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john hansen
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 19, 2006 - 12:31pm PT
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Jim 'the Bird' Bridwell
Warren 'Batso'Harding, Bacher AKA 'Johnny Rock"
What about some others and how they came to be.
Largo? Duece? Chongo? Dolt?
Steve 'Crusher" Bartlett? The 'Mad Bolter"
Any stories?
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:13pm PT
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Thanks ' Cant Say' That is exactly what I was looking for
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Jaybro
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The West
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Aug 19, 2006 - 01:16pm PT
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Just a list, not the stories behind the lists.
Why, for example, "The Fish?"
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:20pm PT
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Why 'Largo' ,,,Big guy? Some Bogart comparison?
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Jaybro
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The West
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Aug 19, 2006 - 01:35pm PT
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I always want to believe that Bogart is 'Key' to 'Largo'.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:39pm PT
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That makes sense" dont bogart that joint my friend"
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:40pm PT
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How bout 'Chongo' What is his real name?
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Jaybro
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The West
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Aug 19, 2006 - 01:43pm PT
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Some, like "The Fatman," or "The White Denubian," have clearer etymologies.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 19, 2006 - 02:41pm PT
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I use the nom de plume Mighty Hiker because it seems de rigueur on ST to have one. It was kindly given to me when I was in boy scouts - because I was then anything but. In other words, typical adolescent male silliness, with a kernel of truth, as so often is the case.
I spent a fair amount of time in Camp 4, but had a low enough profile to not (as far as I know) earn a nickname there, or in Squamish. My first and middle names are quite Norwegian, but despite growing up in white bread 1960s and 1970s Canada, I never acknowledged attempts at nicknaming.
Postings to ST forums by people using their own names, or thinly concealed aliases, are often more worth the reading.
Daryl Hatten had some generic nicknames, which he generously used when necessary. If you were whining or pathetic enough, he'd call you "little baby X". Pretty much everyone heard that one sooner or later. Another was "lightweight", again to be applied to almost everyone.
There's a route on a minor cliff at Squamish called Horizontally Prone - a two pitch aid traverse. Climbed by Daryl and Eric in 1975 or so, maybe A3. Gordie Smaill's 1975 Squamish guidebook has the following tongue in cheek comment: "This route best describes these fellows' drinking habits: strictly lightweights."
Anders
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Aug 19, 2006 - 05:02pm PT
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Chongo's real name is Charles Victor Tucker, and although he told me once how he got his nickname, I can't remember. But I think it's just a derivative of Chuck.
Cheers,
"Pass the Pitons" Pete
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Chicken Skinner
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Yosemite
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Aug 19, 2006 - 07:26pm PT
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I worked construction in the Valley with a friend from Mexico and introduced him to Chongo and they would converse in Spanish at lunchtime. My friend Mariano got a big kick out of him because Chongo's spanish had slang in it that showed he had hung out with a rough crowd when he lived in Mexico. My friend said chongo meant monkey.
Ken
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Aug 19, 2006 - 09:59pm PT
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Largo aka John Long, think spanish for Long and that narrows it down a wee bit.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 19, 2006 - 10:59pm PT
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If you google the word "chongo", there are all sorts of interesting hits. About 265,000 total. Three or four on the first page seem related to Yosemite's Chongo, but there are a rather odd selection of other sites that contain the word.
One is a Spanish-English dictionary definition, which is:
chon·go
m.
1. GUATEMALA: - curl, lock (of hair)
2. MEXICO: (moņo) - bun, chignon
3. (dulce) - sweet, dessert
4. colloquial (broma) - joke
5. PERU: (querido) - darling
Anders
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Tarbuster
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Aug 19, 2006 - 11:07pm PT
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Chuck was the reigning figure of the Chongo Brothers, which included a pair of brothers who hung out in JT and did resoling with mexican rubber. Chuck would make forays to Mex and come back to supply the 3 of them with pretty sticky, albeit very soft, Mexican rubber.
Fish was givin his name by his junior high buddies and the moniker leaned more toward derogation than accolade, based on his charecteristic welsh facial cues.
He also did a mean "palsy", for pie and ice cream, when prompted to do so with said enticement. This consisted first of his sudden adoption a 1000 yd stare, then he'd slither down his booth seat (we always dined in booths), then he's reappear on the restaurant floor doing perfect jacknives on his side, while spitting coffee froth or french fries. Essentialy flopping like a fish.
I always thought the use of the name for his business, "Fish Products", was a bit of a coup, as he took it and made something of a usefull statement for himself with it.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 19, 2006 - 11:19pm PT
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Deuce is short for Deucey;
Can't remember the exact concoction.
Crusher, was to my my memory, based on his strong man appearance and overall tuff guy, motorcycle jacket, sleepin in the bushes next to his motorcycle in JT persona. If nobody pipes in with his true story, I'll soon call Fran, his astro physicist Brit wife and ask for the low down.
With any luck Walling will chime in and call BS on all my etymologies, as that's how it usually goes.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 11:27pm PT
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What about the Ladies? I knew a pair called the Michalobe Twins.
In the thread shown up above they mentioned the Tomahawk Twins, and the Bacheretts, extremly funny.
And who is this 'Industrial strength Sue' You guys are busting me up
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 11:28pm PT
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Thanks for the stories TB, Keep em coming.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 19, 2006 - 11:45pm PT
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Tomahawk Twins are Lucy and Virginia Parker.
Lucy, once described by Tom Carter as a Polynesian Goddess.
Virginia, RIP, was quite something.
We really need Russ Walling right now, fer fill in and general expository genius.
Industrial Sue, well, I'm not tuchin' that one...
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2006 - 12:17am PT
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How did the 'T'twins get thier name?
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