Teachers nicknames

faceman

Some do these teachers are from different schools but none the less. Jesus as kids we come up with the dumbest nicknames!

Batman
Bullet Neck
Elvis
Freaky Wills
Horsey
Dennis

dunleakelleher

lefty
beaker
joes nose
the elastic spastic

YFlyer

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

Well, I think she was somebody's Ma, I'm not sure

Chuck was called after the western actor Chuck Connors

Sgt Hartman

YFlyer wrote: »

Chuck was called after the western actor Chuck Connors

I liked Chuck. He was charismatic and approachable, and his LCBEI project was a huge help for college students that went to his school. Ma Rice was terrifying though although I think it was my ****ty attitude in her class that turned her against me

Yer Da sells Avon

decky1 wrote: »

Ta Se,
Speedy,
Scaldy,
Bengy
Spud
all in wicklow years ago, any one remember them.?

Wicklow town? I knew a 'Spud' alright. He helped me get an A in Junior Cert art.

Iseedeadpixels

Scratchy
Bobbles
Quackers
Robocop
Super Mario

decky1

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Wicklow town? I knew a 'Spud' alright. He helped me get an A in Junior Cert art.

That's him, had him for metalwork. , great guy , think there was a Batman there also.?

Schwanz

Rambo

Yer Da sells Avon

decky1 wrote: »

That's him, had him for metalwork. , great guy , think there was a Batman there also.?

I had him after he 'retired' from the tech - he carried on teaching art in De La Salle until it closed down in 2011, by which point he must have been pushing 80. He didn't suffer fools. Fond of throwing buckets of paint over people, stapling their ties to their desks, locking them in storerooms, etc. I heard stories about him cycling to school in his younger days, grabbing onto the ear of a random kid and forcing him to run alongside him.

simongurnick

Damien360 wrote: »

Dingers (Brother Angelus)

Fish (he drank a lot at lunch time)

Sister Tomato Face (when I was 7 this Sister .... was my teacher. She went red with rage at the drop of a hat)

The top two taught me. Poor aul fish. We used to dement him.

simongurnick

simongurnick wrote: »

The top two taught me. Poor aul fish. We used to dement him.

Best nickname of all was Ceomp. No idea what it meant or where it came from but it summed him up so well

JustAThought

We had one called Hitler. It wasn't in jest. To this day I get a cold crawl when I think of what went on in his class and how it was allowed. Everybody knew about it and nothing was ever done. He used play the organ in the Church and even the parish priest and management committees were afraid of him. He was an absolute sadist.

X6.430macman

Schwanz wrote:

Rambo

This one brings back memories... Never had him for class myself but had him a couple times as a sub if a teacher was out, my god was it a scary experience

XMG

The day of the beatening, how ‘The Bitch’ got her name and how Murphy achieved cult status.

Our maths teacher was a ferocious woman and brooked no nonsense from anyone. She had a half meter stick that she used liberally to dole out punishments that befit the crimes committed by her unruly class of 14 and 15 year olds. On this particular day it was (I’ll call him Murphy) Murphy’s turn for 6 of the best, 3 on each hand. Being a maths teacher she had a keen eye for angles, velocity and surface contact, that kind of thing. There was a certain sound, a certain thwack her half meter stick made when it made contact flush with the palm of your hand so if you flinched or tried to ‘go with it’ she’d know and it would have to be redone.

Anyway, up to the front goes Murphy for his punishment. All was going well, no mis-hits, no flinching and we were down to the last one, it hit true and square, at that very instant out of Murphy’s mouth came a shocking shout, an instinctive, impulsive shout. ‘Fcuking Bitch’, his voice breaking on the itch part of bitch so it ended in a high pitched girlish squeal...

The Bitch then did something astonishing, she threw her head back and laughed, a big guffaw came roaring up out of her, one of those that when you hear something genuinely funny it just comes out, like if you’re in Mass and suddenly it’s out, reverberating around the place and you try to swallow it but it’s too late...

