Who's your favourite Adelaide celebrity?

No I'm not talking about people like Ryan from Big Brother. I'm talking about about people that you really see everywhere in the city. Like:

Johnny - aboriginal dude that walks around with speedos and gumboots

The guy that delivers stuff on his bike around the city and scares the crap out of people when he yells "BEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!"

The guy who walks really fast down Rundle Mall with his walkman on and tries to sing a long with his death metal "grah! grrr graraghahg!!"

and so forth.

Personally I like that guy who sits outside of HJ's Rundle St and plays the keyboard. Because he's a musician keeping it real.

now u do know this should be in the general forum

hmmmm. let me think.

bugga cant think of one!

well that was a pointless response. can i say pete and tina from the hot house, now they have been ruthlessly ditched back into everyday society? nah, thats cheating.

me

Wouldnt this be kinda considered as a name dropping thread as well??

It's Adelaide related and noone from other states is gonna know who im on about so i dont reckon it should be in the general forum

and.... name dropping? Do you know all those fellas haha

8-)

name dropping?

I'm heaps good cause i know (of) the psycho old dude who walks down hindley st with a trolley full of cans telling everyone to fuck off... 8-)

so who wants my autograph

just need to line up

8-)

there's a really dirty old bald dude (dirty as in hasn't had a shower in years, not dirty as in he wolf whistles at primary school children) that i see in the park at the bottom of o'connell st in n. adelaide every now and then, he represents.

The dickhead on the microphone out the front of Peter Shearer (previously of the Reinassance Centre fame).

The old woman who deplorably sings prayers in the Mall.

Yoda the Can Lady (although she has disappeared).

drILLer.

my vote goes to the dood hoo sits againsat a wall and "plays songs" on his keyboard.Gives out lil flowers too i think

Johnny of course - inspiration for my avatar. i have 3 window media files of him dancing if anyone wants one.

The freak runner bitch (once again, sorry if not PC) who used to run around the Unley council suburbs... she seems to have disappeared though, so I think she may have been run over? She used to just constantly run all day, abusing anyone that looked at her...

there use to be some old quack that use to run a few times a day around the parklands (on the eastside) and she'd have a painted white face and wear white gloves !

I had nightmares about her when i was really young ! scared the shit outta me daily ! and a few years ago she just stopped .. and now i kinda miss her

anyone know who im on about or is this a flashback type thing ?

This thread should be called "Who's your favourite Adelaide homeless person"!

um... yeah

there is also the colonel from Nwd Pde. he walks up and down the parade begging for money - use to have a tall lanky fella in tow that looked like the train dude from the matrix but i hear they had a fight.

uses all his money on cigarettes from the booze brothers. also has a tendency to walk up to cars that are stopped at lights at the portrush rd parade intersection.

Toss up between Piano dude from outside HJ's on rundle and the dude who walks around collecting cans singing at the top of his voice generally located from the Casino up to the mall !

AHAHAAHAHAHA

adelaide really is a small place. i see all of those people reguarly and found myself thinking "i wonder if he has seen this guy" as i was reading the post only to see the description further down.

the walkman guy is classic.

did the aborginal guy used to do the hoola hoop and ballet thing on hindley?

keyboard guy on rundle is always funny.

always see the guy on his bike at adelaide uni going along victoria drive.




how bout thec razy old guy that busks in the mall with those crazy huge glasses singing really loudly heehee

What about some of the sporting heros such as Boony at the Adelaide Oval, and Super Sid at the footy?

Plenty of other Knob Jockeys sping to mind such as the guy from the Hair Machine in Regent Arcade, Albert Bensimon.

It has to be Tek-Tycoon.

That PM was absolute solid gold buddy. You are a hero to this state of ours. You are my rock!!!

I met somebody who knew her but have since forgotten what her life story was.

Man, the number of smudgey mornings driving home and coming across her running thru town absolutely scared the crap out of me.

There was also that dude, I think he was called Son of Sam, who was this short, hairy, hella muscly dude who used to walk around all day in an Ice T sweatshirt.