Forever Labelled.
By hvedra
@hvedra (1619)
January 4, 2012 7:32am CST
Have you known someone who picked up a label for something and it became an extension to their name?
Something like "Pam the Hairdresser" or "Steve the preacher" or "Jackie who had a baby at thirteen" that people always associated with them regardless of what the conversation was about?
Have you ever had a descriptive like that applied to you or who do you know that has one?
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@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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4 Jan 12
That's how a load of surnames came into existence: Smith, Plumber, Mason, Taylor and so on. The only one I know is "Steve the Plumber". I know his surname but it's easier to refer to him like that: everyone knows who I mean!
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@hvedra (1619)
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4 Jan 12
Back in the day a trade based surname made sense. Now people change jobs so often that you can't be Kevin the Whopper Flopper your whole life (let's hope not!).
Place names in a name are also a way of identifying someone "Billy the Scouser" or "Brummie Phil" but as an actual surname it would get confusing for cities, you'd have to be a local district. Oh, can you imagine with the kind of district snobbery we sometimes get here how people would refuse their surname. I'm almost tempted to lobby for it for the entertainment value: "I'm Islington not Hackney!" 
@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
8 Jan 12
Labels can, and they sometimes will, destroy people, but the thing is to start shredding those labels. Don't let people label you.
@jillhill (37354)
• United States
4 Jan 12
Well they call me muffins at work....because I love muffins! LOL...I have had a few others that stuck for a while....but that was a long time ago! I know others like we call one girl at work two pillows....and that is another story all in itself!
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@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
7 Jan 12
Hi hvedra: I have and it's horrible. At least mine are not in reference to negative things such as the ones you have mentioned. Even with that, I don't like how people put labels when referring to others. I mean, you are more than just a mistake or something that has happened in your life.
ALVARO
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@CaptAlbertWhisker (32507)
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Jan 12
I use to have a neighbor and people have very label to her. I dont know how to say this so I will tone it down, lets hide her in the name Heidi, people call her Heidi the girl with the bad reputation. Then I know a woman who is my mother's bext friend, lets hide her in the name Patty, people call her Patty fatty. I also have a classmate in highschool, he have Mama's name attached to his name.
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@phillyguy (3005)
• Philippines
4 Jan 12
Peeping Tom? 
actually I usually add something when I call most of my friends like "john" the loverboy or "ninjakid john", here in the Philippines we even call someone by a "description" without the actual name
actually I usually add something when I call most of my friends like "john" the loverboy or "ninjakid john", here in the Philippines we even call someone by a "description" without the actual name