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slavetogravity
Aug 24, 2004, 2:27 AM
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I’ve often admired the level of creativity users of RC.com have put behind their user names. Some are very funny and others are so contrived that you’d assume there was some private joke behind their name. So what’s the story behind your RC.com handle?
My user name- slave to gravity- dates back from the days before I new what the internet was. Back then I was in my first year of college and somehow managed to find my self working as the sports editor at the college new paper. I didn’t now a dam thing about college sports and the only sporty things I did back then where things like mountain biking, skiing and climbing. The one thing I figured all the sports I new anything about- and consequently wrote about- where all driven buy gravity. So the name of my editorial became Slave To Gravity.
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biff
Aug 24, 2004, 2:31 AM
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Eveyone calls me Biff (including my wife) so it was pretty easy for me.
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tim
Aug 24, 2004, 2:34 AM
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I think mine has something to do with my birth certificate. Not sure.
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ninjaslut
Aug 24, 2004, 2:34 AM
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I usually land on my head when I fall.
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cgailey
Aug 24, 2004, 2:43 AM
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first initial and last name...I know, very un-original :(
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saskclimber
Aug 24, 2004, 2:46 AM
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take a guess....
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newbierockstar
Aug 24, 2004, 2:47 AM
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rocknewbie was already taken, so I switched the two words...but newbierock sounded too much like FRAGGLE rock, so I added the "star"...purely tongue-in-cheek, I promise....
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chads93gt
Aug 24, 2004, 2:48 AM
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I used to be into drag racing. in 1998 I bought a 1993 mustang Gt, built it and raced it, One night i was driving over 130 mph in my home town country side, and a deer galloped out in front of me. Car + speed + animal = a totaled out mustang. It caught on fire and burnt to a crisp, :( anyway, this has been my username since i used to get on all the mustang forum and what not :) fun fun :)
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hardmanknott
Aug 24, 2004, 2:51 AM
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Believe it or knott, I've had at least 3 people that were dumb enough
to take my name seriously over the years, and spout-off about me "calling myself hardman" -- or some other such nonsense.
And believe it or knott, one well-known user of this site actually took
an early version of My profile seriously enough to post
about it on rec.climbing -- which is why it exists in its present form.
To this day, I still laugh when I think about that one...
Hardman Knott
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the_fury
Aug 24, 2004, 2:57 AM
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My owner (maculated) named me.
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boulderingwonderboy
Aug 24, 2004, 2:58 AM
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if you know any other 14 year olds that do 5.12 dynos, you let me know and ill make a new name :shock:
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johnhemlock
Aug 24, 2004, 2:58 AM
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Swiped it from a George Kennedy movie.
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musicman
Aug 24, 2004, 3:00 AM
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hmm, well, i love to rock climb, but i think that that was a give in, so i picked something else that i love, music, and i have friends who call me the musicman because i have so many REAL (not burned) cd's and just no everything about bands, so, musicman has been the name
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saskclimber
Aug 24, 2004, 3:00 AM
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In reply to: if you know any other 14 year olds that do 5.12 dynos |
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hardmanknott
Aug 24, 2004, 3:01 AM
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Believe it or knott, I've had at least 3 people that were dumb enough
to take my name seriously, and spout-off about me "calling myself
hardman" -- or some other such nonsense. And believe it or knott,
one well-known user of this site actually took an early version of
my User Profile seriously enough to say that it was a threat directed at him...
What a riot! I actually went ahead and updated it to prevent
such confusion in the future. I still laugh when I think about that one...
Hardman Knott
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newbierockstar
Aug 24, 2004, 3:11 AM
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In reply to: if you know any other 14 year olds that do 5.12 dynos, you let me know and ill make a new name :shock:
Perhaps your Indian name could be Boy Who Needs Humility.... :P
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itakealot
Aug 24, 2004, 3:17 AM
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[brown]"itakealot" pretty self explanatory[/brown]
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maculated
Aug 24, 2004, 3:27 AM
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From my website, maculated.com
I have started identifying with my username/email address so long I answer to it now. It is pretty convienent that it coincides with my last name, too. (McNamara)
BVB, hands down, you win.
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smilingone
Aug 24, 2004, 3:38 AM
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My two best friends, who happen to be the ones that got me climbing, have been calling me that since the day they met me. When we are together, my smile never leaves my face, hence the name Smilingone.
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jookyhead
Aug 24, 2004, 3:39 AM
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From a commercial from probably around 1995-96. It was for some soda(Surge I think) and they talked about Jooky Juice. Or something. I don't really remember, I made the name in like the fourth grade...
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iclimblilrocks
Aug 24, 2004, 4:06 AM
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way back when I first started climbing( a whole 4 months ago... I bet your all jealous now! haha!!) I didnt really trust the gear.... So therefore I would do alot of bouldering, since Then I got me some big balls (finnaly hit puberty lol) and then Took on elcap (Well more of a 50' climb in joshuatree But it was elcap to me) and now Im not so afraid of the gear failing (PLEASE GOD LET THE PERSON SETTING THE ANCHORS KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!!!!!!!!) or falling and dieing.... but that is how I got my name
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thejew
Aug 24, 2004, 4:06 AM
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i celebrate those holidays, and im circumsized, thus im a jew
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dontmaytagme
Aug 24, 2004, 4:14 AM
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One day climbing at the local crag, a friend and myself nearly collided on a top rope.
Maytag-ing is a surfer term for when the wave takes you down so hard that you are rolling in the reef like you would be in a Maytag washing machine. Hence my name, dontmaytagme. :)
ja.
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sardude
Aug 24, 2004, 4:38 AM
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Well I was reading a review about a climbing accident on Temple Crag here on one of RC.com's forums. Somebody was spouting off about how members of Inyo Search and Rescue (SAR) blow everything out of proportion when reporting technical rescues. Since I was a member of the team on that particular mission :x I blew up, signed in (for the first time), and commenced to give that person an eyeful.........Thanks to Lithium, Prozac, & an "Anger Management" class all is right w/ the world now, at least in my hazy eyes. 8^)
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