Stories of Paraná - Plant nicknames (3)

Stories of Paraná - Plant nicknames (3)

Plant nicknames (3)
Geraldo Luiz Mazza

In Paranaguá would be perfectly possible, at least a few years ago, imagine a phonebook only with nicknames. And today, with the cultural changes operated, there is no longer, as before, that the speed of Corisco caricaturing people.
A softly complainer, good ball, a naked, just melts when an attacker on your team complains: "loose the ball, half Brahma!"
I remember a basketball game where the defender Elias selection of Ponta Grossa - agile and feline in rebounds, an almost bluish black, - did not stand up and lost control of the ball when dubbed "the gum Oz".
In 1950, angered by the passive (so I could see them) of younger staff, who did not care for the campaign that I will trigger the "Journal of Commerce" in defense of higher education in the city, criticized the involvement of all the disappointment regarded at Maracanã Brazilian team that lost in Uruguay.
One morning, under the ta-Mareira (the only one that I know of), the square Fernando Amaro, was a discussion on the subject, believing that with the defeat of Brazil and perhaps personal despressurizasse back to reality. And she, passionately, that tone when
Chiquito Loco noticed that my pants jean had successive vertical lines, and tascou: "There you go with those pants notebook language!"
An interesting passage was the photographer Sergio Matulevicius ugly head with that of immigrants, in charge of making the cover of the riot in the city because of a power outage. Sergio traveled with his legs tucked in play hard and train second class, absorbed by the mountain scenery, not realized that her legs went numb from lack of circulation.
Upon reaching the city, to reactivate the circulation, beating rhythmically with her feet on the floor and, with the "Roleiflex" strip lap, now, with that expression dazed, asking for information about the riot.
When he reached the second wheel was already stamped: it was the curious robot

Geraldo Luiz Mazza, parnaguara, journalist


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.