Very tangentially inspired by @NeilYoung’s “names for parents” discussion: what wonderfully random yet logical nicknames do you/your friends/family etc have? More convoluted the better. My examples:
My high school friend Colin was called “Malcolm”. Sounds random, but no: his surname was Campbell, and at the time Campbell’s Meatballs were advertised by the character “Malcolm Meatballhead”, so Malcolm it was.
Similarly, to my home village’s boomer generation, I’m known as “Young Roger”. This is because my dad goes by his middle name Miller, and after Italia '90, his chums/cronies/acquaintances/colleagues/sympathisers/compadres/associates/contemporaries/well-wishers started calling him “Roger” in tribute to the ageing but prolific Cameroonian striker Roger Milla. I have the same name as my dad and also use the same middle name, hence the “Young Roger”.
We call my friend Alex by the name Stan as we thought that’d be the name of his cat should he ever own one. Somehow he’s ended up as Stan ever since that conversation
For a while in school one guy referred to me as The Unionist - always in an offensively bad Irish accent. The first part of my surname rhymes with "Ul’… So ‘Ulster’… ‘Ulster union’.
Knew a Graham at university whose nickname was Process. He’d had some friends that took pleasure in continually updating his nickname so that over the course of six months his name ran:
There are still people back home who know me by a nickname that is part of my old surname before I changed it, which is confusing to people who’ve never known me by that name.