What did YOU call them?

Ruu_Old

Your primary or secondary school teachers that is, nicknames or whatever.

Science teacher we had-Paddy Aparatus ("this piece of aparatus", etc)
Woodwork teacher-He told us to call him "Uncle" and his name. :eek:
Irish teacher-Barbie (the smell of perfume filled the school and the amount of makeup) *shudder*
Religion teacher-Father Ted (he know about it too and didn't mind, funny chap)
History teacher-Bushy (because of his overgrown eyebrows)

Thats all I can think of right now, what about you lot?

Madge

Well, in 5th class we called our teacher 'Batsy' cos she had a pointy nose and pointy ears and had a furry chin so in our young eyes she resembled a bat somewhat. She was always late coming to class in the morning, so someone would peep out the main door and tell us if the 'batmobile' was comming..

arbeitsscheuer

In my first secondary school there was a Maths teacher who everyone called Barney cos he constantly seemed to have a purple-ish complexion...

Can't remember any others tbh.

Sleepy

God, we'd loads in our school:

Skippy, Keomp, Flicker, Batty, He-Mick, Oddball, Fish, Donkey...

In fairness, I think the teachers that got called by their real names were almost in the minority!

Alter-Ego

Buzzer - Vice Principal
Tractor - He thought geography and grew up on a farm

Can't remember the rest...i'm detatched i guess.

Ruu_Old

Sleepy wrote:

God, we'd loads in our school:

Skippy, Keomp, Flicker, Batty, He-Mick, Oddball, Fish, Donkey...

In fairness, I think the teachers that got called by their real names were almost in the minority!

Every school must have had a Skippy, in my case he was a lunatic technical drawing teacher. *ducks seeing t-square coming toward head*

cee_jay

We had a Mr. Bean - he actually did look like him!
He never taught me unfortunately, but one class in particular caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and apparently he never taught again

FranknFurter

cAr0l wrote:

We had a Mr. Bean - he actually did look like him!
He never taught me unfortunately, but one class in particular caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and apparently he never taught again

You didnt by any chance go to BCS?
We had a Mr.Bean there too (nick of course) but the guy was constantly on edge and was a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.

We also had a "Mad-Mulroy" great sci/maths teacher but her dress sense was insane.

b

cee_jay

FranknFurter wrote:

You didnt by any chance go to BCS?
We had a Mr.Bean there too (nick of course) but the guy was constantly on edge and was a nervous breakdown waiting to happen.

We also had a "Mad-Mulroy" great sci/maths teacher but her dress sense was insane.

b

Nope - went to school in Limerick

I think we had a Barbie as well (and that was saying something as it was an all girls school!)

jskinny_de

We had a geography teacher "Saggy Maggy" for uneven breast allignment, and "Creepy Crawly" for tech drawing. Thats all I can think of at the moment......it's very late/early!??!??!?

Kolodny

I had a science teacher called Mr Toper, but we called him Mr Toupé due to his dodgy hairpiece.

Also a French teacher called Mr Blower - got great mileage out of that (Him: "Bonjour le class!" Us: "Bonjour Monsieur Blowjob!" etc)

Mr. Molloy who taught maths was Mr. Sweaty-Palms because he'd come over to your desk to talk and lean on it, then walk off leaving a large sweaty handprint, which took ages to disappear. And the caretaker was Gargoyle - self-explanatory really.

dazberry

Its been a long time:
Generally teachers were referenced by their second names (not to their faces obviously) unless they where christian brothers or nuns.

The exceptions
Mr O'Grady - Woodwork and Mech/Tech drawing teacher - Woody (beat the crap out of us)
Mr Slattery - Slatts (never had this guy but saw him in action once - very violent)
Ms Murphy - Hitler (she had a mustache, turned eye - was completely evil and eventually had a breakdown).

