BajaNomad - What's in a name?

What's in a name?

zforbes - 12-31-2009 at 09:45 AM

I'm curious how you chose your Baja Nomad board name. My own, zforbes, reflects my first name initial and last name -- pretty prosaic. Others are more creative. I imagine there is a story behind many of the names. Let's hear it! If you had it to do overr again, would you change it? Zoe

David K - 12-31-2009 at 12:16 PM

Just the opposite of you... I use my first name and last name initial!

In high school, the kids called me 'Baja'... Maybe because I published two Baja guidebooks while in high school? :biggrin:

My C.B. handle was 'The Baja' or just 'Baja'... Back in the 1970's, too! :cool:

I figured a Baja forum would already be full of Baja nuts like me, so there would be nothing unique about having 'Baja' as a handle or attached to my name, like 'Baja Dave'.

Thanks, and happy New Year!

OK, Since You Asked (Warning - Long)

Gypsy Jan - 12-31-2009 at 02:13 PM

Gypsy Jan

Jan is the nickname my late mother gave me.

The “Gypsy” part of my handle is in honor of a late friend, Mark Cohen. He graduated from Cornell in the ‘60s with an engineering degree and moved to UC Berkley for his upper graduate work. Well, he got a taste of the counterculture and, as they say (whoever they are), the rest was history. This buttoned down kid from a preppy background (think early Willie Nelson) “tuned in, turned on, and dropped out” to quote the also late Dr. Timothy Leary, a family acquaintance of ours.

Mark spent the rest of his life in the biker culture. He didn’t join a club and never wore colors, unless you count his love for tie-dyed T-shirts and psychedelic-colored suspenders. In fact, he was well regarded by all the clubs and was frequently consulted as a neutral party for negotiating disagreements between them. (The Hell’s Angels and Mongols in particular.)

He made his living selling beads, crystals and other New Age knickknacks at swap meets and biker gatherings and doing various odd jobs. He wrote a regularly featured column for one of the major biker magazines under the name of “Divine Gypsy”.

His only sister never stopped loving him, even after the rest of the family turned away. This very proper ADA in a very conservative, upscale community always had him over for family celebrations and for the holidays; she just didn’t bring him to to social events that involved her or her husband’s business contacts. He was amused by this, and just kept on being himself. At one holiday dinner, he kept the family enthralled with stories about his adventures, which included his visits to our home in Baja. He told his family that when he died, he wanted to be reincarnated as one of our dogs.

When he passed, over six hundred people attended the funeral. It was a full-on biker’s turnout and the local police department was out in force (but trying to look low key) on the various roads approaching the funeral home.

His sister sent us a small box containing a portion of his ashes, because, as she said, “Mark told me he wanted to leave a part of himself in Baja.”

[Edited on 12-31-2009 by Gypsy Jan]

Donjulio - 12-31-2009 at 02:34 PM

Need I say more?

cabobaja - 12-31-2009 at 02:47 PM

Cabo is my 12 year old son. He was born in Cabo San Lucas.

Bajahowodd - 12-31-2009 at 03:16 PM

Interesting. It reminds me of the difference in languages. You named your son "Cape"? Do you live in Body of Christ, Texas?

[Edited on 12-31-2009 by Bajahowodd]

My name

The Gull - 12-31-2009 at 03:28 PM

It comes from the sea bird which can be viewed along the coast.

I wish I could change my name to Marla Daily, so I could be the person in the world with the most valued opinion, especially when making racist remarks.

ELINVESTIG8R - 12-31-2009 at 03:38 PM

Elinvesti8: The Investigator

Iflyfish - 12-31-2009 at 03:42 PM

Iflyfish cause I flyfish

vandenberg - 12-31-2009 at 03:50 PM

Vandenberg :?:

Paula - 12-31-2009 at 04:04 PM

Paula is my name.

But I think I'd rather be Rosa del Desierto... :dudette:

or maybe Maria de las Montañas :light:

zforbes - 12-31-2009 at 06:51 PM

Jan, I found your post very touching. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Gull, I had hoped you would respond. What I wanted to know was why you chose Gull rather than Pelican, for example, or Tern or Sandpiper. What makes gulls the birds that attract you?

backninedan - 12-31-2009 at 07:05 PM

Used to play a lot of golf and tended to do well on the backnine holes when more money was on the line.

Pappy Jon - 12-31-2009 at 08:49 PM

Pappy Jon ...

