Urban Legend from the 80s/90s in Dublin - Smiley

allanb49

Does anyone remember an urban legend about a guy called smiley.

Used to hear it growing up in the 90s in Dublin,

Anyone else?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The guy with the hair? Or the guy with no hair?

Effects

somesoldiers

Smiley Bolger

allanb49

Finley Green Tower wrote: »

The guy with the hair? Or the guy with no hair?

think i remember him being bald and having a van.

Outlaw Pete

Used to know a guy called Smiley that had a big foaming pint of Fürstenberg tattoo'd on his upper arm.

From memory, I think he liked to drink Fürstenberg.

Boom_Bap

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Used to know a guy called Smiley that had a big foaming pint of Fürstenberg tattoo'd on his upper arm.

From memory, I think he liked to drink Fürstenberg.

Word on the street is that he also had at least one upper arm.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

allanb49 wrote: »

think i remember him being bald and having a van.

No, I'm thinking of a fella with hair and a wheelbarrow.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Word on the street is that he also had at least one upper arm.

Think he had a leg end as well.

Are Am Eye

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Word on the street is that he also had at least one upper arm.

Well if you're going to drink Fürstenburg you're going to need at least one upper arm, one lower arm and hand and a mouth. At the absolute minimum.

Erik Shin

Finley Green Tower wrote: »

Think he had a leg end as well.

No, he did have a bell end though!

Boom_Bap

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Well if you're going to drink Fürstenburg you're going to need at least one upper arm, one lower arm and hand and a mouth. At the absolute minimum.

and bowels of steel

Are Am Eye

Boom_Bap wrote: »

bowels of steel

I knew a bloke who had that operation. Was never right again.
He drove a van.

Yamanoto

There used be a bearded 'Grizzly Adams' type of guy who'd walk the Rock road every day during the 80s, carrying a long log down by his side and wrapped in a tartan blanket. Think he used camp in woodland on Nutley Avenue, behind what's now the Merrion centre.

Badly Drunk Boy

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Used to know a guy called Smiley that had a big foaming pint of Fürstenberg tattoo'd on his upper arm.

From memory, I think he liked to drink Fürstenberg.

Guy Smiley?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Cee-Jay-Cee

Was he the fella that shot the cow and calf?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Was he the fella that shot the cow and calf?

That's him! "Good shot, Smiley" they shouted at the time. The talk of the big city it was.

SafeSurfer

Are Am Eye wrote: »

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Word on the street is that he also had at least one upper arm.

Well if you're going to drink Fürstenburg you're going to need at least one upper arm, one lower arm and hand and a mouth. At the absolute minimum.

Not if you use a straw.
There was a heavy drinker/bar fly type who used to drink around Eyre Square. One week the circus was in town and he drunkenly stumbled into the circus camp late at night.
In seeing the lion wagon he couldn't resist copping a feel of the king of beasts through the bars. His arm was promptly severed and by instinct he reach for his severed arm with his still attached arm and it was also severed.
He was lucky to survive and won a large compensation award.
He drank for many years around Eyre Square by picking up a glass with his mouth or using a straw and paying his drinking buddies to hold his todger when he went for a piss.

riffmongous

Is there no dublin forum ye can talk about this in?

andekwarhola

I vaguely remember a kid I knew being threatened with 'Mr Smiley' by his Ma. This would have been early 80s.

Please somebody verify that this was an actual thing; a mishearing or even a hellish threat to make them listen to Smiley Bolger.

dd972

Anybody remember an English woman aged about 30's or so walking up and down Westmoreland St talking to herself?, she's completely crackers.

MonkieSocks

Is this him?

Hammer89

There once was a guy called Smiley,
Who shagged men in a bush near Killiney,
He'd take their arse, but not their hearts,
And then finish on their back politely.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hammer89 wrote: »

There once was a guy called Smiley,
Who shagged men in a bush near Killiney,
He'd take their arse, but not their hearts,
And then finish on their back politely.

It's an awful shame not one word of that rhymed, or it could have been a Limerick.

Hammer89

Finley Green Tower wrote: »

It's an awful shame not one word of that rhymed, or it could have been a Limerick.

Tell that to S Heaney it's one of his early ones.

begbysback

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hammer89 wrote: »

Tell that to S Heaney it's one of his early ones.

Aye, he wasn't a great one for rhyme either. But he painted many a fine picture with those smooth words of his.

maudgonner

SafeSurfer wrote: »

Not if you use a straw.
There was a heavy drinker/bar fly type who used to drink around Eyre Square. One week the circus was in town and he drunkenly stumbled into the circus camp late at night.
In seeing the lion wagon he couldn't resist copping a feel of the king of beasts through the bars. His arm was promptly severed and by instinct he reach for his severed arm with his still attached arm and it was also severed.
He was lucky to survive and won a large compensation award.
He drank for many years around Eyre Square by picking up a glass with his mouth or using a straw and paying his drinking buddies to hold his todger when he went for a piss.

Not a lion, a tiger. The legend is of the fella known as 'Tigerman'. Used to be a regular in Padraig's, down at the docks.

I always thought it was an urban legend, that he probably lost his arms in an industrial accident of some sort, but no.

Roger Hassenforder

Finley Green Tower wrote: »

It's an awful shame not one word of that rhymed, or it could have been a Limerick.

its almost a haiku

a guy called Smiley,
shagged men in their arse
but not their hearts

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Roger Hassenforder wrote: »

its almost a haiku

a guy called Smiley,
shagged men in their arse
but not their hearts

Very true. Just missing a few syllables, but close.

WoollyRedHat

With or without haiku
With or without haiku
I can't live with or without haiku

MOH

maudgonner wrote: »

Not a lion, a tiger. The legend is of the fella known as 'Tigerman'. Used to be a regular in Padraig's, down at the docks.

I always thought it was an urban legend, that he probably lost his arms in an industrial accident of some sort, but no.

The last sentence in that article seems like too much information.

somefeen

MOH wrote: »

The last sentence in that article seems like too much information.

I dunno. I would have been wondering what happened to them. It would be a massive unanswered question otherwise.

Ralf and Florian

So did this fella actually exist or not? At least we know Bang Bang was real.