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6 unusual facts about bully


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In 1648, the village billeted troops involved in the Battle of Lens.

Ricouart proposes that "Bullire" derives from the French "bouillonner," a reference to the source of the river Surgeon in a neighboring commune.

Bully's Acre

Bully's Acre is the site in Ballinalee in County Longford, Ireland where insurrectionists were executed by Lord Cornwallis.

Bully's Acre, Dublin

The largest of these was the "pattern" on the feast of St. John (24 June), when thousands trooped through the cemetery to St. John's Well, located across the road from the cemetery.

In 1953 the arm ended up on display in the Hideout, a public house in Kilcullen, County Kildare, for many years.

But not only paupers were buried here, as many respectable Catholic citizens made use of the land, as after the Reformation there was no official Catholic graveyard in the city.


Agent Z

Trevor Simpson, Ben’s dad; a practical sort; confesses to having been a bully in his school years; relieves his boredom by listening to Elvis Presley and Rock ‘n’ Roll music in a shed at the bottom of the garden, and attends Rock ‘n’ Roll nights at the local pub.

Andrei Arlovski

Arlovski appeared on Mayhem Miller's MTV show Bully Beatdown in which he beat up a bully, earning the bully's victims $10,000.

Brendan Sexton III

Born in Staten Island, New York, Sexton made his film debut in Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse playing the troubled bully Brandon McCarthy, for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.

Bridger Palmer

He started acting (along with his twin brother Brecken Palmer) when they were four years old, following the footsteps of their older sister, Jaelin, who has a small part as a bully in the film.

Bully Beef and Chips

The name "Bully Beef and Chips" comes from a quickly-prepared meal — corned beef and chips — with "Bully beef" being a phrase used for "corned beef".

Bully Dawson

In Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer Hardcastle refers to him in Act 3: "And can you be serious? I never saw such a bouncing, swaggering puppy since I was born. Bully Dawson was but a fool to him."

Bully Hayes

The adventures of "Bully" were the subject of the 1983 pirate adventure film Nate and Hayes, also known as Savage Islands, which starred Tommy Lee Jones as Hayes.

Christopher Dale Flannery

In the 2009 mini-series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Dustin Clare portrays Flannery as a reckless bully with links to the planning of the Great Bookie Robbery and to drug trafficker Robert Trimbole.

Den osynlige

His best friend is getting picked on by the school bully, Annelie (Tuva Novotny), a rather violent young girl who is often neglected.

Frankie Osborne

Frankie and Esther's relationship continues to becomes distant when Sinead O'Connor (Stephanie Davis) and Ruby bully Esther and turn Frankie against her.

Gabourey Sidibe

Her next film, Yelling to the Sky, was a Sundance Lab project directed by Victoria Mahoney and starring Zoe Kravitz, in which she plays a bully.

Gid Tanner

Among their best-known songs are "Alabama Jubilee", "Shortnin' Bread", "Old Joe Clark", "Casey Jones", "John Henry", "Bully of the Town", "Bile Them Cabbage Down", "Cotton-Eyed Joe", "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss", "Soldier’s Joy", "Bonaparte's Retreat", "Leather Breeches", "Four Cent Cotton" and their biggest seller, "Down Yonder".

Judy Paradis

In December 2011, during an event in Northern Aroostook County, Paradis told Governor Paul LePage, "You come off as a bully" during a workshop regarding large cuts to MaineCare proposed by the LePage administration.

Lice Capades

The nurse gives him a note and he goes to the doctor, who prescribes Clyde a special shampoo to deal with the problem, but Clyde remains very shocked and embarrassed by the situation, knowing the other kids are going to bully and pick on him.

Little Archie

Fangs Fogarty: A fat, snaggle-toothed bully who tormented Archie, Jughead and Reggie in their younger years.

Michael DeLuise

In addition to being part of the iconic set of headbangers in the "Bohemian Rhapsody" scene of Wayne's World, he also played Matt, the school bully and primary villain in Encino Man.

My Gym Partner's a Monkey

Windsor Gorilla (voiced by Rick Gomez) is a highly intelligent lowland gorilla, who serves as the anti-bully at the school and often gives confusing wisdom to people.

Ronan's Escape

At school during break Ryan (Ryan Cammiande), a bully kicks a ball at a young boy, Ronan (David Lazarus), sitting along by himself causing him to fall down and everyone laughs at him.

Sacramento Valley and Eastern Railway

In July 1899, a colorful New York financier, Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar, purchased the Bully Hill mines for about $200,000 and set about building a smelter if 400 ton capacity and developing the area for copper.

Sergio Massa

He was said by one of Ambassador Vilma Socorro Martínez's cables to have revealed details about working with former President Néstor Kirchner, stating that he was "a psychopath; a monster whose bully approach to politics shows his sense of inferiority."

Sophie McKay

In 2009 she became head girl of Ferndale High and after briefly dating bully - Orlando (Chris Maclennan-Jones), Sophie started to date Daniel Potts (Ido Drent).

Sugarbomb

After an independent release, Tastes Like Sugar, in 1999, they were signed to RCA and released their second album, Bully, in 2001.

Susan Kushner

In Ramona and Beezus, Susan is portrayed by Sierra McCormick and seen as more of a bully than anywhere else in the series.

The Adventures of Willy Beamish

Despite the fact that it features a nine-year-old as the protagonist, much of the game's humor is adult-oriented, including sexual puns (such as a frog called "Horny"; Willy giving a bully a hand held game system and telling him to "play with himself"; a young blonde school nurse with large breasts) and some satire (including a parody of conservative American talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh).

The Art of the Sucker Punch

The episode was based on an experience co-creator and lead voice actor Brendon Small had at his school in his childhood with a bully.

"The Art of the Sucker Punch" was inspired by a confrontation series co-creator Brendon Small had with a school bully when he was a child.

The Curiosity of Chance

In 1980s Europe, flamboyant and gay 16-year-old Chance Marquis shows up at an international high school in a top hat and tails, immediately attracting the attention of the "queer-hating" resident bully, among others.

The Dirt Bike Kid

One day, Mrs. Simmons orders Jack to buy groceries with her last $50 bill she has in her savings, but Jack is distracted by a dirt bike race and uses the $50 to buy a dirt bike from a local bully named Max (Gavin Allen).

The Irish Filmography

Back to the Future (1985) has a detailed entry, owing to a scene in the Diner at the beginning when local bully Biff Tannan refers to Marty's father as 'Irish' in a derogatory fashion.

Trouble with X

Masaki Liu – Clarinet arrangement on "Rather Be Dead," "Play the Game"; horn arrangements on "Saturday," "Bully Go Home," "Country Roads," "Play the Game," "Tip From Me," "The Rumor Weed Song"; guitar on "Country Roads"

Weslandia

This architectural blandness is a mirror of the groupthink that initially leads Wesley's classmates to bully him for being unusual, but it's perpetrated by home-owning adults instead, who are unable or afraid to think outside the box.

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.

Zhou Chu

The story claims that Zhou Chu was such a hot-headed bully in his younger days that he was called one of the "Three Scourges" by the villagers in his hometown (in today's Yixing), along with a dragon and a tiger.


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