Simon Donald drawing Sid the Sexist in a copy of his book, Him off the Viz, November 2010

Characters often have rhyming or humorous taglines, such as Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly ; Nobby's Piles ; Johnny Fartpants ; Buster Gonad ; Sid the Sexist ; Sweary Mary or Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres.

* Sid the Sexist ( voiced by Sammy Johnson )

:* Sid the Sexist: The Joy of Sexism ( 1996 )

Simon Donald drawing Sid the Sexist in a copy of his book, Him off the Viz

His most famous creation for the magazine is probably Sid the Sexist.

Simon Donald drawing Sid the Sexist in a copy of his book, Him off the Viz, in November 2010

Sid also starred in a spinoff animated cartoon in 1992 ( also called Sid the Sexist ) which was aired on Channel 4.

* In the Geordie comic Viz, Whitley Bay was occasionally mentioned, for example by Sid the Sexist: " Less gann oorsel ' doon Whitley Bay and see if wi canna pull oorsel ' some forry hoops!

*' Tits oot for the lads ' ( tag line of Viz character Sid the Sexist ) becomes ' Remove your decollétage from its corsetry for the delectation of the gentlemen present '

In punk and hardcore punk, singers and band members often replace their real names with " tougher "- sounding stage names, such as Sid Vicious ( real name John Simon Ritchie ) of the late 1970s band Sex Pistols and " Rat " of the early 1980s band The Varukers and the 2000s re-formation of Discharge.

For example, SpeedTree was used to render the realistic trees and vegetation in the role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Fork Particle was used to simulate and render real time Particle Systems visual effects or particle effects in Sid Meier's Civilization V.

The Egyptian Theatre was built by showman Sid Grauman and real estate developer Charles E. Toberman, who subsequently built the nearby El Capitan Theatre and Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard.

I think it's much more fun that Gladys doesn't really let go until she goes out with Sid, gets real drunk, and throws caution to the wind.

At Halloween Havoc, a fake Sting ( Barry Windham ), in collusion with Sid, let Sid pin him after switching places with the real Sting in order for Sid to win the belt.

However, they were thwarted when the real Sting came out and beat Sid to retain the title.

Will the real Sid Abbott please stand up?

The real Sting was able to defeat Sid and retain the title.

Her real name was Fatma Sid Ahmed.

Others are obvious references to several real world characters, such as Brick Jagger, Sid Viscous and Jimi Handtrix ( referencing Mick Jagger, Sid Vicious and Jimi Hendrix ).

But once again, Sid discovers it is not the real Maxwell Baxter, but another cardboard replica with a hidden tape recorder.

Having discovered the truth about Dallas 13's real identity and how Clyde killed her parents, she maneuvers the bomb-laden car on a collision course with OMAR headquarters, where Sid dies.

Diego, surprised to see the mini-sloths are real, convinces Sid to stay with the others, reluctantly admitting that Sid is a vital part of their ' herd '.

Gamers that year had a choice between a new game with the Civilization name but no involvement of Sid Meier ; and a " space "- themed civilization game without the name but clearly designed by the same team ( Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ).

The characters he portrayed in the films were usually very similar to the wise-cracking, sly, lecherous Cockney he was famed for playing on television, and in six cases bore the name Sid or Sidney: Sidney Fiddler, Sid Carter, Sid Plummer, Sidney Bliss, Sidney Boggle and Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond.

Sid Vicious, however, did not truly take his name to seem tough but rather because he was anything but Vicious ( several sources have indicated that Sid himself hated this nickname ).

: Real name: Samuel Brooklyn ( Sid ' Tread ' Perkins in some versions )

The name of the group came from Sid Caesar, who, if a joke didn't go over, or played worse than expected, would attribute it to " the kids in the hall ", referring to a group of young writers hanging around the studio.

In the novel, we are told that Ford's original name is " only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect " which was almost wiped out by the " Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal ./ Sid ./ Year 03758 ," a mysterious catastrophe which took place on the planet of Betelgeuse Seven and which Ford's father was the only man to survive.

The title " Flowers of Romance " was the name of a short-lived band featuring Keith Levene and Sid Vicious in 1976 ( it has also been applied to a pair of improvisational live numbers performed by the Sex Pistols ).

*' Michiel de Ruyter ' is the default name for the Dutch in Sid Meier's 1994 game, Colonization.

In 1987, the company released Sid Meier's Pirates !, which also began a trend of placing Meier's name in the titles of his games.

* Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel name themselves Tom and Jerry and begin their recording career, signing with Sid Prosen of Big Records.

A sequel featuring improved graphics and more complex gameplay was published by Gathering of Developers in 1998 after PopTop Software acquired rights to the name from MicroProse, Sid Meier's original company which he himself left a year earlier to form Firaxis.

In November 2004, Firaxis released Sid Meier's Pirates !, an update of Meier's classic 1987 game of the same name.

Firaxis ' titles are frequently prefixed with Sid Meier's name, due to his design and programming contributions and original game ideas.

* Sid ( disambiguation ), various meanings, including a given name

It was at Microprose where Reynolds first worked with Sid Meier and the two collaborated on a strategy title by the name of Sid Meier's Colonization which was released in 1994.

Although marketed under Sid Meier's name, Civilization II, Sid Meier's Colonization and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri all credited Reynolds as lead designer.

There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.

Jerry Seinfeld is an avid fan and " The Old Man " ( Season 4, Episode 18, aired 18 February 1993 ) featured a cantankerous old man named " Sid Fields ," played by veteran actor Bill Erwin, as a tribute to Sidney Fields, the landlord from the Abbott & Costello TV show.

Sidney K. " Sid " Meier ( born February 24, 1954 ) is a Canadian-American programmer and designer of several popular strategy video games and simulation video games, most notably Civilization.

Sidney " Sid " Gillman ( October 26, 1911 – January 3, 2003 ) was an American football player, coach, executive, and innovator.

In the late 1970s, Sidney was recording for a new label, Bally Hoo, and started his own publishing company, Sid Sim Publishing.

Isaac Sidney " Sid " Caesar ( born September 8, 1922 ) is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer best known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and for his role as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.

The comedy actor Sidney James, as he was then billed, played Sid, a criminally-inclined confidant of Hancock, who usually succeeded in conning him each week ; Bill Kerr appeared as Hancock's Australian lodger, a character who became noticeably dim-witted in the later shows.

Sidney Luckman, known as Sid Luckman, ( November 21, 1916 – July 5, 1998 ) was an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League ( NFL ) from 1939 to 1950.

* Sid and Perce Goon – ( short for Sidney and Percy ) Ern's younger twin brothers.