How did you decide your nickname?

[titchy]

I guess the boards will be prety quiet over Christmas, but thought I'd get this thread started now as have been wondering this for ages.
Mine is fairly obvious - I am short! Also the first question I posted was about my rather little ds, so titchy seemed appropriate. What about others? Do you use your initials? Do your nicknames reflect how you see yourself (?Scummymummy o) - by the way this is one of my favourite nicknames! Also SueDonim - very clever!)

A nickname derived from my surname (is that giving much away? - it does start with a 'b' used by the guys at work. I thought it was fairly annonymous because they are all single blokes so Mumsnet is hardly their cup of tea.

Only just found this thread but thought I'd add to it.
I wanted something Welsh and had recently read an article about Cerys Matthews (ex-Catatonia) when I had to think of a nickname. I did used to go by another name, but cerys is much quicker to type!

One of my favourite drinks in Bacardi Breezers.

My nickname is very self explanatory... I'm such a bore.

i chose mine because it`s my kids favourite two words!!

Mine was dd1's nickname when she was tiny... it doesn't suit me at all, but someone else had my real name and I wasn't feeling very imaginative!

Mine's my dog's name! I usually use my cat's name but that was already taken...

Guess what?......mines my name and initials......now thats a surprise isn't it!

Don't worry EmmaTMG, I was unoriginal too

mine is the name of a small country town that I lived in when I was teaching in Australia. I used it for email and knew that no one else would have it!

Mine is my nickname from work. Got it from knowing tons of useless facts re. song lyrics, Buffy and Lord of the Rings. Basically, I'm a nerd and I'm proud!!

Mine's the Gaelic version of my name, so I'm not very well disguised!

'Sasha' because it was the only girls name I could think of when I was registering and 'boo' because that's all DS and I were playing that day!

I had the Postman Pat theme song going through my head when I chose my otherwise self-explanatory nickname.

used to use my cat's name - far too unoriginal so found a nice short name for the new year, which is totally unconnected with any other nickname I have ever been know by, as I would hate to be recognised by anyone who knows me

Mine's from my late dp's name. Not morbidly, I'm now v happily married, but just in the sense of an alternative identity, and also a tribute -- he'd have really liked ds and dd. And I'm obviously not encouraged to mention him unduly in "real life".

Mine is the name of a Gund bear that DP bought me for Valentines Day 2 years ago

Mine is from a documentary I saw long, long ago, about posh people and working class people having relationships. One woman, who had more than a couple of plums in her mouth, said the girlfriend her son was seeing was "NQWWW" - her shorthand for "Not Quite What We Wanted". I loved it and have remembered it ever since (and no, it doesn't really reflect my relationship with my MIL).

like it, NQWWW!

Mine, makes me laugh, I don't know where/when I thought of it, it's one of those words that made me smile. - Not (Thank-you) because I have hairy legs (see epilator thread) - even though I (did) have

Mine is what DH and I call each other. It started by adding Oil onto the end of his name, and as his name has a D in the middle, it ran on into Droile. Before the DSs, the cats used to be called Pussoil, but that's probably too much info .......

Dh calls me Bunny but ti was already taken so I became Bunny2 - havent told dh that my mum used to refer to sanitary towels as bunnies!

wow...that's a tough question...just don't quite know how I came up with mine.....

Well, DH came up with this nickname for me but we downed so much Burgundy that night that neither of us can remember where it came from but I think it had something to do with my feline tendancy to punch and paw at my pillow, and turn over 20 times before I finally settled down to sleep. Meow.

I've always liked the idea of being a scarlet lady....so much more exotic than my totally conventional self.

When I explained that to dp he looked blank and said the Scarlet Pimpernel was a bloke, so maybe it's not obvious - made sense to me though!