• PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    A colleague of mine has been known as “wump” for years. I didn’t think anything of it until someone asked why that was his nickname, and one of the old boys said:

    “that was the sound he made when he got run over about twenty years ago”

    nice

    • LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Similar story, I had a coworker who went by Skippy and it turns out people call him that because he still walks with a limp from a car crash that killed his brother.

      I started calling him Shaun