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john hansen
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 19, 2006 - 12:31pm PT
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Jim 'the Bird' Bridwell
Warren 'Batso'Harding, Bacher AKA 'Johnny Rock"
What about some others and how they came to be.
Largo? Duece? Chongo? Dolt?
Steve 'Crusher" Bartlett? The 'Mad Bolter"
Any stories?
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:13pm PT
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Thanks ' Cant Say' That is exactly what I was looking for
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 19, 2006 - 01:16pm PT
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Just a list, not the stories behind the lists.
Why, for example, "The Fish?"
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:20pm PT
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Why 'Largo' ,,,Big guy? Some Bogart comparison?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 19, 2006 - 01:35pm PT
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I always want to believe that Bogart is 'Key' to 'Largo'.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:39pm PT
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That makes sense" dont bogart that joint my friend"
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 01:40pm PT
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How bout 'Chongo' What is his real name?
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Aug 19, 2006 - 01:43pm PT
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Some, like "The Fatman," or "The White Denubian," have clearer etymologies.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 19, 2006 - 02:41pm PT
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I use the nom de plume Mighty Hiker because it seems de rigueur on ST to have one. It was kindly given to me when I was in boy scouts - because I was then anything but. In other words, typical adolescent male silliness, with a kernel of truth, as so often is the case.
I spent a fair amount of time in Camp 4, but had a low enough profile to not (as far as I know) earn a nickname there, or in Squamish. My first and middle names are quite Norwegian, but despite growing up in white bread 1960s and 1970s Canada, I never acknowledged attempts at nicknaming.
Postings to ST forums by people using their own names, or thinly concealed aliases, are often more worth the reading.
Daryl Hatten had some generic nicknames, which he generously used when necessary. If you were whining or pathetic enough, he'd call you "little baby X". Pretty much everyone heard that one sooner or later. Another was "lightweight", again to be applied to almost everyone.
There's a route on a minor cliff at Squamish called Horizontally Prone - a two pitch aid traverse. Climbed by Daryl and Eric in 1975 or so, maybe A3. Gordie Smaill's 1975 Squamish guidebook has the following tongue in cheek comment: "This route best describes these fellows' drinking habits: strictly lightweights."
Anders
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Aug 19, 2006 - 05:02pm PT
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Chongo's real name is Charles Victor Tucker, and although he told me once how he got his nickname, I can't remember. But I think it's just a derivative of Chuck.
Cheers,
"Pass the Pitons" Pete
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Aug 19, 2006 - 07:26pm PT
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I worked construction in the Valley with a friend from Mexico and introduced him to Chongo and they would converse in Spanish at lunchtime. My friend Mariano got a big kick out of him because Chongo's spanish had slang in it that showed he had hung out with a rough crowd when he lived in Mexico. My friend said chongo meant monkey.
Ken
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can't say
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Pasadena CA
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Aug 19, 2006 - 09:59pm PT
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Largo aka John Long, think spanish for Long and that narrows it down a wee bit.
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Mighty Hiker
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 19, 2006 - 10:59pm PT
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If you google the word "chongo", there are all sorts of interesting hits. About 265,000 total. Three or four on the first page seem related to Yosemite's Chongo, but there are a rather odd selection of other sites that contain the word.
One is a Spanish-English dictionary definition, which is:
chon·go
m.
1. GUATEMALA: - curl, lock (of hair)
2. MEXICO: (moño) - bun, chignon
3. (dulce) - sweet, dessert
4. colloquial (broma) - joke
5. PERU: (querido) - darling
Anders
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Tarbuster
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Aug 19, 2006 - 11:07pm PT
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Chuck was the reigning figure of the Chongo Brothers, which included a pair of brothers who hung out in JT and did resoling with mexican rubber. Chuck would make forays to Mex and come back to supply the 3 of them with pretty sticky, albeit very soft, Mexican rubber.
Fish was givin his name by his junior high buddies and the moniker leaned more toward derogation than accolade, based on his charecteristic welsh facial cues.
