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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 1, 2007 - 06:15pm PT
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For instance, mine's Tahoe Climber.
When signing on, I was living in South Lake and searching for potential partners, so it seemed to make sense at the time.
Now I don't live there, and it seems silly, but it also seems silly to change it, as you get to know someone by their handle.
My buddy Off Route got his from a near disatrous lead on Tenaiya peak when he was learning to lead - he got, uh, off-route and wandered into harder, licheny territory. Very appropriate.
Of course, the question assumes that your ST name isn't the same as your real one...
So I've wondered on a few of these. Like, how did Watusi come about for Mike Paul?
How about Oli for Pat Ament?
T*R/SS?
Is "Christ" weschrist's last name?
Locker?
imnotclever?
Ouch?
Does crimpergirl really dig crimps?
Jaybro doesn't seem to speak bro/bra.
God knows we've wondered about A. Crowley, and the things that picking that username implies.
What's some of the ones you've wondered about, too? I can't remember all of the truly interesting ones.
-A
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2007 - 06:16pm PT
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cosmiccragsman?
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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ah, hmmm, gotta think about this one
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Chico
Trad climber
Mt. Shasta, CA
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I was born and raised in Chico, and when I moved to Mendocino I ran into another guy from Chico. He was a total burned-out dreadded stoner, and was always asking me for a ride here or there. "Eh yo, Chico! How 'bout givin' me a ride to the Co-op? C' mon bro. I'll get you stoned..." Of course, I always did...
Well, time passed, and before long I was guiding for Shasta Mountain Guides. Clients were always asking me where I was from, so I would say, Chico. Often, there would be hordes of people climbing Avalanche Gulch, and it was difficult to distinguish who was who out there. We used radios to communicate between guides. Ironically, there was another guide named Spencer who I worked with, and the confusion never ended, so my buddies just started calling me Chico. I guess it stuck.
There it is. Not extravagant...
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2007 - 06:24pm PT
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Again, the question assumes that you're one of the ones who didn't just use your name - OR your initials - or some mixed version thereof.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2007 - 06:27pm PT
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Cool story Chico
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Ouch!
climber
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I whacked myself on a table when I signed up and my name just magically appeared.
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CAMNOTCLIMB
Trad climber
novato ca
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just seemed to fit.
Brian
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Jerry- My dads war buddy in Nam. He didn't make it back. Don't ask.
Dodrill- No choice in that one. It's pronounced "Dodd-rill." Dod -like Dodge, rill -like hill.
Using your real name has pros and cons. Kinda keeps you honest though.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2007 - 06:53pm PT
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Kinda keeps you honest though.
Word.
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Mimi
climber
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Right on, Jerry.
eKat, I'm so glad you cleared that up. Nice!
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Bubba Ho-Tep
climber
Evergreen, CO
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If you had seen the movie, you wouldn't ask.....
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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USE YER' NAME OR HIDE WEASEL......
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knucko
climber
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Several years ago i was climbing a route called "cmon knucko" at the owens river gorge. At the time this climb was above my ability and i kept taking falls on lead. after several good whippers the crowd of people who I did not know started yelling encouragemnet "cmon Knucko" after this the name just stuck.
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nature
climber
Flagstaff, AZ
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Back in about 1993 I was heading out to Owens Valley to do some graduate research (digging holes and doing soil profiles). I drove out in my buddies toyota 4x4 - there were three of us. On the highways when I was sitting bitch I would move my leg from the passanger side to the drivers side. At one point my good buddy Tom Harvey LeRoy (the man with four first names) looked over and said "oh leg-boy move your leg" - he needed to shift gears. Within an hour it became nature boy. It quickly shortened to nature.
It brings back nice memories when people call me nature (I sure do miss the time I spent in Humboldt with those friends I hardly ever hear from). One time I remember a guy asking "is your name doug or nature?" (the profs called me doug but Tom/Gio/other friends called me nature). I'd go years without hearing that. But now that I hang out with more folks from the taco I hear it more often - I'm not sure Sooze or Russ has ever called me Doug.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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All my friends locally know me as Nick Danger, it has to do with my checkered medical history, but that seemed a little presumptuous considering the legends of some of the other posters here. So I shortened it up. Usually sign my real name though.
Michael Smith
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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Camp 4, Site 10
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Standard gangsta rap lingo "I'll bust a cap in yo azz" (translating in normal english to "I'll shoot you"), make it somewhat climbing relevant with the El Cap. Thus, Elcapinyoazz.
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kuan
Sport climber
CA
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Kuan is my real name. I suppose I came up with it in an uninspired moment. Like Jerry says, it keeps you honest!
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John Moosie
climber
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It was recommended to me that playing on the intardweb could get rough and since I have noob tendancies, I should hide my real name. So I chose to use my first name and one of my nicknames.
I earned this nickname because occasionally I act like a moose on the loose and go on rampages, but most of the time I am kind and friendly. Hence, moosie and not just moose.
I decided awhile back that I wasn't going to worry about anyone knowing my real name. I got tired of worrying about such things. The world is a kooky place at times, but most people are decent if you treat them as such.
John Musgrove
Ekat, you get can more then one ID on a computer if you use a different email address. But I would never do that.....haha... :-)
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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When signing on, I was under the impression that everyone had a nickname. Since day one climbing, I have had freakishly strong crimp strength (and I do LOVE crimpers) so "crimpergirl" seemed an obvious name.
Though it is not my 'real' name, I have never hid my real name (or other things - haha!) so keeping honest has never been an issue. Besides, I am unsure how people can keep track of more than one personality or email address. As popeye says "I yam what I yam."
edit: And like Nature, I have grown quite fond of my nickname. I'd be sad not to be called Crimpie or something like it. :)
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 1, 2007 - 08:32pm PT
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thanks, crimpie - i always thought that might be the case but still wondered...
it's kind of cool finding these out - thanks for posting, guys and gals!
-Aaron
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Mine was a holdover form a pre-climbing forum. I needed a username, and I wanted something that would be nice, thus the "happie" part. But also I wanted to have an edge, in case people hought I was a pushover. And that's why the "grrr"....l part is there.
My username on all the climbing sites is happiegrrl, except Gunks.com, where it's Terrie(because they made a point of requesting "real" names. Many of the climbers I know call me Happie, so here's a case where my username is almost like a real name. I'm definitely not anonymous.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
Otto, NC
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I spent a lot of time crawling around in the jungle looking for new routes back when I lived in the SE. In this culture, one doesn't usually get the chance to name oneself, at least until Al invented the interweb. My handle tells you more than my real name does.
Melissa and Nanook can still call me Captain America if they want to though.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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I'm so computer dumb that when I started here I didn't KNOW you were suppose to have a different name, besides everyone calls me Ron, so Ron Gomez it is. It DOES keep you somewhat accountable for what you say and I'd probably FORGET another name anyway!
Peace
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WBraun
climber
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I made mine up in my head.
It took many years to figure out.
There's lots of room in my head ......
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paganmonkeyboy
Trad climber
the blighted lands of hatu
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i used to sing a little song while climbing
usually on lead - just something to keep my mind off the crippling fear of not knowing wtf i'm doing several feet above my pro...
he's a monkey, he's a boy
he's a monkey boy...
pagan added for clarification, and after spending a season in utah...
tom
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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"Jaybro" is about as real as it gets for me. I answer to that name on a daily basis; from; aquaitences,progeny,siblings, parents, other relatives, lifelong people i would die for, etc.
If somebody calls "Jaybro" in a crowded room, I am more inclined to assume they are calling me than if they yelled, "Jay", or "John Carl Anderson" even if thet added "of Harvey Ill 7/11/56"
Pretty sure I was first named 'Jaybro' by Frank the Colonel Saunders circa, 1980. though there were other possible contributors, or at least early bandwagon jumpone-ers; Mike Freidrichs, The animal nickname guy, and Dick the Cilley, Will gilmer was in there, too.
"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam!!!" - thank you popeye.
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wootles
climber
Gamma Quadrant
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My daughter's favorite stuffed animal.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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yo I jus wanna be like my man Snoop
he's down wi hella chronic and knows how to treat de ladies
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Mine is a boy scout nickname, given to me by someone I still climb with. I was anything but a mighty hiker, and generally unathletic - typical adolescent humour.
I initially posted (posed?) under my real name, but it seemed de rigeur to have a nom de plume.
I've never tolerated any other nicknames, or manglings of my real name.
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Get it? Since my name is Carrie, curly + Carrie = curlie, or something like that. I admit to creating a "fake" email address for the tacostand, but just because I didn't want to open up yet another avenue for spam (since your email address is viewable by anyone else with a username). I don't really hide behind a nickname, I just think they're fun.
(Edited for smaller pic)
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville
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Pud is a spiritual name from the early Roman days.
To "pud" was to give of ones self without expecting anything in return.
You could say someone was "pudable" if he/she was known as a helping individual.
A "pudder" was only helpful sometimes.
Not everyone liked to be "pudded" but everyone loved "pudding"
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Well, the red is a recent thing, not natural I should say. :) Though my mom has naturally red (and yes, curlie!) hair. Youth is more a state of mind these days as I just turned 30, but I don't intend on getting "old" anytime soon!
And yes, I do love a good nyuk! joke, much to the irritation of others at times....it's a good thing I crack myself up 'cause everyone else just groans....
By the way, I've always thought the handle elcapinyoazz was very funny. The ludicrosity (is that even a word?) of it!
Thug 1: "I'll bust a CAP in yo azz!"
Thug 2: "Oh yeah? I'll bust EL CAP in yo azz!"
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Knob Central
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Ludicrousness is the word...
Some of my 'so called friends' named me The Garden Gnome and threaten to dress me up in a little red jacked and hat. Some of my 'so called friends' send me inflatable tent stake gnomes for my campsite. Some of my 'so called friends' dye their hair red in hopes of also fitting into the furry woodland creature community but we all know that half cave troll, half pixie is just too far out to left field to even fit in that community. And she is too large to boot.
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Tom the Cop
Sport climber
Northern Virginia
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A few years ago, The Ron & Fez Show (on radio) moved from New York to Fairfax, Virginia. I had been listening to them for a few years and stopped by the studio a couple of time a week. They gave me the nickname because my name is Tom, and I'm a cop.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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I don't know how to spell python.
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10b4me
Trad climber
Hell A
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it's a long story
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Walter, I always thought your nick name was due to your photographic "eye" esp. for taking pics on the walls...
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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you're a swell guy Walleye
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john hansen
climber
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I didn't realize when I signed up you could have a user name ..
I typed in my name, and there it is.
After a week or so here I figured out you have to be very careful of what you say.
I am glad that I take full responsability for what I post on the Super T.
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dougs510
Social climber
down south
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5.10 climbing shoes :)
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matisse
climber
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I was named Susan after my great grandmothers housekeeper, who was a really special person for my dad. However the curse of being named Susan is that in the 50's/60's or so it was sort of like the female equivalent of Dave. When I went to sign up for the tacostand "Sue" my actual name (+ also my rec.climbing name) was already taken. Quel surprise.
I didn't want to just use my last name as well as my first because the whole point of just being Sue was so that my students couldn't just google me and have a thousand or so hits of me saying f*#k on the internet (at least as the top hit).
I've never had many nicknames, but the utterly lovely Cameron Randolph called me "Sue-matisse" , since in my not-day-job I'm a painter. Ergo Matisse. I think of Cameron every time I see it.
amazing how gender neutral it is.
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curlie
Trad climber
SLO, CA
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Well I'm glad I'm too large "to boot" 'cause otherwise I'd be dodging bootheels all day long! ;)
-So Called Friend ('Cause with friends like these....who needs enemies?!)
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Jude Bischoff
Ice climber
Palm Springs
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I was named after the patron saint of hopeless cases. St. Jude. Interestingly enough I was adopted at birth. When the nurse brought in the paper work and asked my new parents what they had chosen to name me, they said Jude. The nurses eyes widened and she looked astonished. That is already his name, was her reply. My birth mother had also named me Jude.
I had better keep it. True story.
