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Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 9:56 PM BST

Hmm this thread seems to be a bit of a laugh, at the mentally ill, dispossessed and learning disabled.

Sorry to be a PC tree hugger.

I work with what could be called "local eccentrics," some of them are quite nice people.

Shame they're not all in a circus or something, then you could see them all at once.

I was always humbled by meeting one woman who was a "local eccentric."

Turns out she was a translator at Neuremberg, multi lingual, but never got over what she heard.

Still I'm sure she looked quite funny.

Yeah, you're right.

Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 9:56 PM BST

Hmm this thread seems to be a bit of a laugh, at the mentally ill, dispossessed and learning disabled.

Sorry to be a PC tree hugger.

I work with what could be called "local eccentrics," some of them are quite nice people.

Shame they're not all in a circus or something, then you could see them all at once.

I was always humbled by meeting one woman who was a "local eccentric."

Turns out she was a translator at Neuremberg, multi lingual, but never got over what she heard.

Still I'm sure she looked quite funny.

But mentals are funny. Joke. Maybe.

How about a location?

Mentally unwell person living in misery in the street. Not Funny.

Mentally unwell person living in the Whitehouse. Disturbingly funny.

A man by the name of Kevin Twigg was our local character; I lived in a small place and he was sort of a local hero, everyone new and loved Twigg, I shared many a bemused pint with him as he related the same story for the seventy-fith time. He also occasionally went out wearing the tiniest policemans helmet youve ever seen. No one messed with the Twigg, he was a local celebrity.

Quote: Matthew Stott @ May 15 2008, 10:17 PM BST

A man by the name of Kevin Twigg was our local character; I lived in a small place and he was sort of a local hero, everyone new and loved Twigg, I shared many a bemused pint with him as he related the same story for the seventy-fith time. He also occasionally went out wearing the tiniest policemans helmet youve ever seen. No one messed with the Twigg, he was a local celebrity.

Well that's different, and a great example of a community, that just isn't around anymore.

Used to street surveys for a homeless charity, and that was kinda fun, in an eccentric way.

Quite astonishing why so many people end up the street.

I met a guy who claimed he pushed Lucan off that ferry.

Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 9:56 PM BST

I was always humbled by meeting one woman who was a "local eccentric."

Turns out she was a translator at Neuremberg, multi lingual, but never got over what she heard.

Bloody 'ell!

Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 10:23 PM BST

I met a guy who claimed he pushed Lucan off that ferry.

Hahahaa.

I am actually Lord Lucan.

Of course they might both have been fibbing. I always figured that Lucan actually was Freddy Mercury.

The woman, she was the real deal.

http://www.bumwine.com/

useful if you want to become a local eccentric yourself.

Juggling Jim is my town's local eccentric.

For the last 10 years or so, he's stood in the town centre performing bizarre acts. At first he juggled very poorly. Then he used to jump about with a hula hoop which I once saw him get stuck in. Nowadays he plays a guitar which has a broken fretboard and 2 strings.

The amount of rumours that I've heard about him are endless. He's a millionaire, he killed Kennedy, he lives in a tree etc....

There's a picture of him in a book actually. One of those 'Weird Britain' books.

Actually I live in London, and we have a mad local eccentric.

He's called Boris rides on a bike everywhere, and he claims he's mayor!

There was a guy called Ken who used to say he was mayor.

I heard Boris killed him in an argument over a bottle of Buckfast.

There's also this really old women, who says she's the queen.

Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 9:56 PM BST

Hmm this thread seems to be a bit of a laugh, at the mentally ill, dispossessed and learning disabled.

Claude the Bum is awesome. Everyone in town likes him and like I said he seems to love his life.

Quote: sootyj @ May 15 2008, 9:56 PM BST

Turns out she was a translator at Neuremberg, multi lingual, but never got over what she heard.

Quote: Aaron @ May 15 2008, 10:36 PM BST

Bloody 'ell!

Bloody hell indeed!

He was pretty screwed with a name like that.

I mean his parents knew their name was Bum.

But calling their son Claude, and The.

What ever happened to his sister, Low-down Dirty?

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Ooh how bitchy, she'll throw a chihuahua at you.

Either that or empty her dog turd filled hand bag over your head.

http://www.hobo.com/

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