Handle Names

“I remember seeing this question asked but it always turns out interesting.
How did you get your Handle?name that you use in these threads???

I got mine from having grown up in the mountains of North Carolina and spending 20 years in the Marines.”

“When my father was my age and worked for his father he would go out at night and find fairly nice tvs in the garbage. Take them home, fix them and make some extra money. Since his last name was Prell they started calling him Prowler because he would go out at night to find other peoples electrical treasures. Since I was little they would call me little Prowler! So I kept the name for good.”

“I got mine waaaaaayyyyy back in high school. I was on a hike with friends and had on sneakers trying to climb a hill that was covered with scree. I wasn't making much progress and my loving friends who were all mucho more experienced than me, said I looked like a hamster in a wheel. They gave me the name Hamster and it eventualy morphed to Pamster. Bet you can't guess what my real name is:0)”

“`cause just a bit over 12" is a big,..er,.. no, that`s not it,... I got the nick a lot of years ago cause they say I`m the wildest thing that walks the woods.”

“Oh, quit being modest! LOL!”

“Honest,..I haven`t frogged anyone`s eyes in a good long spell and Pam sweetie:) ,... you promised not to tell!LOL”

“I am computer programmer.

"bitpusher" is something that programmers get called sometimes, and it's not as much a pejorative as "nerd", "geek", and "bithead". So when I was looking for a trailname (before I ever heard about this board) I picked bitpusher. Mostly I didn't want to have another name picked for me, like say for instance, "wuss".

Thank you, and good evening....”

“Aw well Big Foot, I never have been accused of keeping secrets! LOL :0)”

“You outa see acouple of the programmers that I know on the ship I'm on. After 6 moths on ship with nothin to do but lift weights when they ain't working while the rest of us played in one desert or another I don't think would be too heathy. Muscles and tattoos are not to be sterotyped or vise versa.”

“Yes, us wuss programmers like to make friends with that kind so they can kick the asses of the guys who call us "geek" in bars just because we program computers.

I've never worked for a government project, so I've only met a few programmers who had shipboard service. But those guys are the best, they have to do the most with the least.”

“My handle used to be "Tinman" because our whole family was getting their handles from the Wizard of Oz.

But it was too hard for me to remember TWO names, so I quit using it. Life is much easier now.”

“You`re the BEST Pamster!

There now,... does that buy me anything;)”

“My last name is Cooper - folks shorten it to Coop. I threw the "Big" on there because I am 6'6". Had I been more clever I would have called myself "Little Coop."”

“I used to carry everything I needed for almost any eventuality. A few times it was the right choice, usually it wasn't.
End result, giant pack.”

“I got Tango well 2 reasons first It is the police phonetic word for the letter T (my last name begins with...).

And something to do with the way I walk. ?? I don't know about that I just put one foot in front of the other ;-)”

“Do you clench a long-stemmed rose in your teeth all the time?”

“Yes and it's blood red!”

“My name is a combination of my first and last name that I came up with when I ws trying to find a screen name that would work on AOL about 7-8 yrs ago.
I have kept the name and even use it for my email name at work. Most people think my name is for the card game..eucher”

“Mine is rather weird. When I was in High School we all had CB radios on our cars so that we could inform friends of where the cops where and to find out where the party was going to be that night. I needed a handle for my CB and sence I dipped Kodiak chew at the time so I decided to use kodiakman as my handle. Then when I moved to Alaska the handle fit me. I was thinking of changing my name to youshouldhaveneverstarteddippingyoudumbass but I think that would be a little to long.”

“I'm a short redheaded freckled cute kid....err....well short and cute at least..
Playing baseball in highschool, the coach's son was starting pitcher for Auburn stuck me with the name OPIE (last name is Taylor)..i hated it at first..but it grew on me, also became my CB handle when riding in my dad's rig.

Most pple don't know my real name nowadays”

“I'm named after my youngest dog...A blue heeler is an ultra loyal and protective breed of cattledog. You see them in cowboy movies pretty often, they are a favorite farm dog and can herd animals like you wouldn't believe.
While I seldom herd anything, the other characteristics seem to match, and she and I get along very well. I don't take her on the trail, as she's not what I would call a social butterfly, but she's always waiting when I get home.”

