Who's this guy...

LadyMayBelle

I spotted a guy on shop street a few times last week and again today and im baffled as to his attire..surely some of ye have seen him too..a short fella(not KD dimensions),im guessing around his early to mid twenties,big bushy beard(brown),wearing a beige robe kind of thing,a bundle on his back and most notably,a stick..in my opinion,and to further the description,a cross between a short moses and a hobbit..anyone know who he is??

PopeBuckfastXVI

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

I spotted a guy on shop street a few times last week and again today and im baffled as to his attire..surely some of ye have seen him too..a short fella(not KD dimensions),im guessing around his early to mid twenties,big bushy beard(brown),wearing a beige robe kind of thing,a bundle on his back and most notably,a stick..in my opinion,and to further the description,a cross between a short moses and a hobbit..anyone know who he is??

You should know... he's just to the left of your post hanging around under your name!? :pac:

Sherifu

It does fit the description of a Jawa. Hmm.

LadyMayBelle

Well spotted i never noticed..well picture my avatar but with the hood down, big beard and a lighter coloured robe thing..ive no pic to post but i saw someone taking a photo of him unbeknown to him as he was chatting to someone..

JIZZLORD

get a pic and come back to us

PopeBuckfastXVI

JIZZLORD wrote: »

get a pic and come back to us

I don't think the mod's like pics of random galway people on their board

Sherifu

PopeBuckfastXVI wrote: »

I don't think the mod's like pics of random galway people on their board

Not after the McLovin incident anyway.

BrokenArrows

Sherifu wrote: »

Not after the McLovin incident anyway.

found the thread and google cache is up to date so anychance someone can pm me glaway mclovin. lol

Mooch

Hey, i saw him too,
I think he looks more like this though...(without the sword)

Is he promoting Cuirt or some such artsy thing?

Sherifu

BrokenArrows wrote: »

found the thread and google cache is up to date so anychance someone can pm me glaway mclovin. lol

Unfortunately he slipped out of my cache at the time like a theif in the night.

armour87

How short?

JIZZLORD

if it helps, he looked like mc lovin

Wompa1

The McLovin post wasn't very fair to the fella in question...if somebody to a picture of me at work without my consent and put it on here I wouldn't like it...but for the likes of KD its just HIlarious!..he's like Britney Spears in that cus of his celebrity status we own him! Huzzah for Sheamus!

Sherifu

Wompa1 wrote: »

The McLovin post wasn't very fair to the fella in question...if somebody to a picture of me at work without my consent and put it on here I wouldn't like it...but for the likes of KD its just HIlarious!..he's like Britney Spears in that cus of his celebrity status we own him! Huzzah for Sheamus!

I fail to see the difference.

witnessmenow

Wompa1 wrote: »

The McLovin post wasn't very fair to the fella in question...if somebody to a picture of me at work without my consent and put it on here I wouldn't like it...but for the likes of KD its just HIlarious!..he's like Britney Spears in that cus of his celebrity status we own him! Huzzah for Sheamus!

Surely i wasnt the first person to notice this, im sure he knows he looks like mcLovin at this stage. Would anything have been said if i put up a picture saying he looked like brad pitt?

EDIT: Other than he didnt look like brad pitt

Tar.Aldarion

Think it is some aussie or NZ guy or some dude from fansci.

Sherifu

witnessmenow wrote: »

Surely i wasnt the first person to notice this, im sure he knows he looks like mcLovin at this stage. Would anything have been said if i put up a picture saying he looked like brad pitt?

EDIT: Other than he didnt look like brad pitt

It wasn't fair to put the guy's picture up on the net no matter who you said he looked like imo.

A McLovin webpage, lmao.

LadyMayBelle

Dont think he is a fansci guy..glad someone else spotted him, was beginning to worry i was seeing things..yup he looks like that lego nam with a stick of course...

Bonbon12

Think the same guy was in Sallys last Thursday. He was going around doing magic tricks and being generally weird/annoying.

