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spud
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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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