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rockermike
Mountain climber
Berkeley
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I spent all of 3 seconds thinking up mine. I think I was a little annoyed that I had to make up one more username and password (I've got like 32 or so now to remember). I didn't realize people would think I have long shaggy hair, low tight pants and play loud music (definitely not me). But I've come to like the name. I even use it elsewhere at times.
rock on
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
don't u worry 'bout a thang, baby
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tuolumne cuz i love the meadows, rainbow for the blood in my veins.
standing strong: "fall down seven times, stand up eight" - that's f*cking right, b*tches.
peruvian power penguin: cuz penguins rock, and pagan monkey boy rocked rad alliteration the other day whilst commenting upon the coolness of prehistoric penguins.
:)
peruvian*power*penguin/t*rainbow/s*S: cuz it's a combo of all three :)
tahoe climber, i hizzope you cizzall me when you get up here later this summer. also, are u gonna be around the meadows from 13-18?
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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RE:
"Do I sense a hint of condescension in your post? I was being self effacing at best........"
no Walleye - I always thought you shot great stuff and are a way good dude.
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Caz
Big Wall climber
HB, CA.
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It's my name spelled backwards. That way nobody knows it's me... Damn I F'ed that one up...
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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I got a post-graduate grant to study Hindi Language in India from Uc Berkeley. My good friend and study partner there was named Jim. (now professor and chair of his department)
I called him Jim Baba and he called me Karl Baba. "Baba" is one of those basic society-kinship terms in india that can mean anything from Holy Man, Dirtbag, Grandad, pops, or Shiva-rastafarian.
In general, Babas are cool folks that will welcome you, make you a cup of tea, give you some sound advice (maybe even feed you) and wish you well. The visitor may leave a donation!
Peace and Love
Karl
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Jello
Social climber
No Ut
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When I was a kid and first learning to sign my name, it came out looking like Jellowe. Ergo, in some small circles, I have sometimes been known as Jello.
In Nepal, however, my Sherpa friends call me Jeplowe.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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It's my middle name. Allows me to be me, but not be too obvious (though I am caring about that less and less). Keeps me honest too, like others have indicated. I'll sign my full name on occasion if it feels appropriate.
Now, about seven years ago, I changed all but my first name... but that's a long story.
Truth be told, we are known by many names throughout our lives... dad, mom, grandma, grandpa, auntie, uncle, etc.
Fletch
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Fletcher
Trad climber
Varied locales along the time and space continuum
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Hey Karl, that is the coolest thing I've heard in while. Nice!
Fletch
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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James the "Bouncer" already asked this question. I hope you saved my answer James! Otherwise I will rewrite if needed.
Ken
p.s. Sorry about the new nickname,seemed appropriate.
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Dragon with Matches
climber
Bamboo Grove
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Long distance runner, what you standing there for?
Get up, get off, get out of the door
You're playing cold music on the barroom floor
Drowned in your laughter and dead to the core
There's a dragon with matches that's loose on the town
Take a whole pail of water just to cool him down.
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Fire, fire on the mountain
Almost ablaze, still you don't feel the heat
It takes all you got just to stay on the beat
You say it's a living, we all gotta eat
But you're here alone, there's no one to complete
If mercy's in business, I wish it for you
More than just ashes when your dreams come true
Long distance runner, what you holding out for?
Caught in slow motion in a dash to the door
The flame from your stage has now spread to the floor
You gave all you had, why you want to give more?
The more that you give, the more it will take
To the thin line beyond which you really can't fake
-Robert Hunter
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TradIsGood
Happy and Healthy climber
the Gunks end of the country
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It sounded more English.
Travis Gut.
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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Things I like:
Climbing
Running
Riding my bike
I would have put "ski" too, but then it would have sounded like I was pretending to be from eastern europe. And I too did not realize that I could have just used my real name, but I was too lame to come up with anything funny for an alias.
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imnotclever
climber
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Wow a shout out in the OP.
Here's the thought I had when coming up with a name.
Skinner: Er, um, we need a name that's witty at first, but that seems less funny each time you hear it.
Apu: How about, "The Be Sharps?"
I just couldn't come up with one good enough. should have used my middle name, but the idea of using an actual name wasn't even on the radar.
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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I had a party in high school.
friends of friends of friends were there. it was huge. hole punched in the living room wall.
we had set up a video camera on the book shelf, to i think record 30 seconds of video every 5 minutes or so.
at one point in the video, is a guy talking to another guy, right in front of the camera, quoting Ferris Bueller's day off saying "you don't know Abe Frohman? The Sausage King of Chicago?"
and it cut off.
I always thought it was funny because I didnt even know who the 2 guys were.
(plus, who doesnt like some sausage?)
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Borrowed it from Jethro Tull back in the early days of the wreck.climbing forum. A real steel monkey is a roughneck who builds skyscrapers. I've done a lot of different work, including digging graves one summer, but haven't done the skyscraper deal. But I like the song and it sorta goes with the climbing theme well. Oh, and the reason there's no "o" in there is because way back in the day, AOL wouldn't allow more than 10 characters in your signin name, so I had to shave one.
As the moon slips up, and the sun sets down,
I'm a highrise jockey, and I'm heaven-bound.
Do the workboot shuffle, loose brains from brawn.
I'm a monkey puzzle and the lid is on.
Can you guess my name? Can you guess my trade?
I'm going to catch you anyway.
You might be right. I'll give you guesses three.
Feel me climbing up your knee.
Guess what I am. I'm a steel monkey.
Now some men hustle and some just think.
And some go running before you blink.
Some look up and some look down
from three hundred feet above the ground.
Can you guess my name? And can you guess my trade?
Well, I won't rest before the world is made.
Arm in arm the angels fly.
Keep me from falling out the sky.
Steel monkey.
I work in the thunder and I work in the rain.
I work at my drinking, and I feel no pain.
I work on women, if they want me to.
You can have me climb all over you.
Now, have you guessed my name?
And have you guessed my trade?
I'm cheap at the money I get paid.
In the sulphur city, where men are men,
we bolt those beams then climb again.
Steel monkey.
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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My mom and dad gave it to me.
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scuffy b
climber
Bates Creek
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Given to me by a friend and co-worker in the 80s,thus not a
childhood nickname.
Has to do with the typical state of my epidermis and connective
tissues.
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Anastasia
Trad climber
California
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I believe in the KISS method of doing things. That is why my handle is my actual name.
KISS=(Keep It Simple Stupid)
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Licky
Mountain climber
California
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In 1954 I was 4 years old and we lived in Yokyo. We had two Japanese maids that spoke very broken Jinglish. The best they could do with "Little Ricky" was "Rittle Licky" and it stuck.
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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In the late 80's, Mickeys Beach was going off, new hard routes, and we were all learning how to sport climb. Scott Frye was the ringleader and often invited me out to climb. I was consumed with the project of starting up CityRock Gym, so I would often say, "thanks for the invite, I will try to make it." Half the time, I would be heading toward the door, and some crucial call would come in, and I would get sucked back into the work of trying to start my business. So Scott named me Maysho. I have an easier time with that one then the name Rob Lesher gave me way back when, Mater Peefield. These days, though often a little late, I generally show up if I say I will.
Peter
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Back in my potheaded youth, Bluering was a bandname of ours that referred to the little rings you see in front of your eyes in the midst of a masssive bong-induced headrush. That's it.
Steve Pratico
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Kartch
climber
belgrade, mt
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My last name is Kartchner but people have called me Kartch for as long as I can remember.
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pc
climber
East of Seattle
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Politically Correct
pc
Naught
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Bay Area
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My real first name and first letter of last name
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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I had a friend who would fill out forms he found in various businesses around town to get free or discounted services. He used "rectorsquid" which is my last name followed by "squid." He thought it was funny that I would get lots of mail addressed to "David Rectorsquid." Ha ha ha.
That name is never already taken on any web site... which is handy. I don't like having a screen name like dave002011020438324554.77 and this name does the trick.
Dave
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BoKu
Trad climber
Douglas Flat, CA
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The concatenation of the truncation of my real names.
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pro_alien
Sport climber
Zurich, Switzerland
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Professional (engineer)
Alien (former holder of an alien registration card)
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taco bill
Trad climber
boulder, co
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Before required registry, I think I posted as adam a couple of times, but then segued to:
for no significant reason.
I don't feel incredibly anonymous as you can click my screen name and see my real name.
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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Err, lack of Imagination, or is that iMagination?
Plus, the China Lake yahoos used to call me 'spy'
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the Fet
Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
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Good thread. Lot's of interesting replies.
I had a college friend John Washington who called himself "The Wash". He and others started calling me "the Fet", truncated from my last name.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 2, 2007 - 05:45pm PT
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Nice Story, Maysho!
I would have never guessed that one.
And I like the KISS method mentioned above, too.
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L
climber
A Light Glider on a Rising Thermal
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I have 3 sisters whose names also begin with L. When my grandmother got older, she would just say "Oh L honey, could you this or that..." whenever she wanted any one of us to do something for her, because she just couldn't remember all those L names. It would make us kids laugh uncontrollably.
It's one of my favorite nicknames, and I thought it appropriate for the TacoStand.
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Gunks Guy
Trad climber
Rhinebeck, NY
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Used to post under my real name (Walt Heenan) but it seemed like most folks posted under pseudonyms. The Gunks is my home crag so viola.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
don't u worry 'bout a thang, baby
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agree with the KISS thing. anastasia are you back? TR pls.! :)
ps hi anastasia, L, and aaron! email me if you're gonna be around the meadows july 13-18... :)
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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I hate to admit that mine is a total computer geek thing, stemming from something called computer muds, which are online text RPG games. Nefarius was purposely misspelled, to give it more the persona of a name of a character, rather than be the word "nefarious". FOr whatever reason, I continued to use it as forums became popular, even though I haven't been on a mud in 10 years or so.
It makes me laugh now when I see people constantly spell it properly. I'm certain they all assume I can't spell worth a damn.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Thanks dragon,I've heard that so many times, but I would never have figured it out!
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mooser
Trad climber
seattle
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My wife comes from a long line of "foreign-language-impaired-persons." Her mother took "Beginning Spanish" three times (she lives in San Diego), because she wanted to be able to converse with many of the locals. So I'd go over to my wife-to-be's house, and her mom would say (thinking she was saying "Tomas"--insert Spanish pronunciation here), "Hi Tom-moose!" At first, I didn't know what the heck she was talking about--especially as she was looking at me all proud-like for having (unbeknownst to me) spoken a foreign language. Then my wife-to-be (once she stopped laughing at her mom) told me about all the Spanish classes. Anyway, the name "moose" stuck (which I was subsequently called for years by family and friends). When I tried using "moose" as a supertopo name, it had already been taken (though I've never actually seen it). So...I use "mooser," since that's what my wife affectionately calls me. It's a nickname on top of a nickname. Incedentally, my mother-in-law finally gave up on Spanish. Probably a good thing... Oh...and one more thing...for some reason I feel a real kinship with Moosie...
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Moof
Trad climber
A cube at my soul sucking job in Oregon
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It's what the dog cow says. I used it as my name for playing quake back in college, and as my handle mostly since then.
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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Mine came from my interest in Hawaiian Slak Key Guitar music. I am not talking about that goofy steel guitar sh#t. Slak Key is much different. When the westerners came over to Hawaii to teach the Hawaiians how to ranch and raise cattle on the Big Island they also brought the Guitar. The problem was they did not teach the Hawaiians how to properly tune the dam thing, so the Hawaiians invented their own form of tunning.
It is not country western music at all. The songs are very techncal in the technique used to play the instrument and they songs usually are based on a story.
Plus I think I was about six beers down when I thought of it.
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Ricardo Carlos
Trad climber
Off center, CO.
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I stumbled into Supertopo by accident. Late I might add and with such a rare name from the 50s my first name was taken in English and Spanish so I added my middle name in Spanish.
I am called Rich, Richard, Rick, Dick and by very few Richie.
Different people call me Rich or Richard mostly. Dad and father work as well. Today I have been called Richard , Rich ,Dad and Asshole and a few things in Spanish I cant spell. They all fit....
I stamp my gear with RC as Dick Shockley was using RS before I was climbing. In SD at the time RCS was Rock Climbing Section.
R C Sims
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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When on-line services ask for my name and address, and I don't want to provide it, I usually say that I'm:
William H. Gates
1 Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington
U.S.A.