The brothers / nuns
Brother ???? - Shakey (never had this guy - was only there when I was in first year - he was old and poor guy probably had parkinsons - supposedly students used to "gob" on his back)
Brother Brendan - Bunty (headmaster - liked bending juniors (<= 3rd yrs) over his knee and smack them on the arse in public view for such offences as running. Was slow to remove hand after each smack).
Brother Timothy - Brother Timo - (he was pretty cool).
Sister Rita - Sister Yeeehaaa (she was highly strung).
Sister Philippina - R2D2 (was small and round and fat).

Sure there more, just don't remember them now.

D.

r3nu4l

CBS Lucan

Careers - Penfold (wore navy suits, was bald and had glasses )
Religion - GOD (smiley, happy,s hort, bald, generally beatific)
French/Irish - Big Tits (all boys school, female teacher :rolleyes: )
Bus Org - The mole
Mechanical Drawing/Metalwork - The Block (big square-bodied guy with square beard, hard as nails)
History - Dipper
Irish? - Oscar or Skeletor (looked like a cross between Oscar the Grouch and Skeletor)
Maths/English - Chad (great teacher, beat us to a pulp to get results)
Geography - The Gonk (Inter cert) Billy Big Balls (Leaving Cert)

Zulu

Can't remember primary school, but secondary school was:
Langer, Chappy, Dozy, Sweaty, Bum Chin, Slug, Sexpot, Me-ah, Mocky, Gonk, Bolly, Sheep, and a series of others that aren't comming to mind.

uncle ernie

principal - cack
vice principal - jimmy knuckles:D
woodwork - digger
english - poofy joe
geography - daffy
history - wee butch
maths - eddie bender
maths - rod munch
maths - marty big ass
english - bog
english - wart
business studies - biddy
loads more but thats the cream of the crop

Dampsquid

Plank, Rambo, Pos, freaker, dick, text - to name a few.

kevmy

We had Moses (Geography), Bender(French/History), Micky Ha Ha(Woodwork), Minkeen(Tech Drawing), Granny Costello(Irish), Big Bird(French/Irish) Mama Reilly(Irish)
i'm sure there was more but i can't think of them

Oh we had Peter Ford now Galway manager ..... he'd no nickname though

Ruu_Old

Haha these are brilliant, keep them coming. Tekkit teachers.

Tha Gopher

Ruu wrote:

Every school must have had a Skippy

Ours was actually from New Zealand and proud of it, but we called him Skippy because he absoloutely hated it when, upon meeting him for the first time, everyone assumed by the accent that he was Australian.:)

dabbler2004

We had a Spud (Murphy), Hitler!, Dandy, Aids (didn't agree with the use of that tho), Spoo.

Dudess

Ruu wrote:

Woodwork teacher-He told us to call him "Uncle" and his name. :eek:

:eek: is right. That's just disturbing. We had Big Bird (our home economics teacher - the image of Big Bird and also quite like Feargal Sharkey), our Skippy (history and English) constantly tutted like a certain kangaroo, Titsy (her name was Fitzgerald but she had huge boobs - how witty were we?!), She-Man - giant PE teacher built like a brick ****house (also known as Hitler), Heineken - reeked of booze and regularly missed Monday morning classes. If she did show up, she'd tell us all to just read or something because she had a splitting headache and she'd flip if someone rattled the catch on their desk - sad really; Maggots Mahony - literally flicked her nits at the class.

whassupp2

Chicken, Bomber, McGyver, Br. Odd Job, Bousy, Wally, Nellie, Sir drink-alot, Domo.

The rest had were usually called by their first names.

strangeloop

O'Connell's cbs,
killer
psycho,
noddy,
kipper,
spud murphy,
billy bones,
robocop,
bouncer,

Christ what a terrible place that was:D

Reaver772

Socket - the short, bald principal
Prick-Teaser - the very fine irish teacher
Brother Happy usually heard in the sentence " arses to the wall brother happys comming"

rogue-entity

We had a few.
Mr Riiight (Principal) always said riiight (drawling slightly) when you spoke to him.
The General (vice Principal/H.E teacher) a complete hardass b*tch, strict as hell, no sense of humour.
Rocky (irish teacher) great craic, usualy youll find him down at the local on weekends.
Hanjob/Hitler (History Teacher) rather flamboyant, famous for his isms such as "take those shirttails and pluunge them deep!" or "no white socks!"
Iris the Virus (Maths teacher) she was also a strict b*tch her first name was Iris.

