What is your Swimming Nick Name?

Since I know that all of you are very mature and kind posters that would never stoop to the obvious juvenile jokes in making slight modifications to my nickname (except for one sloppy limerick slinger who's name I will not mention), I will go ahead and reveal my number one nickname growing up as a swimmer (which some have already referred to me as including Ande, Cruise and The Fort)....and that is "The Bork" (or simply as "Bork")....I think that it should be rather obvious how I acquired that nickname since my real last name is a little long and hard to pronounce.....The nickname followed a similar evolution as was the case for the Raz I suspect. It started as "Borkow" when I was around 10 years old...and a couple of years later it evolved into the much sleeker version that it is today....A nickname that eventually followed me through 4 years of high school and 4 years of college as well. In case you never read my most embarrassing swimming moment from a thread from way back when....I will share it with you again: When I was around 12 or 13 years old or so, (the exact age I cannot really remember now), I arrived at a swim meet in which I noticed immediately that all my fellow teammates were pointing and laughing at me when I walked by.....I asked one of my friends what it was all about only to discover that someone had mistyped my name all throughout the heat sheets as Jim Dorkowski instead of Jim Borkowski:.....It was hard to ever live that one down. And yes, the obvious plays on my nickname Bork were also hard to escape as well. Pretty sad stuff don't you think?:( :( Its amazing how normal I turned out after all that social ridicule growing up.....LOL!!:banana: :banana: Newmastersswimmer p.s. (ALA The Muppet)....Sorry if telling my embarrassing story again was a little like beating a dead horse :dedhorse: :dedhorse: ...LOL!!:thhbbb: :rofl:

Since I know that all of you are very mature and kind posters that would never stoop to the obvious juvenile jokes in making slight modifications to my nickname (except for one sloppy limerick slinger who's name I will not mention), I will go ahead and reveal my number one nickname growing up as a swimmer (which some have already referred to me as including Ande, Cruise and The Fort)....and that is "The Bork" (or simply as "Bork")....I think that it should be rather obvious how I acquired that nickname since my real last name is a little long and hard to pronounce.....The nickname followed a similar evolution as was the case for the Raz I suspect. It started as "Borkow" when I was around 10 years old...and a couple of years later it evolved into the much sleeker version that it is today....A nickname that eventually followed me through 4 years of high school and 4 years of college as well. In case you never read my most embarrassing swimming moment from a thread from way back when....I will share it with you again: When I was around 12 or 13 years old or so, (the exact age I cannot really remember now), I arrived at a swim meet in which I noticed immediately that all my fellow teammates were pointing and laughing at me when I walked by.....I asked one of my friends what it was all about only to discover that someone had mistyped my name all throughout the heat sheets as Jim Dorkowski instead of Jim Borkowski:.....It was hard to ever live that one down. And yes, the obvious plays on my nickname Bork were also hard to escape as well. Pretty sad stuff don't you think?:( :( Its amazing how normal I turned out after all that social ridicule growing up.....LOL!!:banana: :banana: Newmastersswimmer p.s. (ALA The Muppet)....Sorry if telling my embarrassing story again was a little like beating a dead horse :dedhorse: :dedhorse: ...LOL!!:thhbbb: :rofl: