¿Is your name ruined forever?

    I'm not comfortable with this, but in order to explain the aim of this thread, I must reveal some personal information. My first name is "Nicolás". People call me "Nico" (Nee - koh), wich is the short commonly used. And there was a very popular movie featuring a very young Tom Hanks in wich a character (male stripper) is named "Nico, el rico" (I'm not sure about how to translate it, but it is meant to be understood as something slightly obscene). This haunted me every year during highschool. After that, some idiot invented a rime as a joke on TV; "Nicolás, hasta atrás" (something like "Nick, balls deep"). After some time, they used only the name (Nicolás), and the laughing started spontaneously. My name, wich I like, ruined forever, since that joke is remembered until this day, not so much as in that time, but still. ¿Anyone else?
    

Edited by cuncuna - December 13 2006 at 23:48

Yeah, it has happened to me several times... my friends called me usually Memo ... and with it looots of jokes:

Yep Cuncuna, here it was also broadcasted and the translation was "Nick El Pico".

I understand why it wasn't translated like that in Chile being that this word is harmless in Perú but I believe not in Chile.

Iván

my name is Dane. I really like my name because I've only met about 4 or so other people named Dane
But as a kid I was always Dane the Pain. its totally retarded now but I hated it growing up.
Then it was Dane the pain the boogerbrain. And just about anything else that rhymed with Dane which turns out to be a whole lot of things.

Other nicknames that I had were danish, daniak, and danal

My name is hard to pronounciate by most non-Turks, other than that it has no bad connotations and also having a cool meaning; in English "Free", or "Independent". It is Özgür, and especially watching our USA'ian teacher trying to pronounciate my name is fun nowadays

Erm, when I was much younger, my name was associated with the fool in the Russian fairy tales, but who reads those these days?

Viajero Astral wrote: memowakeman wrote: Yeah, it has happened to me several times... my friends called me usually Memo ... and with it looots of jokes:   memo-lestas memo-je memo-ciono memo-herdez memo-rroides memo-nte en un caballo memelas   well obviously in spanish and you guys can understand and laugh about it, what a shame... but actually no one calls me like those this days... You forgot Memo-rroides

Wow. Tough luck memo. 

I also remember a schoolmate who's last name was "Araya". He was rather fat, and the verse for him was "Guatón Araya, se tira un peo y se desmaya" (something like "Fat James, he farts and then he faints"). This became a song with the time. Sad. Though some people found this to be quite funny, Araya wasn't happy about it at all.

andu wrote: Nicolas is such a beautiful name... You should be more relaxed and you should use it as it is, Nicolas, and not shorten it.

It's not me, is everyone else. I hear my full name only if:

a) Girlfriend is mad at me.
b) I'm in a job enterview or something "official", like reneweing my national identity document.
c) I talk to myself.

I like my name, but I get all sort of crap instead of it. People plays with it by changing it to "Nikolai" (not so bad actually), "Nicomedes" (???), "Nicasio" (???!!) "Nicoleico" (???????!!!!!!), etc. Also, a local expresion "Ni cagando" (Something like "Not a chance in hell", though the actual meaning of the phrase is "I won't, not even defecating") also takes the place of my name. Funny thing is, this comes from friends (???). They are not my favourite people when this happens. Highschool was far worst, off course.