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strangest trini nicknames
« on: August 18, 2006, 09:53:12 AM »
ah man statement on de mutual acquaintances thread make meh decide to start this..unless as a later comer it hasnt already begun
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this next one is a case of fact being stranger than "fiction". it had a dude whose nick name was oliver...his real name is Sphantus Gumps (pronounced ssssssss-fan-tas)
i kid u not
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2006, 10:55:23 AM »
Well it had a gyul used to live jes dong de street on we block.  A man christen she spannah toe jes because she toe dem bend een lil bit.  Tink she does still carry dah tag to dis day

Den of course it had de fella on de nex block everybody used to call he tolum.  Dey say de fella was so black...he navy blue.

Finally...de gyul dey used to call splint.  She was so thin man say she pyjama dem had one stripe.



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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2006, 11:07:35 AM »
Palos, ah wonder if tolum is related to a young girl dey call disco tolum, she close to navy too, and she used to be in upper level every Thursday and Friday night making d place lively.
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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2006, 11:43:03 AM »
remember meh first serious girl fren had real bumper...and boobs...n she was lil thick nah..so they yse to call she water buffalo :devil: :devil:
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2006, 12:19:05 PM »
Palos, ah wonder if tolum is related to a young girl dey call disco tolum, she close to navy too, and she used to be in upper level every Thursday and Friday night making d place lively.

yeah dey related...tolum  iz she older brudder....matter of fact dey have ah cousin  name cobo skin who was ah maxi conductor....and ah younger brudder who dey does call salt prune face......
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2006, 12:27:06 PM »
ok so here goes...
ah have a cousin dey duz call "captain but-but"...she have a big fore head nah

and another cousin called "toe-lome" de girl name is Salome but her big toe real long....by far longer dan de res of her toes!

den dey duz call my lil brother "frog"..i eh quite know where dat one come from...but he find it cool

also meh real good friend dey duz call him "bison"...de fatima men and a few st james sec men go know who i talking bout....dey duz also call bison..."balak"

oh yea....ah have another lil cousin dey duz call him "moto"....i eh know why

i duz lovingly call my sister "buller" too...she used to it by now...not to mention dey duz call her man "putty" as in Putty Tang...dey say de man duz look like putty tang...i eh really find so...but daz de man name

ah have an aunt dey duz call "buttons" and "porky"

and ah nex aunt of mine marry ah man dey duz call "corn curls foot"

de same man meh aunt marry have a friend dey duz call "orange"...de man nearly orange for real...even he hair sugar brown

and it have ah man he duz be by phase II pan yard...a junkie...dey duz call hin "horse"...wen de man shoot up he duz run from POS to Chaguanas and back...no lie

ah had a great uncle de used to call "turkey"

oh and ah know ah girl from round de corner in woodbrook...dey duz call de girl "de woodbrook matress"...i eh go say why

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Re: strangest trini nicknames
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2006, 12:33:51 PM »
just remeber one..they use to call meh fadda BATSHIT. i eh knwo y doh ask meh..i go hadda sk him
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2006, 12:48:08 PM »
ah had a great uncle de used to call "turkey"

HAD?  Doh tell meh Turkey pass yuh know.  Turkey is a stalwart by de phase.

Across de street is yuh neighbour "sugars"

Axe Pepe if he remember "Attack".....de Tranquil flagman from long time

Of course...u should know who "De African" is.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2006, 12:48:26 PM »
lefty,chance,syrian,toelee boy and capo,all ah dem is de same fella.
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2006, 12:59:23 PM »
ah had a great uncle de used to call "turkey"

HAD?  Doh tell meh Turkey pass yuh know.  Turkey is a stalwart by de phase.

Across de street is yuh neighbour "sugars"

Axe Pepe if he remember "Attack".....de Tranquil flagman from long time

Of course...u should know who "De African" is.

yea Turkey died man...like 2 years or so now...that funeral was something!
and well who doh know Sugars...dat man duz drive me up a wall now...him and Groover.
as for De African...i not sure if i know who dat is...but ah go ask Daddy bout him and Attack!
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2006, 01:07:42 PM »
ah had a great uncle de used to call "turkey"

HAD?  Doh tell meh Turkey pass yuh know.  Turkey is a stalwart by de phase.

Across de street is yuh neighbour "sugars"

Axe Pepe if he remember "Attack".....de Tranquil flagman from long time

Of course...u should know who "De African" is.

yea Turkey died man...like 2 years or so now...that funeral was something!
and well who doh know Sugars...dat man duz drive me up a wall now...him and Groover.
as for De African...i not sure if i know who dat is...but ah go ask Daddy bout him and Attack!

Yuh sadden meh dey wit dah news bout Turkey dey gyul.  Lawd....ah did never know.  Wuss yet...is 2 years pass.  Good fella and as ah say...a Phase II to de bone.

Den again...yuh make meh laff wit de mention a Groover name.  Groover is tears!!!  ;D
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Re: strangest trini nicknames
« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2006, 01:37:03 PM »
Dey say de fella was so black...he navy blue.