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Wild Bill
climber
Ca
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I first signed on to the Taco the day Todd Skinner died. He used to call me Wild Bill, so when ST asked for a name, that's what I thought of.
Others have called me Wild Bill. Kinda fits. Although I'm Sweet William at times too. But that was what I heard every time I spoke with Todd. Wish it weren't so heavy, but there you have it.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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I was Danielle (my middle name) to all who knew me until I went to college in the big city and became a name on a paper (Melissa). After a while, I got used to it. When I interviewed for grad school I was afraid that they wouldn't remember "Melissa", the person on the paperwork that they would admit or reject, if they had only met "Danielle", so I just went with "Melissa" for that time. When I decided to come here, everyone already knew me as Melissa and it would have been weird to tell them to call me something else.
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BoKu
Trad climber
Douglas Flat, CA
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> Plus, the China Lake yahoos used to call me 'spy'
Ah, so _you're_ the one Anthony Hyde was talking about!
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Phantom Fugitive
Trad climber
Misery
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I live in Misery; aka Missouri. Much of our climbing is on private lands either with, or without permission.
We (therealbovine) had put up a new line one day on the lake, then we went looking at a new crag on unfriendly private land. Owner came driving though his fields, a rooster tail of dirt behind his pickup. For some reason we ran instead of chatting with him.
Idiots.
We hid in a cave, then slinked away just before sunset.
Named the route "Phantom Fugitive" and never returned to that crag. Looked pretty good from the cave. Handle is better known as FAntom- FA's in stealth style.
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Eeee-yonk-eeeee was the semi-official yodel of the Poway Mountain Boys. It's what you called out to say hi to a fellow PMB at a distance. I changed from Grug (short for Grug of Cameroon, a name given to me by either Dave Goeddel or Bruce Adams) only because I wanted to change my email address but forgot my password.
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sling512
Trad climber
Chicago
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When I started climbing in HS my partner and I always tended to rack-up the same stuff after each pitch. He was good at coiling the rope so it wasn't a f-ed up rat's nest and I was really good at getting the f-ed up knots out of slings that have been sealed up with weight. So he became Rope and I am Sling. I tried to use that as my yahoo email address but it was taken, so sling512 was a good choice being that was my harded climb to date. Our little adventures became The Adventures of Rope and his trusty sidekick Sling the Boy Wonder! He was a good artist and made a few little books.... wonder where those are.
 sling the boy wonder (sling512)
Hey Jaybro! You're from Harvey? I'm from the Bay Area but now live in Flossmoor. Small world.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Cade LLoyd gave me the name due to my prowess of skinning chicken legs.
Ken
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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I started out Taco life as DPatrick (Douglas is my first name but I grew up with my middle name Patrick, funny my brothers go by their middle names as well).
Then I decided I might as well go by my real name, so I asked Chris to change my handle for me.
Not very exciting is it.
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piquaclimber
Trad climber
Durango
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Piqua is my home town in...... errr.... nevermind.
-Brad Brandewie
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Sling, too funny, my Aunt "em" who will be 100 on her next birthday (and is the real life Sylvia's mother of the Doctor Hook / Shel Silverstein song 'Sylvia's Mother')lives in Homwewood.
Pretty durn hot here today, bet it's more humid where you are!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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It's what I do -- or did for many years -- ghostwriting.
I used to hang out on the old rec.climbing, where there were fewer handles and more real names, but handles seemed to be the norm here on ST.
David Harris
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James
climber
A tent in the redwoods
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When my twin brother and I were born, the units already had two names picked out-Matthew Ryan and James Clayton, the first names were after our grandfathers and the middle names were random. Since I was the bigger of the two they gave me the Clay name, like Cassius Clay. So I'm James although some call me Peaches.
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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splat + later = splater
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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matisse,
I see the SD county fair agrees with your nickname.
Congrats on winning first place art!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there... this is very interesting, and more so, since most of you all know each other... i just drop by on occasion.... but mine, is from neebeeshaabookway... it means tea-woman, in ojibwe... got it from a friend's brother in law, patowatomee/odawa family, in michigan....(we had a bit of native, so he offered the name, so i would have an indian name now, too).....(patowatomee--spelling here, may be wrong--and ojibwe, are sometimes the same, with some words)....
it is the name that i use to write my novels, as they are inspired and not really planned out too much.... and teas in many cultures can be medicinal, or inspiring, or for social comaradarie, etc... and my stories are for reaching the heart... hmmmm, like a good cup of tea.... (but, hey you all, coffee's good too) (shot of whiskey can't hurt, but could sure ruin a good story, past, two)
i don't climb (but loved yosemite area, and coast of calif), but my brother "chappy" used to all the time, knows me as beth, but all else in texas, know me as liz....or neebee...
thanks for this interesting fun....
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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i don't know.
or maybe i do.
dino
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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It's the first 5 letters of my last name, Shackelford.
It's been my nickname since I can remember.
It was my dad's nickname as a kid too.
I used Shack for the Taco stand cuz I figured it would be less anonymous...and Todd Shackelford is a mouth full.
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Many know but here it is... At a pre marriage party at Honolulu's famous Femme Nu, my bud's decided to call me "Nohea". In Hawaiian it means, handsome, attractive, and lovely. A fitting description but then look at me and one must wonder what "Nohea" sounds like in english.
Aloha,
wil
A TR will be up within a week.
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E.L. "One"
Big Wall climber
Lancaster, California
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Jaybro,
Our paths will sooner or later cross !! Brother Jacko and I were up in Toulomne just before you, and we did the classic West Country. We also got on Zee Tree on Pywiack having thought better of the Dike Route. Hope to connect soon.
Cheers
Cracko
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wack-N-dangle
Gym climber
the ground up
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In one hundred words or less:
I heard it from a friend I've climbed with for a while.
Light as a feather, hooks of steel...
It's sarcastic.
I consider my gym climbing experience combined with my "traditional ethics".
If I had to try to qualify the name...
I would say that when I'm at my best, maybe I go for broke.
Maybe I'll never give up, and always work to improve.
Still, I don't mind hanging on a rope which might be disagreeable to the old guard.
Manapua!!!
(still working on living up to the stories)
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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E.L. Cracko, sorry to miss you in the meadows, the time will come, though, I know it!
Have you climbed @ Devil's Tower? There's a climb there we should do together, with your name on it.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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"Cade LLoyd gave me the name due to my prowess of skinning chicken legs. "
I'm a little slow. Why would somebody skin chicken legs?
Peace
Karl
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C4C
Social climber
ADKS, NY
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Mine stands for Climbing for Christ. I use it on most forums. It is what I do and who I work for.
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Karl,
We would have these spicy habanero chicken barbecues and I would pull the skin off prior to cooking.
Ken
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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I've been widely known as Off White since 1977, long before Al Gore invented the intertubes. Seems like an avatar name, but fact is I cash checks and get mail with this old nickname, and it's what my family calls me. I once got a letter addressed to :
Off White
Tenino, WA
Some folks prefer to call me Doug, they either predate the nickname, are more comfortable with a name that doesn't have a joke at the core, or just like that better. No big deal, it doesn't make either of me schizophrenic.
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YetAnotherDave
Trad climber
Vancouver, BC
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My 'real' name is so generic that it seemed pointless to make up much of a psuedonym. There's always, always, at least one other Dave...
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the museum
Trad climber
Rapid City, SD
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A while back Frank at DT saw me geared up and commented about some of my OLD gear. I was wearing a pair of Asolo's from 1980 (my good shoes were at the re-sole shop). He said I looked like some kind of "walking museum". The next time I saw him at the tower he introduced me as -"hey, this is the museum". But of course it is not true! I have some new gear.
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Tarbuster
'Tis a mystery, even to me.
Google it and you get pages & pages of ...yup...a product that cuts sledge, removes tar.
Hmmm…
In the bad 'ole days I’d had lots of nicknames bestowed upon me such as:
roy boy
cowboy
roy balls
balls
the boy
libido roy
beed
bidus
beedsauce
beedwagon
the side of beef
potatohead
tate
sharon tate
thatasssholeroy
hummer
lamoille
lamoille royo
'lem
lem-bott
cowboy roy
cowboy roy the boytoy of joy
-Yikes!
I wanted, I NEEDED a clean slate:
I desired to call my own shots, be my own master & all that hearty stuff.
So, I decided to take destiny into my own hands and name me-self something snappy for the forum kick.
But I couldn’t find it.
And then, out of the nether regions of my mind, out of thin air as it were or maybe straight out of me arse,
Out popped: Tarbuster.
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TwistedCrank
climber
a luxury Malibu rehabilitation treatment facility
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My soopertopo name derives from a rough translation of the Hungarian expression "Bring some truffles to watch the whales breed". The expression is from the novel "Patoot Goy" by Pavlov Dingle about a young woman's coming of age during the Prague cheese crisis of 1934. The protagonist in the story is short, has a stubby nose used for rooting grubs and is obscenely hairy. Just like me.
There it is - just like a fairly tale. Man.
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sterling_sonya
Sport climber
Portland, ME
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Much as I would've liked to remain anonymous, I felt it would've been somewhat suspect and a dead giveaway when all my posts ended in "Buy Sterling Rope!"
-Sonya
Buy Sterling Rope!
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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Jul 12, 2007 - 01:03pm PT
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poop*ghost
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 12, 2007 - 02:40pm PT
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holy crap... I'm sorry if anybody saw that!
Poop Ghost was the name of a band in college some friends of mine started. The name didn't stay for very long. The band long since broke up.
I always thought it was funny... and I like *'s.
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taco bill
Trad climber
boulder, co
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Jul 12, 2007 - 02:50pm PT
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I did see that and was going to give you a little shi t, so to speak.
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poop*ghost
Trad climber
Denver, CO
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Jul 12, 2007 - 05:48pm PT
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sorry bro - I guess the server I pulled an image from had a mean admin!
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spud
climber
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Jul 12, 2007 - 06:00pm PT
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Idaho farm girl. Husband always called me "Spud", or sometimes he calls me "Tractor Girl".
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jul 12, 2007 - 07:01pm PT
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What do you think it means?
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Rocky5000
Trad climber
Falls Church, VA
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Jul 12, 2007 - 08:41pm PT
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Kind of obvious, actually - it's from a throwaway joke in the brilliant, seminal comic space opera SPACEBALLS (the movie).
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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May 17, 2008 - 12:25am PT
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Bump....
Lynne, This will help you with people's gender...identity
Some tacoos - missing from this thread.
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murcy
climber
San Fran Cisco
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May 17, 2008 - 01:15am PT
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ha ha, i still have that one in my record albums box that i haven't opened since two moves ago. i especially miss the fleshtones and the neats.
my name arose in virtue of my precious, amazingly generous soul. or else because it's the closest thing to my initials that wasn't taken yet...i forget which.
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HighGravity
Trad climber
Southern California
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May 17, 2008 - 01:24am PT
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I started lurking here after a horrible climbing day, which began after eating a large pancake breakfast. The gravity in my @$$ felt higher that day.
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
Idaho
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May 17, 2008 - 01:44am PT
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Being named Kirk instantly made me "Captain" when I arrived in the Valley. A couple years later I took a fall & headbutted El Cap pretty good, so 'Skully' was born. Another Lloydism(their #'s are vast in the Valley).
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Robb
Social climber
Pick Up Truck Heaven
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May 17, 2008 - 01:59am PT
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My folks, but to start with it was Robbie
BITD, in the ditch I earned the name "Cat Box"
Don't ask.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
all bivied up on the ledge
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May 17, 2008 - 02:01am PT
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While living in the ditch back in 1980, I ran into a nurse who wanted to start climbing. I took her up Monday Morning Slab (right side) for her first climb. On the way up I spotted a cool line to the left. After a few weeks of climbing we went up and did the FA of the new line. We named it Barbarian (old school 5.9) - a combination of her name (Barb) and my nickname (Ian). I took this as my ST name to honor that perfect day and a great friend. Sure wish I knew where she was now.
As for the climb...someone else climbed it some years later, and thinking it was a new FA, named it something else (now graded 5.10a - told you it was old school 5.9!).
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dipper
climber
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May 17, 2008 - 02:29am PT
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Climbing cracks on hot sweaty days in The Valley long ago turned me into a chalk addict.
