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We had a German PE teacher at school nicknamed Mengele. His method of teaching us to swim was to stand you at the deep end and whisper (he always whispered) in your ear 'You will now swim or drown' and give one a gentle nudge in the back. We all swam. Quite effective really.
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Well, King Alfred's had a Clarence too... For exactly the same reason. I didn't go there but many of my friends did.
They also had a teacher they called "tat" for his unkempt demeanor. A female teacher arrived and Tat and her struck up an obvious friendship. She became known as "Tit for Tat"...
Well, King Alfred's had a Clarence too... For exactly the same reason. I didn't go there but many of my friends did.
They also had a teacher they called "tat" for his unkempt demeanor. A female teacher arrived and Tat and her struck up an obvious friendship. She became known as "Tit for Tat"...
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Dr Mengele was my dentist at Brampton.
"Do you see this sharp spike?" (Waving one of those 'dentist things' just in front of my face')
"If you bite me - or if I think you're going to bite me - I'm going to stick it in your gum and give it a twist."
"Do you see this sharp spike?" (Waving one of those 'dentist things' just in front of my face')
"If you bite me - or if I think you're going to bite me - I'm going to stick it in your gum and give it a twist."
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At Odiham in 1960frozen to death there was a Polish pilot known to all and sundry as Jock, apparently because he wasn't, and a Polish armourer called Fred because no one could pronounce his proper name! 
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There were the two Saudi ATC studes at Shawbury in 1984. One known as Hamdani and the other with an unpronounceable name... They became known as Hamdani and Hamsarnie.
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Once knew an RAF RadTech at RAAF Base Edinburgh (Australia) whom was known as "Crayfish". He was not appreciative when told it was because he was "All meat in the a..e and s..t in the head"
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Following on from your story, we have quite a few xxxxxxxpoulosisis etc
from Greek and Italian backgrounds who join. We had two in my recruit
course who promptly became Wheelbarrow 1 and Wheelbarrow 2.
Following on from your story, we have quite a few xxxxxxxpoulosisis etc
from Greek and Italian backgrounds who join. We had two in my recruit
course who promptly became Wheelbarrow 1 and Wheelbarrow 2.
Didn't ask what was the drill if the dentist was a woman...
We used to refer to the Physical Training Instructor's as lobsters for the same reason - body full of meat, head full of shyte. They even obligingly wore red shorts to help complete the picture...
Vicks was popular in the 70's after their advert was translated to RAF Speak as " gets up your nose, and lasts a long time ". We had a young, long lanky chap on a unit I worked at who was known as "The Hissing Link", he was reckoned to be a cross between Hissing Sid and the missing link. He took it quite well.
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Nicknames
Nicknames was broached on another thread, but probably worth one of its own.
I probably came across more people in the forces with nicknames than in civvy street, Some fortunate and some not so.
I joined up with a lad known as Butlins, because he thought Swinderby was going to be a holiday camp.
Knew a Shaggy, because he looked like the guy from Scoobie Doo. He was one where some people didn't know his last name, never mind his first.
I also heard of one with the surname Gilbert and was known as Green (which he hated). That name had followed him around different camps.
There are also some very spurious reasons for the nicknames, but they seem to have blossomed and struck a chord with their contemporaries. We had someone who was called T-shirt, just because he was the first name on a list saying he wanted a section T-shirt.
I'm sure there are better ones...
I probably came across more people in the forces with nicknames than in civvy street, Some fortunate and some not so.
I joined up with a lad known as Butlins, because he thought Swinderby was going to be a holiday camp.
Knew a Shaggy, because he looked like the guy from Scoobie Doo. He was one where some people didn't know his last name, never mind his first.
I also heard of one with the surname Gilbert and was known as Green (which he hated). That name had followed him around different camps.
There are also some very spurious reasons for the nicknames, but they seem to have blossomed and struck a chord with their contemporaries. We had someone who was called T-shirt, just because he was the first name on a list saying he wanted a section T-shirt.
I'm sure there are better ones...
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Nicknames was broached on another thread, but probably worth one of its own.
I probably came across more people in the forces with nicknames than in civvy street, Some fortunate and some not so.
I joined up with a lad known as Butlins, because he thought Swinderby was going to be a holiday camp.
Knew a Shaggy, because he looked like the guy from Scoobie Doo. He was one where some people didn't know his last name, never mind his first.
I also heard of one with the surname Gilbert and was known as Green (which he hated). That name had followed him around different camps.
There are also some very spurious reasons for the nicknames, but they seem to have blossomed and struck a chord with their contemporaries. We had someone who was called T-shirt, just because he was the first name on a list saying he wanted a section T-shirt.
I'm sure there are better ones...
I probably came across more people in the forces with nicknames than in civvy street, Some fortunate and some not so.
I joined up with a lad known as Butlins, because he thought Swinderby was going to be a holiday camp.
Knew a Shaggy, because he looked like the guy from Scoobie Doo. He was one where some people didn't know his last name, never mind his first.
I also heard of one with the surname Gilbert and was known as Green (which he hated). That name had followed him around different camps.
There are also some very spurious reasons for the nicknames, but they seem to have blossomed and struck a chord with their contemporaries. We had someone who was called T-shirt, just because he was the first name on a list saying he wanted a section T-shirt.
I'm sure there are better ones...
On UWAS in about 1973 we had "Thumper" Thompson. I can't now remember how he acquired this sobriquet -- presumably he thumped someone at some stage -- but I gather that nickname remained with him throughout his career.
