how did you get your "name"?

[BrianC503]

so i dont piss off the burnouts, my disclaimer is that i DID try the search option to see if a thread like that existed, but the search was either too vroad, to narrow, or returned too many results. maybe i didnt look hard enough... i dont know
* i have never been on a forum where i felt as if i needed to post a disclaimer like this... kind of different...

by name, i dont mean forum login...

when i hiked the appalachian trail i was told that thru hikers named each other. i met a massive man names 'little green turtle', and he was big on naming people. we kicked it at a hostel and got drunk at the damascus brewery a few nights, and he decided that my name shoutld be 'cascade storm'... maybe because im from oregon. i thought about it a few days, and decided to ditch the name. the first reason was that we hadnt done any hiking together. he just wanted to go around naming people, and im not his son.

when i thought about it more, i realized that all i wanted to be was me... im brian. im not running from anything, im not hiding from anything... thats not my journey. my journey is to be myself, and to get away from a lot of the distractions that take me away from enlightenment.

there are 3 groups of people i have met that use made up names:
1. hikers
2. hobos/travelers/call them what you will
3. gangbangers

ive never really sat down with anybody and asked them about their name, or why they dont use their birth name... i often assume that either they are on the run, or that they dont like the name that their parents give them.

so you know the story of my name... my mom gave it to me. whats the deal with yours?

 

[Kim Chee]

I go by my given name (the one I got at birth). I've been called lots of things though, but really did not answer to them so they didn't stick. I bet I've been called some funny ones behind my back.

Here's some I've heard:
Santa
Father Time
Montana Mike
Jesus

Used to be that a person didn't name themselves and that the name they were given had something to do with their appearance, actions or some kind of mishap.

I have a code name which I'll never utter and an Indian name which I've never heard.

 

[Tude]

ha - I have an attitude. My other nickname was awarded to me on my initiation to a wild mtb club - we'd meet at the tallest hill in the city - at 10 pm with full lights and ride down the face of it then bomb the city streets, parking garages and construction sites - then hit a bar for a pitcher and then off riding again - we called ourselves Tour de Bar. Wild times, wild accidents - I spent some time in the hospital with multiple rib injuries and a punctured lung. But the name they gave me was kind of a naughty name - due to the big tank of a bike I was riding at the time.

 

[Durp]

hahaha I have lots of names. I go by Jim tho. One of my favorites was chuck o fuck. idk where it came from, if faded memory serves me right it has something to do with convincing a bunch of strangers my name was chuck, and showing up hammered to a buddies party with 50+ people I have never seen carrying on about not giving a fuck, hence, chuck o fuck.

 

[DesertRat]

I have a few names, besides the one given me at birth.

One that was bestowed upon me by a hacker (still use that one often), but I prefer the one I use here, as I live in the desert, and I have whiskers.

I'm certain that I was called a few things by my ex-girlfriends that I'm better off not knowing about.

 

[Jaguwar]

I go by Jag, like the car, because it's been my online nickname since like 1998 and I like it (actually it's Jaguwar, but I will answer to Jag). I use it in real life, too : our boss uses her middle name, which is the same as my first name, and using my nickname avoids confusion.

 

[Lefty]

My name was meant to be an insult, as I have severe scarring on the left side of my body. For a time I had a lot of trouble with most everything, being left handed... It also fits my lifestyle, I tend to leave a lot of shit behind. I like it though, better then the ones I best not mention here lol

 

[Antelope Bob]

Got my name from some old timers, like Boxcar Jim, Whistle Stop, and Maggie Rails, when I was new to riding rails, about 35 years ago. They gave me the name because I jumped train as easily as an antelope jumps a fence (can't do that anymore). Needless to say the name has stuck with me for many years and its one I am proud to have been given.
Great thread by the way.

 

[haze6774]

I was brown man from a bunch of crazy kids.. Then I met Coyote and he inspired me to travel and renamed me Brown Bearr and sent me on my path of happiness and adventure

 

[crow pearson]

I got my name crow because i like to watch the sky and be in the highest place i can find. So a friend of mine decided to name me after a bird. He first thought of swallow or hawk, but he thought those where to fancy for me. So he named me crow as sort of a mocking nickname, because crow's are a real plague where i come from.

 

[Jaguwar]

I like that, that's a good story.
And I like people who remember to look UP.

 

[Deleted member 2626]

Tatanka is Buffalo in sioux Lakota. real name is a 30's 40's or 50's name. Lloyd. nuff said, I use an alias though for email and fb so no family can really find it.

 

[Durp]

Lloyd is a good name, just like Michael, I have nothing but good things to say about the folks that have came through my life with those names In real life.

 

[Your Mom in Brazil]

He's not the Messiah; he's a very naughty boy!

 

[Odin]

Muad'Dib

 

[finnsphillipps]

I got my name from a Hells Angel named whitey.
When I was 14

 

[Venatus]

I dunno, some folks in the slabs call me straight edge, but otherwise i go by jasper or ven, and i admit i just dont like people knowing or using my real name, because it makes me stick out like a sore thumb.

 

[psychofoamer]

My Mom gave me my name

 

[yellowbrickfreeway]

I probably won't go by it now that I'm back in the lower 48, but recently I went out to Alaska to find fishing work. Some of the natives (a lot of them were teaching me skills I'd need on the water while I was looking for work) found out my favorite boat was called the "U.S.S. Maggot," so for a while they were calling me the Yup'ik word for 'maggot.' Haha, then I got hired on a boat, and after we got back on land, I ran into one of the guys, and this conversation ensued:

"You have fished! You are no longer 'Maggot.' You have transformed, now.... You are 'Chivak'"
"What is Chivak?"
"Chivak...... Black Fly."

He made it sound so epic. Cracks me up!

 

[Jaguwar]

LOL that's both cute and cool. Respect...

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