Some called me the big dipper as I stalled before pulling (or falling off) the crux.
I really like the Ouzel, or Water Dipper.
So dipper seemed a good fit.
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Wonder
climber
WA
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May 17, 2008 - 02:32am PT
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chit, this is a cool thread, I kinda ignored "well my name is.."
but punk roy left the valley to be a bike messenger in SF (sue lacey did it&she said it was cool&I would be good@it.) One day a name tage show up in my box "Roy Wonder" Dun Deal. '80es!
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Delhi Dog
Trad climber
Good Question...
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May 17, 2008 - 03:26am PT
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Yes, what a cool thread thanks for bringing it back as I am a late addition too and never saw it...
When I signed on it seemed everyone had one so...
There is nothing more pathetic than a street dog in Delhi where I'm currently living, and, since I spend so much time cruising and exploring the streets and back alleys here instead of being where my heart is (the Sierra) I figured it fit pretty well.
Cheers,
DD
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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May 17, 2008 - 05:06am PT
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This is my BASE number. The numbers are over a thousand now, so it means that I am an old fart. They used to do night BASE numbers, and that one is 32.
For years my buds and I used to go to the valley and climb our asses off without ever really getting into the scene. Meaning I climbed hard every day and didn't know anything about the deli. I spent most of a year there in the mid eighties and got my nickname, "Herndie." Bobbi Bensman is walking over from the lodge and yells, "Herndie!" Which is sort of a take off of my last name.
Fish and Bill Russell were there and tortured me with it endlessly. They would be on the other side of Camp 4 and yell it out.
It was only about a year, but somehow it followed me home and to this day people call me that...Even people who don't climb.
Also, it pays to use an alias when you are posting to the "soloing on acid" thread.
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Dickbob
climber
Colorado
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May 17, 2008 - 08:24am PT
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My first name is Richard and my middle name is Robert. I got the nickname back in the Zonerland days in the Superstitions.
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rick d
Social climber
tucson, az
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May 17, 2008 - 10:38am PT
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dick bob!
you found us!
mine name is short for gimp.
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me_dardo
Mountain climber
italy
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May 17, 2008 - 11:24am PT
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dunque: in italian me_dardo is something like me_arrow in english, so "me as an arrow"; dardo is not an usual word (arrow is freccia), but a literary one...già troppo contorto per un americano?
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scooter
climber
fist clamp
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May 17, 2008 - 01:30pm PT
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I was living in Fort Collins and a guy riding one of those little razor scooters came by and kicked my friends dog and started shizzle talking for no reason. He was saying "You cant rap b#tch" and other Eminem type stuff. My bud and I couldn't catch him to beat his arse because we had been ice climbing and were in mtn boots. So I went in and put on running shoes and chased him down and beat his lights out. And while I was doing it I was saying "scooters and jive talk is a mistake buddy". Then I needed an email address and my name Patrick Warren was taken. So I put in scootersandjivetalk@hotmail.com and it worked. That was almost a decade ago.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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May 17, 2008 - 02:53pm PT
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Mine came from the random number generator in my head. "What's your screen name?" rec.climbing
asked, so I typed the name of a place I had travelled once, on a day when it felt like the end of the world.
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F10 Climber F11 Drinker
Trad climber
medicated and flat on my back
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May 17, 2008 - 04:09pm PT
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I stole it
I remember seeing it in an old "Off Belay" magazine along with some other cartoons. It reminded me of the good ole days in the seventies. I don't think wake and bake was even a term back then, but there was always plenty of herb and malt liquor around. Not sure what weighted more the rack of nuts or all the brew stuffed in the the sack.
Climbing alot at JT the use of " F " ratings seemed appropriate, being that is what was used in the early guides.
Wish I could claim some creativity but not so, hell I have to still hunt and peck on the keyboard. Probably a good thing, can't get all carried away and long winded.
And no I am not hiding, it is my real email,
jb
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scooter
climber
fist clamp
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May 17, 2008 - 06:13pm PT
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Chiloe-
I like that pic of the water front homes. Where is that at?
P
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Redwreck
Social climber
Los Angeles, CA
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May 17, 2008 - 06:25pm PT
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Mine's a nickname given me by my beloved girlfriend. It's a contraction of "redneck" and "trainwreck". She's a little snarky, my girlfriend. But I like it so much that I use it for my domain name too.
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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May 17, 2008 - 06:32pm PT
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Middendorf--->Dusseldorf-->Deucey-->Deuce
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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May 17, 2008 - 06:37pm PT
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scooter -- both photos are from that day on Isla de Chiloé.
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midarockjock
climber
USA
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May 17, 2008 - 06:41pm PT
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I'm middle age.
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originalpmac
Trad climber
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May 17, 2008 - 07:53pm PT
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I tried to enter my nickname, P-Mac, (short for Pierce McConnell) that I had since I was a baby on some site, don't remember which and it was taken. I was like, no way, I AM the original p-mac, hence the moniker.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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May 17, 2008 - 08:01pm PT
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I had arrived in Tuolumne by freight train and hitch hike. I was climbing with some climbers from Orange County. I was bullshitting about this and that and Steve Araiza gave me the name of HoboDan the man who's done everything
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clustiere
Trad climber
berkeley ca
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May 17, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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Savage-kizo or Highdessert DJ gave me mine on an El Cap route. I kept shortfixing and tangling up all the lines at every belay, so it evolved by about pitch seven or eight. I preffered dances on hooks because I am stupid and bounce around on hooks but that was to foo foo.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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May 18, 2008 - 12:26am PT
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I have to follow AF. . . KISS.
and it sounds better than dumbsh#t!
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martygarrison
Trad climber
The Great North these days......
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May 18, 2008 - 12:28am PT
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my name is Marty Garrison, my STF name is martygarrison. I had to get really creative.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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May 18, 2008 - 12:49am PT
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Saturday night, just back from a wedding. They all promise to stay together thru thick or thin, but I almost got up after the vows and said, "You better darn well mean it". Tired of the two year stand. Some only last 360 days!!!
To calm down, when I got home I got onto ST and started reading this thread.
Mind boggling! Tarbuster, now I see awhile back when I asked you why TB was your handle you said you weren't quite sure. I'm still not quite sure haha!
Nita, as always you are the best trying to educate this neophyte in the ways of the topo. Even tho I HATE labels I think I am somewhat memory challenged cause I will NEVER remember all this.
Of all the entry's Deuce 4 is the most enegmatic. How do you go from Middendorf to Dusseldorf (German cities) to Deucey to Deuce and you say you are from Australia. Puzzling!
Finally, I think most of you know this, and I don't want to be a downer on a weekend night, but Todd Gordon started a Thread for my husband on ST when he died. (THANK YOU Todd, it was awesome.) I had never heard of ST and wanted to log on to read all the great messages people wrote in.
So being the in step German I hate to be. When they asked for my name I gave it to them, as well as the city. DUHHH!
People have suggested I could contact Chris Mc and change my name. But, you know what? I like being real to all you great ST people. I got to meet a really neat guy at the Josh Reunion, George Z. We had some fun time discussing life around the fire pit. I told G.Z. what you see and hear is what you get. That's Lynne. OAO
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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May 18, 2008 - 01:36am PT
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I actually taught global survival in the military.
Didn't I say that already?......
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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May 18, 2008 - 01:42am PT
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I guess it's pretty late and I'm grasping at straws, so to speak, but what the heck is global survival in the military specifically?
I mean this with no disrespect. I just don't know what it means. Thanks for an answer. lrl
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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May 18, 2008 - 01:48am PT
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Lynne,
That cracked me up...guess I thought it was obvious.
It means that I was certified to teach:
Arctic
Desert
Jungle
Temperate
Ocean
Coastal
Evasion
Global survival...get it?
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Jennie
Trad climber
Idaho Falls
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May 18, 2008 - 02:38am PT
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I didn't know SPUD was an Idaho farm girl!
I thought it was just Rokjox and me against the rest of the world.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 18, 2008 - 02:43am PT
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There's a company in Vancouver called SPUD = Small Potatoes Urban Delivery. You can order food on line from them, and they deliver it. Mostly good stuff.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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May 18, 2008 - 02:48am PT
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Dick Bob, how's things? I was just looking at past posts and saw your's. The Zonerland thing caught my attention.
Small world, I see that Ricky D caught that too.
Jay Anderson
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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May 18, 2008 - 02:52am PT
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Jennie, tacoette, Sue Lacey- also lives in Idaho Falls.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Idaho Falls
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May 18, 2008 - 05:20am PT
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Thanks, Nita. Do you remember her supertopo I.D.? I guess I havent been paying attention?
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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May 18, 2008 - 11:15am PT
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supertopo name?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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May 18, 2008 - 11:38am PT
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Survival- Ah ha! And you thought my question was stupid. I've discovered a key area of the globe missing on your list, namely THE MALL! Still haven't learned how to survive a foray into one.(or Walmart for that matter)hahaha.
ps-had a pretty good idea what Global Survival is. Just wanted to see what you would say. Nice short list! lrl
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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May 18, 2008 - 11:48am PT
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Jennie, her taco I.D. is Lacey, i just checked and she lives is Bosie...oops.. She rarely posts, but I know she lurks a bit.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana (the other Mideast)
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May 18, 2008 - 12:12pm PT
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I've always had an inclination for porn and politics, which is why I spend alot of time on ST!
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Ferretlegger
Trad climber
san Jose, CA
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May 18, 2008 - 01:42pm PT
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Sometime back in the 1980's Donald Katz wrote an amazing short story in Outside magazine called "The King of the Ferretleggers", which purported to be a true expose of the old English art of Ferretlegging, and it's master, Reg Mellor. Any climber OWES it to oneself to find this on the web and to read it. Anyway, my whole life has involved the figurative insertion of hungry ferrets into my pants to see how long I could stand it, so "ferretlegger" seemed an appropriate moniker. In the final paragraph, Reg Mellor describes what I perceive to be my whole philosophy of life summed up in a single pithy sentence:
But Reg Mellor refuses to acknowledge that his talent is made of the stuff of heroes, of a mixture of indomitable pride, courage, concentration, and artless grace. "Naw noon o' that," said the king. "You just got be able ta have your tool bitten and not care."
Pretty much sums it up for most of us old farts, doesn't it?
Michael Jefferson
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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May 18, 2008 - 02:54pm PT
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Erik + male = MisterE
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Jennie
Trad climber
Idaho Falls
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May 18, 2008 - 09:04pm PT
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Nita and Rokjox: Thank you.
There are several people on the Wyoming side of the Tetons who follow Supertopo,also, but rarely post.
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Michelle
Trad climber
Fort Sam
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May 18, 2008 - 09:54pm PT
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its my name. I also have a couple other names elsewhere although the latest is armygirl. I heard "re-TARD" alot for a couple months but that was more a collective name than individual.
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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May 18, 2008 - 10:59pm PT
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goat started in little league football because I liked to rouse the other team players and try and get there goat or a least make them angry which made for better football, this eventually turned to goatboy.
Fast forward to '90 or '91 when I was living in NYC. A partner and I were buildering around on the big retaining walls in Riverside Park where someone had spray painted goatboysmellz on the wall just below this cool finger crack we were climbing. Being that I worked as a bike messenger all week then up to the Gunk’s every weekend I didn't always have a chance for a shower when I needed one therefore I created an odor that my friend mentioned I would have to soak in kerosene to ever get the stink off, this was the start and I thought the end of the goatboy smellz nickname.
Fast forward to 2006 and I wanted to respond to said friend who posts here to retort a story he was blabbering on about and getting a few details incorrect...so I tried goat and it was taken, then I tried goatboy and it was also taken, so I reach way back to goatboy smellz and surprise, surprise it was available.
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I'm hurtin . . .
Ice climber
land of cheese and beer
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May 18, 2008 - 11:10pm PT
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I first signed on here while rehabbing from shoulder surgery (SLAP tear) a couple years ago, and I really was hurtin'. Even so, after 30+ years of climbing, and a host of other physical pursuits, it seems I'm ALWAYS hurtin somewhere. It's like there's a pain in side me that just bounces around and it gets more INTENSE as I get older.
Great thread, you guys are a hoot!
