was Philip. I tried telling them my real middle name is Pauline, but, cue groan and eye roll.

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by rotolomi

Philip. ...They asked for my middle name and I hinted that it started with a P to make them guess

Unfortunately this backfired when they asked one of the mentors on the team, my father Don, what my middle name was. Before I could save my poor soul from eternal nickname torture, my dad jokingly told them it was Philip. I tried telling them my real middle name is Pauline, but, cue groan and eye roll.

Don do a thing like that??? No way!!

[delsaner]

I have a few nicknames, none used more than another.
DelSanto, Santo, Delsaner, Trevor (apparently I look like a Trevor).

Other team nicknames include...
El Diablo- reason unknown
Coley- Short for Nicole
HuberHuber- The two members are twins
Sticky- Some rumor invloving lollipops
G- Short for the mentor's last name
Finkasaurus- reason unknown
Spawn- Team coach's son

and probably a few others.

Originally Posted by rotolomi

Philip. To set the scene: it was build season 09, later on into the night, and I remained with some upperclassmen and some mentors. The seniors decided since I was a freshman, I needed a nickname. They asked for my middle name and I hinted that it started with a P to make them guess

PHILIP

[xxjgdancexx]

(Me) Convy - i always wore converse during build season
Pyrite- reason unknow...but it fits my friends love of pirates and shiny things XD
Fresh Prince of Bejing - one of my asian friends named himself this lolz
and there are probably others that i cant think of at the moment

[SmurfinLennon]

Originally Posted by rotolomi

Philip. To set the scene: it was build season 09, later on into the night, and I remained with some upperclassmen and some mentors. The seniors decided since I was a freshman, I needed a nickname. They asked for my middle name and I hinted that it started with a P to make them guess

Unfortunately this backfired when they asked one of the mentors on the team, my father Don, what my middle name was. Before I could save my poor soul from eternal nickname torture, my dad jokingly told them it was Philip. I tried telling them my real middle name is Pauline, but, cue groan and eye roll.

PHILIIIPPPP!!!
I don't really have a nickname, do I?
A few people call me Sabs, just because my name is Sabrina and I guess it's catchier than Sabby.
But the folks marching band were trying to think of a Beatles-related nickname for me... they never did.

[Cheerleader1073]

"Gennybear" is mine - my full first name is Genevieve, normal nick name is Gen, so it fits. It's a comparison to a Carebear, which all have names in the form of (something)bear. Somehow it fits . Although, I did cut off a chunk of a table in the shop once so I'm surprised that hasn't come up yet!

[Brikien93]

I'm known as the Complication due to my knack for overcomplicating things. It's also a nod in the direction of my dislike for Jersey Shore.

There's Bean Dip for who knows what reason.

The Mighty Ginge for our ginger programmer and his mighty programming ways.

The Saxy Man because he's the sexiest sax player to ever walk the face of this Earth.

The Secratariat goes towards our favorite secretary because it sounds like secretary.

Yahtzee/Sprinkles because because.

Dynamic Don goes towards our epic mentor's mentoring capabilities.

Derail is Darrell's nickname because he can be.

Headgear 2.0 to the only person most of us know with headgear.

Sir Seth 3000...what more needs said?

Mrs. Smith.