by Chris Mohr |

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ‘nickname’ is a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name. I, myself, have accumulated numerous nicknames over the years, ones that have more or so completely replaced my name. Although not all are positive in connotation, they are all so fitting.

Last year in Mrs. Figg’s Spanish class, there just happened to be two Chris’. To differentiate between the two, I volunteered to be called something different. Figg thought it would be humorous for my name to be Más. Más means ‘more’ in Spanish hence my last name being Mohr. This has been a name that to this day, still sticks.

My more commonly known nickname that almost everyone calls me is Tin Tin. For all who do not, Tin Tin is a fictional character in a series of Belgian comics titled The Adventures of Tin Tin. For all who know, I used to have long hair. When I walked into work one day with my new haircut, my boss, Cole Lindbergh, told me I looked like Tin Tin. I never heard the end of it after that. He now makes me talk in a British accent and strike the pose of Tin Tin there and again.

My other nickname I have was given to me freshman year. I was at a tee-shirt table at school and they only had sizes small, medium and large. I asked if they had a XXL and they said no. I thought it would be rude for a person who wears the size XXL to not be offered a tee-shirt. Ever since then, Simone Stewart calls me XXL for that remark.

I get the occasional Chrissy, Chrisaroo, Christoff, Christopher Robin and Christopher Columbus here and there, but the ones that stick are the ones that define you as a person. So call me what you want, but it’s what’s in a name that really counts.