Nicknames

[Wingfoot]

In my 12 years in the field, I have met many utility workers, excavators and locators with interesting nicknames. Examples:

Bucket - An AT&T repair tech (long since retired) who was working on an aerial cable using his yellow AT&T tent as to ward-off the foul weather. Bucket cramped up and had no time to shimmy down the pole and run to a friendly toilet. Bucket dumped out his tool bag and sat on the bag. Naturally, his buddies watched him from the ground as the wind opened up the door flap to his tent.

Luscious Lips - Another retired AT&T tech who got a bad rap for being an ass kisser. There are many caricatures of L.L. on the inside doors of many a cross-box.

PeeHole - AT&T tech's last name is Pedrow.

BooHoo - AT&T tech who whines about everything.

Princess - An AT&T tech, a "straight" guy who is as "sweet" as they come.

Pusser - As in "Walking Tall" Buford Pusser - AT&T tech's last name is Prosser.

Dickhead - A super nice AT&T tech that eats locator Noobs alive. His name is Dave and he gets real pissed if you don't greet him as Dickhead. Any at-fault damage less than a 300pair gets labeled as a wet splice.

Beetle Bailey - AT&T tech who looks just like the cartoon.

Crusty - AT&T tech, a grouchy old fart that always has food & boogers on his beard and mustache.

Teeter, can't see his peeter - AT&T tech who's last name is Teeter and, well, you know the rest............

Dug - His first name is Doug. A locator for another locating service who never shows up. And when he does, his equipment is a bent flag and a paint stick.

One Eye - Everybody calls him this, even to his face. He is well known, respected and liked in the excavation business. His glass eye is always pointing away from you. Some days he looks like he has canine distemper.

Cat with cloudy eye

Spud - His only daughter is nicknamed "New Potato".

Crackhead - A scatter brained backhoe operator.

Cinnamon Twins - Red-headed, short-haired, freckled, 300lb brothers (not really twins) that work as a team, switch-hit hoe operators & spotters for an AT&T contractor.

One Way - For some people, life is a one-way street. And this guy is the perfect example.

Digger Dan - Digger Dan. He's our man. If he can't cut it, NOBODY can!

These are the ones that come to my mind now. Surely there are others out there.

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[Red Dawg]

Wing,

Anything about AT&T you do not like?

[Wingfoot]

Wing,

Anything about AT&T you do not like?

Hey, Dawg - Welcome to theVine! Glad to have you on board!

These are not nicknames I've picked. I'm not that smart. These are nicknames in the field already. Every one of these guys are greeted by me and others by these names. One Eye was the most difficult one for me to use. My wife gets offended (really bent) when I talk about him at night at the supper table. She's sez something about "feelings," what ever that is..........

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[ifinditunderground]

I went by the Nickname of Hootie for 6 years. Yes, from Hootie and the Blowfish.

[RD_Wrangler]

Let's see...we had a:

'Red' - not because of his hair color, but because of an unfortunate bursting paint can incident. *grin*

'Roughneck' - long time oil-field hand turned locator.

'Stalker' - guy had a HUGE problem with getting attached to women WAY too soon.

'Gums' - of course he had more teeth in his mouth than he should have. Two rows in some places.

'Neutron' - from "Jimmy Neutron" photographic memory, had in-depth knowledge of almost any topic you could think of, and nobody could figure out why he was locating, lol.

then there was 'Babycakes'...he was named after a character in a novel based in Vietnam that got killed in the field by a sniper while masterbating....yeah guess who got caught in his truck, lol!

[beyond help]

Let's see...we had a:

'Stalker' - guy had a HUGE problem with getting attached to women WAY too soon.

then there was 'Babycakes'...he was named after a character in a novel based in Vietnam that got killed in the field by a sniper while masterbating....yeah guess who got caught in his truck, lol!

Is this SIC1 by chance??? He could be "Babycake Stalker". Wait, the story would have to involve a Wal Mart.

[scap]

then there was 'Babycakes'...he was named after a character in a novel based in Vietnam that got killed in the field by a sniper while masterbating....yeah guess who got caught in his truck, lol!

Priceless.

[OVUS1]

Worked with a guy at SBC we called Toofy (pronounced two-fee). Only had one BIG HUGE tooth in his mouth - right up front. Sort of like the guy with the mole in Austin Powers - you couldn't look at anything else when you were talking to him (bless his heart).

Another at SBC we called Turdley - last name was Hurley and yes, he was a Supervisor.

And last but not least was Pirogue (pronounced Pee - row). Cajun for flat bottom boat. Not sure why they called him that.....He worked for Deviney Construction.

[locate_this_will_ya]

We got a guy up here that we call Buddha...... lol dont ask
Then we got Bob the Builder.....real "tool" of a locator who thinks he can do it all...There are some more but I dont wanna say because it will give my identity away...lol

[Wingfoot]

I thought of a couple more guys with interesting nicknames:

ButtHole Bill - A guy who burys drops and is a pain in the ass for many locators.

Weasel - Another drop guy who's body is very narrow at the top and very w-i-d-e at the bottom. Another pain in the ass guy for many locators.

Drilldo - Bore rig operator who's name is Dustin.

Fat Freddie - He's Freddie and he's large. Let's see how complicated I can paint this picture. Pat is married to Fat Freddie's sister. Fat Freddie and Pat worked together at the same company for many years burying phone cables. Pat's grandfather owns the company. Pat started poking Fat Freddie's wife (i.e. Pat's poking his sister-in-law). Fat Freddie finds out and punches Pat out in the office in front of Grandpa. Grandpa fires Fat Freddie for doting Pat's eyes. Later, Pat marries Fat Freddie's ex-wife (ie. Pat marries his sister-in-law) and is now taking good care of Fat Freddie's 2 daughters (which are also Pat's two nieces). Now, Fat Freddie has not been able to keep a job in the excavation field for much longer than 6 months at a time. I like both of these guys very much, but I am also very disappointed in both.

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[Mke]

Freaky.... Electrician, great guy, don't know why he's called that....not too sure if I want to know.

Magic... Engineer for Electric company... when he used to locate he'd show up on site and state "hmmm, this transformer ain't on my maps....it must be F'n Magic."

Superlocator.... I'm pretty sure everyone has worked with a guy who's been nicknamed super locator. (Ironically of course)

[Chip82]

There is a private locate company here called Lucky locators and the owner/only employee
is named lucky! I always thought that was a good name for a locate company

[GPGrasshopper]

Mudduck, Mudpuppy, Fang, Maddog, Mouse, Pauly, Limpy, Pimp Daddy, Stumpy, Goob, Spitball, Bone, Gomer, Cooter, Chunks, Grunt, Lush...

You know, just the usual stuff... the list goes on and on.

[yahoo]

no interresting names that i can think of>??????

[phoenix827]

All I can say is I work for ON Target. Ya, the nick gets old fast!