Teacher nicknames

[jpsh120]

This should appeal to the childish humour that lives among us! I saw a teacher from my secondary school earlier, a Mr Coles who had the genius nickname of testi!

Made me wonder what other names people remember!

[tractorman]

Most of our teachers wore gowns, so the headmaster, who's gown usually blew in the breeze while he strode along, was called Batman (it was the late 60's!). "Spiv" was our housemaster (and taught History and English) - probably referring to some past life. He was also called "the Globe" - I think you can guess why!

We had a languages teacher called Mr Payne and there was much laughter in Chapel one Sunday when the guest preacher started his sermon on "You can't have love without pain."

A chemistry teacher at the first school I worked at had a Phd and was known as "Dr Death" as he had a stern looking face and could be rather intimidating. He was actually a great bloke with a very dry sense of humour: "I remembered why I never took the short cut on my walk when I found myself up to the knees in a peat bog!"

[kevin]

Metalwork teacher was Tinman
Mechanics teacher was dick hughes (his initials were D K)
brickwork teacher was Joe Brick

Kev

[zipgun]

Pongo - Mr. Smith the Physics teacher, he was an awesome teacher .. gone now ,but best teacher I ever had...
Biffo - Mr. Reynolds the Geography teach..
Catweasel - Art teacher , he was ok ,can't remember his name ,but fook did he swing a plimsol on your butt !!
And "call me Paul" Paul Lewis, he taught maths... He's now on BBC telly in the mornings doing the finance bit ... and presents "Moneybox", on the radio . Back in the '70's ,he wore purple roll neck jerseys and had really long hair and sideboards , sorta John Lennon !!

[Grumpy Northener]

Deputy head had a red neck with big white lumps on it on it - he became known as 'Chisel Neck'

Mrs Pace - music teacher and wore long flowing skirts was known as 'Gracey Pacey'

Mr Carbut - maths teacher was known as 'Car but no Engine'

Mr Owen - was my chemistry teacher, Mr Littledyke - the metalwork teacher - both fantastic and out of respect never had nicknames from me

Interdentally the late great 'Brian Glover' taught maths at the school but left the term before I joined to pursue his acting career fulltime - he was still about on the wrestling scene and I remember dad taking me to the wrestling at the Barnsley Civic Hall and seeing him in action.

[3xpendable]

Mr Peregrine - Slug
Mrs Rees - Concorde because she had a big pointy nose
Mrs Dunn - Troll
Mrs King - Mrs Ming (Because she liiked like Ming from Flash Gordon)
Mr Buckley - Mr Soft because he walked like the softmint guy
Mr Harries - Ducksy
Mrs Jones - Frog (She was and taught French)

[tractorman]

I forgot about the (then) new head of PE at one of the schools - a rugby man with bulging eyes - "Buzz Lightyear" - because he looked like him!

Our deputy head was proud to tell us that he knew his nickname was "Lem". He wasn't so pleased to find out that we actually called him by his first name "Sam"! He was old school and acted that way "By jove you hound" and that sort of stuff. He admitted it was an act, so spoilt the illusion!

Our art and metalwork teacher was a rough-looking man (Sid James sort of look) and tore around in a VW Splittie van (new!). He roared up to the art room one day and must have heard one boy call to the rest "Here's Butch". As he got out of the van, he said "Yes Butch is here" - and frightened the lad somewhat!

[JPB]

3rd time lucky? We'll see, though neither of the earlier posts I made to this thread was libellous so why the use of a certain English Lit teacher's surname and nickname caused these previous posts to vanish is anyone's guess.

Duffy was what we used to call one of the maths teachers. This name came about because he (real name Wilson) had spent some time as a "gentleman of the road" following a defragmentation episode before settling back into his career.
Ordinarily, this nickname caused the bloke no harm and he was one of the most stable, good natured human beings you could have hoped to meet (I assume it's ok to say that? ).
But then came parents' evening and the mother of one of my peers came in to see Mr Wilson about her boy's performance in his subject. From what one of the boarders - present at parents' evening to dish out the juice and cake - said, the entire room fell silent as the concerned parent strolled up to the reception point and asked (loudly enough too) "Hello, I'm Danny Moaufie's mam, I have an appointment with Mr Duffy."
Unsurprisingly for such a cool guy, he found this as funny as anyone else did, probably more so than many, and I think that Danny's woeful maths scores dropped off the agenda as the poor woman spent the whole interview being comforted by Mr W as she was so mortified by her gaffe.

[TerryG]

I don't think anything posted in here could have been considered libellous, nothing is even close to resembling rude. That's why no posts have been edited or deleted.

The less rude nicknames for my teachers were my science teacher, Mr Potts who used to get called either Potty or Caractacus (I have no idea how that should be spelt)
My music teacher was simply called "the witch" because she had an evil laugh but I can't remember her name.
A trainee science teacher acquired the nickname "single cell" after he left as he was trying to teach us about them but failed his exams and left.
There were lots more but I would have to moderate myself if I posted them

[Fatbloke]

My Physics teacher Mr Tim Kemp Waved his arms about a lot when teaching which earned him the nickname "Timothy Tickle"