we had loads with quirks and nick names
when i was eight my teacher would swing off the rafter beams for fun.
He was tubby and balding so it looked hilarious and other teachers joined in with him before. He would throw tables across the room when he got mad though.
He lived down the road from me actually, one time a bunch of cows broke loose from a field and they all stampeded his garden and he came out and beat them with this big stick/branch he kept and the cows knocked down his fence and trappled his lawn.
He chased them down the road screaming like a mad fool with a stick.