Polar bear. Thanks to my Japanese roommate, I got this in 1991 in college. It was November, I had all the windows open and it was cold out. He came back from the shower and exclaimed that he was freezing and that I was a polar bear. I asked him to repeat a few times so I could understand him, and then to explain it.

He simply said, that I was big, white, and loved the cold.


Needless to say, it stuck.