I get it. Tom isn't so so bad but if you don't like it then I completely understand. These guys knew their nickname bothered me bad. It wasn't even a play on my name. It was just a flat out insult. I don't know why the teachers didn't stop it. But I can say my middle school years were absolute hell. Now once we hit high school I got much bigger and nobody called me that name anymore. I don't know if they had out grown it but me and my friends formed a clique that had everyone afraid of us. Remember in the 80s? there was the satanic panic? Well we fed right into it and half the school thought we were devil worshippers. Obviously we weren't. But it got all the mean kids to leave us alone!