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The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show

Funny Nicknames

We had €1000 every day to give away this week thanks to Irish Life. We based these questions around...
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10:38 AM - 24 Oct 2014



TodayFM
TodayFM

10:38 AM - 24 Oct 2014



We had €1000 every day to give away this week thanks to Irish Life. We based these questions around life in Ireland ( and everyone who sent a text in to 53102 was put into a draw to play for the money. For every question they got right, they got €100 euro - but obviously, not everyone got 10/10. SO, today, we had a whopping €1600 left in the pot to give away - and we did so while extracting some of the funniest texts we've ever had from our listeners. They simply had to text in their nickname and why they were called said name. From the thousands of entries we received (and laughed at!) here are some of the funniest - and the winner can be found at the end. 

 

My nickname is Bird because my school friends found out that I use to pluck turkeys. Adrian

Liam, nickname: Speedy, everyone thought it was because I played basketball at school but it was actually because I was really slow at writing in national school and would always be the last taking stuff down off the board, think it was even my teacher at the time who first said it and it just stuck!

My nick name was Splodge because i was a rotund child and looked like a round mark that had been dropped from a big height. - Simon

Fatty because I was 10 1/2 pounds when I was born. Eimear

Nesthead - before I started baldong I had thick curly hair, one friend one night suggested birds could live in my 'fro... Its like a nest on your head, it stuck. Tom King

Sconey - because my da was a baker in the army. Mick

My nickname is STOCKY because I'm about 8 and a half stone all my life and I eat like a horse. Real name Kieran

Ginger or ginge I’m bald since I was 21 (now 36) but I used to have a big mop of Red/Ginger hair :-( Patrick

My mate calls me Stretch cos I am 5ft 4, always been smaller since I was a kid

Darren Douglas ;-)

My nick name is Sausage because when asked how many sausages I wanted I said 2 while holding up 4 fingers. Paul O Reilly Co Sligo

Dracula. Sean O Donoghue.  I smashed my two front teeth when I was small. The rest is history

Pinhead - my brother in law has always called me this saying I’ve a small head. Siobhan

Skippy was my nickname cos when I was young and asked to do anything I'd go tut tut. Like a kangaroo. Aido

My nick name is Bear. Sometimes cuddly and sometimes grizzly (when I'm hungry)! Have to admit it’s very apt! Gerry

Nickname was Chili.... As my second name was Carney - as in the food chili con carne. From Colin

Jimmy the Weed , jimmy Fitzgerald ( I'm a florist )

My nickname is Jobber, real name John O'Brien. But I always get the job done!!

Shergar was my name. As I was never to be found. Sean 

My friends call me Baby Chief - as my Dad was known as The Chief when he was involved over 25 years ago with our club & County GAA teams. Greg

My nick name is Whitey because when I moved house when I was a young boy. I had a white Aran jumper on me and no one knew my name, so one fella called me Whitey and it stuck with me. I was only 8 years old - I'm now 52! Mick

My name is Ivan but my nickname is Dirty as I have a habit of saying inappropriate things and dirty things at the wrong time

Bony M was my nickname because I have such skinny legs. Marion

Our whole family were called HONK in school because we have slightly bigger noses!!! Cathal

Hootymacboob my husband calls me this as I have rather large boobs m Tierney

Krusty same as the Simpons, because of how I laugh - Eamonn

Suitcase. Cos my girlfriend threw me out after every row. John

I'm The Duck coz I can't swim! Brendan

Mortgage Murphy, cause I bought a house in the 80's, Ray

Cyclops - my name is Fiona ni Shuilleabhain (súil amháin) súil amháin in English is one eye.

50p head. Couldn't head football in right direction. Alan keely

My nickname is John Lennon, cause I married a Japanese girl and split up our group of 4. Mark

Zippy from rainbow because people said I have a big mouth - John

 

AND THE WINNER IS.....

Swordfish. It's because of my big nose!! Glenn Loughran.

 

 

 



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