Nicknamed characters in your area

Imhof Tank · 28-04-2010 02:56PM

There used to be a debt collector active around the Ranelagh area known as "Buckets of Blood"

PeterIanStaker · 28-04-2010 02:58PM

0verblood wrote: »

Any Galway folk here? What was the name of that hairy guy who walked around with cans of guinness and danced around the buskers on shopstreet? There are a few deadly videos of him on youtube.

Anti - Santa, or Jazz Hands.

Bonito · 28-04-2010 02:58PM

Mad maggie.

Mr. Bean.

Old-joe.

Gum-jaw-joe.

Teabags.

WIZE · 28-04-2010 03:13PM

One Ball Paul - He had a slight accident when he was young

Stiches - Always got into fights and Lost

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 28-04-2010 03:14PM

Shelly-with-a-face-like-a-melted-welly

WIZE · 28-04-2010 03:20PM

Brayson Rapid Storefront wrote: »

Shelly-with-a-face-like-a-melted-welly

She must have been an Ex . Did you give her the boot ?

Smart Bug · 28-04-2010 03:22PM

There was (& still is) a dude in my home town who looked like Billy Idol (this was in the eighties) who was nicknamed Diddly Idol. Class methinks.

IvyTheTerrible · 28-04-2010 03:23PM

Straight-back.

Not sure why he was called that (don't think he had a remarkably straight back) but he was well known around the town for directing traffic (on a voluntary basis!).

rainbowdrop · 28-04-2010 03:34PM

TapTapSpit -

An old guy who walked with the aid of two walking sticks, and used to spit all the time......

Ten bellies -

A tramp with a stomach ulcer that made him look like he'd a football shoved up his jumper

Piece of cake -

Called that because he said it all the time. Had 5 kids known collectively as 'The Crumbs'

The Cowboy -

Because he rode loads of women

Isaiah -

A teacher we had in school. One of her eyes was higher than the other, due to her having Bell's Palsy

Daisy Steiner · 28-04-2010 03:38PM

Spatters - Very freckly girl, the story went that her mam left her pram beside the cooker and she was hit by spatters from the frying pan.

Brunch - Again another freckly girl.

Take Care - Guy who works in a shop, tells everyone to take care.

Soul Cake Duck · 28-04-2010 03:40PM

Mag the Nag - Nosey Neighbour

Lidl Boy - Hot guy that works in Lidl

Mister Friday Night

The Smurf

Jolly Ginger Giant

Pretty Boy - Although he has recently gained a little bitty weight and someone called him 'Pretty Fat Boy'..which has kind of stuck!

Slut Jenny - (*Don't know if she is actually a slut!)

28-04-2010 03:49PM

Johnny-forty-coats/Wellies - homeless lad. Got the name because he wears what looks to be 40 items of clothing on his upper body and always wears wellies. Allegedly he used be a dentist and his family were burned in a house fire. That's why he sleeps on the streets :rolleyes:

Buckeddy legs - a local wino - walks as if there's a metal bar between his thighs pushing them apart.

Peanut - huge body, tiny head

Funpack - massive fat lad

PantsyFrancy - another alco who always dropped his pants and pissed wherever and whenever he felt like it

From school:

Skeletor - skinny lad

Air Mail - his real name was Liam Ryan. Read his name backwards, taking off the "n"

Marilyn Manson/Der Deutscher - this guy used come into school on no uniform days in black clothes, pants with spikes in them and big mad boots with metal all over them (me

)

Fish/iasc - he ALWAYS ponged

Screech - beared an uncanny resemblence to that guy from Saved by the Bell

BickNarry · 28-04-2010 04:22PM

I know this is in bad taste,but there i didnt make em up...

In the local school there s a lad with brittle bone disease. He has a carer with him to help him........who's known as the Bone Collector.

Another fella,same school but a year higher, is a bit slow and works in super valu. Always has a boner while serving. He is Woody.

epgc3fyqirnbsx · 28-04-2010 04:23PM

Most Haunted wrote: »

She must have been an Ex . Did you give her the boot ?

Not this one, good lord not this one

we'llallhavetea_old · 28-04-2010 04:46PM

Soul Cake Duck wrote: »

Mag the Nag - Nosey Neighbour

Lidl Boy - Hot guy that works in Lidl

Mister Friday Night

The Smurf

Jolly Ginger Giant

Pretty Boy - Although he has recently gained a little bitty weight and someone called him 'Pretty Fat Boy'..which has kind of stuck!

Slut Jenny - (*Don't know if she is actually a slut!)

haha! lets not forget..

the child bouncer - looked about twelve

pepperami - used to weave through the crowd like bendy rubber

frosty - sour puss all the time

rent-a-fcuk - he's a "trainer"

disco ball - big girl in sequins

admiralofthefleet · 28-04-2010 04:52PM

a fella i went to school with, tony boylan is nicknamed tony voilent because of his temper

'snowball' the chap has white hair

i was nicknamed ronnie because of my doppelganger in my younger years, ronnie o sullivan

gagiteebo · 28-04-2010 05:04PM

Snowy - Albino lad

Squinty - cross-eyed lad

Horse - sounds like a horse when he laughs

Mr. Personality - dry cnut

Crazy Bus Lady - fairly self explanatory

Fair play - always says it

Hitler - what a cnut and he's the traffic warden

Wagon wheel - horrible woman

Tripod - local man's 3 legged dog

Great thread btw :pac:

Stephentlig · 28-04-2010 05:07PM

I can only think of one, her name was ''The Badger'' because she had black hair and a big grey streak through the middle of it.