He also did a mean "palsy", for pie and ice cream, when prompted to do so with said enticement. This consisted first of his sudden adoption a 1000 yd stare, then he'd slither down his booth seat (we always dined in booths), then he's reappear on the restaurant floor doing perfect jacknives on his side, while spitting coffee froth or french fries. Essentialy flopping like a fish.
I always thought the use of the name for his business, "Fish Products", was a bit of a coup, as he took it and made something of a usefull statement for himself with it.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 19, 2006 - 11:19pm PT
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Deuce is short for Deucey;
Can't remember the exact concoction.
Crusher, was to my my memory, based on his strong man appearance and overall tuff guy, motorcycle jacket, sleepin in the bushes next to his motorcycle in JT persona. If nobody pipes in with his true story, I'll soon call Fran, his astro physicist Brit wife and ask for the low down.
With any luck Walling will chime in and call BS on all my etymologies, as that's how it usually goes.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 11:27pm PT
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What about the Ladies? I knew a pair called the Michalobe Twins.
In the thread shown up above they mentioned the Tomahawk Twins, and the Bacheretts, extremly funny.
And who is this 'Industrial strength Sue' You guys are busting me up
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 19, 2006 - 11:28pm PT
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Thanks for the stories TB, Keep em coming.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 19, 2006 - 11:45pm PT
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Tomahawk Twins are Lucy and Virginia Parker.
Lucy, once described by Tom Carter as a Polynesian Goddess.
Virginia, RIP, was quite something.
We really need Russ Walling right now, fer fill in and general expository genius.
Industrial Sue, well, I'm not tuchin' that one...
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2006 - 12:17am PT
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How did the 'T'twins get thier name?
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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
Social climber
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
Trad climber
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
Social climber
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
Out on the sand, Man.....
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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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mooser
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seattle
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Aug 21, 2006 - 03:28pm PT
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Eeyonkee: I saw that episode. But do you really want to be lumped in with George Castanza? I'm remembering you to be a way stronger climber than him. And plus, you've got way more hair!
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Aug 21, 2006 - 03:36pm PT
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Yeah, Mooser...George wanted to be called T-Bone but they called him Koko the monkey instead. Kinda fits with the 'you don't come up with your own nickname bit'.
Jaybro - sounds like the "off-width machine" fits you nicely. Jeez, if I do 3 offwidths in a decade anymore I'm happy. I can't find anyone who ever wants to do them.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2006 - 12:31am PT
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A buddy of mine gave me the nickname 'Johny 8 Iron"
I wish I could say it was because I killed two mafia guys in Chicago with a golf club, but the truth was I always hit that club off the tee. Old lady golf ,,, two eight irons, a sand wedge, and two putt.
Thanks to all who responded to this thread.
Aloha
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Tarbuster
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Aug 22, 2006 - 01:05am PT
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You bet John,
With any luck and 2 sticks to rub together,
We are just getting warmed up.
Here's my CV:
roy boy
the boy
roy balls
balls
libido roy
sugar roy
sugar
the love machine
beed
bidus
beedsauce
beedwagon
side of beef
potatohead
'tate
that a-hole roy
hummer
lamoille royo
'lem
lem-bott
cowboy
cowboy roy
cowboyroy the boy toy of joy
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Out on the sand, Man.....
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Aug 22, 2006 - 01:11am PT
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you can add:
Libido-corn
Assshole Roy
Mr. Gentle
Mr. Subtle
Sawed Off Man
Side of Beef Roy
Royal-C
"I am the sex machine now" Roy
LeadHog Roy
Ball-peen-a-cus Roy
Sharon Tate
Lemmie
Lemule Roy
Frenchie (from his berret days)
McClenahone
Got to be more... where is Sewell????
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Tarbuster
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Aug 22, 2006 - 01:25am PT
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also:
lucky
the guru
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Tarbuster
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Aug 22, 2006 - 01:28am PT
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Who,
You mean Sewellymon-
No More Walls Jeff?
The Poor Man's Ron Fawcett?
Sooh-Way-Hoole.
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john hansen
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 22, 2006 - 01:33am PT
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Sharon Tate!!!
