Today's questions were posed by Keir, and reading this first one, I have to assume he was expecting to get a lovely pat on the ego with my answer - primarily because Keir has concocted the majority of nicknames I've willingly adopted.
Anything that came before Keir was hideously unimaginative - growing up through the nineties in Britain with Gordon for a name really can only lead to one association - Gordon the Gopher. Although vaguely irritating in primary school, I'd be happy to adopt the nickname of gopherboy and what have you over the bullying previous Gordons must have endured during the seventies (Gordon Is A Moron etc.). Still, pretty shit imaginations kids can have, eh?
Other unimaginative nicknames have included variations on the original - Gogsie, Gordy, Gordo, Gogs, Gorgonzola, and so on and so forth. I'm not complaining, I quite like people playing with my name, and having an email or text addressed to G-dawg, Gordonocus or Gordonovan tends to add a little indication of what mood it was written in.
As for nicknames I've created for myself, well, let's try to forget the horrid MrTtheMessiah - a case of ill-thought online identities that unfortunately stuck. Not really a nickname either. At the other end of the spectrum however is Shoogle. Created in response to all the bloke-ish tough names people create for themselves on multiplayer Halo, I went for something disarmingly inoffensive monicker: 'Fucktard was killed by Shoogle', though I also like that it means 'give it a shake' - huh, huh huh.
Regardless, Keir does have a penchant for nicknames I must say, and as a result I have two joint favourites. First off - Nodders. I've taken it to my heart, it's simple and not nearly as in-jokey as people seem to assume. My name backwards: Nodrog; and from that, Nodders; done. Plenty people have called me Nodrog, but Keir's little addition just tickles me in all the right places. Sorry, I mean huge, throbbing addition.
The other favourite, an altogether more obscure title: Crackerhonky. A brilliantly silly genesis, horrendously in-jokey, it's stuck and I love it to bits primarily for the memory and tone it evokes by its use. Also, to readily have a callsign at hand is oddly wonderful.
3. If you could be any animal, except a badger, what animal would you be?
Ah, of course, because badgers are a given... A wonderful question sir, I laughed loudly at my laptop on reading this one. Easy answer me thinks. A grizzly bear. Okay, humans are fucking with their habitats, and life can be tough anyway, but come on, to be a bloody grizzly bear! When the salmon run is in full swing, and the sun is beating down, you couldn't not love life. Fuck cats and their comfy domestic lives, fuck dolphins and their smug attitudes, fuck the birds - yeah, they've got flight, but they're all just gimps when you think about it. Nah, grizzly bears have it by a mile. Polar bears would be equally as awesome, but how depressing must life be sometimes? Still, they certainly prove the worth of being a bear in any given situation - with other polar creatures, penguins particularly, my thoughts waver between 'well, if you must persist, you're really bringing it on yourself' and 'why even bother?!' Bears just think 'aw, fuck that', and invade Alaska. Kinda.
3 comments:
There was me thinking 'Shoogle" was from the early days of playing Pokemon / super smash brothers! What about Grant Simpson's "G- string", i distinctly remember being called "mini G-string"
Ah yes, Gordon Strachan: G-String Strap-On... I was leaving that one out!
Ah but you'll always be the Mr T from D of E...
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