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marmot
Jan 17, 2003, 3:39 PM
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Otter gave me mine after a dayhike on Mt. Rainier. I spent half an hour trying to get close to a hoary marmot and then waited for it to pose on top of a boulder for a photo.
I managed to get reasonably close, it posed, and I got the photo. don't know where it is now, or I'd post it.
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mcmlxxxiii
Jan 17, 2003, 3:45 PM
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marmot-
i chased marmots too atop Mt. Elbert. no picture tho. but they're so cute!
*pulls lollipop out of my mouth*
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marmot
Jan 17, 2003, 3:58 PM
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It's not the one from Rainier, but one I saw on a hike in the Sierras in 2000. We stopped for a break in a spot that turned out to be almost right on top of his burrow. He came out and hollered at us for a while, then decided just to watch us from his entrance.
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taino
Jan 17, 2003, 4:11 PM
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It's my first name, pure and simple. *shrug* It's Hispanic, and is the name of the Indian tribe that was living on Puerto Rico before Christopher Columbus came along and gave them all smallpox - the Taino Indians. The Tainos were an offshoot of the Arawak Indians, who migrated slowly up from the North coast of South America to settle the entire Caribbean. My mother wanted to give me a traditional Hispanic male first name, but didn't like any of them. Apparently, she actually does have a sense of humor.
I went for years known as "Chef"; in fact, some of my mtb friends don't call me anything else. It got tiresome.
Tai (nickname)
Edited to give history of name.
[ This Message was edited by: taino on 2003-01-17 08:16 ]
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oldandintheway
Jan 17, 2003, 4:53 PM
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Found my user name abandoned at the base of Yosemite Falls. Poor thing was all alone and scared, left to fend for itself.
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hugepedro
Jan 17, 2003, 5:20 PM
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Marmots are evil.
Hugepedro. A girlfriend used to call me huge-Peter, mostly because of our difference in size - me tall, she small. I went with the hispanic version to make it less vulgar.
Had I known I'd be sticking around on this site at the time I signed up I would have put a little more thought and imagination into it. Now I'm stuck with a name that makes me look like I'm consumed with some sort of phallic narcissism. I do love my penis, but not THAT much.
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bitterlotus
Jan 17, 2003, 5:29 PM
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^^^ .o0(A man who loves his penis -- imagine that!)
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hangerlessbolt
Jan 17, 2003, 5:53 PM
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All the better when you find a woman who loves it as well.
Ok…back to the topic of discussion…
The morning before logging on to rc.com for the first time…I led a route called Swain in the Breeze. “Follow route up hangerlessbolts”…
For those who are not aware…hangerlessbolts are simply bolts or rivets that for whatever reason do not have hangers on them to clip into. So you take wired nuts…slide the nut down the wire…slip the hoop of the wire over the bolt or rivet head and cinch the nut up against it…then clip into the other end of the wire. Sketchy as hell…definitely involves HPF (high pucker factor).
~Hanger
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climbinganne
Jan 17, 2003, 6:14 PM
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robert...i can recite your user name story from heart..hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
damn i have been here way too long
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maiorlive
Jan 17, 2003, 7:37 PM
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It comes from an argument I had with friends who insisted I was "evil." After lengthy negotiations we settled on my being the "greater evil", rather than "prince of evil", "evil incarnate", the "personification of all evil", etc. I think I was angling for the lesser evil, but changed my mind.
maiorlive: Greater sounds better in latin; Spell evil backwards.
The story behind my username: I'm lazy and haven't bothered to think up a new user name for internet stuff since ... I dunno, maybe '95.
W
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goodcanuck
Jan 17, 2003, 9:07 PM
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I wanted mine to say a bit about me, hence...
been using it since 'bout '98 and most people love and remember it - so it is - and I am The GoodCanuck.
Cheers.
btw Anne - how did you come to get yours????;)
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farasnyl10
Jan 17, 2003, 9:32 PM
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my user name story is pretty dull. it's just my first and middle name backwards, but i cut off an n and changed the 'h' to an 'f' 'cause the 'h' sounded funny.
sarah lynn ---> farasnyl
and '10' was my soccer number.
pretty lame. heh.
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towergod
Jan 17, 2003, 10:21 PM
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The first time I ever climbed I saw it on the helmet of the instuctor.
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footoo
Jan 17, 2003, 10:21 PM
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FOOTOO is my horse's name!!!!!!!!!
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knuckles
Jan 18, 2003, 12:35 AM
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knuckles, as in "draggin' my...."
I'm kind of a big ape
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carnaged
Jan 18, 2003, 12:36 AM
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all your usernames actually have nice stories behind them... and also have such a happier meaning... I kinda feel like the villan in this community
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eowyn1025
Jan 18, 2003, 1:14 AM
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Eowyn is kind of obvious...my fav character from the lotr BOOKS...and the '1025' part is a date: October 25 which is St. Crispins day, the day that Henry V toasted the French at the battle of Agincourt. ("..he who fights with me this day shall be my brother, be he ne'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition..." ~Shakespeare, Henry V)...it's my favorite Shakespeare play
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rockhugger
Jan 18, 2003, 1:14 AM
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Well you got your treehuggers out there and now there is a rockhugger,I'll chain myself to the next cliff they threaten to close.
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knuckles
Jan 18, 2003, 2:17 AM
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carnaged, so you feel better, mine's a little villianous too... the friend who gave me the name worked with me when I was a bouncer... we were looking at scars on our hands and I was going... "This one was teeth, and this was a knife.. oh, this was some other guys teeth..." the name just stuck
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stoutclimb1
Jan 18, 2003, 2:21 AM
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mY friends and family call me stout, cus when I played football thats what my coach called me, I was always the bigger stronger kid in those days. ANd the climb part im not sure its not like I climb or anything
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john1987
Jan 18, 2003, 4:26 PM
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mines easy enough to figure out
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josephine
Jan 18, 2003, 5:35 PM
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My username i got it from a painter called Josephine...I love her paintings...I was a painter too,I admire her paintings.
Here's her site: josephine
Penny
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orangekyak
Jan 18, 2003, 7:51 PM
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[ This Message was edited by: orangekyak on 2003-01-18 11:52 ]
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thomasribiere
Jan 18, 2003, 8:45 PM
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mine was given by my parents
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