Steve Walker wrote:

On 21/01/2012 15:04, Adrian Simpson wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
writes
Nobody minds if someone is called Big Dave, Little Pete etc.


Yes they do.

A few years back we had two Daves. The second one to join was younger,
so got referred to as "young Dave", which after a while he started
objecting to on the grounds that he was 30. Problem was solved when the
other Dave left.

One of circle of old school friends is a couple of years younger than
the rest of us, hence "little Rob." The name has stuck and he is quite
happy with it, depite being 6'2"

SteveW

Inverse humour (aka "Little John") is the least likely to offend. On that
basis, I should be called "Slim Tim" but I don't mind "Fat *******" either.
I suppose some people get offended more easily ;-

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Tim Watts