1. "V" - The name given by my father at birth was "Vicente", but the nurse wrote down "Vincent". I started school as "Vicente", but both teachers and kids had a hard time pronouncing it correctly. In 1st grade, one day some kid said "your name is too hard to say, so I'm just gonna call you 'V'." And it stuck. Mind you, this was before the original television show about alien invasion called "V", and also before any of the hip-hop culture started making initials popular. Teachers and students called me this through the rest of my school years, and even new friends later in life adopted it after hearing my old friends continue to use it.
2. "Chente de la Gente" - A common nickname for "Vicente" is "Chente". "De la Gente" translates to "of the people". A friend started calling me this after high school some time. I thought it was pretty funny.
3. "dullboy" - My forum name is taken from one of my favorite films, The Shining. In case it wasn't obvious...
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