Make the Bad Man go away.

A fine weekend was had by all in St Davids with much celebration not to mention a successful first sea trial of the simply awesome Wolf. However I am here to report on a key activity of the weekend, attempting to give each crew member a nickname.

The nature of nicknames and the reasons that they get associated to an individual are numerous and quite hard to define but for whatever reason some times they just "stick". To date I think we potentially have three "stickers" so lets have a quick review;

Guy
Was Maps due to his unquestionable depth of navigational skills and experience. However this has been superseded by the perfect sticker Pointless. Why did it stick;

1. Descriptive, well yes.
2. Humorous yes (I refer to point 3).
3. Cruel and a little unsympathetic undoubtedly, but a term of endearment.

Stan
Stumley which is best delivered as a bit of a bellow with plenty of emphasis on the "ley". When in trouble just shout Stumleeeeey and the man who mends will be at hand. Why did it stick;

1. Humorous yes, it's just funny.
2. Descriptive, I can't explain why but strangely yes.
3. A term of endearment.

Justin
Bad Man which is of course very unfair because he just isn't but, in the nature of nicknames, is possibly why this one will stick. Justin waking a hungover team at an ungodly hour to our cries of "make the Bad Man go away" became the catchphrase of the weekend. Why did it stick;

1. Humorous yes.
2. Descriptive well no, therefore yes.
3. Inappropriate yes and therefore an ideal term of endearment.

I could well see this one being shortened to BM which could also be Big Mac, which again follows the trend because the Bad Man is not big.

Paul
I was called many names over the weekend, so many in fact that the origins of some have been lost in the "haze" of the occasion and some are frankly unrepeatable.

Numbers, Dyson, Revlon, Carrots, Dozey, Ballast, Sleepy, Tight Pants..... the list went on and on however, and please correct me if I am wrong, none of them was a really sticker.

I know its coming, it will just take one incident, one mistake or some smart arse comment and bang a hypocorism ( you will have to Google that one) will stick.