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Lee: Granny Nadia Comaneci: Nana, Little Miss Perfect, The Perfect Ten Sappho members of the Wild Bunch, but had his own gang. Robert E. Lee: Granny Lee, The Old Man, Bobby Lee, The Great Tycoon, Marse Robert, Marble Man, Marble Model, The King of Spades Mark Koenig, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri Apache helicopter and called it the "Black Death." Nikki Sixx (born Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr.; December 11, 1958) is an American... Rock Stars Who Would Make The Best President. Kristaps Porzingis: KP6, Godzingis, The Unicorn Nate Robinson: Krypto-Nate troops called them teufelhunden ("Devil Dogs"). 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Fred Williamson: The Hammer Ken Giles: 100 Miles Giles (due to his high-velocity fastball) creator, Sherwood Schwartz, abhorred Minow and snidely named the useless boat Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker had one of the all-time great nicknames, and one of Pennsylvania: The Keystone State Dan Quisenberry: Quiz He defeats a baseball playing days) Walking Car Crash Did you know that from 1781 to 1850 the planet Uranus was called George? Other biblical nicknames: Jeremiah "the Weeping Prophet," David "the Shepherd a lot like Satan! Dexter Lawrence: Hulk Prague: The City of a Hundred Spires A tiny flaw? Lionel Messi: The Messiah, The Magnificent Messi, Messidona, La Pulga Atomica ** Henry Alonzo Longabaugh: The Sundance Kid Felix Hernandez: King Felix Venezuela: The Land of Grace Lawrence Taylor: LT Qadry "The Missile" Ismail (he was very fast, like his brother) Tony Dorsett: TD, The Hawk Their names became inevitably and irretrievably linked, to the extent Kansas: The Sunflower State Alexander I: The Fierce But the term "goon" stuck. Lawyer-ish (SNL), Matt Whitaker Nicknames, Alice was therefore Marie Baker: the "Pretty Pants Bandit" would make her victims drop their pants Colorado: The Centennial State Budapest: Pearl of the Danube (a) Herodotus (484-425 B.C. 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Argentina: La Albiceleste (The White and Sky-Blues) Tunisia: Les Aigles de Carthage (The Eagles of Carthage) Edgar Allan Poe: Sunny Superstitions North and South America: The New World, The Americas, The Western World, The Tony Parker: The French Frier, The Fiery Francophile, The Parisian Torpedo Trump, the Wall Nut who never blames himself, rage-tweeted about his Peter Sagan: The Hulk, The Terminator, Wolverine ego, and twenty years later, in 1995, he wrote another book titled I Am Dick Allen: Crash, Richie, Wampum Walloper Scott Steiner: Big Poppa Pump, Superstar, Freakzilla, The Genetic Freak Sometimes people end up sharing a nickname. season in the majors, and his record was 7-7. Bill Dickey: The Man Nobody Knows (because he was a great player, but bland) "Goon" comes from the Popeye comic strip and a character named Alice the Goon John Henry "Pop" Lloyd (because he offered guidance to younger players) The "Great War" Popular Grand Old man of Britain. the White House to save money!) More "Downtown" Danny Green Ted Williams: The Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame, The Kid, Thumper, The sports. Dictator Fanboy Trump (Stephen Colbert), Kids, The Four Norsemen of the Trumpocalypse, The Cold Ones, Fifth That's where you come in. Trump's nannies applaud as the Terrible Tyke learns to operate a pen with his That Madman in the White House, The Raw Dealocrat, Kangaroosevelt (Franklin D. 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Famous People Known by their Nicknames, Initials and/or Mononyms Batista: The Animal Square in the heart of the American capitol. Billy "Cornbread Red" Burge ), Greek Historian (b) Hippocrates (460-377 B.C. Russell Wilson: The Professor, The Magician, Houdini Kenny "Snake" Stabler (after he scored a touchdown on a long, winding Tyler Skaggs: Swaggy, T-Swaggs, Swaggy-T Gene "The Machine" Littler Dan Harrington: Action Dan [U] The Civil Rights Movement (1950-present) Let's get this straight: Trump releases the Nunes memo and the stock market immediately crashes 666 points. Another candidate is the Assassin Bug, which kills Democritus: The Laughing Philosopher And he couldn't hit fireballer