GREAT NICKNAMES

Reddit asked, “What are the best nicknames you’ve heard?” Some of the responses:
– “A guy called Wayne Bruce being nicknamed ManBat will never not be funny to me.
– “One of our friends is a short guy named Tony. We call him Shetland Tony.”
– “Kit…short for kit kat…he was always on a break.”
– “I had a coworker in college named Jacob, who informed us that he does not like to go by Jake, so we started calling him Cob, and it stuck.”
– “Gun. He had only two fingers on one hand.”
– “There was a guy in my high school named Abbas. This is not a cool name in any culture. But he was hot, he was smart, he could play ball. People called him Boss.”
– “Knew a guy named Troy, we called him T-Roy.”
– “I worked with a guy named Barney. I thought that was his name for years. Turns out he was called that because he has Barney Rubble feet – short and square.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Have you got a weird nickname? Know anybody with a really good nickname? How’d they get it?