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    #32
    delo18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭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.


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    #33
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭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:)


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    #34
    m83
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭m83


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


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    #35
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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    #36
    m83
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭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!


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    #37
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


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


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    #38
    m83
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭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!


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    #39
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭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?


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    #40
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭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..


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    #41
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Public burning, I say!


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    #42
    spinandscribble
    Registered Users Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭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


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    #43
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭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?


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    #44
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭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"


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    #45
    AckwelFoley
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    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? :D


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    #46
    m83
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭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!!


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    #47
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    snyper wrote: »
    It attracted you didnt it? :D

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


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    #48
    AckwelFoley
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    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    i'm not a crusty, and i shaved off my beard yesterday :D

    Pics or STFU! :D:p


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    #49
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users Posts: 5,095 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


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


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    #50
    encyclopedia
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭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.


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    #51
    angrylearner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭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


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    #52
    philboy
    Registered Users Posts: 377 ✭✭philboy


    Met him again the last day, he was doin a few card tricks for me and a mate. Sound guy, i told him about this dicussion on the net about him. He said, call me 'Merlin the Wizard'.!!!


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    #53
    lilirish
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    Met him in supermacs one night, his name was Merlin apparenty


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    #54
    daveywavey08
    Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭daveywavey08


    Yeah I saw him about two weeks ago on Saturday going up to the statue guy on Shop Street. A crowd gathered to hear their meanderings, they made a lovely couple


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    #55
    xdeletiax
    Registered Users Posts: 332 ✭✭xdeletiax


    he likes feeding the birds in eyre square, pity about his freaky smile...


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    #56
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,952 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    angrylearner wrote: »
    complete wierdo but he's sound

    Pardon my ignorance - but what does "sound" mean? How can someone possibly be both sound and a complete weirdo? :confused:


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    #57
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    JustMary wrote: »
    Pardon my ignorance - but what does "sound" mean? How can someone possibly be both sound and a complete weirdo? :confused:
    You can be weird and still be nice.


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    #58
    Redhairedguy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Sherifu wrote: »
    You can be weird and still be nice.

    until the point where they're sitting on your lap eating termites that they keep in a small green jar called Roger.


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    #59
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    I know the guy. Saw him outside Easons and from a distance thought he was a bearded lady.

    When I got closer it was just an expression he'd been pulling.

    I must admit, Hobbit sprang to mind immediately.

    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?

    I know him.

    I saw him next to that Tower thing along the line, playing his guitar for some drunken Eastern European lads.


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    #60
    Lockstep
    Registered Users Posts: 9,030 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Ran into him again.

    He's a nice guy to be fair, didn't come across as a knob the way some people do and he was doing some pretty nifty card tricks.

    He likes Galway.

    He was behind me in McDonalds queue and asked could he sit with me and my friend, nice chap. From South Carolina, been doing magic since age 7. Arrived in Dublin then headed to Galway. Heard about his being on Boards (asked was that where I knew him from) and said he hoped it was nice things.

    He's a legend allright.


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    #61
    hairyfairy00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭hairyfairy00


    Well i was talking to Merlin today and told him about boards.ie, he's mad to get to an internet cafe to check it out for himself! He's decided to hang up his robes for a while and chill out in Galway.
    He's calling down to me and my fiance later on to have an ole chat and i asked him could i take a photo of him and he has agreed :D So i'll put it up ASAP.


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