Dave Rone
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spud
climber
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May 18, 2008 - 11:24pm PT
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Hey all you Idahoheads out there! I may in the minority being from the northern part of Idaho, on the shores of the shadowy St. Joe River, but I have lived (for a short time during my vagabond years) in Boise, Twin Falls, Moscow and many other small Idaho towns working various and sundry farmgirl jobs. I'll be back west of the Mississippi River for the majority of the summer this year, and I'll be in the Tetons for three weeks. Yeah!
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Blowboarder
Boulder climber
Back in the mix
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May 18, 2008 - 11:38pm PT
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Yo spud, I'm in north idaho too. Bout 25 miles from the canadian border right now. Also, are you the tractor girl the route in that riggins cave is named after? As in, you humped the drill up there day after day? that's the way i heard the story anyway...
i got my handle from my buddy when i started kiteboarding. i pretty much wouldn't commit to anything that took me more than 15 minutes from the beach, because kiting is like surfing and riding pow, you gotta be there when it's good, not when it's convenient.
so after bailing on him from the golf course on like the 4th hole (again), he's all:
"fine, go f*#king blowboarding again.."
and it hasn't stopped.
sometimes i post as drater too. not on here tho.
at least i think not...
Pasha
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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May 18, 2008 - 11:52pm PT
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Jennie, do you know dirtineye. He was adamant that we should meet. If you are the right Jennie, please post back. Then I will email you. Lynne
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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May 18, 2008 - 11:54pm PT
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Blowboarder, I was just thinking of you. I was out turning on the H20 for our avocado grove and noticed THE FULL MOON. hahaha Lynnie
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 19, 2008 - 12:13am PT
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I didn't read all 200 previous posts, but I don't think I chimed in before. Apologies for redundancy.
Here's my story:
Mom liked Melissa. Dad liked Danielle. Melissa Danielle had better metter than the converse, so mom got the first name and dad got the functional name. But when I became a student/professional name on a paper it was too complicated to be a M. Danielle. So I'm Melissa D.
Everytime I meet someone who says "Are you Melissa from Supertopo" I have to do my pennance in embarrassment for every stupid thing I've ever said here.
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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May 19, 2008 - 12:21am PT
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Hee-hee...and that's why I'm not anony-moose. :-)
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Jennie
Trad climber
Idaho Falls
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May 19, 2008 - 03:20am PT
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Hi north Idahoans! I don’t know many climbers from the panhandle but my brother married a girl from Bonner’s Ferry.
Hi Lynne, nice to read your posts on Supertopo. Yes, I think I’m the Jennie Dirtineye is writing (well or ill) of. Yes, feel free to email me anytime.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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May 19, 2008 - 03:31am PT
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Almost like Melissa said, One must accept the weight of one's own baggage. Long before there was the internet, and even before Neuromencer, there was, Jaybro.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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May 19, 2008 - 05:55am PT
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I didn't "come up with" it.. Russ Walling... or Euro-Brief Guy did.
Hey Russ, EBG says he thought of the name, but I remember you coining the nickname. Any thoughts?
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 19, 2008 - 08:54am PT
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Tradman was something I came up with before I was even computer literate in a short story that I hacked out on a typerwriter. Tradman was a cross between largo's liveing large and Ed Angers My America collum in the World Weekly News. When I first started posting on Neice as Tradman I stayed in charecter for awhile but the internet is a rough place and it didn't take too long for me to figuer out that Tradmans rants attracted agressive responses.. Ocasionaly I do slip back into a good Tradman rant though.. "There I was elbow deep in a nice OW crack down to my last 12 pack of PBRs when allong comes this driveling top roper, Now let me tell you, this punk was uglier than a clear plastic bacg full of smashed bleeding as#@&%es and weaker than the tail end of a tequila hangover..... anyways Tradman must have been taken so tradmanclimbs it was......
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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May 19, 2008 - 12:56pm PT
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I was building a boat called a Tolman skiff, and there is a yahoo group for builders of that boat. When I started my yahoo e-mail I put in tolman_paul, tolman for the boat, paul is my first name. I used that e-mail account to set up my supertaco acct, and hence, tolman_paul.
BTW, here's the completed boat.
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rockanice
climber
new york
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May 19, 2008 - 01:27pm PT
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No problem Vernon..oops.
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snakefoot
climber
cali
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May 19, 2008 - 01:38pm PT
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from a game of hackey sack...
on another note, amazed at how some get fired up over posting under a real name...does it really matter? as if you didn't know who you hate already....
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Double D
climber
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May 19, 2008 - 01:51pm PT
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Duh… I duno.
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Transplant
Boulder climber
Tahoe
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May 19, 2008 - 01:59pm PT
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I'm not originally from these parts. I grew up in the Midwest, but escaped a few years back. Not here long enough yet to be a local, but feel fortunate enough to have been transplanted here!
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Buggs
Trad climber
Eagle River, Alaska
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May 19, 2008 - 07:31pm PT
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nee bee - very cool
Dragon With Matches - also very cool, when will someone adopt Born Cross-Eyed?
Buggs has been my nickname since 1982 when I taught Global Survival techniques in the military. I guess because I had a penchant for eating them...
Black ants taste like lemon-drops.
Earthworms are good if you purge the grit out of em'.
Grass hoppers taste like, you guessed it, grass. That is unless they are stir-fried in garlic butter, then they taste like chicken!!
Slugs taste like sh!t no matter how you prepare them. Eat them raw and you get their slug trail coated in your mouth that even tequila won't dissolve...
My real name is Mike.
Double D - those are hilarious and plump!
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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May 19, 2008 - 07:37pm PT
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Some great stories, keep'em coming. Nice skiff, Tol. Real and spectacular, Double D.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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May 19, 2008 - 09:45pm PT
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I HATED those "No Fear" stickers... So unfair.
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Bob Loblaw
Trad climber
NW NJ
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May 19, 2008 - 09:47pm PT
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Say Bob Loblaw out loud.
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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May 19, 2008 - 11:34pm PT
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Unfortunately, if you've ever climbed with me you'd know that 'tenesmus' is basically the anxiety induced urge to poo.
I get that a lot.
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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May 20, 2008 - 12:52am PT
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Fear said: I HATED those "No Fear" stickers... So unfair.
heh, then imagine how I feel when someone says "fvck off"
and I'm thinking to myself, "not without my permission"
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Dr. Rock
Ice climber
Castle Rock
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May 20, 2008 - 01:03am PT
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I'm a Motorhead freak.
Doctor Rock is a classic, and this is a climbing forum, so...
"We sure ain't talkin doctor spock..."
"Here me talkin... Doctor Rock!"
Observe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shhERq5abHI
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Jul 17, 2008 - 04:52pm PT
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Well, Mr tolman_paul?......
edit: Wow, beautiful boat!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jul 17, 2008 - 06:24pm PT
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I was stolen at birth by some Indians. A Chinese Trader came by and offered them a yen for me...so they started calling me yen which morphed to Lynne.
Now, the Indians knew a German fur trader whose last name was, Grosse Fuss, meaning Big Foot. GF took a liking to little yen and started calling her yen fuss....then he noticed how light on her feet she was. "Yen is Leicht on sie fuss" he would often chuckle."
Evolution occurred and over eons yen fuss became
LYNNE LEICHTFUSS
Here I thought I was named by my mother, turns out I didn't even have one.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Jul 17, 2008 - 06:30pm PT
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nita,
scroll back a page.
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Chewbongka
climber
लघिमा
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Jul 17, 2008 - 06:40pm PT
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Me too Lynne!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jul 17, 2008 - 07:30pm PT
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chewie, at least your mommie was creative.... :}
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xtrmecat
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montanagonia
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Jul 17, 2008 - 07:31pm PT
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Comes from my snowmobile racing/riding days. A snowmobile here is a snowcat or cat. Everyone else dabbled in 110 horsepower and I went to 215 in an ultralight chassis. Went some pretty wild places at some pretty wild speeds. Even put it on the plates on my pickup. Always been my e-mail address.
Folks I climb with call me burly Bob, donno though, must be my petite size, six foot and 250 lbs.
Bob
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mike
climber
I have no clue
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Jul 17, 2008 - 07:41pm PT
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My mommy gave it to me. She was going to name me Matt but changed her mind at the last second.
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hafilax
Trad climber
East Van
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Jul 17, 2008 - 08:05pm PT
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I hail from Halifax, Nova Scotia of all places but now call Vancouver home.
My buddies and I would jokingly call it Hafilax. I wanted a consistent name for message boards and thought that it would be unique enough. So far so good.
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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Jul 17, 2008 - 09:48pm PT
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I tried variations of Joe first, but they were taken,
so, went back to when I was really little.
At one time, there were FOUR Joes in the family,in the same house on holidays,
so me youngest, Joey.
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BurnRockBurn
climber
South of Black Rock City
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Jul 17, 2008 - 09:55pm PT
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I go to burningman-----climb rock-----then go back to burningman. Its a simple life.
BRB
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Jul 17, 2008 - 10:09pm PT
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Chewie, check it out...looked up my primordal roots...I was wrong my mother had nothing to do with it....I was stolen by Indians, and named by a Chinaman and a German Fur Trader...just go back one page for Lynne's exciting adventure.
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Ola Girl
Trad climber
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Jul 19, 2008 - 06:40pm PT
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Ola Girl was a nickname given to me when I worked at Warner Bros. Records - I use it because it's easy to remember. How "Ola Girl" came about is not a very exciting story so I won't bore you with the details, but its origins are "Hola" as in "Hello", not "Ola" as in "Wave".
Here's a pic of me with my co-worker, Matt, at the WBR Christmas party. His nickname was "Little House". Any of you tough climbers care to admit that you know why?
Olagirl and Little House:
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Lasti
Trad climber
Budapest
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Jul 21, 2008 - 12:35pm PT
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Simply put, it's my name. My very own nickname. Everyone calls me that, friends, climbing partners, colleagues, even family. Made frome the abbreviation of my family name, Lastofka. I don't know if that counts as hiding behind an alias or not... and I don't really care.
Lasti
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Jul 21, 2008 - 04:06pm PT
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I can't figure out how I became Blitzo.
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Jul 21, 2008 - 04:16pm PT
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Ola Girl, I was totally into Little House on the Prairie when I was a kid. But we only had one TV channel, so I learned to like what we had.
edit: Oops, I should have read you said tough guy climbers. I'm just the neutered nutjob type.
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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Oct 10, 2008 - 12:44pm PT
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Lots of folks missing...
Prod?
Adetesman?
p-dub?
Officerugg?
fish finder ;-)
Sparky?
and many others??????
edit: locker, maybe your answer is close? just guessing, Albert Ingalls=Matthew Laborteaux
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Ottawa Doug
Social climber
Ottawa, Canada
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Oct 10, 2008 - 02:22pm PT
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Tom Evans called me 'Ottawa Doug' and that was it.
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Shrug
Trad climber
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Oct 10, 2008 - 02:32pm PT
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Had it for years...
I work IT.
nuff said.
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
thats what she said...
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Dec 30, 2008 - 10:43pm PT
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My name is from "Big trouble in little china" a B-movie with kurt russel and kim kattrall. Porkchop Express was the name of Kurt's truck. I personally am not porky-- just was on a cheesy movie kick when I made this account.
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apogee
climber
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Dec 30, 2008 - 11:19pm PT
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Apogee has been a pet word since high school, denoting the highest and/or furthest point of anything. Yes, it is a bit geeky.
Nothing to do with astronomy, though most people seem to be familiar with it's use in that context.
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bluNgoldhornet6
Big Wall climber
Tampa, Fl
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Dec 30, 2008 - 11:25pm PT
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The colors look awesome flying thru the sky on a jet (Blue Angels).
would be kinda cool to earn a RESPECTABlE ST name tho
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Dec 30, 2008 - 11:29pm PT
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QUoTe: "I can't figure out how I became Blitzo. "
I can.... :)
Mine- I was too damn chicken to lead climb for the first 4 years, but I became a whiz at cleaning gear. Never left a piece behind. Thus... the Maid.
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Barcus
Trad climber
San Luis Obispo, Ca.