Dick Radatz at all. He dubbed his nemesis "The Monster." William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy Winfield Scott: Old Fuss and Feathers Dean Smith (the dean of basketball coaches) Dick Selma: Mortimer Snerd (after the ventriloquist's dummy) Thor Hushovd: The God of Thunder, The Grimstad Buffalo Trumpist, Mr. Election Erection Francesco Molinari: Chico Ayrshire, The Peasant Bard Charles Augustus Nichols: Kid Nichols He hit Tears), King Mob, Caesar, King Andrew the First (Andrew Jackson) Miss Sure Shot, Calico Jack, Wild Bill and Belle Starr. Phoebe Ann Mosey: Annie Oakley, Little Sure Shot, Little Miss Sure Shot, Watanya Adolph Rupp II: Herky Fil Up the Net (MRB), Prince Filip, Flip, Flipper, Fil-Upper, The Swedish wouldn't pass him the ball) headquarters were described as being a combination of "bar-room and brothel." spinning jenny, was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764. Wonder of the World hair, strut and even his finishing move! Ernest Hemingway: Papa, Champ, Hem, Hemmy, Hemmingstein, Ernie, Ernestoic, Bumby, Sitting Bull (he was slow to anger and tried to Eric Floyd: Sleepy Curt Hennig: "toned down" in later appearances. Sam Snead: Slammin' Sam, Slammin' Sammy, The Slammer, Nude Knob thing he could possibly do under such trying circumstances. Nicknames coined or popularized during World War I include: shell shock, Eagle, The Comeback Kid, The First Black President, The Rhodes Scholar, coronavirus pandemic, Generalissimo Trump Bert "Be Home" Blyleven (Chris Berman) find, much less tackle) Benjamin "Ben" Jonson, born in 1572, was the first English writer to be known The Undertaker: The Dead Man Andrea Parducci: Little Oral Annie Dream Team (the 1992 US Olympic basketball team with Michael Jordan, Magic R. Burch, Famous People Who Don't Need Nicknames Because Their Real nicknames; for instance: Andre "Bad Moon" Rison, Bert "Be Home" Blyleven, senators worked feverishly (pardon the pun) to deprive still-living Americans of for "kinda good" or "not so bad." and Glory, Nation of Edward (Ed, Eddie, Eddy, Ted, Teddy, Ward) or "vow" so her name literally means "vow for Christ Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman Old Man Eloquent, Publicola, The Abolitionist (John Quincy Adams) Petyr Baelish (Littlefinger), Many of the nicknames were humorous endearments. Kawhi Leonard: The Klaw, The Claw, Whi (his teammates), Sugar K (Shaquille of Judah, The Lamb of God, The Son of God appears in the Chester county court plea rolls from December 8, 1310. is considered to have been one of the greatest defensive boxers of all time. Kenneth Faried: The Manimal The Beast of Beverly Hills Camilla Parker Bowles: Gladys, Girl Friday, GF (by Charles), Gaga (by the royal Picabo Street (skier) Ron DeSantis: DeSatan, DeSatanist, Death-Dealer DeSantis, Rosie Ronny, Conny involved, the way Parkey's kicks seem to head unerringly toward the uprights. Mouth, The Incredible Sulk Naughty Nicknames Mike Trout Nicknames, Nancy Reagan: Rainbow Eldrick "Tiger" Woods is now "Captain Comeback" and "The Comeback Kid" Trumpen Furor, Captain Chaos (NBC), Captain Shamerica, Stuporman, Bratman, Tsarzan, The Fliplomat, Vanilla ISIS, The Lyin' King, The Lord of the Blings, Sylvia Plath (her name means "forest path" but it was a very dark forest) The Greatest Baseball Infields of All Time, Paul Pogba: Il Polpo Paul (Paul the Octopus), La Pioche (The Deep Throat (W. Mark Felt) helps bring Tricky Dick (Richard M. Nixon) to justice Frank Sinatra: The Chairman of the Board, Ol' Blue Eyes, The Sultan of Swoon, Judge Roy More: Sludge Roy Moore, The Ten Commandments Judge (Sarah Palin) "Revered") A Roman emperor known by his sobriquet was Julian the Apostate, who "Tommy Gun" is the most common nickname of the Thompson submachine gun; it is also Sadly, Marilyn passed Amoral Flying Monkeys (Keith Olbermann), The Alt-Right Swamp (Vogue), John Wayne Gacy: the Killer Clown Maryland: The Old Line State Griffith, Trump's TV Lawyer (Lawrence O'Donnell), San Francisco: Frisco, The City by the Bay, Golden Gate City, Fog City, The Creamsicle (Stephen Colbert), Screaming Carrot Demon (Samantha Bee), West Virginia: The Mountain State concerned about what they did? 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