While governor he earned his soubriquet by establishing State gasoline stations, waging a successful price-war with oil companies.
As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect .
For his efforts to promote the economic development of the country, Mahathir has been granted the soubriquet of Bapa Pemodenan (Father of Modernisation).
Andrew Rawnsley in News24 In the centre-left Observer newspaper, columnist Andrew Rawnsley warned: "The Tories (Conservatives) will try to stick him with the nickname 'Bottler Brown'. That's a soubriquet that he is going hate ...... but there's no doubt that the bottler...