I saw him on Wednesday, actually. Huge bushy hair and a beard to match. Standing outside Anthony Ryans doing card tricks for the secondary school feckwits that were passing by.

Steyr

Speaking of famous people on Shop st, well thay are probably now infamous has anybody ever seen this guy who always wears black, black boots,jeans,trench coat leather jacket and well i would say black cowboy hat but its more or less like a witches hat! Anybody ever seen him?

hairyfairy00

Met bushy beard man the other day, he said his name is Merlin!! He's from South Carolina and he wants to live here because it feels like home to him. He's a tad bit loopy but nice and he loves to show people magic tricks.

s_carnage

Ya i saw him yesterday evening around the Kings Head. He was gng up to randomers just doing card tricks. People were calling him moses!!!

There was an old enough guy playing music outside the Kings Head yesterday around 6. He was singing in a cross between english and jiberish but he was brilliant. Very funny. Anyone else spot him??

s_carnage

s_carnage wrote: »

Ya i saw him yesterday evening around the Kings Head. He was gng up to randomers just doing card tricks. People were calling him moses!!!

There was an old enough guy playing music outside the Kings Head yesterday around 6. He was singing in a cross between english and jiberish but he was brilliant. Very funny. Anyone else spot him??

I think he's Easter European and is singing in said language. I'm not entirely sure which language, though. Does he wear a cowboy-type hat?

Fionn MacCool

I know who you're talking about, he came up to me and my friends as we were walking down Shop St opposite the musical instruments shop. He said to us "Here lads, did you know I'm the only person in Galway that knows magic?". I said "by the look of you, yes. Now watch us disappear" (razor sharp wit, I know) and we went to Subway.

He looks too well kept to me a madman or a homeless guy, I think he's just a street entertainer. If I see him again I'll ask to see some magic.

Caliden

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

I spotted a guy on shop street a few times last week and again today and im baffled as to his attire..surely some of ye have seen him too..a short fella(not KD dimensions),im guessing around his early to mid twenties,big bushy beard(brown),wearing a beige robe kind of thing,a bundle on his back and most notably,a stick..in my opinion,and to further the description,a cross between a short moses and a hobbit..anyone know who he is??

Its jesus, Duh! :rolleyes:

s_carnage

Deleted User wrote: »

I think he's Easter European and is singing in said language. I'm not entirely sure which language, though. Does he wear a cowboy-type hat?

Ya he'd a coyboy hat on alright. Think he was singing Irish songs in a different language becaause every we'd recognise the chorus of the songs. He seemed to be making a mint!!!!

It's funny how Sunday evening i spotted these two people discussed above and also the joke guy. He is supposed to be barred from nearly all the pubs cos he just wanders in and tells a couple of jokes (all the same) and then he gets kicked out and then off to the next pub with him.

Fey!

Steyr wrote: »

Speaking of famous people on Shop st, well thay are probably now infamous has anybody ever seen this guy who always wears black, black boots,jeans,trench coat leather jacket and well i would say black cowboy hat but its more or less like a witches hat! Anybody ever seen him?

Used he come into your workplace up to a couple of weeks ago? I think it might be someone I used to live with. How tall is he?

Jamey

Have seen this 'Merlin' character around a lot over the past few weeks. Seems like a bit of a prick, saw him giving out to some old guy, "what the **** are you looking at dude??" etc.

He's filthy as well, wonder if he's homeless?

The lad who busks with the hole in his guitar and the cowboy gear is Polish.

gd1987

I saw that lad last week on abbeygate st. I didn't know what to make of him.
I'd say he's just another loop the loop.

philboy

Me and a couple of friends were out last Sunday night and we met this guy on shop street. One of the lads asked him for a go of his 'stick', He lost the head and started saying it was religious and that he was on a religious pilgrimage. I have to say 'lord of the rings' came to mind as soon as i seen the guy.

delo18

Met him aswell on Shop street said he originally came over to see the Hill of Tara and has been travelling around ever since, only arrived in Galway about a week ago. Seems like a nice enough chap.

