I know the jury is out about whether or not you can pick your own trail name. But my screen name/trail name is Patapsco, after the river and state park nearest to my home here in Baltimore. It's my happy place.
I know the jury is out about whether or not you can pick your own trail name. But my screen name/trail name is Patapsco, after the river and state park nearest to my home here in Baltimore. It's my happy place.
Meister Grimbart is the traditional name of the archetypal badger in German fable and fairytale. Think Old Brock if you are English, or maybe Mister Badger from the Wind in the Willows, in some ways. Kind of. The one, that you don't expect to be in there, when you stick a hand into a box. <g>
Anyway, I like badgers and Badger, so to speak, and feel kinship, so there it is.
P.S.
Grimbart does not mean grim beard nor greybeard (even though mine is grey indeed). It seems to be based on very old Saxon/German and means "the masked one". Grim, or grima is a mask or disguise, and bart, or bert is a guy.
Ich weiß, daß ich hing / im windigen Baum, / neun lange Nächte.
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Süntelhänger, Waldgänger
Celticshark - part ancestry, part cool last name.
Mine is pretty simple - it's my trail name. Given to me over and over by any hiker who has ever seen me wear my trademark "lakegirl" hat. I wouldn't have necessarily chosen it for myself, but I am from Minnesota and grew up on lakes so I am fond of it due to nostalgia.
When I moved back to Minneapolis after having lived in Phoenix for a few years I think my blood thinned out, cause I felt all sorts of whiny about how cold Minneapolis winters were. I just kept thinking and talking about how cold the city was. Hence “coldcity” and my name is Ely, pronounced Eli but spelled like the town in northern Minnesota. So, Im Ely, living in a cold city- “Coldcityely”.
Originally Posted by body942
Not sure if this will take off or not, but anybody else ever drive down the road trying to decipher personalized plates? I know some are more self-explanatory than others, but I catch myself wondering all the time what people's screen-names here on HF mean to them, so, I'll start:
body942: It's my employee ID number, we call them "body" numbers. I was/am the 942nd employee since the institution of the process. Almost guaranteed to be unused elsewhere on the internet.
Happy New Year! If nobody else posts, I'll just keep reposting my entry.
Looks like it took off and is doing well.
My screen name is Patch. My call sign in the military was Patch. I wore a patch on my flight suit that said patch, I like the movie Patch Adams, and as a military medic my job was to patch people up, Doc was taken.
Patch
Grey Mouse- "Grey" as in hidden in plain sight. "Mouse" as in barely noticeable to most (aka grey) when in the room with others. Think of it as being the waiter at the dinner party that nobody remembers because he blended in and was not confrontational even though he was actually the assassin in the group and was there with a purpose
no trail name yet but being 6'9" I have enough nicknames, I'm sure it wouldn't take long to get one.
my name actually came from a t-shirt my brother got me back in HS. It said 'giant' on it. Not sure, it might have been a company of some sort but it was fitting.
Then 81 is actually that I'm 36, born in 1981, but ironically enough, I'm also 6'9" which happens to be 81".
"Turuka" is a shortening of my name Turunen Kari.
Mine is for the State I live and camp in, Missouri. It’s also the initials of my first and last name.
“MO-Camper”
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