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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 10, 2008 - 03:16pm PT
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I was just wondering. We have MisterE. Khanom. Goatboy Smellz.
Who else is named Eric, or Erik, or Eirik, or Erica, or variations thereof?
At the FaceLift last year, we considered giving numbers to the Erics, to distinguish them. As two of the first five or six to show up were named Eric, and then a third appeared, it was getting confusing.
Edit: Any smartass who says "I am Spartacus" is gonna be in big trubble.
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nature
climber
Santa Fe, NM
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Jul 10, 2008 - 03:23pm PT
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My Name is Eric and I admit, I have a problem.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Jul 10, 2008 - 03:23pm PT
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Nanook
There are a lot of Erics, but I think there are more Johns. Not even counting portajohns. haha
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
monsoon time
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Jul 10, 2008 - 03:25pm PT
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"Who Here is Named Eric?"
i am!
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adatesman
Trad climber
philadelphia, pa
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Jul 10, 2008 - 03:31pm PT
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Does it count if spelled with an "A"?
-aric.
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cowpoke
climber
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Jul 10, 2008 - 03:34pm PT
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count me in...with an E and a c.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jul 10, 2008 - 03:45pm PT
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"I am and so is my wife"
Believe me there are more 'John's' than the rest put together.
There are a lot of Erics in these parts; my daughter's middle name is Erica, named after her maternal uncle. Are they all blonde?
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Ghoulwe
Trad climber
Spokane, WA
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Jul 10, 2008 - 04:07pm PT
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OK, I'll admit it - I'm an Eric too. Have been all my life.
Eric Barrett
Spokane, WA
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youngharz
Boulder climber
Carpinteria
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Jul 10, 2008 - 04:46pm PT
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....and spelled with a "k"
-Erik Harz
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jul 10, 2008 - 05:14pm PT
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believe the name on the birth certificate is
Baron von America Edward Sonpowerpack de Papazian
or
eric
for
short
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jul 10, 2008 - 05:16pm PT
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hey there, say, my son's name is Emmeric ... well, its KIND of an eric... as we say, emmEric, stressing the center, and not the first vowel (makes it match spanish better)...
course, he's in texas, so won't be causeing any name confusions... :)
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Jul 10, 2008 - 05:58pm PT
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Klaus = Eric
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adatesman
Trad climber
philadelphia, pa
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Jul 10, 2008 - 06:58pm PT
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Goatboy- Only asking since it says you're from Colorado.... Any relation to Charlie Papazian?
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emac
climber
New Hampshire
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Jul 10, 2008 - 07:52pm PT
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one more Eric here.
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Standing Strong
Trad climber
monsoon time
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Jul 10, 2008 - 07:58pm PT
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i'm not really named eric. i was just being silly.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 10, 2008 - 08:01pm PT
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That's ok - your lovely mesa TR washes away all. :-)
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MisterE
Social climber
My Inner Nut
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Jul 10, 2008 - 08:58pm PT
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I spell mine AEriq (old english AE, FYI, just to make it difficult.
I just had to post the following:
Customer: Hello, I would like to buy a fish license, please.
Shopkeeper: A what?
C: A license for my pet fish, Eric.
S: How did you know my name was Eric?
C: No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut.
S: What?
C: He is...an...halibut.
S: You've got a pet halibut?
C: Yes. I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were
all too flat.
S: You must be a looney.
C: I am not a looney! Why should I be attired with the epithet looney merely
because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo
has a pet prawn called Simon (you wouldn't call him a looney); furthermore,
Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after
the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and
Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you're calling the author of 'A la
recherche du temps perdu' a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
S: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
C: Yes.
S: For a fish.
C: Yes.
S: You are a looney.
C: Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet dog
Eric, and I've got a license for me pet cat Eric...
S: You don't need a license for your cat.
C: I bleeding well do and I got one. He can't be called Eric without it--
S: There's no such thing as a bloody cat license.
C: Yes there is!
S: Isn't!
C: Is!
S: Isn't!
C: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
S: This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat' written
in in crayon.
C: The man didn't have the right form.
S: What man?
C: The man from the cat detector van.
S: The looney detector van, you mean.
C: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
S: What cat detector van?
C: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housinge.
S: Housinge?
C: It was spelt like that on the van (I'm very observant!). I never seen so
many bleeding aerials. The man said that their equipment could pinpoint
a purr at four hundred yards! And Eric, being such a happy cat, was a
piece of cake.
S: How much did you pay for this?
C: Sixty quid, and eight for the fruit-bat.
S: What fruit-bat?
C: Eric the fruit-bat.
S: Are all your pets called Eric?
C: There's nothing so odd about that: Kemal Ataturk had an entire menagerie
called Abdul!
S: No he didn't!
C: Did!
S: Didn't!
C: Did, did, did, did, did and did!
S: Oh, all right.
C: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a fish license?
S: I promise you that there is no such thing: you don't need one.
C: In that case, give me a bee license.
S: A license for your pet bee?
C: Yes.
S: Called Eric? Eric the Bee?
C: No.
S: No?
C: No, Eric the Half-Bee. He had an accident.
S: You're off your chump.
C: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquiallism to
imply that my sanity is not up to scratch, or indeed to deny the
semi-existence of my little chum Eric the Half-Bee, I shall have to ask
you to listen to this!
Take it away, Eric the orchestra leader!.......
A one... two.... A one.. two.. three..four...
[piano intro]
Half a bee, philosophically, must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee
has got to be,
vis a vis
its entity - do you see?
But can a bee
be said to be
or not to be
an entire bee
when half the bee
is not a bee
due to some ancient injury?
Singing...
La dee dee, 1 2 3,
Eric the half a bee.
A B C D E F G,
Eric the half a bee.
Is this wretched demi-bee,
half asleep upon my knee,
some freak from a menagerie?
No! It's Eric the half a bee.
Fiddle dee dum,
Fiddle dee dee,
Eric the half bee.
Ho ho ho,
Tee hee hee,
Eric the half a bee.
I love this hive employee-ee-ee [with buzzing in background]
bisected accidentally
one summer afternoon by me
I love him carnally.
He loves him carnally... [together]
...semi-carnally
[spoken]
The end
"Cyril Connelly?"
No! "Semi-carnally"
Oh!
Cyril Connelly [sung softly and slowly]
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goatboy smellz
climber
colorado
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Jul 10, 2008 - 09:00pm PT
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nope adatesman, no relation.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 10, 2008 - 09:05pm PT
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You mean like Ærik?
I think we can accept those with Eric in their surname, also.
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