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Jan 28, 2009 - 05:03pm PT
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Needed something quick, my name is Marcus, my dogs name is Barkley, I will now be "Barcus" for all of eternity.
(I was gonna change it to Pinnhead, but no can do) lol
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DanaB
climber
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Jan 28, 2009 - 08:47pm PT
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Dana Bartlett
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EASy Pilot
Mountain climber
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Jan 28, 2009 - 09:26pm PT
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It's my job and the really cool ones like Deuce and Dingus were already taken.
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Coldfinger
Mountain climber
Bethany, CT
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Jan 28, 2009 - 09:32pm PT
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I love ice climbing even tho I'm kind of border line Raynaud's Syndrome i.e. I get really cold hands and its a play on the old James Bond movie. Use it on NEIce also and was surprised nobody else had taken it
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Jan 28, 2009 - 10:56pm PT
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When i was a kid i was really hyper, and talked a lot.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jan 29, 2009 - 12:09am PT
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Myself and two other yahoos from Issaquah went to college in E-burg 30 years ago and had the nicknames Studly Steve, Tough Todd, and Burly Brian. I still climb, bike and ski with these guys and although I may not be that studly anymore, the other two gentlmen are rowdy athletes still.
omg, I am still laughing over the Melissa Gilbert comment by Locker a fews posts back....Why was the guy named Little House? oh sh#t thats funny....
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nevenneve
Trad climber
St. Paul, MN
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Jan 29, 2009 - 06:37pm PT
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Reading too many outdated books. Neven is an older way of saying to mention and neve is snow. Needless to say I won't retire to Florida when I'm old and broken.
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pip the dog
Mountain climber
the outer bitterroots
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Feb 14, 2009 - 10:11pm PT
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most all of my pals call me dogboy. this a name my beloved grandfather who came over from galway late in life (with my mom) came up with for me when i was like 4 or 5. i always thought it was because i loved dogs and they forever seemed to love me. to this day i can walk into a dog park and in a heartbeat surrounded in a clusterfook of all the many dogs there. (i suspect i just smell like a dog biquit).
but i guessed wrong. it was only on his deathbed that my beloved (wicked smart and funny) grandfather told me the real meaning of what remains my primary names. he explained that in the irish gaelic of his native inishmere, actual references to actual dogs were always done by their given names. while any reference to the generic "dog" was assumed locally to be a reference for bad luck.
so he came up with this name for me after like five or six trips to the local ER when i was like 4 or 5. stuff like blood everywhere when i bit the shite out of my tongue after a brother put me in the dryer then turned it on. or another case of blood everywhere when i wiped on on my bicycle with a plastic whistle in my mouth. or the broken arm when i decided that it was a good idea to jump off the 3rd floor fire escape with an umbrella (worked for batman).
if you show up enough times at the same ER as a kid they eventually send out a social worker, which they did in this case. my mom was fine with that and soon clearly demonstrated that i was not being abused, i was just a moron.
now as i rocket into my dotage (44 and counting) i am increasingly uncomfortable with the 'boy' part. besides, it is redundant: all dogs are boys. the ladies of the species are properly called bitches. the only proper use of the word.
so i wanted my name to be just 'dog' - but that was already taken. so i went with one of my favorite characters in my favorite book, 'pip' - but that too was already taken.
so i ended up with 'pip the dog' not great, but good enough.
~~~
somebody show me how to edit this endless drivel into a reasonable post. sheesh.
pip the dog. aka dogboy ( ^,,^ --his mark)
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cheater stick
Trad climber
Mill Valley CA
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Feb 15, 2009 - 06:26pm PT
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My shorter friends started calling me cheater stick when I would reach past crux holds that they had to use and the name stuck. At 6'4" in tall but not super tall.
Never used an actual cheater stick I'm proud to say . . .
They'd call me CS for short!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 16, 2009 - 02:51am PT
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nice Cosmic...
[url="http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/audio/Jean-Luc_Ponty-Ethereal_Mood.mp3"]Ethereal Mood[/url] from Cosmic Messenger, Jean-Luc Ponty
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hooblie
climber
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last name is hooven. so hoov, hoovie on occasion, since forever.
ed barry used to lead some rhythm sections in the parking lot where each of us were given a part on whatever bucket, carhood, or hubcap sounded good. not that i had any talent. when he got it dialed in he would do something impressive on top of all that. pretty much passed as an uprising to the tourists. someone said the hooblies were restless, at some point there's no turning back
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KathyS
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Boring - my first name and last initial.
Thanks for the Jean-Luc Ponty hit. Now I'm going to have to get out some of my old cassettes that I haven't listened to in a decade.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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It was decided for mem by Russ Walling at Whiskey Creek Bar and Grill in Bishop California....
Check with him
(Later information/Write-In vote - My buddy euro-brief-guy (he should chime in on that "supertopo name" too) stated recently that he had thought of, or dubbed my name.... But that's not my memory of the events...
And before this turns into a bloody riot... it doesn't matter to me who had come up with the name...
Because it stuck, and now I just live with it
Cheers
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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I’m not sure but I think it was the surf thing and the neighborhood .
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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No deto connection?
it's z-boy thing?
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sweatyballs
Trad climber
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After living in Phoenix for five years and enduring long, bushwack approaches, snakes, heat which resulted in some serious itchiness down there... It was either that or grippedclimer as I get gripped too much... Sweatyballs is much funnier...
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72hw
Trad climber
Pasadena, CA
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72HW = 72 Hour Weekend
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Sir loin of leisure...
Trad climber
X
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May 10, 2009 - 10:42pm PT
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chicken skinner named me ...due to my legendary ability to do nothing ...
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tithaf
Trad climber
Colorado Plateau
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May 10, 2009 - 11:06pm PT
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my climbing partner and colleague in SB was stunned at my prodigious flatulence and my capacity to find hilarity in the audible aspect of others'
hence -> tHIS iS tOM hE'S aNNALLY fIXATED = tithaf
his was TIMHUA - i'll let others guess with the hint that his name is 'Mike'
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cowpoke
climber
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May 12, 2009 - 09:05am PT
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These answers are really fun to read: many are funny, many are really clever, and some are both. My reason is neither funny nor clever and has little to do with climbing, I suppose. On my father’s side of the family, most folks made/make their living off the cattle industry or related agriculture industries. As many rebellious children do, I ran as far from these professions as I could: academia. Although I love my job, I prefer the plain-spoken, humble attitude of ranchers and farmers to the (all too common) fancy-spoken, arrogant attitude of academics. [The latter stereotype would not apply to any of the academics posting on ST, of course.] Moreover, and somewhat ironically, my first professor gig was at a university with a cowboy mascot; not to mention that many of my students were, in fact, cowboys/cowgirls. I have since left that school, but kept the name, primarily because I like to think of “cowpoke” as a figurative return to my roots.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 12, 2009 - 09:28am PT
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My parents gave it to me.
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Steve L
climber
Sur
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May 12, 2009 - 12:37pm PT
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My first name is Steve. My last name starts with an L.
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Indoor Industry Outsider
Social climber
Your Starbuck's Parking Lot
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May 12, 2009 - 02:19pm PT
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I don't know what to make of y'all that insist on continuing to use your given names on ST.
Ma and pa gave me a name too, which I used proudly for many years in my real life as a climber.
But I am not what I once was . . . since I am now a SuperTopian who lives this exclusively virtual life, I, like Gatsby--who "sprang from his Platonic conception of himself"--have bestowed upon myself a NEW name which I use for my NEW life as an inhabitant of this ideal, utopian, dream-world we call SuperTopo.
Aye-Aye Oh
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hooblie
climber
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May 12, 2009 - 02:26pm PT
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jim, if the implication is that they might have named you otherwise, we commend your choice to make them proud.
not that you would have failed to toil so nobley under the more obscure,
Otherwise
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 12, 2009 - 02:31pm PT
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When I signed up for ST I was such a luddite I didn't know how to do a nickname.
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allapah
climber
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May 12, 2009 - 05:12pm PT
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Inupiaq for "cold!" "it's cold!" "I am really really cold!"
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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May 13, 2009 - 12:09pm PT
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My initials are GO, and that's how I've always signed everything I've ever written.
On the plus side, when I say "GO" at the end of every post, it seems to help encourage people to respond. Not what I intended, but it's a nice fringe benefit.
Cheers!
GO
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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May 13, 2009 - 01:55pm PT
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When I was much younger, around 18, my best friend would fill out those "get a free club membership" forms and would write my last name as rectorsquid. I have no idea why he did it. It's a good user name since it is always available.
Dave
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nita
climber
chica from chico, I don't claim to be a daisy
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May 13, 2009 - 02:03pm PT
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Tomaselli, yeah right...I liked your other name better
*Elmer J Snake navel*............ oops late now..heading out the door
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NFB
Mountain climber
SLC UT
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May 13, 2009 - 04:21pm PT
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My buddy Tom Torkelson, world class climber and mountain guide and now a permanent resident of Argentina gave me the middle inital F.
A number of years ago I moved to Wyoming from Utah in search of alpine terrain, high adventure, skiing and better paid work. I had met Tom in Zion and we were fast friends. My second summer here, Tom told me I would earn the middle intiial F if I climbed the North Face of the GFT. (Grand F&$*@^g Teton) So, my buddy Joe and I proceeded to smoke the north face route in 12 hours (car to summit)on Solstice 2002 thus both earning our F.
So, with joking pride, I can substitued my Allen of Nathan Allen Brown with a F. and there you have NFB
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TMO
Trad climber
Puyallup, WA
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May 13, 2009 - 04:42pm PT
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I figured if Alex Rodriguez could be A-Rod, Jennifer Lopez could be J-Lo, why can't I, Troy Moss be T-Mo????
Also a buddy of mine always refers to my band as the "troy moss outfit" then began refering to me as T.M.O.
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oldtopangalizard
Social climber
ca
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May 13, 2009 - 11:51pm PT
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So NFB, you are the climbing version of Bucky F**king Dent.
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TYeary
climber
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May 13, 2009 - 11:52pm PT
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Born with it.
Tony
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tom Slater
Trad climber
CA
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May 13, 2009 - 11:57pm PT
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Birth certificate
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Rich the Brit
Trad climber
San Ramon, CA
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Catching up with this thread after a long vacation away from the Taco forum...
I many other sites I go by the name blokeonarope - meant to be a take on the 70s fad for soaponarope.
On the Taco I go by Rich the Brit cos my first name is Richard and... er... I am unmistakenly British (now a long time resident in the USA). I still get asked if I am an ozzie, kiwi, etc. I think people are trying to be polite - typically antipodeans hate being mistaken for their cousins. I was once asked by a turo in the valley if I was from Texas???
Rich the Brit was an attempt to help people identify me when they ran into me in the valley. In truth, it was a bit of overkill - climbing on double 9 mils, a rack of WC friends, an extreme prejudice against any brand of nuts other than DMM, an untreatable addiction to tea, my strange climbing calls ("Safe"), and endless rantings about all things gritstone, didn't really need any embellishment.
Richard Hare
Embassador of Her Majesty the Queen to the Eastern Bay Area Territories
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gunsmoke
Trad climber
Clackamas, Oregon
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Best bouldering traverse around!
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Hardluck
Social climber
Just who wants to know...
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College nickname. Don't ask...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, cowpoke... wow that was a nice down-home story... say, my buddies that work their ranch, would like seeing how you decided to get your supertopo name.. thanks for the share...
say, i already posted a ways back, but this is very interestng to keep up on, i will try to backtrack and read some more..
say, gunsmoke.. i just got done watching an old western, and they mentioned a name of a city in colorado, not sure if it was a fiction-city, or a real one.... its name was:
gunsmoke...
hmmmm, were you refering to perhaps a said-same (but true) city, when you mentioned:
the best bouldering around... ?
:)
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Cinnamon Scotty was taken
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Friend
climber
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I wanted something non-confrontational, as$hole.
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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bitd, Russ Walling used to answer most queries asked of him "Don't know...can't say"..I seemed to remember hearing it a lot, and don't for the life of me know why I chose that when I signed on here, but I did. Go figure
but I used to go by many, many more nicknames, just as most S. Cal locals used to and usually bestowed by Mr. Walling.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
slowly dying in the OC
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stole it from a good climber
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Back of beyond
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i'm sadly uncertain how it came about....it just sort of was/is an inescapable state of being...........
