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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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