How did you get your nickname?

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Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 27, 2016 - 09:23pm PT

My name that I use "Peater" was because my climbing partner wrote in his guide book who he did each route with. He figured "Peat" moss was how you spelled Peter.

Bulwinkle used to show up at Stony wearing a brown knit hat. It made his hair stick out sideways to look like moose antlers. So I called him Bulwinkle the moose. I think there was a 70ish cartoon called Rocky and Bulwinkle or something like that. Rocky was a squirrel.

What's your story?

apogee

climber

Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy

Aug 27, 2016 - 09:23pm PT

It's been a pet word of mine since I was in High School.

Flip Flop

climber

Earth Planet, Universe

Aug 27, 2016 - 09:30pm PT

Camp IV

Chaz

Trad climber

greater Boss Angeles area

Aug 27, 2016 - 09:32pm PT

Too many Daves.

climber

Aug 27, 2016 - 09:34pm PT

I got tired of illiterate peeps getting my name reversed.

Peater

Trad climber

Salt Lake City Ut.

Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2016 - 10:50pm PT

I had a friend, that put heavy trash cans into the back of a garbage truck all day for work. This was before what they do now. He had muscles you would not believe. We called him the Troll and said he must have muscles in his sh%t. Well he was strong but he could not climb.

Fish, another friend (not Russ the real Fish, though I do know him) could do 50 presses on the parallel bars but could also not climb anything.

Never knew their real names.

clinker

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, California

Aug 28, 2016 - 07:02am PT

It's Clink. A hiker heard us hand drilling a new route. Going along the Balconies cave trail he said the sound went "... clink, clink, clink." We were in our teens, in the early eighties.

yanqui

climber

Balcarce, Argentina

Aug 28, 2016 - 07:13am PT

Argentines gave it to me when I moved down here in 94

Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber

Out Of Bed

Aug 28, 2016 - 07:26am PT

If we were well behaved in Sunday school 1970 or there a'bouts
we got taken for Milk shakes to the Blue Star Cinema, soda shoppe.
That meant we drove past the cliffs on Diamond Hill road.
The Cliffs at Sealey Pond the place we all called
Watchung.

A long time ago I climbed with a
Lurker who's name here is Kanous,
He knows more about the gnome and knows nothing too.
He will always be " DaFreerider." I've got a recent picture of him
I was a a fixture, at a place in New Jersey where the rock type
Is Diabase like the Trapp Rock in some places in Ct where I now roam.....

Captain...or Skully

climber

Boise, ID

Aug 28, 2016 - 08:42am PT

Whacked my head....and my name is Kirk.

little Z

Trad climber

un cafetal en Naranjo

Aug 28, 2016 - 09:49am PT

there was another thread about screen names. I remember posting to it about mine, but can't find it. Deleted?

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Aug 28, 2016 - 11:23am PT

LOCKER IS SO FULL OF SNIT!!!!!!!

ACKSHULY, HEE'S RIGHT FOR A CHANGE...

Gotta hand it to him for making sense of it.

I was just plain Brian, then becamed the Mouse.

My life changed.

I then becamed the Mouse from Merced.

Yet another life-changing moment.

It's mind-numbing when I think of it.

tuolumne * where r u?