Member screen names intrigue me.

Frogman · June 01, 2009, 02:09:58 PM

Frogman is easy too. I have been interested in scuba diving ever since I watched "Sea Hunt" and Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) on TV when I was a kid. I became a certified diver in 1974 and an instructor in 1976. Openned a scuba shop here in Parkersburg in 1977 called Scuba WV Inc. We teach scuba classes at the local YMCAs, sell diving equipment, fill tanks, and organize scuba trips. I have been fortunate enough to travel to lots of exotic destinations leading dive trips. Thus . . .
Frogman!

Interesting thread, I too have wondered about some of your "handles".

Jim

waynec308 · June 01, 2009, 02:52:43 PM

mine is pretty obvious as well....Wayne C is for my last name (Crabtree) and the 308 is 'cause I hunt with a winchester mdl 100 308.

It has been intersting to read the how & why of the handles..

Coulter · June 01, 2009, 09:01:17 PM

My screen name came about when I was reading a lot of old mountain man stories...the story I happened to be reading at the time I joined another forum was about John Colter. He was a member of the Corp of Discovery and the Lewis and Clark expedition, After being discharged on the trip back east he joined up with some other trappers and headed back west into hostile Blackfeet territory to trap beaver. The story of his harrowing escape from certain death impressed me and left its mark on me for quite a few years. He was also the first white man to discover Yellowstone...hence the name Colters Hell. He later settled down and married a woman named Sally if memory serves me correctly. Instead of dying a valiant death at the hands of indians, it is believed that he passed away due to jaundice. I added a "U" in my screen name just to throw people off a bit

Actually, I have seen his name spelled both ways, but it seems the more common version is Colter.

So there you have it...it is not my last name as so many people have thought in the past...oh and it doesn't refer to a digging tool either

Steve

Hawks Feather · June 01, 2009, 09:41:23 PM

Quote from: Coulter on June 01, 2009, 09:01:17 PM
The story of his harrowing escape from certain death impressed me and left its mark on me for quite a few years.
Steve

Kind of makes you want to take your clothes off and start running with a tribe of indians after you doesn't it?

I think the wife's name is spelled Sallie. That spelling sort of stuck since it was the first time I had seen Sally spelled like that.

Jerry

Coulter · June 02, 2009, 05:55:11 AM

You may be right on the spelling of his wifes name Jerry. I was just happy to remember her name without looking it up

I think I'll keep my clothes on and avoid trapping beaver near any Blackfeet tribes. Come to think of it the portion of the Jeremiah Johnson movie where he is running from the Indians and hides in the beaver lodge is more or less derived from the Colter story.

Steve

pitw · June 02, 2009, 07:50:23 AM

Quote from: Coulter on June 01, 2009, 09:01:17 PM

oh and it doesn't refer to a digging tool either

Steve

Well it could have

HaMeR · June 12, 2009, 07:27:28 PM

Barry-- Does this answer your question as to why they call me HaMeR??[/color]

That female prolly weighed 10lbs & the little 17HMR ripped her a new one!!

disclaimer-- no wet bitches were harmed in the making of this video. the younguns were all on beans.

pitw · June 12, 2009, 08:00:38 PM

Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 07:27:28 PM
Barry-- Does this answer your question as to why they call me HaMeR??[/color]

Sure helps and it's a lot better than the picture I had in my mind of a guy with real big thumbs

HaMeR · June 12, 2009, 08:05:56 PM

It's not my thumbs that get in the way!!

http://finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=5909.0

pitw · June 12, 2009, 08:27:59 PM

Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 08:05:56 PM

It's not my thumbs that get in the way!!

http://finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=5909.0

Dang

If I'd a had teeth I'd a bit my toungue off, gritting them after seeing that again. You should maybe cut that one off and it won't get in the road like that again

alscalls · June 12, 2009, 09:27:15 PM

Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 08:05:56 PM

It's not my thumbs that get in the way!!

http://finsandfur.net/forums/index.php?topic=5909.0

If you had not posted that link .......I was gonna! ......... :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

FinsnFur · June 12, 2009, 09:27:32 PM

Boy I needed to see that again.

HaMeR · June 13, 2009, 06:43:02 AM

straycat · June 13, 2009, 07:12:52 AM

CB handle.Cause when I was driving a truck a friend of mines wife said I was like an old stray cat............never knew when I would show up or what I would drag in when I did !

FinsnFur · June 13, 2009, 10:03:17 AM

:roflmao: You dirty ole man, Stray~

Hawks Feather · June 13, 2009, 10:15:21 AM

Quote from: HaMeR on June 12, 2009, 07:27:28 PM
Barry-- Does this answer your question as to why they call me HaMeR??

Well, that sure is a let down for me. I thought that was your stage name and your first name (on stage) was MC. I have been telling all my friends (both of them) that I KNOW

MC HaMeR!

Jerry

Bills Custom Calls · June 13, 2009, 10:19:45 AM

:roflmao:

HaMeR · June 13, 2009, 11:08:28 AM

If they keep believing you Jerry just keep telling them!! :roflmao:

Bopeye · June 18, 2009, 08:34:10 PM

When my daughter was just a toddler, I was just starting my debut on the internet. I was more into deer hunting then, but was also doing some coyote calling near my deer hunting grounds.
I was signing up on my first forum ever, which was a deer forum. It asked for a username and so I was setting there pondering a name when my baby girl came toddling up to me. I wasn't wearing a shirt and was considerably thinner then......

........anywho, she looked at me, pointed at my belly button and in her sweet little voice said, "Bopeye, Bopeye". Hence the name Bopeye became etched into history......

or some crap like that.

That's been ten or eleven years ago now and what a ride it's been.

Lots of things have changed in the last decade, but some things have went full circle. I went through the not knowing crap, but having a blast stage. Then into the thinking I knew something and getting my first E-caller which was a Johnny Stewart 512 tape player. I thought all my problems were solved with an ecaller. Then went into the everything on the net was serious stuff, hand calls, all kinds of guns, camo, fancy hunting equipment, coyote piss, decoys, etc. etc.
Now I'm back to realizing I still don't know crap, but having a blast anyway. I like this stage real well.

Enjoyed reading this thread.

Todd Rahm · June 18, 2009, 08:49:49 PM

While my mom was fat with me ,my parents went to one of those shady chicks that look in to that crystal ball thingy for $1 and she said when he is 25 they will invent the internet, with forums and he will be required to have a member name (Dad: they name their members in the future?) there for you shall call him Todd Rahm.

Who would have believed it?