Name Origins (NSR)

[Ubersheist]

I haven't a fuckin' clue. And, no, I'm not German.

[hoarhey]

From the various whore handles on Powdermag back in 2001...
powderwhore, etc...

My name in Spanish written phonetically (George).
Many friends use it as a nickname for me.

[1080Rider]

I'm a marine biologist so I named myself 1080Rider.

[Sublime]

Duh.

[mattitude]

I will try to keep this long story short:

In 1997 I was looking to buy my first domain name to host my personal site and I didn't want to use my real name. One of the girls I worked with at the time coined the term "Mattitude" as a derogatory statement whenever I had to dole out dock scrubbing duty. I came to like the term and bought the domain mattitude.com.

Over the years I put up a ton of personal photos and information including my phone number. I had a form at mattitude.com that you could submit and the text would go directly to me on my cell phone. One day in 2001, I start getting a ton of crazy messages to my phone:

"Matt, I love you"
"matt, your a fag"
"Matt, why did you break up with your brother?"
"Matt, do you realy love Lita?"


The messages were endless. I got home to find a ton of phone messages on my machine with similar statements. Eventually I figured out that the WWE had a new wrestler named Matt Hardy and his shtick was that he was the founder of Mattitude. The WWE would put up his domain name wwemattitude.com but use the WWE logo instead of regular text so it looked like mattitude.com. All of his fans were coming to my site and sending me messages. This was three years ago and I took down my personal site and replaced it with a mexican wrestler mask and a small form. This guy has since left the WWE but I still get about 100 messages a day from his retarded WWE fans. I should make these in to a book. I sell a fair bit of mattitude gear on the cafe press store too!

So, because of all this drama with the WWE, the name mattitude has stuck.

I tried many times over the years to get the WWE to buy or lease the name without any response. I am hoping this guy's career starts back up because I want to challenge him to a smackdown as I am the founder of Mattitude!

Most people take the 'attitude' part of the mattitude seriously. I am pretty laid back in person so I think of mattitude as a bit of oxymoron. Or maybe I am just a moron.


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[Max Gosey]

I jacked mine from some jong in Louisiana who incidentally won LOTM in Powmag a couple seasons back. That was during a phase at my high school when it was hip to be uncool...










Either that, or it's just what my friends call me. In actuality my first name is Gregory, but when my mom was informed around the time of my first birthday that my birth certificate had been lost, she changed my name from Max Christopher to Gregory Maxwell. The Maxwell sounds more sophisticated anyway, but you already knew that...

[Chica]

My first name is Rune and I generally feel like a champ. In addition to that, a good friend of mine and I started to use champ as a universal word, noun, adjective, verb whatever, when we skied a lot together in the oh so champ seasons of 97/98 and 98/99.

Rune as in the mystic fortune telling sense ?

[ole2planker]

I'm an old two-planker, who missed the d and hit an e when registering at a site sometime in the twilight years of the last century and the handle stuck.

[doofdoof]

Stayed out all night listening to doof doof ...

... I was younger.

[verbier61]

I like verb's turf and I'm 61

[Mit]

When I was born the fingers on my hands were joined together and because of that I could only wear mitts. I was teased alot back then but the name stuck around and now I'm proud of my lobster claws.

[runethechamp]

Rune as in the mystic fortune telling sense ?

If the vikings were doing the fortune telling. The name is Norwegian, and is also used for the old writing the vikings used to do.

[surftb15]

surf=as in i surf
tb=as in timebomb surfboards-the first one i bought
15=just cuz it sounded good to me

[biggins]

I'm 4'9" and 87lbs.




















But with hair, I'm 6'3" and 240lbs.

[Dr. Send]

A friend of mine started a climbing site that I think was at drsend.tk a couple years ago. I jacked the name from him and used it as my screen name on the gripped.com bulletin board. No one really thought twice about it until I competed in the Krankenstein bouldering competition the year before last; the second problem in the finals was this big bulge feature that you had to top out on. After I flashed it, and was standing on top, I tore off my shirt to expose the words "send mode" written on my back (which had become a term for whenever I climbed without my shirt on). Needless to say, the crowd went into a frenzy and Dr. Send has been my login name for almost everything ever since.

[powndnstein]

pow, as in powder, ndn as in, and then, stein in german =mug of beer or stone.

[powder11]

You see, most blokes will be playing at 10. You’re on 10, all the way up, all the way up...Where can you go from there? Nowhere. What I do, is if I need that extra push over the cliff...Eleven. One louder

[mushmouth]

Nickname for this...

NOT

[Jumper Bones]

famous Sri Lankan extreme skier.

[tyrolean_skier]

I was born in the South Tyrol part of Italy and that's why I called myself Tyrolean_skier. I never learned to ski while I lived there because we could not afford the ski ticket or lessons but I did get to ski the glacier at Passo Tonale last July while I was there visiting my brother.

[Odin]

Austrian Ski Legend

[Steezus Christ]

When the Internet first graced my life in 98 and I went straight to the Freeze forums, (well after I overloaded myself with porn) and registered the name Sickbird thinking it was so original in the day, and much later when I started seeing every persons name on the powder forums was Sick something, I had to change.

So since my father is Jeebus Christ and he blessed me with in inordinate amount of Steeze, albeit Jerk Steeze, I decided to use my true name... Steezus Christ. Besides, the name Jerkface was taken by Captain Murphy.

[Snow Nymph]

Snow = I love snow!
Nymph = Young maiden dwelling in mountains, forests and trees


I'm a snowboarder Nov-June
I'm a backpacker/peakbagger the rest of the year

Until I got married in 2003, I carcamped so I could ski/ride on the weekends. This weekend will be 76 consecutive weekends in the Sierra/Death Valley.

[SkiingBear]

My name isn't really that easy to explain. The "Skiing" part is self-explanatory, it's the "Bear" part that takes some back-story.

Back when I was like 9 or 10 (maybe 11 or 12, I don't really remember) I was staying at my buddy's house for a weekend. I stayed there pretty much every other weekend during the winter; my dad patrolled at the local hill, but it was a couple of hours from home, so we crashed with his friend, who's son I was best friends with...still following? Anyway, we were up late watching SNL and there was this skit about Japanese television and their take on American sitcoms. It opened with the car driving off of a cliff and then went to a father walking through the front door of a house with a platter of hamburgers. Throughout the skit he's referred to as "The Very American Father". At some point the doorbell rings and when he answers it, the narrator says, "It's a bear!!"...and then someone in a bear costume chases the father around the living room. I think the bear thing actually happened twice. Anyway, my buddy and I kinda ran with the skit and would occasionally say "It's a bear!!" at random times. Sometime after all of this he slowly became the "Very American David Bowen", or simply VADB, and I became "The Bear" (he still has his phone programmed so that when I call the screen says, "It's a bear!!"). Not really sure why this hung around for so long, but it did. It's really the only nickname that I've had for more than a year at a time.

Totally off topic...If anybody knows where I might be able to find old skits from SNL on the web, I'd love to know. I think George Steinbrenner might have been the host of that particular night. It would be great to see that skit again.

[FreakofSnow]

U.S. Ski Legend