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Recipient of a third-degree burn in front of witnesses. IE, "I won't take that shit from a man dressed like a ghostbuster"= "Gostbuster" or "Buster"

A distinctive personal feature or quirk. IE, "Have you noticed how that new guy is always eating bell peppers?" = "Peppers", or "That chick has a massive forehead" = "Forehead".

An embarrassing thing you said or did. IE, "Did you seriously call Dale "Dad"?" = "Junior", "Baby boy", "Sport"

A game of name-mutation telephone. IE, "Donny Clyde" = "Bonnie 'n' Clyde" = "Bonnie" = "Bon-bon".

Irony. IE, calling a tall person "short stack" or a particularly dour person "sunshine".

A 'wrong place wrong time' one-off incident. IE, "He spilled oil on his pants and had to borrow a pair that were way too big and Jim saw him with the waistband pulled up to his nipples and called him 'Parachute'"

A batman-style origin story but not in a cool way: "One time she hit a deer with the company car and when she called the boss to tell her she was crying so hard we thought she was dying" = "Bambi"

The incredibly rare 'admiration' nickname, bourne only once a millennia under the light of the blood moon: "We saw him lift a truck once so now we call him 'iron man'"

+ How Nicknames Stick:

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"Bam-Bam" - Liam (I think, I genuinely can't remember his real name), he was heavy-handed and broke a few tools.

"Spud" - Sean....He had a head like a potato.

"Princess" - Mark, Came into work singing Disney songs one time after spending a weekend watching the movies with his daughter....He leaned into that nickname and started an "I'll make a man out of you" chorus when a supervisor said some dumb shit.

"Shoulders" - Mandy, she wore power suits with the big shoulders and she was short....Imagine the tough-guy cats in Tom and Jerry.

"Dracula" - John, Romanian lad. He was from just outside Transylvania.

"Gusset" - Angie, she started working at the firm after her brother Gus, so they became Gus and Gus-ette, which became Gusset.

"Glass-Eye" - Steve, he didn't have a glass eye, he was just so boring that your eyes would glaze over if he started talking.

"Ragdoll" - Ian, just the scrungliest guy you ever did see.

"Gorilla" - Dave, shortened from 'Silverback Gorilla', he went gray early, had a hairy back and would work with his shirt off the moment the temperature hit double digits.

"Housecat" - Graham, he was a lifer, he'd been at the firm since he was 14 and was close to retiring. We were supposed to work 8 hours Monday to Thursday and finish early on Friday. Graham worked 10-13 hours Monday to Saturday and would come in for 6 hours on most Sundays. He did this for years, which led to a manager asking him "Do they even pay you, or do they just put a bowl out for you and wait for you to scratch at the door like a housecat"

"Frog" - another one whose name I can't remember, I might have never even heard it. He was Congolese, he spoke French....Which makes him a frog by proxy.

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