Stories of Paraná - Plant nicknames (I)

Stories of Paraná - Plant nicknames (I)

Plant nicknames (I)
Geraldo Luiz Mazza

Wilson Rio Apa, journalist and writer, arrives at Paranaguá railway station with his wife, Esther, and sons Kim and Thor.
With his beard Indian, that air of permanent adventure sometimes mustering for Buddhism, he was known for his exploits at sea along the coast with a sailboat fragile or test your stamina without power, one of the Bay Islands.
Using modern clothes - and Paranaguá was the focal point of these innovations, because they appeared first on the coast and then climbed the mountain until the mid-fifties - and a classic "Jean Sablon", dropped his jacket on the pants, which the city immediately nicknamed "shit standing", Wilson was our Jack London, which broke with the city accommodation, and the challenge facing the sea, as it did soon after graduating in law, to take a foreign freighter on which made a number of stories, full of philosophical musings about the human condition, for "State Government".
For Wilson and his family dealt with the clearance of cargo, when one of the "plates" of railway discusses who the traveling bag.
Another amendment:
- And in Jesus Christ wounds ...
True or folkloric, the passage gives a good idea as a Paranaguá plant names, feature that was missing with the urban changes and the arrival of people from other parts of the country, the coffee fever to the diversification of the export port.
In the city there was a prosecutor, hugely popular, who suffered from an evil stranger: used, amid the early mornings, the wheels of bohemian, sleep standing up. That was enough to call him "Horse baker." The nickname is perfect in that parade every pound of bread, virtually disappeared reference medium-sized cities, the horse pulled the deserved sleep and went out with difficulty, through sleepwalker, to resume work.
A pity that the texts have gone about this compulsive habit of parnanguaras, one of which was published in the newspaper "Diário do Comércio" during the tercentenary celebrations of the city.
Some give to remember, like "eye for bread" for a guy humble suppliant; "face sand piss", who is carrying or has bladder face excessively pierced, or "plaster of old church" when the damage Aesthetic is increased. \
The Chiquinho deliberator, former mayor of Ibiporã, to take the Port of Paranaguá realized how quickly arise nicknames: because of the fault that has one eye was called "eye garopa"; Alipio and General Ayres de Carvalho, one deployers of planning in Paraná, in multidisciplinary, in dealing with all matters of intimacy, became "teacher of God".

Geraldo Luiz Mazza is a journalist.


Source: Stories of the Paraná, Brasil.