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Element 99

Can you post an unusual nickname for a job?

I was an electronics tech in the Navy and they called me twidget.

Posted - January 6, 2023
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  • 844
    I worked my whole adult life as a clerk typist at various levels, I used to call myself a paper pusher.
      January 6, 2023 6:00 PM MST
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  • 13277
    Yes
      January 6, 2023 6:12 PM MST
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  • 44654
    Accountant: bean counter. This post was edited by Element 99 at January 10, 2023 10:58 AM MST
      January 7, 2023 9:19 AM MST
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  • 13277
    I answered your question. Don’t put words in my mouth!
      January 7, 2023 9:50 AM MST
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  • 11105
    I worked in corporate finance and we were called bean counters, the department was often referred to as the bean squad.
      January 8, 2023 6:33 AM MST
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  • 3841
    Squid - Sailor (especially Marines)
    Jarhead - Marines
    Grunt - Army
    Zoomie - USAF 

      January 6, 2023 7:06 PM MST
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  • 44654
    We never called Marines squids. We had much more colorful names.
      January 7, 2023 9:20 AM MST
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  • 3841
    I'm sure you did but I would probably be censored if I posted them here. :) This post was edited by Spunky at January 9, 2023 1:52 PM MST
      January 7, 2023 9:53 AM MST
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  • 53526
     I agree with Element (who is a veteran of the US Navy): I* have only heard ‘squid’ in reference to sailors, never to Marines (I am a US Marine Corps veteran). As you stated, Marines are referred to as jarheads, and in addition to that, leatherneck, Devil Dog, gyrene, sea-going bellhop are other nicknames of Marines.

      *I am not stating that you have not heard it that way, I’m only stating that I have not.
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      January 7, 2023 11:29 AM MST
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  • 3841
    "A term used in the old Navy (not the store), Squid is what other branches
    (especially Marines) generally called sailors."

    https://www.operationmilitarykids.org/what-is-a-navy-squid-11-slang-nicknames-for-navy-sailors/
      January 7, 2023 3:26 PM MST
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  • 53526

     

    “ . . . Squid is what other branches
    (especially Marines) generally called sailors."

      Thank you; that distinction did not come across in your original reply, which read as if you meant the word was attributed to Marines in addition to sailors.
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    This post was edited by Randy D at January 9, 2023 8:21 AM MST
      January 8, 2023 9:15 AM MST
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  • 53526

     

    Shutterbug — photographer or photography buff.

    Intimacy matchmaker — harem management specialist.

    Writerian — author.

    Needle beetle — anesthesiologist.

    Customer Ignorer — customer service clerk.

    Professional Sofa Spud — full-time television-viewer.

    Minneapoloper — a lovelorn Lothario long left bereft of luck in his longtime quest for his kwutie-pye kween. (Grrrrrrr.)

    Organ Donor — gigolo.

    Punctuation Aficionado — tilde collector.

    Questonius Askamongus Answeratoriat — the scientific Latin reference for the species of avid fans of websites such as this one of ours.

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    This post was edited by Randy D at January 7, 2023 1:48 PM MST
      January 6, 2023 9:17 PM MST
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  • 844
    Before she retired, my sister was a licensed escort. That one doesn't need a clever nickname. Without looking it up, how many know what that job is?
      January 7, 2023 10:30 AM MST
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  • 53526

     

      It could mean any of several possibilities.
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      January 7, 2023 11:30 AM MST
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  • 1502
    Whoa. If she looked anything like your picture... I don't think I need to look it up!
      January 7, 2023 1:53 PM MST
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  • 844
    Looks don't enter into the job at all. It's done by men and women of all ages.
      January 7, 2023 5:38 PM MST
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  • 44654
    We had one of those here for a while.
      January 8, 2023 9:23 AM MST
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  • 844
    ...and what did he/she do?
      January 8, 2023 12:39 PM MST
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  • 44654
    She was an 'escort'.
      January 9, 2023 8:23 AM MST
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  • 844
    The wide load in the foreground is followed by a licensed escort in the white van in the rear:
    Super Load Transport - Get Rates Quotes & Estimates
      January 8, 2023 5:38 PM MST
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  • 7795
    Arm pit sniffer. This is actually a real job or career.
      January 8, 2023 12:57 PM MST
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  • 16838
    When I worked in a cube farm, we were referred to as "meerkats" - because when anybody stood up, that's what it resembled.
      January 8, 2023 2:32 PM MST
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  • 44654
    Cube farm?
      January 9, 2023 8:24 AM MST
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  • 53526

     

      Numerous cubicles in an office setting are referred to as cube farms due to the way their layouts somewhat resemble plots of cultivated fields.







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      January 9, 2023 8:28 AM MST
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