Slipping even further off topic, My sister lives in Cockermouth.... Commonly referred to as Nobagob

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I recently met a lovely female USN SH-60 pilot who's callsign was Smash. I didn't ask why ..

I wasn't there at the time but am relating this story as it was told to me:

Back in the day when a girl military pilot was a real novelty, a certain red-haired big mustachioed RAAF helicopter pilot who shares a name with a kind of beer made famous by 'The Simpsons' (but who shall remain nameless), was on an exercise involving Australian and Kiwi helicopters.

The Kiwis had a female pilot nicknamed 'BC' for some reason. Seeing this name on the tasking board but blissfully unaware that it referred to the girl, our hero was heard loudly conjecturing whether the initials stood for 'Big C***'.

Imagine his red-faced back-pedalling when he was overheard by said pilot...

Arrrf!

WE HAD A COUPLE DOWN HERE IN THE ANTIPODES.
ONE WAS CAPTAIN HYMEN HACKER,
THE OTHER WAS JUST CUDDLES( HE ALWAYS SAID WE JUST HAD CUDDLES)
BBG:ugh:

Nicknames
 

There must be some cracking nicknames out there. And let's have the origin too.
One that always makes me laugh is "Gimlet" - a small boring tool.

there is a girl driving around Perth with a custom numberplate

"WOFTAM"

(waste of effing time and money)

I wonder what he told her it meant.
she gets really pissed when I drive past laughing.

there was a guy in my unit once nicknamed morphine.
(a slow acting dope)

Wedge - the simplest tool known to man.

Rgds SOS

When 38 Group TCW was at RAF Tangmere there was a Corporal Poole, known to all and sundry as "Cess".

There was an RN pilot called Wedge (Thorpe) on 360 when it started up - oddly he had been a few years ahead of me at grammar school in Harrow.

We had a nav' on 30 who was known as 'Vick', cos' he got right up your nose.

Thrush - censorship rules dictate that I leave you to figure it out!

Throm
 

We had a guy whose nickname was Throm. It was short for Thrombosis - a slow moving or stationary clot.

Ah yes, there was a 'Thrombo' down at RAF Stanley in the early days - so named as he was considered to be a wandering clot. Also known, due to his profile when wearing a flying suit, as AWF - Avocado With Feet.

Credit has to go to some pongo outfit, who christened the RAF officer attached to them as 'Lobbo' (as in 'lobster'). He thought it was because he was 'a superior form of crab' - whereas actually it was because he had a head full of $hit....:\

Harpic... Clean round the bend!

There was a JT Doe I once worked with, commonly called Dill.

I also worked with a Bob Vere who's father had been called Percy by his Grandfather on account of the time taken to father him.



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Gimlet was SOpsO at Coningsby.

What could be offensive about "Had a lovely singing voice"?

Not nicknames as such but, over a short period, the Met Office of only about 2500 bodies had at least one each of :

Gale
Snow
Waterfall
Wind
Frost
Flood
Hales

did some subliminal urge drive them to the desperate lengths of joining the asylum?

"Dagenham". Apparently it is three stops on the underground after Barking.

Charley Hawson :

"CART"

Great scientist, got one of the last ISOs to be awarded.