She eyed Murphy and said, Mr Murphy, (Everyone was Mr or Miss) you are going to regret that. (Which in fairness, was true, beyond a shadow of a doubt) And she proceeded to beat him round the classroom, swiping at him, she bet him the length of the school, all the way to the headmasters office, where he got bet again with the leather strap while the secretary called his father, the local butcher who was just down the road... The father duly arrived and bet him around the headmasters office, bet him out of the school and into the car, bet him all the way home, bet him into the house and up the stairs and into the bedroom...

The next day Murphy looked none the worse for wear, more or less and we gathered round to get the low down. The worst thing said Murphy, was the state of me father, he had the bloody apron still on him above in the school, I was fcuking mortified...

decky1

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

I had him after he 'retired' from the tech - he carried on teaching art in De La Salle until it closed down in 2011, by which point he must have been pushing 80. He didn't suffer fools. Fond of throwing buckets of paint over people, stapling their ties to their desks, locking them in storerooms, etc. I heard stories about him cycling to school in his younger days, grabbing onto the ear of a random kid and forcing him to run alongside him.

maybe, but i never heard any of that.:eek:

phater phagan

Dracula

Lippy

randd1

Fuzz - Got a shock off a plasma ball, his hair went fuzzy, he hated it, the name stuck.
Badger - Long nose like a snout, white hair with flecks of black.
Spearhead - Pointed hair at the front.
Shovel Hands - Quite possibly the largest pair of hands a human being ever had, he'd kill a gorilla with a punch.
Thunder Tits - Obvious reasons.
Gumball - Had 4 kids in 4 years.

Cienciano

NickNickleby wrote: »

Bottler - long before Brendan Grace, but the name might have been known more widely than our school. Apparently someone thought he looked like a long bottle.
Noddy - cruel because he had a twitch
Johnny - no idea
LeatherLips - good job it wasn't a girls school, he was a young French teacher , who despite being Irish, looked very French and was young.
BillyBones - after the cruel pirate, richly deserved.
Killer, alliterative name but also apt, he used to kill us. (metaphorically:pac:)

I'd suspect no one under 60 will recognise these. Aside from having to be a past pupil...

I left in 95, Noddys last year! He cried at the end too. Killer was still there, Billybones might have been there in the early 90's, not sure who he was but he was still talked about.

The Enbalmer wrote: »

OCS!

Don't forget Kipper,Benny Curtin,Bopper,Langer,Droopy,Bog,Psycho and Spud!

I liked Psycho. Perfect nickname, lovely old guy but could turn in a weird way.

Bouncer, Krusty and Big Jim are a few others I remember.

kikilarue2

I had a young, attractive teacher called Ms Canny and the lads used to sing the song Shake That Thing about her

"Shake that thing, Miss Canny Canny, shake that thing - yo' sexy ladies gon ride with us..."

Stevieluvsye

Grotbags was an old favourite of mine

Spit of her.

PARlance

Popeye, woodwork teacher with a glass eye. He was doing something woodworky one day and it dislodged, bouncing all the way down the room.

His first name was Ian...is that Ian with one i or two? was apparently asked one day.

The first definitely happened, 2nd may have been a story.

Damien360

simongurnick wrote: »

Best nickname of all was Ceomp. No idea what it meant or where it came from but it summed him up so well

I had him for Irish. I was going to put it up with my other post but couldn’t work out how to spell Ceomp. Favourite saying ......ya, ya, ya Amadan ya.

looksee

My husband was a french teacher, so inevitably was called froggy. Our two kids were in the school so became known as the tadpoles, and apparently someone one day referred to me as Mamma Tadpole

Gerianam

Square
Grasshopper
Beaker
Biddy
Mobile

Stone Deaf 4evr

Usually it was a twist on their first name, but there were a few

Johnny La -la
Dan-a-lang
Patch - had a bald spot at the back of his head
Honey monster - had the same physical build as the thing from the sugar puffs ad
The Cat - ruthless bitch who took no prisoners
Flakey - Dandruff related IIRC
Pudgey - self explanitory
Mickey weewee - couldnt pronounce his R's
Spits - had a lisp

gerrybbadd

Clint
Johnny Metal
Blackjack
Dusty
Dryballs
Surfboard
Groovy
Salawanka
Freewheeler
Raggy

MetzgerMeister

Hitler - He arrived into school every day in the same clothes (uniform) with the same umbrella at the same time. He was absolutely pristine but was an absolute pr!ck. If he didn't like you he would openly say in front of the class "Why don't you go off and hang yourself somewhere you waste of space" and "the only reason your mother had you was to take her mind off how ugly she is". Unreal stuff. He also didn't mind beating the sh!t out of people even in my day (I started secondary in 1999).

