For me, I would like to be officially known as Scoogy. Its a shortened name for my original name, Scoogy! Also random question, but @yoyodoc, r u Dr. Yoyo? Or Doc. Yoyo? Dr. Mo? Or Doc. Mo? But at school, sometimes people will call me scoogy since they know about my channel.
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Spot was my nick name in the Navy.
How it came to be.
When I was young in high school and then in the Navy, people used a person’s last name to create their nickname. My last name is di Gregorio.
This was a mouthful for more for most people. So growing up, I would get nicknames that were versions of di, di man, digs, Oreo, Gregor all kinds of versions of my last name.
But my favorite was that one in the Navy
Petty Officer Spot it was only used in the Navy
but it was used so much I actually have awards with my name as Petty Officer Michael “ spot” di Gregorio.
When I was arriving at my very first duty station my fist moments on base. I am in my pressed to impress uniform checking into EOD Mobile Unit 3 Coronado, with the admin guys of my same rank. They would do introductions to the Comander and XO, getting to know where all of the detachments location were to report dive locker, motor pool, that kind of stuff. So they were trying to get it done fast. I would be trying to talk and get to know people that I would be seeing each day. I was always lagging behind at each introduction as we went through EOD Mobile Unit 3. Each time I was lagging behind, the guys who could not say my last name, would stammer my name then whistle and wave and say come.
After this was done about 5 times the the EOD Mobile Unit 3 Command Master Chief Oaks yelled out to the admin guys, “ hey if you are going to call the new guy like a dog give him a dogs name we can pronounce… “ Maste Chief then said “ like Spot… “ and then it was so.
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I’ve always been Mr rogers since I was a young boy. Captnrogers came from when I used to do Star Trek simming in college. Basically collaborative Star Trek fan fiction. I was usually the captain or engineer.
As a small kid I was called squeaker cause my voice was really high pitch.
My nickname now is just dada cause I got the kids.
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Albertino comes from my real name Alberto. I used to do aggressive inline and used to go out with people much older than me when I was 15 (they were already 25/30) so they kind of adopted me while I was out rollerblading, they started to call me like that because I was the smaller in the group and it stay with me forever.
In Italy we use to add “ino” to something that is small so my name it was easier done, nothing special to be honest ahahahah
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My brother has always called me Shwa. Short for Joshua (Josh-Shwa)! Simple as that.
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I ride a silver Road King, seems too inane to use as a nickname. Guys in my club call the bike a ghost. So, went with Road Ghost instead.
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Dude! Aggressive inline! I always loved any and all extreme sports but most of my friends either skateboarded or bmx so I never got to rollerblade as much as I would’ve liked.
Oh, to be young again. I wish I could just get back into it like I did with yoyo. I don’t think my aging body would be too down with that though.
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I was never cool enough in school to get a nickname that wasn’t insulting or disparaging. I, as an adult, keep a long enough distance between myself and other people to prevent any such connections.
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Itchie Richie was mine. Also, Goober
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More people know me by the name Meatball than my actual name 
, stuck since I was 11, I’m 31 now
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I played competative paintball for 6 years after Highschool. Nicknames are prevalent in the sport.
We had Bubbles, Shrek, Princess, Dead Box Woody, etc… on the team.
I received my nickname at my first Tournament. The first tournament was played in Seattle that year, Pan American Series. We flew to Seattle and a bunch of us were sharing a Motel Room.
There was a lot of “Fun” going on, along with Horsing around. When we went to bed the first night, as I was changing, the Team enforcer freaked out.
As I took off my shirt, Dennis - “WTF is that?”
Its my Insulin Pump, I am Type 1 Diabetic.
“We have Rocketman over here with tubes and Sh*t coming out of him.”
For the rest of my Paintball career I was “Rocketman”
So cool to have my Jerseys with that name on it! Especially the ones from the NPPL series I played in in 2005 (The pinnacle of my career).
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Throughout my 20’s I was given the nickname “Cali Chill Boi” lol. Only older friends of mine remember that period of time. Lived at the beach, only kitchen was an outside BBQ and the Chevron snack shop down the street. Started every day with a gas station coffee and a swim in the ocean. Mode of transportation was a chopped bobber motorcycle with a crazy lighting skull paint job (bought it that way). Good times, fun memories.
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In 11th and 12th grade a lot of people called me Ozzy or Oz because they said I looked like Ozzy Osbourne and wore shirts I purchased at Ozzy concerts. This was 1983-1984.
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Every time I try to post one of my many nicknames the forum blocks it out… 
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Seth me and my brother have been always obsessed with extreme sports, he still bmx!
I used to go in street with my friends everyday for like 7/8 hours and go hard, I used to love rails and grinds mostly.
One day I broke both the bones in my leg doing a corkscrew from a sort of roof, ended up in hospital and with the cast on my leg for 6 months, I still have the screw in my leg, this is when a friend of mine gave me a yoyo to pass the time and from then I have been hooked up with the yoyo.
Lucky in the unluck I would say!
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I’m Grendel. There are other Grendel’s to be sure but they have hyphenated names like Grendel X or Grendel Gunns or Grendel Babbayega. You get the idea. Some day I’ll go west and one of them will be Grendel. Satisfactory,Vivat Grendel.
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no way thats cool, i also used to inline at the skatepark, but was not very good at it
Growing up and as an adult, many friends were tagged with nicknames. Most commonly I am currently called Wild Bill and Home Fresh depending on who you are talking to.
But I’m sure you want to hear about the origins of Billipo.
One warm March day in my youth, I went with a group of work visitors from Mexico and one of my good buddies to Dairy Queen for ice cream at lunch. Because the weather was unusually warm and everyone was enjoying it, a young female TV reporter was doing a human interest story and singled me out for an interview.
The Mexican guys were particularly impressed by the attractive blonde and that she approached me. I told one of the guys that she really wanted him and she was only talking to me to get close to him. I said he was “A Rico Suave”. They laughed and retorted that “No, she wanted me” in broken English saying " You are like Rob Lowe, like Tom Cruise, like …, American Sexy Boy".
My buddy jumped all over it calling me Billipo - American Sexy Boy which evolved to Billipo ASB, and then to Billipo.
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My surname is Furgiuele, so I’ve been known as “Furg” most of my life, just like my grandpa, my dad and now my sons… every time one of their friends say “hey Furg!” I instinctively reply. I’ve been called Furg for so long now that some people think it’s my real name…
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