LadyMayBelle

He does seem completely out of place, which really is quite something on the streets of Galway, where it often seems anything goes...a cross bewteen Moses and a hobbit was my original description, and it seems that is exactly what he is..with terrible magic tricks and a foul mouth obviously..I'll be on the lookout this week:)

m83

Wow this guy sounds like a total ledge bag already! I wonder what KD thinks about all this!?

m83

m83 wrote: »

Wow this guy sounds like a total ledge bag already! I wonder what KD thinks about all this!?

They're about the same height, so it would certainly make for an interesting fight.

m83

I can't believe it but I saw this guy in town, we walked towards eachother and he said "hey buuuuuuddy", my life it seems is changed forever! I must study this strange beast for the benefit of all mankind!

JIZZLORD

yep. i seen the guy with the stick.
damn crusty attracting Galway

m83

Hahaha I saw him again today and get this... he has a follower! Some nerdy looking guy dressed in black and carrying.. wait for it... another stick! Flupin roflcopters!!! Man I love this guy! Definitely goin drinkin with him some night!

JIZZLORD

m83 wrote: »

Hahaha I saw him again today and get this... he has a follower! Some nerdy looking guy dressed in black and carrying.. wait for it... another stick! Flupin roflcopters!!! Man I love this guy! Definitely goin drinkin with him some night!

did the nerdy looking guy have one of the big fluffy russian hats on?

LadyMayBelle

JIZZLORD wrote: »

did the nerdy looking guy have one of the big fluffy russian hats on?

Yes Ive seen this chap about too! Galway really is full of them eh! My friend met the 'Wizard' as he's known as in some circles the other night about 1am, hammered, and was asking people to follow him down Buttermilk lane, cos he 'had to take a whizz' but would 'show them a magic trick after'...errrkk!

Let's all get ourselves a stick..

Redhairedguy

Public burning, I say!

spinandscribble

saw him today on shop st. heard him speak, think he's a yank. hope he sticks around, he's got the makings of a ledge

JIZZLORD

what is it with galway attracting the out and out bohemian/nut job types. Galway is a nice town with lots of these creative types but there are a lot of odd balls about. Does the lonely planet say galway is the place to be or something?

AckwelFoley

LadyPennyworth wrote: »

I spotted a guy on shop street a few times last week and again today and im baffled as to his attire..surely some of ye have seen him too..a short fella(not KD dimensions),im guessing around his early to mid twenties,big bushy beard(brown),wearing a beige robe kind of thing,a bundle on his back and most notably,a stick..in my opinion,and to further the description,a cross between a short moses and a hobbit..anyone know who he is??

Yea, i think thats the lad that went missing in dublin about 8 years ago.

I think they call his experience "the college of life"

AckwelFoley

JIZZLORD wrote: »

what is it with galway attracting the out and out bohemian/nut job types. Galway is a nice town with lots of these creative types but there are a lot of odd balls about. Does the lonely planet say galway is the place to be or something?

It attracted you didnt it?

m83

Saw him again this evening, wearing a red robe this time... sexy! So what are we calling him, The Wizard?! I'm getting pics this weekend!!

JIZZLORD

snyper wrote: »

It attracted you didnt it?

i'm not a crusty, and i shaved off my beard yesterday

AckwelFoley

JIZZLORD wrote: »

i'm not a crusty, and i shaved off my beard yesterday

Pics or STFU!

LadyMayBelle

"The Wizard" it is...Ill be scouting for a photo this weekend..

encyclopedia

Met him last night outside supermacs in eyre square was talkin to him for a good while, sound man. He is an american stayin in a hostel in galway somewhere who lived in limerick for a while, he has the stick because of a broken toe or something like that. He is quality at card tricks.

angrylearner

ya calls himself merlin the magician. complete wierdo but he's sound, think it makes the city more interesting having all these complete freaks roaming the streets showing you magic tricks while your eating your lunch ya know