Plug - He looked like Plug from the Bash Street Kids in the Beano

The Boss - the principal

Johnny - PE & Irish teacher who's first name was John.

J.O. - English teacher who's initials were JOD. Lovely and inspirational man who sadly passed away when I was in 6th year.

Tubby - An overweight man but thoroughly sound.

Gammy - No idea how he got this nick-name as it doesn't relate to his actual name at all or to anything about him

Psycho Dillon - A gent who was softly spoken and mild mannered until someone pissed him off. He was using hash for medicinal purposes and sent it around the class for everyone to look at. It came back quite a bit smaller than it went out though :pac:

Daddy Long Legs - a rather tall man who had 2 sons in the school

Spud - Because his surname was Murphy

Hannibal - When the scabs were around in 2003 (teachers were on strike to a certain extent and wouldn't do yard duty) there was one of them who had his hair slicked back like Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs

LithiumKid1976

Gunther and Dry Balls are the only 2 i can recall....

Chequered Flares - reference to his choice of trousers
Ma Ruane A
The Grey Mare
Butter Balls - no clue but it suited him somehow
Crinkle
"Mucky" Dunne
Larry the Leprechaun
Molly Malone
A Kerry teacher was called "Bowl Head" in reference to his haircut and also "Balla balla" in reference to his Michael Healy Rae accent.
Snagglepuss

Be right back

Badger,
Digger,
Moses,
Horse,
Chubby,
Ma and Pa (married couple).

c_f_p99

Wheelchair Clare (since the poor teacher was limping and she was a hated person by students in general)

Damo (the principal)

Fat Nev

Those were the most prominent ones, the rest were just abbreviations of their first names.

Really insensitive people at my school.

The Enbalmer

MetzgerMeister wrote:

Psycho Dillon - A gent who was softly spoken and mild mannered until someone pissed him off. He was using hash for medicinal purposes and sent it around the class for everyone to look at. It came back quite a bit smaller than it went out though

Sorry but I'm calling bullshiite on this.

s8n

scratch Walsh
The Gimble
Large Marge (Particularly fat nun)
Scutch
Jaws
Robocop

MetzgerMeister

The Enbalmer wrote: »

Sorry but I'm calling bullshiite on this.

Call it all you want

Feisar

Batman - she wore a cape in once, I'd say about 20 years before my time. Funny how these things stick.

Thunder Tits - My God they were/are epic, seen her out recently.

The Fly - abbreviation/truncation of surname

Big Bird - for all the world she was a human version of the puppet

DrPhilG

Penfold - headmaster got this title because he was the absolute spit of the dude from Dangermouse. Short and rotund, but by God he had a temper. I remember him slapping a fella full force once when he caught him acting up, nearly knocked the guy off his feet. This would have been mid 90s.

Jimmy-Ack* - any time you were up to badness (often) and Jimmy caught you, his version of "hi you" or whatever was to shout first (which sounded like ACK!!!). So you'd be minding your own business getting up to no good and you'd headmr "ACK, what are you up to, get over here". So he got the name Jimmy-Ack.
*first name wasn't Jimmy, changed to protect the innocent.

Vinegar-tits - she was a short arse with huge boobs, and a more bitter hag you'd struggle to find.

The Enbalmer

Primary teacher with the surname Moran,was of course called Mr Moron or usually just Moron.

He had a funny habit of rubbing his hands together and staring off into space as if fondly imagining a better place.
He was easy to wind up too. At a given signal for example,everyone in the class would take off their jumpers in unison and he would respond with fury..ranting and raving and swinging a Hurley stick around.