who are the rubberbandits?

zweton

ul students?

BarryDoodles

The rumour is that one of them is an english student in TCD.

Tefral

zweton wrote: »

ul students?

I thought all Limerick people knew who they were. I went to school with one of them. He now teaches art.

Cat Melodeon

I heard they were LIT students and that their tears are made of pure mercury.

Peyton Manning

Willie O'Dea is clearly one of them.

ronanc15

"the grand pricks of prank phonecalls"...... how they've evolved

Indeed, they're identity would be relatively well known in limerick for years but that would spoil half the fun!!

They've been boards members for 5 years http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?u=50082

Insect Overlord

I heard their faces appear on the national stamps of Lichtenstein...

Amazotheamazing

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I heard their faces appear on the national stamps of Lichtenstein...

I heard they are the reason the river runs through Limerick.

Kev_ps3

I remember their prank phonecalls from years back:)

Grumpypants

I think there was one stage where everyone in school in limerick had a blank CD with the phone call on them. They should release them again off the back of the xmas no1, very funny better than the songs even though the songs are brilliant too.

NoseyMike2010

I really hope the get Christmas No. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljPFZrRD3J8

concussion

They fought for King Limerick in 1916 and were put in storage after we got our potatoes back from the British. Willie O'Dea used some of his moustache hairs to release them from their bronze exteriors in 2005 so they could show him the uh-oh end of a pistol from the non-uh-oh end.

CiaranMT

Insect, nominate this for thread of the week

Tefral

I would sincerely hope that if someone was stupid enough to post their names up here that the Mods would remove it.

Part of the laugh of it all is the "who are they factor"

NoseyMike2010

The Bird in the blue in their video is a ride!!

concussion

I'm the Rubberbandits and so's my wife.

bazz26

One of them is a former member of this group:



The other is the Stig.

nickobrien1986

Their real names are Frank Shalloo and Jasper McGuigan. They revealed it on their Bebo page three years ago.

mathepac

Some say dey're from out aroun' Balla and are responsible for de plastic bag tax ...

Some say dey're refugees from West Clare and surfed in from Doolin to Ardnacrusha via Bunratty ...

Some say dey're Willie O'Dea's parents and stole condoms from de johnny machine out in de Hi-Way ...

Some say dey starred as CatWoman in de BatMan movies and as Hannibal Lecter in Silence of de Lambs ...

... all we know is dey're called de Rubber Bandits

Amazotheamazing

nickobrien1986 wrote: »

Their real names are Frank Shalloo and Jasper McGuigan. They revealed it on their Bebo page three years ago.

Frank Shalloo was (or is if he's still about) a decent teacher, always thought he got a bad time of it, he was a nice enough guy.

Tefral

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Frank Shalloo was (or is if he's still about) a decent teacher, always thought he got a bad time of it, he was a nice enough guy.

Wonder is he still around. I remember him one day I was caught going to Macs by him at Lunch. He left me off.. sound chap altogether.

kilburn

off topic but good auld Frank is alive and well met him a few weeks ago

Amazotheamazing

kilburn wrote: »

off topic but good auld Frank is alive and well met him a few weeks ago

That's good to hear, gentleman and a scholar.

thats not gone well

frank shalloo is a hero. still see him round the school every now and again.

RonMexico

Frank Shalloo - I remember one of the lads threw a sandwich in the bin one day and Shalloo took it back out and ate it in front of the class.

The Rubberbandits are Des Harty and Joe Madden...so I hear.

Tefral

RonMexico wrote: »

Frank Shalloo - I remember one of the lads threw a sandwich in the bin one day and Shalloo took it back out and ate it in front of the class.

The Rubberbandits are Des Harty and Joe Madden...so I hear.

Joe Madden.. Ha ha I forgot about him. Credit the giver and Debit the receiver.. Ah Punky how we laughed!

pappyodaniel

Word on the street Blindboy is Peter Clohessy and Celia Holman Lee is the skinny one, fair play to her for getting her baps out on a regular basis.

nickobrien1986

Ardscoil great school. Full of mad characters. Surprisingly most of us did quite well out of it.

DarkJager

cronin_j wrote: »

Joe Madden.. Ha ha I forgot about him. Credit the giver and Debit the receiver.. Ah Punky how we laughed!

Ah the memories! "I don't give lines, I give tigers"

Amazotheamazing wrote: »

Frank Shalloo was (or is if he's still about) a decent teacher, always thought he got a bad time of it, he was a nice enough guy.