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The Wolf
Trad climber
East SF Bay Area
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My last name means Wolf in Swedish..............Strangely there is not a drop of swedish blood in me. Seems to have been some bad penmanship when my Grandfather signed on with a company around 1920.
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Loomis
climber
*_*
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Let's see, hmmm.. I was born with it : )
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Feb 20, 2011 - 09:30pm PT
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Post up ...
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Feb 20, 2011 - 09:40pm PT
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I live in Santa Cruz. I love to climb and to sail. My astrological sign is also Seagoat or Capricorn.
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
BC
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Feb 20, 2011 - 09:42pm PT
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First name Nigel... From Salt Spring Island (aka SSI)
NigelSSI
Hiding behind an alias so I can spray, lie, steal, and cheat. NO ONE COULD EVER FIND ME!!!
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Feb 20, 2011 - 11:07pm PT
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i had real bad acne when i was a kid.
i misspelled it here, and couldn't change it.
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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Feb 20, 2011 - 11:17pm PT
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I like to sew up cracks with pro. I am a coward. I am a girl. So this psuedo name fit.
Why not my own name? I was harassed endlessly by an old time climber who thought that you must be a pro-bolter or an anti-bolter. The world only comes in black and white. I am exhausted from years of constant vigilance resulting from his bolt war. I want to prolong peace in my climbing world.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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Feb 20, 2011 - 11:19pm PT
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I eat obscene amounts of candy while climbing. Karo is corn syrup, cornsyrup is in candy, and there it is. I know it's bad for me but the energy level stays high.
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Lacey
Social climber
Burns,Oregon
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Feb 20, 2011 - 11:20pm PT
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BITD, Before my Yose Days, I married a Brit in SF and I kept Lacey....
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Feb 21, 2011 - 12:01am PT
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I came up with mine the easy way...I simply looked in a mirror.
"Brokedownclimber."
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
the green triangle, cali
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May 18, 2012 - 10:36pm PT
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lol, never saw this before. went on a family vacation to maui when i was about 8 and was fascinated with their native language. i made up a name for myself using ( i thought ) only letters in their alphabet and that i thought sounded hawaiian. its my handle/nickname for everything.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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May 18, 2012 - 10:49pm PT
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I used to ride freight trains and hitchhike to get West. Steve Araiza used to call me "Hobo Dan the man who's done everything" It made me laugh and I chose that as my handle when I signed on to this place.
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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May 18, 2012 - 10:51pm PT
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My names Kirk. Pretty obvious. Had a room mate named Kurt in college. Constantly getting screamed at by our other room mates ' cuz we had phone calls, only to be for the other one.Finally room mates just started askin' callers "Kurt or Captain"? .Name stuck . Here I am. :)
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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May 18, 2012 - 10:58pm PT
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Kind of liked the sound of it.
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Anastasia
climber
I'm simply missing my mama.
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May 18, 2012 - 11:04pm PT
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My parents gave it to me. I didn't bother with a handle since I didn't see the point.
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Happy Idiot
Trad climber
Santa Fe
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May 18, 2012 - 11:04pm PT
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Jackson Browne's 'The Pretender' struck a chord with me long ago. To wit:
"I'm gonna be a happy idiot, and struggle for the legal tender...."
But, things are now looking up, and I'm presently transitioning into an actually interesting line of employment; hopefully no more mundane struggle for the legal tender.
Chris
/Wait, shouldn't I be on the Friday-night-posting-while-drunk-thread istnead?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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May 18, 2012 - 11:18pm PT
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I was trying to figure out just exactly what happened to Steve McKinney. I chanced upon the Steve McKinney thread on ST. At some point I decided to make a comment, but I couldn't without signing up. Looked around, liked the avatar of WBraun, so I contracted a high scholl nickname and became zBrown.
Also, Da Brim was taken.
not zero tolerance, zorro, zulu, zane, zackyfarms, zipitup
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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May 18, 2012 - 11:31pm PT
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Spider fits in so many ways. I don't care for my real name; Chris. Having the last name Savage has been very fun. It's great to have a cool last name.
This nickname came to me in high school as direct result of a great man and a great skier, Spider Sabitch of Tahoe.
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
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May 19, 2012 - 12:12am PT
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It's a made up word from two words that you wouldn't put together in German, but I thought they sounded nice together (and conveniently, almost always available as screen name).
lila Biene = "leelah beeneh" = purple bee
Fittingly...odd.
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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May 19, 2012 - 12:29am PT
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I used to have bad Acne, and misspelled my nickname when I set up my profile here, and couldn't figure out how to change it.
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stunewberry
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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May 19, 2012 - 12:36am PT
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It was an alias used to go to the frat houses and drink their beer. No one on this forum would believe my given name, however. If we were one and the same person, it would have meant that one of the first climbers of the Salathe Wall would have been 8 years old at the time.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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May 19, 2012 - 12:42am PT
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Hi, Kirk! I'm Kirk. Waitaminute....Well, these days not many folks call me that.
Howdy anyways.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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May 19, 2012 - 12:51am PT
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Rather clever, really. I took my last name and attached the first letter of my given name.
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FRUMY
Trad climber
SHERMAN OAKS,CA
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May 19, 2012 - 12:59am PT
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It's what they called my grandfather, & what I like being called.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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May 19, 2012 - 01:05am PT
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Sailing and climbing are two things I really love, plus it's my astrological sign. "seagoat" by itself was taken so I added SC standing for Santa Cruz, where I live. Some people glance at it and think its Scapegoat. Sometimes I've felt like that!
Susan
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 19, 2012 - 02:17am PT
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'Cause it gets me a knowing nod when I enter Ireland. Thanks, Mum! (It's her
maiden name and, hence, my middle)
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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May 19, 2012 - 03:56am PT
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I actually scrolled through this whole damn thread to see if I had already posted. I suffer from CRS(can't remember shit). Nope.
People have been calling me Wayno as long as I can remember. Even when they have never heard anyone else call me that. They have called me other weird sh#t, but that one rolls nicely.
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nopantsben
climber
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May 19, 2012 - 04:45am PT
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well, about my name, there is not such a long story as some may think. haha
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pb
Sport climber
Redlands Ca
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May 19, 2012 - 06:22am PT
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Before dirtbag was in vogue climbers in Yosemite were known as park bums or PBs. I considered Hazbin Wanabie, or Brahmaputra for new age cachet but...just my initials and who needs a nickname anyhow?
Philip Bone
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Tung Gwok
Mountain climber
South Bend, Indiana
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May 19, 2012 - 10:13am PT
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Tung Gwok is the name I was given by the Acholi people of northern Uganda, the region where I do my fieldwork. It means "Horn of the Dog." The backstory is a local story that sometimes a mother dog gives birth in its litter to a dog with horns, but that we rarely see such dogs because the mother, seeing that the dog is weird, eats it before any human arrives. However, if a person is both fortunate and has tenacity, he/she can arrive in time and snatch the horn of the dog before the dog is eaten. Such a person then is protected by the horn from bad events. My fieldwork took me to live in the Internally Displaced Persons camps in northern Uganda during the war there. When I returned home without getting hurt or falling ill,the Acholi in diaspora gave me the name because they figured that I must have "tung gwok."
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Josh Higgins
Trad climber
San Diego
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May 19, 2012 - 10:17am PT
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Very simple answer:
After watching so many people be disrespectful cowards and jerks to each other anonymously on the internet, I used that as a model of what not to do. I use my name, and try to be respectful, just like I would in person.
Josh
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moacman
Trad climber
Montana
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May 19, 2012 - 10:32am PT
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When I first started to really climb in the 60's it was in the Bow Valley west of Calgary Alberta. The climbing club that I belonged to was full of limeys and scots that used nothing but knotted slings and stoppers (moacs) for pro so that was the way I thought climbig was suposed to be. Even when Friends came out I continued to use moacs for pro because I believed in a kind of silly way that cams were a form of cheating....anyway we were comming back from a climbing day and ran into a friend and his partner on the trail, my friend says to his partner hey look it's the moac man....so thats my story and I'm stickin to it...........
PS
My real climbing name is "The Moves" but thats another story..........
Stevo
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 19, 2012 - 10:37am PT
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There is a Donini wine I stumbled across in Canada. Tried some, it was kind of low rent- perfect for the taco stand.
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Da_Dweeb
climber
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May 19, 2012 - 11:31am PT
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I just took the very core of my essence and expressed it in two simple words. Been my nickname and the lyrics to the theme song of The Tick for 20 years now.
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Dave
Mountain climber
the ANTI-fresno
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May 19, 2012 - 11:47am PT
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It wasn't taken in 2003.
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briham89
Trad climber
los gatos. ca
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May 19, 2012 - 11:52am PT
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Brian Hamilton born in '89 = briham89 :D so creative I know...
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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May 19, 2012 - 12:28pm PT
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ah, the rosetta stone.
bird as a last name is a curse in childhood, more fun as you get older.
using your own name is like living in a glass house.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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May 19, 2012 - 12:39pm PT
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I cut my teeth climbing in the Gunnison Valley when I was attending Western State College. At that time, all of the license plates from there started with the letters YD - hence ydpl8s - kind of lets people in-the-know from whence I came, and now, you are all in-the-know.
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Chewybacca
Trad climber
Montana, Whitefish
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May 19, 2012 - 12:59pm PT
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My avatar is in memory of a dog I had for 15 years. My furry friend died at the time I started joining internet discussion forums. His name was actually Chewy but that name is already taken on most forums.
My real name is in my profile so I don't feel like I'm being anonymous or hiding.
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall, CO
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May 20, 2012 - 07:53pm PT
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I walked into Neptune Mtnr one day and Charlie Fowler says "Hey, Sick Mic, what'd ya do today?" It just stuck, although the spelling is mine. I always thought it pretty funny, considering some of the crazy stuff that he'd done.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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May 20, 2012 - 08:56pm PT
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Splitter. That should be fairly self explanatory. Most old school/trad climbers love splitters. And I was surprised to find that it hadn't been taken. I was thinking about adding something coy like splitterpunk, splitterho, or splitterjunkie, etc. but simply went with splitter.
But for me it has a double connotation. I use to be a 21/blackjack junkie/addict. Spent years(off & on)at it. Developed a strategy/system that worked. For example, I can recall going to various casino's in vegas(where i lived for a couple years)seventeen days in a row and doubling-quadrupling whatever money i entered with every time. And splitting cards is a strategy that can reduce the house/casino's edge. It is basic and fundamental. As is counting cards(imo). But there are times when it shouldn't be done(splitting). Someone would sit next to you and with a strong plus count running and everything looking sweet(rich deck), split every hand that could be split. Screwing up the whole strategy/count and usually take the dealers bust card(or my 21 card). For instance splitting two face cards(or even worse, two 5's)when the dealer had to hit. I called them splitters and I hated them.
edit: "junkie/addict" for example: i had clubs(there are allot of casino's/clubs in vegas)that i gambled at & those which i practiced at. I would usually gamble no longer than an hour or so. But i would 'practice'(counting, etc.)for hours on end. I can vividly recall entering one casino, to practice, at around 3:00 in the afternoon and sitting at a table for 14-16 hours straight. When i left, the sun had just begin to rise and people where waiting for buses to take them to work, etc.! It was a surreal moment...had an epiphany of sorts and i began a long process of reevaluating my lifestyle/habit.
EDIT: Yes, Charlie Fowler was definitely one sick dood(positive connotation). RIP!
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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May 20, 2012 - 09:30pm PT
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Tahoe Climber- "Is "Christ" weschrist's last name?"
No!
His first name is Wes, and his last name begins with "Christ......" I won't print it in full out of respect for his anonymity. And, although he use to hassel the sh#t out of me at times, I miss the dood. Generally had something positive or worthwhile to say which produced 'food for thought', made you think and occasionally reevaluate certain issues, etc.! And, although we may not have always agreed with each other, he stood up for what he believed to be true, therefore I greatly respected the guy.
He should be allowed back, imo!!
edit:@Tahoe Climber, btw, cool thread and thanks for starting it!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 20, 2012 - 09:50pm PT
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He truly can't, folks.
