God Bless our school and college teachers. Today, I am what I am, thanks to all my teachers. And I am sure most of us would think the same way.
I would give tons of credit to the Middle and High school teachers in specific, as they are the ones who take a student during the important years of a student's life, I mean the teen years.
For me, my Middle and High schools were the same and we had excellent teachers. I see some of them even now when I go home. They are all old now...But memories of their teaching and spanking still comes back to my memories ( and their memories too, hopefully)
During those years I bet, most of us students, had nicknames for our teachers. Here are some of the ones from my school. I've given approximate English translations for those of you who don't know Tamil, my mother-tongue.
வாழக்காய் (Raw Banana)
Math teacher who would always refer to Bananas for examples. Whether it is Time and distance or Area of Triangle! Why not oranges or apples or grapes? No idea.
SIDER
Tight trousers and the obvious !!
அகோனி (UH-GOE-NEE)
History teacher. This is how he pronounced the word AGONY, while he read a poem , when he substituted for English one day.
ஆப்பம் (South Indian dish which looks like a bowl)
Bald headed Head Master.
அழுக்கு வேஷ்டி (Dirty Dhoti)
Our Carpentry teacher( Pity him now) who would always wear a dirty dhoti to school.
எறா மீசை (Lobster's Moustache)
This teacher has a big Moustache.
மட்ட ரகம் (Poor Quality person)
He would always use this word when he yelled at someone.
கிளி - (Parrot)
A lady teacher who had a peculiar voice.
( More tomorrow...Don't want to make this too long)
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Had an English teacher for higher secondary who read a piece of prose like this: "suvallo suvallo little suvallo" (for "swallow, swallow, little swallow) and in college, had one English professor who told us that we must all improve our "vokkabulary" (vocabulary). But all said and done, teachers were our Gods since they opened our "knowledge eye" and we should be always thankful to them and at least think about them on September 5th :-)
hehehe very funny....we didn't have these names but we had something similar....
Thennavan,
I admire and respect my teachers.
Your suvallo.! was very funny.!
LOL :)
Me
Why not share some of yours.! If its not too personal.!
Funny..We had professor in college whose hair had turned grey....so we named him POWDER THALAIEN..
hahhahaha venkitu sir brings back those wonderful memories of my school..I was called this "nick-name maami" as i was so popular in keeping nick names...
I remember me having this peculiar name "Erumanayagam" fo rmy Math teacher...coz he used to scold us saying
"Erumai madungala (bit weird but he is from a very different background but having endless qualifications on his name tag) ..enaku pinnadiyum rendu kannu iruku..pesina ezhundu velile pogha vechuduven..."
his name ended with nayagam....so i named him Erumai + Nayagam :) Erumanayagam :) not sounding so funny now..but this was the name very popular back in the school days :)
I'm a good boy at school :-)
Narayanan Sir,
Your post reminded the school/college days in mind! Thank you...btw, we had one English sir nick-named as MAMA (he had two MAs one in Political science and other in English)..One Maths teacher as 'Puraa Koondu' as he had bald headed in centre of his head!!!
Chomali - Chemistry miss used that on a bugger nicknamed Pamb.
Kosu - BE teacher who was very thin.
Pamb - Nickname for a bugger who used to slurp his tongue in and out.
Watertank - For a bugger who was as fat as a water tank.
Paneer Selvam - For a prof who used to spit while talking.
Ja Ja Binks - For a colleague who resembles the Star Wars character.
These are the ones that come up to my mind right away. Will post the rest when I remember them.
haha narayan, thats a pretty interesting and funny post. somehow whenever we look down the memory lane at our school days things appear far more easier than what we face now. nice names u have designated for ur teachers.reminds me one of our math teachers always referred to bad students as "criminals"!
Naren,
Powder thalaiyan.!! funny
IBH
Erumai naayagam muttinara ungalai? Peru vechadharkku?
Maran neenga good boyoh, beemboyh....but teacherskku nick name illadha school ...adhu endha school.!
Sundaresan
Pura koondu is funny.!
Anand Water Tank, PaneerSelvam, LOL :)
Amrita Memories and School days.!! Memories of pure mischief and fun.!! We can't go back there.!
Nari, After all these years. Pls give them a break :).
Thoroughly enjoyed the posting
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