Always thought he had some sort of mystical Chinese prophet look about him! Sound bloke though, had a pint with him a few years back.

Insect Overlord

nickobrien1986 wrote: »

Ardscoil great school. Full of mad characters. Surprisingly most of us did quite well out of it.

Sure they're mad proud of me in there. Mod of the Midwest Forum and everything!

Clareman

*** NSFW ***
http://assets2.ratemyarea.com/assets/0271/9155/Band_-_Rubberbandits2_medium.jpg?1291123564

They are the Rubberbandits

Vertigo100

Just by chance sat beside one of them on the train down from dublin last year. Sound bloke hope they do well with this and all their other stuff

sleepyman

cronin_j wrote: »

Joe Madden.. Ha ha I forgot about him. Credit the giver and Debit the receiver.. Ah Punky how we laughed!

I don't give lines I give tigers!!Jesus ArdScoil had some strange teachers back in the day-Bogman, Timmy Smalle, Punky.

DarkJager

sleepyman wrote: »

I don't give lines I give tigers!!Jesus ArdScoil had some strange teachers back in the day-Bogman, Timmy Smalle, Punky.

Nearly forgot about Bogman "Out on the floor boyy!". ****ing lunatic and definitely a few sandwiches, drinks and napkins short a picnic.

Tefral

DarkJager wrote: »

Nearly forgot about Bogman "Out on the floor boyy!". ****ing lunatic and definitely a few sandwiches, drinks and napkins short a picnic.

Jesus I hated him... He had a weird distaste for rulers.

niamhallen

Legends.

thats not gone well

did bogman ever tell ye the story of how he "pole-vaulted" the berlin wall?:rolleyes:

or hear of how he got the name bogman?

Tefral

thats not gone well wrote: »

did bogman ever tell ye the story of how he "pole-vaulted" the berlin wall?:rolleyes:

or hear of how he got the name bogman?

nope... all i remember him doing was muttering in German.

cooperguy

Ya I heard the Berlin wall story.

Nobody has mentioned that caretaker guy. Forgotten his name at this stage.

thats not gone well

you on about joe lagere?(sp) he retired there 2 years ago iirc

highlydebased

thats not gone well wrote: »

did bogman ever tell ye the story of how he "pole-vaulted" the berlin wall?:rolleyes:

or hear of how he got the name bogman?

He also claims he made a first year hide in a bin.

"I'd make your mother cry!"

"I'll eat you without salt!"

cooperguy

No caretaker before him, probably retired 10 or 12 years ago. Spent half his time slagging the likes of bogman and punky!

highlydebased

I also recall Sugrue throwing a desk out the window, overturning lockers and desks, and seeing many empty cans of dutch gold in the backseat of his car. Some man.

thats not gone well

Sugrue throwing a desk out the window, overturning lockers and desks, and seeing many empty cans of dutch gold in the backseat of his car. Some man.

he's a mad yoke altogether.







threads gone a fair bit ot but anyways.

bamboozler

NoseyMike2010 wrote: »

The Bird in the blue in their video is a ride!!

broadsheet.ie "the-bridesmaid-in-the-rubberbandits-video-is-madeline-mulqueen-youll-like-her"

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2010/12/11/the-bridesmaid-in-the-rubberbandits-video-is-madeline-mulqueen-youll-like-her/

Insect Overlord

Who are the Rubberbandits?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQRt-0TKgw

bazz26

I feel a trip to Cafe Noir is on the cards.

RonMexico

I see Bogman around Mary I a lot. Think he works in the Irish department.

Amazotheamazing

cooperguy wrote: »

No caretaker before him, probably retired 10 or 12 years ago. Spent half his time slagging the likes of bogman and punky!

Eddie Gavin.

gaf1983

They are not Milo Spillane and they are not John Looby either, to the best of my knowledge.

hightower1

Ah they were cool when it was cd's in schools and "underground" now its all mainstream and I'm already sick of EVERYONE and their mother going on about them. Takes the edge off their humor.
Like everything else they will be milked to bits , make their money and fade away by the new year. They started out slow but have got too popular too fast in recent months to maintain. They are essentially the dunbelievables for the younger generation poking fun at a sub culture that the 16 - mid twenty year olds are familiar with as opposed to the culture the dunbelievables poked fun at which was more familiar to the older age group.