There are others, but I cant remember them right now.

Ruu_Old

We had a guidance counsellor that was in her mid 40s and used to wear the mini skirts and all that jazz, the sensible name for her of course was Slappy.:) She used to hop up on the table and sit up right in front of you.:eek:

Stimpyone

dazberry wrote:

Its been a long time:
Generally teachers were referenced by their second names (not to their faces obviously) unless they where christian brothers or nuns.

The exceptions
Mr O'Grady - Woodwork and Mech/Tech drawing teacher - Woody (beat the crap out of us)
Mr Slattery - Slatts (never had this guy but saw him in action once - very violent)
Ms Murphy - Hitler (she had a mustache, turned eye - was completely evil and eventually had a breakdown).

The brothers / nuns
Brother ???? - Shakey (never had this guy - was only there when I was in first year - he was old and poor guy probably had parkinsons - supposedly students used to "gob" on his back)
Brother Brendan - Bunty (headmaster - liked bending juniors (<= 3rd yrs) over his knee and smack them on the arse in public view for such offences as running. Was slow to remove hand after each smack).
Brother Timothy - Brother Timo - (he was pretty cool).
Sister Rita - Sister Yeeehaaa (she was highly strung).
Sister Philippina - R2D2 (was small and round and fat).

Sure there more, just don't remember them now.

D.

Ah the Della in Raheny,

You forgot

Tich Doyle - Economics- Was about 4 foot nothing!. Never in his class but I understand they used to put his duster on top of the blackboard.... oh the fun.

Wiggy - Maths- Had a full head of black hair sitting on top of bushy grey locks. Very eccentric, possibly a little mad. Nice man though.

Worm- Irish, as thin as a rake and lived on his nerves, how the man didn't have a breakdown is beyond me.

The Equalizer- Jerry Mc Call, ex-Dublin manager and school principal for a time.

Pigman II

Stimpyone wrote:

Wiggy - Maths- Had a full head of black hair sitting on top of bushy grey locks. Very eccentric, possibly a little mad. Nice man though.

Was his name Conliffe or Clonliffe or something like that? I had a guy for maths called wiggy who fit that description - tho not in raheny.

Stimpyone

Pigman II wrote:

Was his name Conliffe or Clonliffe or something like that? I had a guy for maths called wiggy who fit that description - tho not in raheny.

Nope, his name was McQuigh{sp}

Skittlebrau

Principal = Ming (as in the merciless)
Vice Principal = Duck

We also had a Psycho, Hippy, Scruffy, Duckling (Duck's son), Hank, Yaman, Wurzel.

Can't think of any more.

Nightwish

Batty (she was nuts) the Spanish teacher
Queery - the (gay) typing teacher
There were 2 Mrs Ryans so we called the fat one Weight Watchers
There were also 2 Mrs Dalys. The tall one was Legs and the other one was from Offaly so we called her Mucker.

Tchocky

Bubbles O'Boyle - Career guidance, self explanatory really
Saggy Maggy - Irish
"Bunny" Carr - "You don't go to mass? Stand up and lets hear the national anthem!"
Itchy & Scratchy - 2 PE teachers, one tall, one not so tall.
Superman - Clark Kent teaches Business, he really does.
Chinocchio - It was like a bleedin' violin
"Heeeyy, Kevin Brady! Ohh! Ahh! I wanna knoowww, will you be my girl?"
Gerry - Lovely man, and teacher of Gerrynomics

Timans

Science - Skippy(Because he hops around a bit)
English - Motor-Mouth
Other Science Teacher - Spyro
Principal - Henners
Spanish - Mrs Titsmore

Cant really think of any more.

