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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Reading too many outdated books.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.
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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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