Explain Your Screen Name

[Alien Legs]

Mine is my trail name from hiking the AT.
The first day on the trail all I ate was dried mango and got mango sick. I felt fine right up to the point I could smell the smoke from the campfire at the end of the day. I ended up puking for an hour after that. My buddy said I looked like a scary alien because I was thin and wearing tight long johns while pacing behind the campsite puking in different spots.

 

[jdeerfoot]

Many years ago when I was a kid I regularly tormented my oldest sister until she came at me. I would outrun her and she started to call me Johnny Deer Foot.

 

[goonstroke]

a play on the word 'gadabout'

Given your profile photo, I'm surprised you didn't preface that with "I'm glad you asked that question ..."

 

[shinintimes]

Shinintimes is an early 19th century mountain man term meaning "good" times such as "those sure were shinintimes".
Also the name of my cabin property.
My avatar is a picture of Dick Proenneke, a hero of mine.

 

[EEK!]

I've always been bewitched, bothered and bewildered by the dazzling array of inscrutable screen names. If you don't mind, please explain yours.

I just joined. Screen name is EEK... my initials. Pretty simple and unique!

 

[Cookannapurna]

Cook is my last name. I climbed Annapurna in 1993. It’s also the name of our last husky in my pic.

 

[Rubbaboo]

From the www - Rubbaboo is a common stew or porridgeconsumed by coureurs des bois and voyageurs(French fur traders) and Métis people[1] of North America. This dish is traditionally made of peas and/or corn, with grease (bear or pork) and a thickening agent (bread or flour) that makes up the base of the stew.[2] Pemmican[3]and maple sugar were also commonly added to the mixture.

First saw the word reading PG Downes Sleeping Island. I like the way the word rolls off the tongue. I tried to recreate the dish, and unfortunately it rolled off the tongue, and onto the dirt.

 

[MyKneesHurt]

My knees hurt.

 

[BWCA66]

BWCA66 - 1966 was the first year I did an overnight trip in the BWCA, haven't missed a year since.

 

[sailsman63]

From the www - Rubbaboo is a common stew or porridgeconsumed by coureurs des bois and voyageurs(French fur traders) and Métis people[1] of North America. This dish is traditionally made of peas and/or corn, with grease (bear or pork) and a thickening agent (bread or flour) that makes up the base of the stew.[2] Pemmican[3]and maple sugar were also commonly added to the mixture.

Hey, I recognized most of that! There's a lovely YouTube channel, "Tasting History with Max Miller" that did a pair of episodes on this. (Dude actually makes stuff in the historical ways - sourced from real scholarship, not the skim-coat you often get with wiki. This one was two episodes because he made pemmican in the old way, and then let it age for a year before following up.)

 

[sailsman63]

As for my own screen name, it's a combination of:

• Lettering on what was at the time my favorite t-shirt (Later found it was the year my employing company was founded)
• I like sailing. Has anyone else here turtled a hobbie cat? I just don't have the type of water access to justify a proper sailcraft.
• Pun on my profession. I take phone calls for an e-commerce company, and when I came up with the name approximately 75% of those calls ended in generating a new order.

I also don't want to use my real name on the interwebs for direct address, so I use the nick everywhere that I would be at least somewhat publicly visible.

 

[Pseudonym]

• I like sailing. Has anyone else here turtled a hobbie cat?

I've capsized many but never quite turtled, thankfully! I race H16s every week from June to September. Such a fun boat! I had my eight-year-olds out on the trapeze for the first time just yesterday.

 

[Black_Fly]

Mine needs no explanation.

 

[Simuliumvenustum]

Mine is the genus and species name of a widely distributed notorious black fly species.

 

[Steve in Idaho]

Mine needs no explanation.

Well...yes it does. Bug - or boat?

Mine's kind of obvious. Brought it over from PNet, where when I first logged on "so&so" in "such&such" seemed to be a common theme. I liked the idea and still do, as it reminds me where I am not (which is a good thing).

Oh, and I never will use my whole name on the net, because it's a bit unusual and it just so happens that I know of someone with the same name who is a scoundrel. Don't want to be confused with that one....again.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Oh, and I never will use my whole name on the net, because it's a bit unusual and it just so happens that I know of someone with the same name who is a scoundrel.

Duncan Idaho? He wasn't a scoundrel, although he did come back to life as a ghola. (Some Dune trivia.)

 

[Steve in Idaho]

Duncan Idaho? He wasn't a scoundrel, although he did come back to life as a ghola. (Some Dune trivia.)

LOL!

 

[tomhudson]

Tom Hudson is a character in the Hemingway novel "Islands in the Stream. One of my favorite books.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Tom Hudson is a character in the Hemingway novel "Islands in the Stream. One of my favorite books.

Tom, welcome to site membership! Feel free to ask any questions and to post messages, photos and videos, and to start threads, in our many forums. Please read Welcome to CanoeTripping and Site Rules! Also, please add your location to the Account Details page in your profile, which will cause it to show under your avatar, as this is a geographic sport. Many of the site's technical features are explained in Features: Help and How-To Running Thread. We look forward to your participation in our canoe community.

I've become more Santiago, myself . . . without the sea.

 

[UCanoe_2]

Some years ago I bought a new truck and wanted a personalized license plate.

I had seen "UHUNT" and "UHUNT2," so.............