Ruu_Old

Oh our primary school headmaster, we called the Guvnor.

nessymon

We had Hitler, Tree Stumps, Joan Bond AKA 003 and a 1/2, The caretaker was The Devil, unibrow, lanky, spudhead

cant remember anymore

Hagar

From Jambo.

The Pig, Little Willie, Handsome, Herbie, Mensa, Mac Uí, MOD, Slim, DC and many more.

Mrs. MacGyver

Had Yella for maths, as she used to say yella instead of yello, fingers for history (he lost some in a woodwork accident so it was cruel), monty man for biology as he looked like Robt Carlyle in the Full Monty.

challengemaster

mrs rooney = loony rooney (absolute nutter)
ms booth = the boot
mr stenson = steno (dead sound guy)
mr greely ... this guy didnt have a nickname, but he is a complete nutcase. he's got a "thomas the tank engine" lunchbox...

Wishbone Ash

uncle ernie wrote:

principal - cack
vice principal - jimmy knuckles:D
woodwork - digger
english - poofy joe
geography - daffy
history - wee butch
maths - eddie bender
maths - rod munch
maths - marty big ass
english - bog
english - wart
business studies - biddy
loads more but thats the cream of the crop

I take it you went to St Eunan's I recognise a few of those even though it's been over 25 years :eek:

kizzyr

Droopy : Irish teacher, think he was called this because he had jowels like a bloodhound
Clig: another Irish teacher, have no idea why he was called that.
Oscar: History teacher, have no idea why he was called that but you made sure he never heard you call him that.
Hoppy: think he taught metal work, called that because he had one leg that was considerably shorter than the other and so pretty much had to hop everywhere.
Twitch: taught something like metal work etc, called twitch because, well because he had a twitch in his right eye.

Femelade

we had a pixie(think she wore a funny looking hat one day or something) and we had a yella (she was a bit of a culchie and thats the way she used to pronounce Yellow)

Sr. Patricia our principal was called "sispish".

cant think of anymore atm

rogue-entity

There was also:
Coxer (geography) - Used to always slag off his accent and the fact that he was a complete tree-hugger, who later bought a car
The Ass - Business teacher who had a huge arse, here classroom was nextdoor the the geography room so we used to crack up listening to her going hysterical on the 6th years.
RowTits/Mr Jiggly - Mr Ronan, had noticable man-tits, guy in my year started singin "row row row your tits.." and got caught by him once. We called him RoTits ever since (just never to his face).
The Mustache - Music teacher, if she got close enough to you, you could notice those stray hairs, rather creepy.
Small Paul (T.G. and Rugby) was about 4ft. Could draw a straight line with out a ruler, but he couldnt reach the top of his blackboard. Someone once wrote up "Small Paul cant reach this high" there and it stayed there for the entire school year

boneless

colaiste caomhin, parnell road...

Dusty- Metal Work.
The Buddha- Maths I think, and English; rather large man
The Goo- Vice Principle; always appeared pished.
Stabby- English; "have a stab at that lads..."

There were others but I cant remember now...

Jambo

DLS College waterford

Science : The Tank
Iirsh : Bulldog
Geog: The Pup ( Bulldogs son )
English: Monkey

Ruu_Old

Some great larfs here.

Cunning Alias

principal - Pat the rat (he looked like a rat)
irish teacher - Big Bird (6ft 7 irish teacher, bitch)
english teacher (i think) - Thunder Thighs
english teacher - The Cannonball (she was round and always wore black, lovely teacher though)
geography teacher - Bummer (his bald head looked like a bum from the back, He had the Bum Cave at the back of his room)

Grem

One of our teachers was a dead ringer for Jerry Springer - even tho she was female! So obviously we called her Jerry Springer.

Another had square fuzzy hair - kind of fresh prince of bel air style but she was really small so we called her mike coz she looked like a microphone.

The rest of them we used to just call them by their names - oh maths with Cora next or Geography with Edwina. And Franny was the principal - she used to flap her arms at us to make us do anything. So funny.

Getting giggly remembering! Wont seem funny to anyone who doesnt actually know them, mind you i had a giggle at a few already posted!