Survey Says . . .
As Hadrian points out, Barbarossa's already The Captain. And The Black Pearl's already taken. So while the romantic idea of having my own crew to captain may work for me, the name/title won't. Thoughts on what will?
(In middle school I thought Dr. Who's nemesis had a cool name. No one ever actually called him "Dr. Who," by the way, he was always just "The Doctor." Likewise, the main bad guy he had to deal with was simply "The Master." My humility makes that one a bit hard to swallow, but perhaps it's appropriate in light of the fact that I'm working on my third master's degree and all. So I'll at least throw it out there for consideration.)
posted by Degolar @ 6:42 AM
21 Comments:
Try one of these.
http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/peculiartitle.php
sorry, blue pamphlet already has that as a nickname...
Darn! I knew that and forgot. So you suggest instead . . ?
And I don't know if any of this works, cdl, do you?
Reverend Earl Degolar the Lackadaisical of Giggleswich Lanken
I've been avoiding this because of some of the connotations, but it's the only one that I haven't tried assigning myself but instead has actually been designated to me by someone else. Perhaps I'm destined to be The Fist.
Go simple. Just use the word "Boss." And, no, Springsteen doesn't count. He was "The Boss." You can be just "Boss." As in: "Hey, Boss, where do I put all these cartons of cottage cheese and these boxes of condoms?" or "Boss, can I have the day off tomorrow, I'm picking up my mail order bride I bought with the company credit card." or "Yo, Boss, someone left a flaming bag of dog poo in front of the door? What should I do with it?"
See, millions of uses. :D
How about, "Hey, you! Yeah, you with the head!"
What about Duke, or Baron? Or Viscount. That'd be a good one..
Hmmm... You're worried about what to nickname yourself... Who does this remind me of? Hmmm.... Perhaps you should simply truncate your last name and add "inator" to the end.
Only because you denied me captain status . . . I mean, I was perfectly happy before that . . . I mean . . . Oh, I can't believe I've created that association for myself . . . maybe I should just delete the entire post . . . *runs away in shame*
But wait a minute - the Blue Pamphlet is the Good Doctor, not the Master. It's still available after all.
*weakly* . . . and I'm hoping someone else will nickname me so I don't have to . . .
I have it.
Ladies and gentleman, I present to you. . . The Kaiser!
On further reflection, I'm going with Baron. The Baron, or Baron von {last name}. Yes, The Baron if you're talked about, or just baron to your face.
Don't be too quick to take on The Master. You get a bunch of girls at work calling you Master, and people look at you funny...
Or maybe they're just jealous!
And just to make sure everyone realizes, I hope you can tell I'm just having fun being a bit silly as a way of both celebrating my new position and dealing with my discomfort at being a boss. But thank you for all the suggestions. We'll see if anything sticks.
Why can't we go back to calling you The Strawberry Fist, or Fisty for short? YEAH! Fisty! That has absolutely no sexual conotations whatsoever! All in favor?
I don't care about the rest of you, I'm going with Koppenator.
Sorry, sorry: THE Koppenator
Hmmm . . . looks like someone's invitation to join us for D&D at my house next week just expired . . .
Right, right [bobs head]
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