Remember sh#t.
He can't remember me.
(I've never met him and I'm not sh#t.)
You know who, the dude at the top of the page,
I think it's a case of his parents''ses telling him
over and over, "Way no! You'll put your eye out, man."
Beats plain "W" or "u*u" any day.
I was named Brian, then Mouse in the 8th Grade took over. I was new to town,
and on my second day in eighth grade I was given the name. It was during a recess tag football game. I got thru on defense and tagged the QB so easily because I was so small I could hide behind Farmboy Monte and miss being blocked out of the play. I just "reached around." Geil started calling me Mouse because no one was sure of the n00b's name. Mouse style being unobtrusive but still a pest.
The next day Padilla calls my house, asks my mom, "Are you Mrs. Mouse? This is Micky (real name). Can I talk to your son...uh...Mouse?"
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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May 20, 2012 - 10:05pm PT
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^I'm following you, but a middle name of 'from' and last of 'merced'?
When I was growing up they often called me Speedo, though my real name was Mr. Earl.
I'm going out for a lollipop now.
EDIT: Could not find one. All there seems to be are tootsie roll pops and suckers.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
merced, california
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May 20, 2012 - 10:33pm PT
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"They" told me there was already a "Mouse" avating the premices.
I shoulda gone With Love, too. From Merced sucks in lots and lots and lots of ways.
MWL is harder to type out, though.
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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May 20, 2012 - 11:00pm PT
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You know I got the name from Bruce Brossman. I was climbin' in the Valley on weekends with an old hard man named Dave Holmes and then later Helga Brown was my partner.
Holmes introduced me to Bruce and somehow that name showed up. I'd played a lot of basketball on hard courts in Oakland and Berkeley and it maybe fit my poor mtn attire and bad crack climbing skills and 'urban' language use.
Bruce was always helpful and fun and I went with it when my topo time came.
Movin' down near the tracks this week actually...
Dave Reid
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bit'er ol' guy
climber
the past
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May 20, 2012 - 11:43pm PT
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Read my post.
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rectorsquid
climber
Lake Tahoe
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May 21, 2012 - 11:42am PT
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Some 30 years ago when we were young adults, my best friend would find those little forms that offered things like a month free health club membership, and he would fill them out with my information to be a pest. My last name is Rector and he would write down "Rectorsquid."
So that's it. In his memory, and because it's always a unique name on every site where I need a user name, I use that name much of the time.
Dave
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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May 21, 2012 - 03:37pm PT
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PS. isn't it really awful!? :-D
Chordettes Lollipop is much better, likewise tootsie roll pops vs lollis
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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May 21, 2012 - 04:21pm PT
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It's so bad, it wouldn't be possible to satirize it.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 24, 2012 - 03:07pm PT
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"Mind", he began, lifting one arm from the elbow, the palm of the hand outwards, so that, with his legs folded before him, he had the pose of a Buddha preaching in European clothes and without a lotus flower."
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Edge
Trad climber
New Durham, NH
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May 24, 2012 - 03:14pm PT
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In the late 70's-early 80's I used to show a 1 1/2 hour slide show of my climbing exploits on the college outing club circuit. It was a blend of narrative and music (Floyd, Hot Tuna, Talking Heads, REM) and covered rock, ice, big walls, and mountaineering. The title was "Edge Games".
Move forward 20 years to when I become coach of the junior team at the Dover Indoor Climbing Gym. We needed a name, and wanted an original one, as other gyms were the lame "Cliffhangers" or "Wallcrawlers" and the like. I suggested the "Dover Edge" because it sounded like a sports franchise kind of name, and the kids voted for that as a team name. Afterwards the gym's owner laughed, as he had briefly considered naming the gym "Dover the Edge". I'm glad he didn't...
So, Edge has historic and current meaning for me, and I like it's simplicity.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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May 24, 2012 - 03:31pm PT
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Surprisingly enough, it was available.
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Synchronicity
Trad climber
British Columbia, Canada
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May 24, 2012 - 05:58pm PT
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I was watching Return to Balance: A Climber's Journey and Ascending Rhythm and was enthralled watching Ron Kauk climb. He has always been an inspiration for me not only in his smooth uber-strong climbing ability but his mindset. If ever there was someone who seemed to belong on the rock it is Ron.
I was doing a lot of soloing around the time that I joined the tacostand and when I would solo, I would repeat in my head some quotes I had heard that helped my mindset, this one from Kauk in particular :
"When I find my balance, there's a synchronicity to every move, a connection to myself and all the world around me. These are truly magic moments."
For me it captured the essence of those magical days spent climbing where it all comes together in mind and body, hence Synchronicity.
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Nibs
Trad climber
Humboldt, CA
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May 24, 2012 - 05:59pm PT
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Took a youth group out to a ranch for a horseback riding camp out many years ago. Rancher brought me a sleek young gelding - prancing, it looked fast. I explained that, uh, not sure that is for me. I was thrown many a time riding at my grandmother's (Nona) ranch in my youth - perhaps you have something a little 'slower?'
so they bring me out this old grey sway back mare partially blind in one eye. "Her name is Nibs." Perfect. and she was perfect. I, however, was the butt of many a joke all weekend.
When I signed up to ST I thought, ya know, I think I have arrived. I am Nibs, dammit!!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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May 24, 2012 - 06:15pm PT
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I just used my last name and my photo for my avatar. I don't have anything to hide.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Chula Vista, CA
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May 24, 2012 - 06:21pm PT
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ABSOLUTELY HIDDIE!
YIKES!
Both renditions
Chordettes made it all the way to #2 on the charts in 1958.
Maybe a spoonful of "Sugar Daddy" will make the medicine go down. 3,368,862 viewers and counting. Did it chart? Ya got me. As far as I can tell Sugar Daddy is not taken on Super Topo.
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Zoo
climber
Fremont, CA
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May 24, 2012 - 06:57pm PT
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Zoo is what my classmates called me at West Point, a play on a shortened version of my last name.
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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May 24, 2012 - 07:58pm PT
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Worked in a lab. Mascot is a rat.......
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Seamstress
Trad climber
Yacolt, WA
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May 24, 2012 - 08:01pm PT
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I place a lot of pro - sew it up.
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Batrock
Trad climber
Burbank
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May 24, 2012 - 09:30pm PT
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There used to be a boulder at the turn off to the Saline Valley Hot Springs that had a big bat painted on it until the Park Service thought it best to bury it instead of just pushing it across the road to BLM land. It was known as "the bat rock". I guess I am paying respect to a small bit of Eastern California history. M
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Sparky
Trad climber
vagabond movin on
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May 24, 2012 - 11:36pm PT
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Nickname from early rock climbing college years. I said "bullshit" a lot so it reminded my friends of Sparky from National Lampoons.
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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BUMP DE BUMP DE BUMP.........Let's hear some of the new ones......
Stevo
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Ahwahnee Bartender
Big Wall climber
Fog Town
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I was a bartender at the Ahwahnee Hotel. Get it?
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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mine speaks for itself i think. started climbing summer 2012, started posting this march.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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It was real tough.
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Well, my name is John. Hillrat was made up for a 4x4 forum and got carried over here somehow in the beginning.
Now, johnnyrig on the other hand, something like near twenty years ago before I was even old enough to drink, I had an old POS red international pickup. Think Sanford and Sons.
Anyway, I took it camping with my sister's friends to the big annual MelonFest (that's what we call it... got a constitution and all, as the whole idea stemmed from her poli-sci class, still happens every year. Lots of jello shots, sharpie, music...). Now, the big campout happens every year. On the last day "virgins" (who've never been there) get awarded their "melon name". I had no melon name yet.
The second day, the fuel pump in the old truck gave out after 4x4ing a two wheel drive truck up to Bassi Falls (you could do that back then). So, it being the old broke-down worthless truck that it was, I shot it. Put it out of it's misery and such. One in the hood, two in a tire. Tossed back a few shots myself in consolation.
Party on.
Last day of the big campout, everyone cleaned up, packed up, and left except three rigs... mine, my sis, and her good friend. The good friend proceeds to "go for a spin", whereupon he stuck his truck in a mudhole and burned the clutch so bad it nearly caught fire. So now we got three truckloads of cr&p and one working truck.
After a bit of head-scratching, I dismounted the shot tire and patched it up with I-don't-remember-what and some rubber cement (it was a split-rim, so I only really had to fix the tube and didn't even own a spare), siphoned gas from my tank to a 2 1/2 gallon can that I carried (because the gauge didn't work... engine dies, add two gallons, drive to nearest station), bungeed the can to the roof, and ran a six foot piece of hose through the new bullet hole in the hood directly to the carburetor. Voila! Two running trucks.
Then I pulled the stuck truck out of the mud, and we caravanned down the hill back to Sacramento (from about Lover's Leap. That's where Bassi falls is located). Had to stop every-so-often to siphon more gas from the tank and re-bungee the can to the top, so I could tow the burnt-clutch rig home.
And thus... my actual FULL original Melon nickname, which is forever gaining addendums, is "boomboomjohnnyrig".
At least they didn't call me d&%$head.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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my father came in my mother
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Er
I'm from Vegas and I climb...tough huh. Haha
Jonny, my first vehicle was an IH as well, a 1960. My standard repair kit had baling wire and duct tape in it....I had to rebuild part of the throttle linkage with baling wire as you couldn't get parts for it. Payed $120 for it and wish I still had it haha.
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jonnyrig
Trad climber
formerly known as hillrat
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Nice! Mine was a 66. I got it free because my friend kept trying to time it on no1. You time those on no8. Here's a picture from the next Melon, after I'd swapped the original step-side for a utility body and painted it in the driveway. I'll keep looking for a picture of how it originally looked.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
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Because I have Leggs.
Tomboy Leggs to be exact.
;)
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Srbphoto
climber
Kennewick wa
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Old girlfriends nickname ...
you had a girlfriend nicknamed "Stewart Johnson"? There has got to be story behind that!
EDIT: Nice save :)
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whitemeat
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo, CA
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well whitemeat was my nickname from my dad! it was just another thing but it stuck and when I was contemplating what to call myself I thought it would be a good one! ea?
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mechrist
Gym climber
South of Heaven
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46 & 2 just ahead of me = mechrist
assuming we progress from left to right
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Newton County Mentality
Boulder climber
Ozarks
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It's the name of a route at my home crag in Arkansas, the route was aptly named as it pretty well sums up the majority of the climbing in the area. 1 hard boulder crux at the bottom and 50 feet of jug bashing. It's also my IG handle sans the spaces.
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peladob
Mountain climber
Mason City, Iowa
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tired of typing the entire length of my Summitpost name.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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I don't remember exactly...
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portent
Social climber
your mom's house
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I got my name because Cmac kept banning me if any part of my real name was in there.
So now I'm Portent and just biding my time...
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Olde style rec.climbing tech-head unix influenced username: first initial of first name, then last name. wbraun is another example.
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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splater is splat + later
because later is not now
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Anastasia
climber
Home
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It's my real name. What you see is what you get. I don't play differently in real life.
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Being the creative type, I concatenated my first and last name. cool eh?
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TheTye
Trad climber
Sacramento CA
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Tye is my first name...
.... I ended up with TheTye from not being able to use just my name in my yahoo email address... I added The for no particular reason.
And it's The not Thee Tye. Less pompous sounding...
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N/@
Trad climber
NM
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N/A was taken........
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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In the 2nd grade my family took a trip to Maui, where I got intrigued by the Hawaiian language. I wanted a Hawaiian name for myself, so I made something up I thought sounded Hawaiian. It has stuck ever since.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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I had to get very creative.
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moacman
Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
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Good one weeg......
Stevo
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Cragar
Trad climber
MSLA - MT
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Family nickname
I like chrome, so there you go.
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little Z
Trad climber
un cafetal en Naranjo
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my older brother was big Z, so when we played on the same little league team I became little Z.
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Alexey
climber
San Jose, CA
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My real name. Do not need to invent nick name since not many Alexeys are climbing in California so far.
Alexey Zelditch
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BuddhaStalin
climber
Truckee, CA
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Oct 21, 2014 - 05:36pm PT
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Diarrhea milkshake, poo poo
wee wee popsicle, tinkle soup.
Somebody out there will get it.
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