Have you ever...

[scheherazade_79]

...had a private nickname for something and suffered the indignity of having it slip out at an inappropriate time?

It happens to me on quite a regular basis - usually with names of people I don't like. I've called the kid up the road Damian several times, forgetting that his real name is something completely different. There was also a German woman, who'd once had a fling with my girlfriend. Her real name was Heike, but once or twice I think I called her Brunhilde.

The reason I'm asking is that my dear old mam came dangerously close to such an embarrasing moment the other day. We were in the cake shop together and decided to buy half a dozen of what we've ALWAYS called "coconut tits" at home. You must know the kind I mean - they're coconut flavoured breast-shaped cakes with a rather suggestive cherry placed at the top

Well, my mother walked up to the counter and said: "Could I have six of the coconut... errrr..." and she hesitated that little bit too long. I could hear the thought process and see the individual cut shots of the names she was thinking of giving them. Eventually she came out with "pyramids", but it was far too late by then, because I was almost rolling around the cake shop laughing!

So has it ever happened to you?

 

[NoJo]

...had a private nickname for something and suffered the indignity of having it slip out at an inappropriate time?

It happens to me on quite a regular basis - usually with names of people I don't like. I've called the kid up the road Damian several times, forgetting that his real name is something completely different. There was also a German woman, who'd once had a fling with my girlfriend. Her real name was Heike, but once or twice I think I called her Brunhilde.

The reason I'm asking is that my dear old mam came dangerously close to such an embarrasing moment the other day. We were in the cake shop together and decided to buy half a dozen of what we've ALWAYS called "coconut tits" at home. You must know the kind I mean - they're coconut flavoured breast-shaped cakes with a rather suggestive cherry placed at the top

Well, my mother walked up to the counter and said: "Could I have six of the coconut... errrr..." and she hesitated that little bit too long. I could hear the thought process and see the individual cut shots of the names she was thinking of giving them. Eventually she came out with "pyramids", but it was far too late by then, because I was almost rolling around the cake shop laughing!

So has it ever happened to you?

Yes it has. Also the opposite. Once a girlfriend accidentally refered to me as "Ostrich" to her friends, while I was there. It turned out that everybody was some kind of animal to her, and I was "Ostrich." Fucking cow. She was pretty accurate though, I did look like an ostrich in those days.

 

[Guest]

Yes it has. Also the opposite. Once a girlfriend accidentally refered to me as "Ostrich" to her friends, while I was there. It turned out that everybody was some kind of animal to her, and I was "Ostrich." Fucking cow. She was pretty accurate though, I did look like an ostrich in those days.

Do you still have your tail feathers?

 

[BlackShanglan]

A cow and an ostrich? It's just not a good match. Now, a horse and an ostrich ... there you're talking something. Throw in an alpaca and a gosling and we're ready to rock.

The SO and I keep having to remember not to call to the puppy by her nickname in front of company. This nickname is - and I swear that although it began in frustration, it's really a term of endearment now - the frantic pee-head. She's, ah, a little excitable ... and a little damp now and then. But very, very cute.

Shanglan

 

[Guest]

A cow and an ostrich? It's just not a good match. Now, a horse and an ostrich ... there you're talking something. Throw in an alpaca and a gosling and we're ready to rock.

The SO and I keep having to remember not to call to the puppy by her nickname in front of company. This nickname is - and I swear that although it began in frustration, it's really a term of endearment now - the frantic pee-head. She's, ah, a little excitable ... and a little damp now and then. But very, very cute.

Shanglan

That's much like me with my cat, Rosie. My nickname for her is "Poo-poo-girly" and it often slips out at the wrong moment. Having to explain why is even more embarrassing than calling her by that name in front of someone I shouldn't. And, no, I'm not going to.

 

[BlackShanglan]

That's much like me with my cat, Rosie. My nickname for her is "Poo-poo-girly" and it often slips out at the wrong moment. Having to explain why is even more embarrassing than calling her by that name in front of someone I shouldn't. And, no, I'm not going to.

Good plan. It's much more fun letting us make up explanations for your scatological feline fetish.

Shanglan

 

[Guest]

Good plan. It's much more fun letting us make up explanations for your scatological feline fetish.

Shanglan

This is one of those instances where I wish I hadn't divulged such information.

 

[impressive]

My daughter used to walk around with her hand down the front of her diaper all the time. (Yes, chip off the ol' block.) In order to break her of the habit (in public), the whole famn damily started saying, "Leggo that Eggo!" ... after the waffle commercial. Now, it's her "eggo" and she will not hear otherwise ... which is eventually going to cause some embarrassment.

 

[Op_Cit]

Being from the southwest US, we grew up making fun of snow birds's (people from up north that come for the winter) mispronunciation of spanish or indian words.

You know: jalapeños we called "jaw-lap-e-nose" , saguaro we did as "sag-oo-arrow"

So later in life I'm living in a different state and going out to lunch one day with friends from work we're ordering pizza and I ask if they'd like to get jawlapenos as a topping. No one else has heard me in this mode before, and, of course, one new employee is from South America. He looks at me funny, and I have to back pedal and explain that I'm not quite that much of an idiot...

 

[NoJo]

I actually lost a friend when it came out via a third party (his nasty kid sister), that my friends an I called him "The Neanderthal" behind his back. I wasn't the one who made up the name, but I found myself joining in.

 

[Boota]

I have a friend who calls his brother Wonko the Wonder Geek behind his back. One day his son heard him call his brother that and the next time the boy saw him he called him Uncle Wonko. I found it funny, everyone else was really uncomfortable.