• PhobosAnomaly
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    605 months ago

    A colleague of mine has been known as “wump” for years. I didn’t think anything of it until someone asked why that was his nickname, and one of the old boys said:

    “that was the sound he made when he got run over about twenty years ago”

    nice

    • @[email protected]
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      225 months ago

      Similar story, I had a coworker who went by Skippy and it turns out people call him that because he still walks with a limp from a car crash that killed his brother.

      I started calling him Shaun

      • Khrux
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        175 months ago

        Is Shawn his name or the noise he made in the car crash?

      • Buglefingers
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        24 months ago

        I got the nickname “Ralph” because I was wicked hungover at work during covid shutdown and threw up.

    • @[email protected]
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      75 months ago

      I was run over 45 years agoo. No fun name but we do get to tease the driver at gatherings to this day.