Nickname Squad

This Post article about the DCPD's database of nicknames that they use to identify people:

The repository has thousands of entries -- such as Fat Boy, Boo Boo, Meatball, Money Cash, Big Stupid, Butter, P-Funk, Dirt and Ed Lover. Many evoke real or fictional gangsters -- Gotti, Godfather, Corleone.

I think I might start going by "Big Stupid."

Comments

Why not the "Big Pastrami"?

Posted by ProfD | August 17, 2007 9:16 AM

"P-Funk" is much cooler than "Corleone."

Posted by Christmas | August 17, 2007 9:17 AM

Come on -- you're the Big Butter and Egg Man.

Posted by IP Guy | August 17, 2007 9:18 AM

Shortly before his death, Richard Nixon was quoted that he enjoyed listening to music with his grandchildren and that if he were a young man, he'd like to be a rapper.

Spy magazine took the logical next step and asked actual rappers what Nixon's street name should be. Beyond the obvious Tricky Dick and Slick Rick, someone came up with the awesome Watergate Love.

Nixon's dead, so that's the one I'd take (and for the civic minded DC criminal, it shows a little hometown pride).

Posted by beowulf | August 17, 2007 9:28 AM

Wee-bay, Stringer Bell, Stinkum, Bird, Little Man....

Posted by Freddie | August 17, 2007 9:30 AM

Ed Lover has turned to a life of crime? That's awful.

Posted by too many steves | August 17, 2007 10:09 AM

The girls at a bar in Adams Morgan suggested "Small Willie"

Posted by Don Williams | August 17, 2007 10:37 AM

Then hooted with laughter for some reason.

Posted by Don Williams | August 17, 2007 10:38 AM

How about shortening your previous nick "Big Media" to its initials? Atlantic Monthly could then \ be "AM". BM in the AM makes my day.

Posted by Njorl | August 17, 2007 11:36 AM

Given the strong support for education and Edwards in the post above, I thought you would have gone for "ed lover". Anyway in my book you're gonna be "chipmunk cheeks" unless Clinton is elected, and the secret service requisitions the nickname.

Posted by snark envy | August 17, 2007 11:53 AM

Then I will call you "Diogenes' Lantern Jaw"

Posted by snark envy | August 17, 2007 11:54 AM

I think there's too much competition among the DC pundit class for "Big Stupid".

Posted by KCinDC | August 17, 2007 12:13 PM

The great thing about "Big Stupid" is that, as with the Sopranos' "Big Pussy", it implies that somewhere there's a "Little Stupid" with whom you wish not to be confused.

Posted by DonBoy | August 17, 2007 12:15 PM

Big Stupid? There's someone called that other than Bix Dugan in The Girl In Lover's Lane?

Danny Winslow: I'm Danny. Danny Winslow. What's your name?
Bix Dugan: [mumbling] Bix Dugan.
Joel: Big Stupid?

Posted by Sarcastro | August 17, 2007 12:24 PM

Have to admit, "Matthew Yglesias" does rather defy the "T-Mac/A-Rod" nickname convention.

I wouldn't be sure how to pronounce "M-Ygl."

Posted by Ish | August 17, 2007 12:33 PM

Sweet MST3K reference, Sarcastro.

Posted by oracledba | August 17, 2007 1:14 PM

if Ed Lover is now a criminal, what about Doctor Dre (the fat one)?

is doing the Ed Lover dance now considered gang behavior by the nypd?

Posted by wag | August 17, 2007 6:58 PM