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Tarbuster
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Aug 20, 2006 - 12:44am PT
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Hmmm,
Cud be a loaded question.
I'd say because they were: sisters, indians, and sometimes on the hunt for men.
They also displayed volatile responses on occasion; well Virginia for sure.
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Jaybro
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The West
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Aug 20, 2006 - 12:45am PT
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Not all stories need to be told.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 20, 2006 - 12:47am PT
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Yes Jay, that's what I'm feeling.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 20, 2006 - 12:49am PT
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I think for the moment I'd best chew this nice pasta and slurp some more dark red Malbec...
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2006 - 12:51am PT
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Those were the days,,
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Tarbuster
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Aug 20, 2006 - 01:20am PT
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Yes, it was something special JH.
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todd-gordon
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Aug 20, 2006 - 11:50pm PT
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I have a fairly interesting list of nicknames on my site.... check it out at joshuatreeclimb.com,....climbers nicknames...
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Aug 20, 2006 - 11:56pm PT
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Note to self: Roy has no idea what he is talking about, and I ain't Welsh.
Nicknames.... man..... enter the time machine..... not today though.....
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Tarbuster
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Aug 21, 2006 - 11:20am PT
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Cripes.
Wrong again.
No common lineage with The Man himself?
The Welsh God:
At any rate Mussy, I knew you'd retrieve me from the muck of my recall,
Or put me back in it...
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eeyonkee
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Golden, CO
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Aug 21, 2006 - 11:27am PT
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I want a cool nickname. From now on, call me T-Bone.
BTW, I didn't know that Russ was Welsh.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 21, 2006 - 12:28pm PT
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Well Eeyonk,
You coulda been the Offwidth Machine, but Jay snagged that somewhere way back when...
(Russ ain't Welsh, as noted, but sprung from somewhere on those British Isles)
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Russ Walling
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Out on the sand, Man.....
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Aug 21, 2006 - 12:33pm PT
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The beauty of nick names is you don't get to pick your own. You think "Industrial Sue" or the "Gash Sisters" had any choice in their monikers???
Last guy that begged for a nickname became "the resevoir tip" Flattering, yes.....? Eventually he was just called "tip" which ain't so bad.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 21, 2006 - 12:35pm PT
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Those handles charted some rough seas.
ie,
The Dripper
The Human Drug Machine
The Shemps
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scuffy b
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The town that Nature forgot to hate
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Aug 21, 2006 - 12:35pm PT
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Virginia...volatile responses...who'd a thunk it?
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Tarbuster
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Aug 21, 2006 - 12:42pm PT
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Clance used to call her GiGi.
Now Chuck Clancey, there's a class act.
Seems he's posted up a bit?
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Tarbuster
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Aug 21, 2006 - 01:06pm PT
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I just reviewed that Can't Say link way upthread.
Pretty comprehensive, but, luckily for most, no etymology.
Somewhere in the ST newspaper pile there's another pretty good run down which Russ furnished; a thread based on sub men and not so much nicknames per se, which goes some distance to imply relationship amongst us characters.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
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Aug 21, 2006 - 01:14pm PT
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World Famous Sub men:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=172985
Locker edit:
Here is a partial list from that thread:
Here is a slanerous blast from the past. Slightly trimmed to exclude all the refs to tampons and the like and numerous tales of the beast with two backs in Camp 4. Sewellymon seemed to be the curator:
Famous Sub-Men through the Ages
Author Subject: Famous Sub-Men through the Ages
Spew Spewellymon wrote on the JT Forum a while back:
So I was chatting up Naygro about this (since he was accused of being Moes
boot licker), and we started talking about Famous Sub-Men through the Ages.
Now, I've done all manner of excellent trad free climbs (Oz to Gram Traverse, Don Juan, Mr. Kamps, etc etc), and most every one of them was quaking in my boots while belaying Buttchuckleman, so I guess that makes me Boogs sub-man.
Here are some more:
"Karl with a K: Luke the Fluke"
Largo: DB
Dave Tapes: Steve Tapes
Sybilla: Dave Evans
anyone: Nay
E: Lou Bartlett
Boxer: Driver
Kauk: Bachar
Bridwell: Largo
Fish: Moonie
Gordon: Burke
Locker: Jacob
Jacob: Weed
Watusi: Ron Amok
Leklinsky: Mari
Sewellyfem: Tony Montiel
E: V
Lynne: Bullwinkle
Kurt Smith: Cosgrove
Karl with a K: Luke the Fluke
Shockly: Jessica
Tucker: Gordon
anyone: Larry Stone
Clark jacobs: any underage girl
Bruckmann: Frericks
Bob Bolton: Ed Sampson
Trippers sub-man was Dont Pitch Mitch
In the Way Back, Larry Loadís was Libido Royís sub-man. When Roy went on to fame and fortune, Larry became Freriks sub.
Charles Cole: Troy Mayr
Todd Gordon : Tony Sartin
Dave "The Troll" Vaught: Todd Gordon
Rick Lynsky: Dave Evans
Don Reid: Al Roberts
Geoff Archer: Louie Anderson
Herb Laeger: Kevin Daniels
Greg Epperson: Todd Gordon
Mike Paul: Todd Gordon
Mike Lechlinsky: Todd Gordon
Tom Michael: Todd Gordon
Frasier Haney: Todd Gordon
Todd Gordon: Tom Atherton
Johnny Woodward: Daryl Hensel
Mike Waugh: Lin Ngyuen
Rob Raker: all climbers on planet earth
Lynn Hill: John Long
Dave Evans : Jim Angione
Rob/Dave Stahl: Evans/Fry
Randy Leavett: Nameless/faceless
D*ck Cilley : Russ Walling
Dave Evans: Todd Gordon
bob gaines and dave katz
dave katz and ? grimes
d'simpleton and gargoyle
leclinski and ron carson
lager and his cat
bacher and leclinski
too strong and your sister
troy mayr and curt somebody
anyone who can actually climb and Jack Marshal
Homo Joe and any Jo-Boy (fags)
simpleton's sub was The Human Drug Machine (aka "Bakery Truck Dan", aka
"I saw him arm-in-arm with another homo on Sunset Blvd Dan"
gargoyle's was little Jeff
and yea- katz's sub was TOM grimes (why the hell do i remember that sh*T?
here's that 6 degrees of seperation..
Jardine: Lakey
Lakey: Holtcamp
Holtcamp: Yoho
Fish and the Driver, or is that Packer?
Tom Michaels : AJ
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Aug 21, 2006 - 01:18pm PT
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OK, so my response was stolen from a Seinfeld episode. Guess no one saw it.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 21, 2006 - 01:29pm PT
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Like "The animal nickname guy (Scotch/Galifraen?)" said, you don't get to pick 'em youself.
I didn't "snag" ow-machine, it snagged me; via the Walt-Fish-Watusi tri-lateral, as close as I can tell.
"Jaybro" seems to have come from the Colonel.
eeyo..formarly Grug, maybe if you'd said "Buck Nekkid."
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todd-gordon
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Aug 21, 2006 - 02:15pm PT
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Once again..I have the record for being the subman /fluffboy/belayboy for more than anyone ........for that I am proud.....
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