Bernard.

[DTS]

Just done a mortgage for a bloke called Bernard and it came to me that short of Bernie Friend who i dont actually know - This is the first non-celebrity Bernard I have ever know.

Does anyone else know a Bernard and if so who is he?

DtS

 

[DTS]

Sorry thought I was in the Pub section. :flamer:

please move.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Yes, my mate Bernard Clottey - Welsh fella, aged 29. He's widely known as Benny amongst the lads, although I believe his work colleagues (one of whom is a Southend fan) call him Bernice, which he's not mad keen on.

In fact, here is Bernard/Benny/Bernice with me in Tallinn last year:

 

[GrimmRobes]

I know of a 'Bernie' - he's an aquaintance of a good friend of mine and there's a seriously funny story (if you know the protagonists that is) about mistaken identity involving this bloke, the 'punchline' of which is "Alright Bern". This story has taken on such epic proportions amongst a small group of friends that we often greet each other with an "Alright Bern".

 

[jstallan]

My uncle was a Bernard.... But we called him Tom, never found out why

 

[CC51DAS]

At the time the Rubins were under fire , there was a guy on the North Bank called Bernard Hughes who was quite popular , but I never met him .

Was quite young at the time ;)

 

[Bucks_blue]

I don't think I have ever met a Bernard in my life.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Bloke who ran the newsagents I did a paper round for was called Bernard.

Also the coach driver who took us on our school trip to the Rhineland was a Brummie called Bernie. Imagine a bus full of hormonal pubescent teenagers going "awrite Booinee" in a really bad Wolves accent!

Very tenuous but only come into mind after a bottle of red wine! Hic!

 

[Cheltenham Shrimper]

Used to work with a Bernard back home.

My mate's dog is called Bernie. God knows why....

 

[Macca71]

I had an uncle Bernard - I think it was because he looked like a St Bernard dog. Come to think of it he was rather partial to a whiskey too!!

 

[Xàbia Shrimper]

I was once posted to a high-altitude comms station in Bosnia for two days with a lance-corporal called Bernard. He used to cook chips individually in the fryer. Strange fellow.

 

[C C Csiders]

I knew a Bernard Hughes. You wouldn't want him to get ahead of you walking down Golders Green High Road and have to shout loudly after him though.

 

[loz]

Allsports on Southend High Street used to be managed by a guy called Bernie Nolan. I know, because I ran the best damn footwear section in the region.

 

[Benfleet A1]

My dads middle name was Bernard.

 

[MrB]

I run a ten pin bowling league, one week a guy called Bernie bowled but the team didn't add his surname, I never found out what it was so I'm assuming that he was Brazilian in a Ronaldo type one name stylee (or they didn't know what his surname was).

 

[Uncle Leo]

I've just remembered that the flatmate went to school with a bloke called Bernard Poon. Mr Poon also has a brother called Desmond.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

I've just remembered that the flatmate went to school with a bloke called Bernard Poon. Mr Poon also has a brother called Desmond.

Do one of their middle names begin with an "S"?

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

So not many unfamous Bernards then!

Most Bernard's are therefore famous -

Bernard Matthews, George Bernard Shaw, Bernard Jenkin, Bernard Cribbins, Bernie Winters, Bernie Clifton, Bernie Eccleston, Bernie Grant, Bernie Slaven, Bernie Torme, Bernard Herrman, St Bernard, Bernard Hill, Bernie Marsden, Bernie the Tractor, Bernhard Langer etc..........

 

[Uncle Leo]

So not many unfamous Bernards then!

Most Bernard's are therefore famous -

Bernard Matthews, George Bernard Shaw, Bernard Jenkin, Bernard Cribbins, Bernie Winters, Bernie Clifton, Bernie Eccleston, Bernie Grant, Bernie Slaven, Bernie Torme, Bernard Herrman, St Bernard, Bernard Hill, Bernie Marsden, Bernie the Tractor, etc..........

Don't forget Bernard Sumner from New Order....

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I'm assuming that he was Brazilian in a Ronaldo type one name stylee

LOL... his son could be called Berninho...

:p

Of course, the great irony of Brazilian footballers is that they almost all choose a single nick-name (or use their first name) to put on their shirts because, in fact, they mostly have incredibly long names... e.g.

Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Ronaldo Luis Nazário de Lima
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite
José Roberto Gama de Oliveira

Your test - without looking up on google, Wikipedia, or any other search engine - is to tell me how we normally refer to the five footballers listed above. The first two are "gimmes", really...

:D