Occupational Nicknames

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I heard this one while flying the other day: "The Cockpit Queen". This is a lead Flight Attendant that spends most of the trip up in the cockpit chatting and flirting with the pilots while pretending that she isn't aware actual work needs to be done in the cabin. I love little occupational nicknames people give to the "types" in their field of employment. Got any good ones?

In comedy we had the "Hacks" who told airport jokes, wore funny hats, and carried around milk crates full of funny props (i.e. Carrot Top and Gallagher), the "Openers" who usually got an out of town gig only because they had a car and could drive the Headliners, and the "Check-Spotters" who always got the annoying late nite spots when the waitresses bring out the last checks.

 

[KillerMuffin]

This one will probably be one of Sparky's favorites "Schmegma Queen." She's the poor sap in the nursing home whose job is to clean out the foreskin of the male patients.

Butterbar - an O1, a Second Lieutenant or Ensign
90-day wonder - any ROTC officer
Long pig - a tank driver. Toss a grenade in a tank and it tastes just like pork.
Crunchie - infantry soldiers to tankers
Nasty Girls - National Guard
Army soldiers - dogfaces
Air Force airmen - wingnuts, zoomies

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

Medicine and its subspecialties are full of derogatory nicknames:

Internal Medicine docs are tagged "fleas" because of their tendency to take care of the sickest of patients ("a flea's the last thing to jump off a dying dog"). Psychiatrists are "shrinks" or "head-shrinkers" for their tendency to analyze patients' feelings and behavior. Pediatricians are "veterinarians" or "vets" because, like a veterinary patient, a baby can't tell his doctor what's wrong with him. OBGYN's are "baby-catchers" to emphasize the fact that they simply facilitate an act that every other mammal can do very well on its own. Surgeons are "cowboys" because of their perceived anti-intellectual "heal with steel, treat 'em and street 'em" approach which says that if there's something wrong with someone, they'll get better if you cut it out. I once heard pathologists referred to as "necrophiliacs", an obvious reference to the reason pathologists like to do autopsies

There's a grain of truth to all of these, despite the fact that they ignore the positives of the other specialties. Most of the time these are used smirkingly, and not totally seriously, but they're only half-jokes.

 

[kiwiwolf]

Butterbar - an O1, a Second Lieutenant or Ensign
90-day wonder - any ROTC officer
Long pig - a tank driver. Toss a grenade in a tank and it tastes just like pork.
Crunchie - infantry soldiers to tankers
Nasty Girls - National Guard
Army soldiers - dogfaces
Air Force airmen - wingnuts, zoomies

Add to this... lumpy soldiers and field matresses... nicks for female soldiers in the NZ army.

 

[sch00lteacher]

Oh gee, let me think of some of the nick names I have had bestowed upon me over the years...

Teacher Nick Names, given by students, parents, and administration:

Asshole
Mother Fucker
Cracker
Honkey
Dumb Ass
White Trash
Cock Sucker
Dumb Fuck
Racist
Nazi
Klucker (KKK member)

Oh there are just so many... I couldn't hope to list them all.

 

[BlkPnthr]

This one will probably be one of Sparky's favorites "Schmegma Queen." She's the poor sap in the nursing home whose job is to clean out the foreskin of the male patients.

Butterbar - an O1, a Second Lieutenant or Ensign
90-day wonder - any ROTC officer
Long pig - a tank driver. Toss a grenade in a tank and it tastes just like pork.
Crunchie - infantry soldiers to tankers
Nasty Girls - National Guard
Army soldiers - dogfaces
Air Force airmen - wingnuts, zoomies

Oh my god.....she forgot her dictionary. It's smegma....