“well.....see...i'm a dewd, and i play a fender strat-o-caster guitar(aka a strat) hence the handle stratdewd. plus, pee-wee herman was already taken...”

“My wife runs an office park that has a large retention pond. There is a small flock of ducks (muscovies) that live here year 'round. I bought a large sack of corn to feed the ducks. Every year, a large (100 plus)flock of migratory Canada geese makes their home here. Well, as I fed the ducks, the geese would come around for their share. They got so used to me, that when I pulled up in my van at feeding time, they would fly from all parts of the park to eat. Now you understand, other people in the park fed the birds, but from a distance. They wouldn't come near people. Many of the geese would eat from my hand and let me handle them and the tenants in the park started calling me Father Goose.”

“i must say father goose that you have an extremely FOUL handle, but dam dood, yer a total stud. i've never known anybody who has actually goosed a goose!”

“LOL!”

“ahah, you bagged a goose!! cool!”

“They DON'T taste like chicken...”

“why not?”

“'Cause they taste like geese, ya fool!”

“what does geese taste like????

:(”

“Who's on first...?”

“my dog eats the catfood


my cats eat the dogfood



WTF's up wit dat!?!?!?!?!??!”

“I eat duck food! or rabbit, or wait that was lizard food, nono all I remember is the yellow stuff!! huh!”

“it was a "Nutty Irishman", and a "Red Headed Slut" that made me forget!”

“Uh, Prowler, from your expression I sense that your question may have been a serious one. Goose is all dark meat and richer than other fowl. If you're really curious as to what they taste like, go to the store and buy one. If'n ya need a good recipe, e-mail me and I'll lay one on ya. BTW, I couldn't eat one of 'my' birds, that'd be like cannibalizin' one of my own fambly. If anyone ever harmed one of the birds at the park, I'd kill 'em.
But, I digress and this thread degenerates...”

“you can buy goose??”

“Of course. Here in the South you can only get them frozen but up North I understand they can be had fresh. I get mine at Publix.”

“I have never seen them i n the grocery store, but Ill check again. Would you cook it like turkey or chicken, i guess.

Ill try to find one then email you for a good recipe. My Mother N Law deep fries chicken after injecting it with BBQ sauce! Yummy Yummy!!”

“Goose is very fat and needs to be cooked slowly. If improperly cooked they are very tough.”

“Oh I Know what your thinking... BUT NO!

I was turning our garden a while back and got into a discussion of my daughters attire to which she replied... "like I need some dirty old man telling me how to dress". After that it became a standing joke between us. After my aol experiences when I changed isp's I wanted a address that had 9 or more characters as the spam bots couldnt handle them and since the name fit so well and was easy to remember......”

“go to jungle jim's or something for goose. it's a possibility.
i got my handle cause i don't have a trail name: interesting story, huh?”

“Hey, I got this one from a license plate, <G>”

“I can't figure out how I got mine. doh!”

“I got mine from having served in the Marine Corps.”

“I've nearly been hit by falling trees on 5 occasions now.”

“im a desert rat...and i always have close calls with coyote in dreams and in life...so many times that my pals say coyote must be a spirit guide (hes the trickster ya know...and im always finding my way into trouble :S)”

“I made a couple mistakes - 1.) hiking one night I slipped on an ice covered rock coming down the AT in Shen, landed on my butt and slid into some mud, then stood up massaging the offended area and said loudly "oooooooooeeeeeeeeeeee" 2.) I did this in front of witlesses

Witless #1 - "sounds like he is calling the hogs"

Witless #2 - observing me trying to scrape the mud off said: "must be calling himself then - he's the only hog I see around here"

Witless #1 - "yeah he's a real hog on ice"

Sometime later I came across the book that had a bunch of old/odd sayings in it whose title used that expression - as I recall the exact expression was "as independent as a hog on ice" which was not too far from the truth (grin).

Anyways I generally shorten the name to HOI cause it is easier to say or yell when on the trail.”

“My british boyfriend gave me mine. I'm only 5'2".”

“I've been told that trail names can only be given, so I remain”

“I dub thee Named One.”