I knew a fella like dat...dey used to call him "5 past midnight"

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« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2006, 01:56:07 PM »
interesting names lol.......Well I used to call my boy cousin bibi and another one boy boy. Them names stick up to now lol and they in their teens now lol.  :rotfl:
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Re: strangest trini nicknames
« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2006, 02:00:20 PM »
La Brea Rock Star
African Congo Dolly
Uma TuTu
Indian Ali
Sambo
Fly Bamsee
Nutmeg

All ah dem still alive and over 60 years expect Indian Ali, he say he is 35 for dey last 20 years

La Brea and Congo is brudda and sista from of course La Brea....both ah dem by pass black, infact dey navy blue
Uma surname is Tossiant, to we shorten it to TuTu
Indian Ali from Arima ah hairdresser and he more woman dan all are we put together
Sambo ah doh know where he get he name from
Fly Bamsee was ah vagrant from town, fly always round she bottom
Nut Meg well datz she name Meg.

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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2006, 02:03:49 PM »
Butts
Bob(it hav ah fella who does call everybudy bOB)
Beast
Big Toe
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« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2006, 02:19:23 PM »
tallman
tallboy
smallman
shortman
shortie
fatboy
fatgirl
spanish
redman
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Re: strangest trini nicknames
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2006, 02:23:51 PM »
I HAD  a padnah deal a gyul we use to call

lippychanno  cuz she lip was real big

and a fellay in my class we use to call tipscotch cuz he claim on he 1st day of skool to kecth 2 men plying tippytoetee for a butterscotch ;D

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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2006, 02:45:43 PM »
It seem like all de pusher and dem name after animal

Dog
Bulls
Manicou
Snake
Rat

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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2006, 03:13:32 PM »
Toolum Cowboy
Pitch
Blacks
Red Dog
Ballwin (ah rell ball hoe)
Skull
Boogie
Snake
Hawk
Klinger (he had ah nose like Klinger from MASH)
Beast
Pig
Piglet (Pig younger brother)
Cow
Calf (Cow younger brother)
Bull
McEnearney Ramgoat
Muscles (he was rell thin)
Bonzo
Sleepy
Pudge
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Re: strangest trini nicknames
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2006, 05:33:00 PM »
ah knew ah gyull called Coki-eye crab..she had a bad eye and was a jamette lol
meh brother was Stumpy and Poopsie
i was Nerd, Brains and Professor  ;D
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2006, 07:01:13 PM »
meh nickname is 4 (at certain places) ...

ah man name cobo by me because he nose big and he black like tolom..

thas all ah could remember , but ah probably have more..
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2006, 07:13:42 PM »
In the area deh does call me Lye Down and in school deh used to call me Professor.

In Barataria it have  man deh does call Asshole. No joke. Even old ladies does call him that

It have a man call Goof on the nex street. A nex one called Tina and a nex one called Egg.

Remember a man who get shot last year named Satan -his mother said he was a good boy. Steups !

In QRC it had a yute we used to terrorise, we used to call him Doofus and it had a nex one name Grogumps.

In eddie hart ground it have a man called Snerd who does come out and sweat.

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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2006, 08:12:54 PM »
ah just remember

fig lip - man lip so long, even dey fig peel was shame
Nose - he nose so pointy he coulda satisfy 2 oman one time

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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2006, 09:16:37 PM »
i remeber 2
bourbon
and nosotros..have nuttin to do wiht spanish ..is his sssnoze
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2006, 09:23:14 PM »
I did know ah fella name nosotros in Trinity oui. And den we had preggy...he ahd a big forrid so man say it look pregnant.

But de best was:..........   TA-ta. foon gee  oh gard he was ah real stinker.


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« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2006, 10:17:52 PM »
Had a man in Fatima name Zonk.  Man head did shape like a calabash wee.
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« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2006, 10:57:56 PM »
and a trini white boy name helmet.   he head was so big, man say it like ah german helmet from wwII

we used tuh tell he he could ride motor bike without ah helmet, all he had tuh do was shave he ehad bald, paint it red, with ah black stripe down he fae and unde rhe chin and he set tuh go.

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« Reply #27 on: August 19, 2006, 07:32:46 AM »
mi have sum partners hear de name..
danglarway, cushew, dole, funnel , beast, puthung, chow, dungdeisland, coco, bullshit, bullfart,  icepik, dunlop, backalaw, guanaback, toleylip, ears,
Ah-chew-wang, parrot, hurricane, fluffy, pyal, f**ku-ben , gun-N sack, sickting,  . Trus mi I a go lie half of dem fellas was mi partners and I aint know dey real name up till now.. from small a so mi call dem... and all dem name have meaning or dread !!! I could break it dung for allyuh if allyuh want..there is a story behind everyone of dem name.\
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« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2006, 07:54:50 AM »
plups, menace, boogu, boonie, 4-5, fly, plats, charchie-boy, big-foot, nadish, tony-screw, prestige (was meh name because i was goin st james sec and i used to tell de whole ah morvant i was goin ah prestige school), tootie, figgie, pinhead, tin-tin, .............
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« Reply #29 on: August 19, 2006, 12:15:53 PM »
Palos tell me if you know who dis is....Tilde( as in the curly spanish accecnt) Lip!
he used to teach at Fatima!
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