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 28-04-2010 05:25PM

einheisserschre wrote: »

Johnny-forty-coats/Wellies - homeless lad. Got the name because he wears what looks to be 40 items of clothing on his upper body and always wears wellies. Allegedly he used be a dentist and his family were burned in a house fire. That's why he sleeps on the streets :rolleyes:

Complete truth, a very good family friend used to play cards with him and the wife before she died.

Rusty - Very ginger

Kinky Kav - An oul fella(late 70s) with the surname Kavanagh who was a frequent user of the local brothel, despite having a wife, children and grand-children.:P

Grasshopper - A wretched looking lad who looks like a grasshopper.

citizen_p · 28-04-2010 05:30PM

mosslady- crazy lady who picks up your pets and talks to them without even looking at you, and picks moss of walls and puts it in her pocket.

break it down now- a guy with two crutches who always wheres denim, jacket and jeans,... and walks like a robot.... without a crutch his lower arm swings from the elbow (forget what its called) but that "move" and the everyday "robot" got the refrence to break dancing

dkdavey67 · 28-04-2010 05:33PM

Local people;
Jerry eye-ball a.k.a one eyed willy - local paedo who got he's head smashed in with a hammer.
Mad George - demented old timer on a bike who would box the head off 10 year old kids when they slagged him
Gay George - not the same as mad george but just a gay bloke called george, always had kids cutting grass with him
Johny rubber balls
Work people;
Mick the munch
Pressure cooker head - serious man for the stress
Ghost train - talks like a ghoul
clitorous lip also the missing link - self explanitory
four day - doesnt like coming in mondays
Butt man - had a porn industry running on the side
talaban - lived in clondalkin but people thought it was tallaght
joey the gaunge - always stoned
........theres more but that would take effort

jiltloop · 28-04-2010 05:40PM

Used to be an auld lad who lived in my estate who was always filthy and had horse/cow manure on his trousers, we used to call him the minister for sh!t.

peteandjenn · 28-04-2010 05:44PM

Very funny thread

:) Here is a few that I know:

Bombscare - Because he is so loud when talking

Sky+ - Because he pauses mid sentence when talking to you

Google - Because he knows everything

Cotton bud - He is very tall and skinny with white hair!!!

Blarney/killarney - a lousy one she is cross eyed

sky88 · 28-04-2010 05:46PM

Richard Pryor - this guy looks like him

the junkies - family of junkies

TPD · 28-04-2010 05:47PM

I forgot a couple in my last post. There's Pat the Rat, Jim the General, and a family of people nicknamed 'the Egg', which has me confused. Corpsebride and Bagel are a couple more. And one lad with loads of nicknames; Paul the Baptist, Paul the Groin, Rohypnol Paul. Another lad with a few names; Luke the Gook, Luke behind you, Puke, The Virus. A guy called 'The Ongrim' is some relation to Jim the General.

admiralofthefleet · 28-04-2010 06:00PM

nicknames from the pub i work in-

dagger - has a big nose

sausage fryer - me or the other chef

little horse - tiny fella who loves backing horses

wally - bloke named after his surname wallace

the waterman - fella who never has money and comes in lookingh for pints of water, and gets served

motormouth - oul fella who cant speak at a normal audiable level

young harry - man in his late 80's who can drink anyone under the table and is very mobile

skabinki - fella who calls all his drinks scabinki ' give us a pint of skabinki and a skabinki'

PapaQuebec · 28-04-2010 06:26PM

Paddy-rob-a-chop!

I was sitting near a few guys in a bar in Dorset St many years ago and heard reference to this guy. I burst into laughter and one of the guys explained that Paddy was a local jobbing-builder who on more than one accasion had literally eaten everything he could find in the fridges of those foolish enough to leave him alone in their houses whilst working for them!

tricky D · 28-04-2010 06:43PM

A spanish and irish gay couple:

José* and Hose B

*RIP

Kormeera X · 28-04-2010 06:53PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

nicknames from the pub i work in-

dagger - has a big nose

sausage fryer - me or the other chef

little horse - tiny fella who loves backing horses

wally - bloke named after his surname wallace

the waterman - fella who never has money and comes in lookingh for pints of water, and gets served

motormouth - oul fella who cant speak at a normal audiable level

young harry - man in his late 80's who can drink anyone under the table and is very mobile

skabinki - fella who calls all his drinks scabinki ' give us a pint of skabinki and a skabinki'

One person you forgot-BIGFOOT!!!! ha ha ha

:pac: :pac:

nicker_s · 28-04-2010 06:56PM

Chinkerbell - A Lad with the surname Bell who looked Chinese.

Nicknamed characters in your area

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