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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Aug 22, 2006 - 01:34am PT
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Russ, isn't Slideshow one of Tar's monikers? I know it's been applied to boogles for years, but I think that brow of yours Roy garnered just a few comments.
So who did have the most nick names. E seems to thinks it's him, but I'm thinking Butt-Fookle-Man might just hold that title.
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aldude
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Monument Manor
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Aug 22, 2006 - 01:49am PT
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I thought it was ' Sancho Roy " ?
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Wonder
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WA
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Aug 22, 2006 - 02:00am PT
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Russ what the F are you friging talking aboot, and you forgot the punk.
And i got a few more.
late.
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Anguish
Mountain climber
Jackson Hole Wyo.
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Aug 23, 2006 - 02:46am PT
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Doug Fir - Daryl Hatten's nome de guerre after banishment. (He was a logger, too.)
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todd-gordon
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Aug 23, 2006 - 02:49am PT
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Tarbuster.... you forgot Beedy.........(Don't want to miss that one.......)
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Tarbuster
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Aug 23, 2006 - 10:12am PT
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E
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Springs
Rickson
Tipson
Nadsen
Nardsen
Bone Tipson
Blort
Blortsen
Best Face Climber in North America
Rodsen
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AKDOG
Mountain climber
Anchorage, AK
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Aug 25, 2006 - 07:29pm PT
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Does anyone remember a guy whose nickname was “The Hand”?
This guy had one normal hand and one hand that was as big a catcher’s mitt. Used to see him around stoney point, JTree and the valley.
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G_Gnome
Social climber
Tendonitis City
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Aug 25, 2006 - 07:40pm PT
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See there, another nickname for Russ, 'The Hand'. And here we thought it had an entirely different meaning.
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Tarbuster
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Aug 25, 2006 - 08:05pm PT
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I was just remembering the Hand today in fact.
At one point, he lived in a shack near the mouth of Eldorado canyon.
But back to lists, never mind the salty, dank, and rusty mine of derivation, we're yet to brave that pit it seems.
Lechinsky
MoLinky
Mo
The Rectum
Rectumski
Muss
Mussy
The Fish
Muss Wadd
Muss Wadd: Bwa!
Wadd
The Buthead
Lumpy The Fish
The Man with The Animal Nickname
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marty(r)
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beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Aug 25, 2006 - 09:19pm PT
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'Receiver of the Mexican Seed' is one that doesn't wash off easily, then again neither does 'The Man P*ssy Forgot'. Sheesh, this is a rough crowd...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 13, 2008 - 03:20am PT
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bump because you always wanted to know
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coiler
Trad climber
The Rock Monkey Ranch
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Nov 13, 2008 - 09:18am PT
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I always liked Russ M's nickname, The WALLruss. It was fitting for him at the time; was right about when he did that sick Sticatto(no rope aid solo)of the Zodiac! Anybody heard from that guy, I hope he's doing well?
Cade Loyd, the master of nicknames, gave my Zodiac partner a realy good nickname:
For Sean and myself both, this would be our first El Cap route, it was 94' I think. Anyway, Sean needed a hammer, and from the utility drawer in his kitchen; he pulled out the homeowners' claw hammer and we hiked up. Hiking with a load for us Cade notices the hammer... From that day on, Sean would be now Known as.. Stanley. Some people don't even know that's not his real name!
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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tommy Caldwell:
dawn wall demarco.
"el burlador del cap.
the seducer of el cap.
a stone guest."
the story behind his nickname is underway.
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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heavy duty
belay anker
czech mark ("Next project, find girlfriend.")
blank czech
splean
scrappy
scrubby
spaz
groadie
yay-cob
the pres
coach
trish kebab
i omitted one because it is just too brutal
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LilaBiene
Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
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A couple of years ago Mark Powell told me how Dolt's nickname came about.
He said that at times Bill would start excitedly explaining something and all of his words would come out at once, making, at times, not a whole lot of sense. So Mark would affectionately shout: "You DOLT!"
I asked Mark how it was that they came to climb together so much? Was it personality, etc.? His reply: "He always said 'yes'!"
:D
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