43. A nick-flashback

Well, two weeks in a new city has certainly taken its toll on me. Wearing formals sucks balls. Reporting at 9:10 AM for 5 days a week sucks bats, bails and even the stump microphones :P
Anyways, this heaven to prison transition which my office ppl refer to as 'college to corporate' transition only makes me look back at my 'happy days' in college. Call this an 'insider-post' if u might, but i just thought of bringing together a few really popular/creative nick names which i came across during coll. You'll also find a small description about the person with the nick next to the nick. One very prominent source for nick names was the very popular Counter-strike(CS) . So, lemme start off with a couple of CS nicks.

Tyro and Catwoman - This couple set the whole of DAKC on fire with their 'on-CS-screen' romance. They could just not be kept apart. Even when they were in opposite teams, they'd rush to meet at "mid" and would furiously exchange chat messages, oblivous to all the violence around them. Nowadays, Tyro has a new gal, calls her 'cell-woman'.

Bareily - Great guy. Still calls me 'roomie'. Still combs his hair for hours and hours. Still remembers many of my irritating gestures/mannerisms and faalthu dialogues...Miss u ex-roomie :(

Pulsar - Definitely male ! Back in sem 1,this female had a nice well etched moustache and goatee. Had she not removed them through electrolysis, she'd have surely given Aamir(from DCH) and Edward Norton(Fight club) a run for their money. Nowadays, she's going steady with 'Kaala', who got this nick for obvious reasons.

The G-man - With his intrinsic ability of telling mind-boggling jokes(which were spread far and wide by his alter-ego), he was the reason many a ppl had nerve blocks and temporary brain haemorrages from time to time.

Omg Haxx - "Omg Haxx! Haxx is Saxx"...used to be the chant in every CS server from the moment Haxx would join it. He was a terror with the AK-47. 'smilingdeepu2003' is his yahoo IM. "CAT-rapathi" as he is also called, will forever be remembered for his stellar dialogue "Aaan...pichha kottudu kodatha!".

Pope - Our messaiah. He's touched,or should i say, smudged each one of us at some point or the other during our 4 year stint in college. So many owe him for he was the one to expose them to pron. Started the pron 'brotherhood', gave himself the title of 'pope', took immense unwanted pride in being a bangalore-ian and always thought it fashionable to be late to class(of the very few that he actually attended). My guess is atleast a hundred of us have heard this sentence from him - "What is it that's bothering you, tell me your problem and I'll solve it for you."....'Pope is voodoo....no no...Voodoo is pope', used to be one very popular catch-phrase among CS players. His uninhibited desire to be a part of MIT is known to one and all. the bugger still owes me 200 bucks :x

S.P.A.N.K - 'Sexy Porn Actresses do Nude Kings', is the way Jeevan expanded this acronym. It actually stands for a five-girl group, all of whom tied rakhis to Kumar Raja and another numbskull from Palkol.

Java - You can write an epic on this guy (Java-bharatam).Right from his lund dialogues like "yeh kya chutiyaap hai yaar", to his supporting Congress during rural intern, to his 'cocks...i mean shuttle cocks' fiasco, to his idiotic yahoo IM (rahulsharma1985200), this guy was the butt of umpteen jokes.But he did take it very sportingly.Can recollect one of his geeky jokes. Our Java was walking along the roadside with jeevan when it started raining heavily. Then it came down to a drizzle and finally stopped. To this, Java says "Arey...varsham enti raa, random number generate chesi padipothundhi".

Palkol - This guy used to tell astounding tales about his hometown(which is why , he got this name). He'd say stuff like "In my town, carrots and potatoes are sold at Rs.2 per kg.In my town, condoms fall out of coconut trees.In my town, ppl eat pig rectum to fight impotency." Many a times, I used to wonder whether such a place did exist on earth.

Snakey - coldblood, cayman, ghoul, whitesnake, paganist, Baudrillard, Ponk, snakey....that's his nick name journey. We always loved to bug him, whether he was coldblood or whitesnake or some snake. His high-pitch car-ignition-type sounding laughter was so loud that it used to make ppl from other wings come running to our wing to see what the hell had happened. Creator of the famous phrases like 'a perfect circle' and 'macaroni marlboro', his dot filled orkut scraps, his theories on parallel universes and perpendicular realities are 'beyond-god-like'.

Simply - simply lund, simply jumpy.......This guy thought that life was pretty simple. That is when Miss err Mrs.005 came along and made things smokingly complicated. In agony, heartbroken,he then wrote the masterpiece "Love : It's truth and reality". He used to get a hagnover even before going to sleep(ask LC), I wonder how. One simply joke that comes to mind.

Arun: potta baaga perigindhi neeku....pregnant ayyavaa?
Simply : avunu raa...nee pellam ni dengi pregnant ayyanu !

Potu - If you all dint know, 'Chicken Run' is based on a true life story of a chicken that tries to escape from Potu's farm but fails. From what I hear, the news about 'bird flu' hitting india was actually a scam he planned. He did this to lower the rates of the broiler chicken in South India, so that he could stock up his house with tonnes of farm-fresh chicken.

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