Well Jon is my name. I would have just used Pappy, but it was taken.

Pappy is what my late wife's grand kids call me. Back when her son, Charles, was pregnant my friends were giving me a hard time because I refused to be called "grandpa," or what ever. Charles came from a previous marriage and I was significantly younger than my wife.

Anyway, a buddy snickered once and called me Pappy. It stuck. I've gone by that ever since.

bajamedic - 1-1-2010 at 12:06 AM

Bajamedic: I am a Mobil Intensive Care Paramedic that has been in love with Baja since my first visit 43 years ago. JH

capt. mike - 1-1-2010 at 10:12 AM

"Back when her son, Charles, was pregnant "

wow!! that could be a 1st.
you need to contact Ripley's!

i am capt. mike
i am not a REAL capt.
i just play one on baja TV.

one of my flying buddies promoted me to Col. a few years ago. He gave me a hat.

gotta go..... i need to put some M&Ms on lay-a-way at Target later today.

it is very similar to Capt. Ron from the movie. :yawn:

if you fly you have to sign a waiver...... :!:

is there any wine left?

Mexicorn - 1-1-2010 at 10:22 AM

Mexicorn Because I love Mexico and I'm quite a cornball I'm sure nobody noticed-
Also when I was a kid I loved to eat mexicorn!

DENNIS - 1-1-2010 at 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by soulpatch
Some that might be missed

Oh Lord. I forgot about this one. Must have been a long day at Sharky's. :lol:

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"My real name is Buelah but, I like DENNIS better. I'm a huge Black Chinese woman who cooks churros at the Bufadora mall and have to be ingognito 'cause I don't have papers. Well...I have some papers but, not the right kind. I think they're newspapers. Not sure.
Anyway, c'mon out to the Buf and I'll split a churro with you.....right after you pay for it."

Bajahowodd - 1-1-2010 at 01:27 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisa_Hayes

zforbes - 1-1-2010 at 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by soulpatch
Some that might be missed

Thanks for that -- lots of good stories. Sorry I missed your thread the first time around!

Skeet/Loreto - 1-1-2010 at 04:23 PM

I got my name as follow:

One day many years ago as I was milking Cows on our Farm. My Dad caught me smokeing Cedar Bark behind the Barn, He looked at me and said" I had a lttlie dog Named Skeeter who jumped through a Fence and Skinned his Peter""

I just cut off the er/

Skeet.

Smells Like Fish

smlslikfish - 1-2-2010 at 09:48 AM

Back in the day, my son and I fished... A Lot!, Every time we came home, my wife would exclaim, " EWW, You guys smell like fish! Got to be that we considered it a badge of honor and it became the name on our boat as well.

Dave

Dave - 1-2-2010 at 11:24 AM

It's my name.

It means beloved.

A heavy burden. :rolleyes:

bajalera - 1-2-2010 at 03:52 PM

I entered "Bajada" and three similar names, the computer told me all of these were taken [it lied], so I tried bajalera.

What's in a name?

Marla Daily - 1-2-2010 at 06:47 PM

Gulls (often informally called seagulls) are birds in the family Laridae.
They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls. Most gulls, particularly the Larus species, are ground nesting carnivores, which will take live food or scavenge opportunistically. They are kleptoparasites, stealing food from others. Gulls rarely venture far out to sea. Gulls—the larger species in particular, display mobbing behavior, attacking and harassing would-be predators and other intruders.

[Edited on 1-3-2010 by Marla Daily]

DENNIS - 1-2-2010 at 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Marla Daily
Gulls (often informally called seagulls) are birds in the family Laridae.
They typically have harsh wailing or squawking calls. Most gulls, particularly the Larus species, are ground nesting carnivores, which will take live food or scavenge opportunistically. They are keptoparasites, stealing food from others. Gulls rarely venture far out to sea. Gulls—the larger species in particular, display mobbing behaviour, attacking and harassing would-be predators and other intruders.

Reference your source. This isn't your writing. I've read you and if your style had ever approached this professional style, you wouldn't be here in the restroom. You'd be in the Halls Of Ivy.

nlb333 - 1-2-2010 at 07:20 PM

nlb333; I too picked the easy boring route. My first, middle and last initial, then 3 of my favorite number, '3'. I have actually come across nlb as taken before, so now, I alway go with nlb333, so as not to forget my username anywhere.

zforbes - 1-2-2010 at 08:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
I got my name as follow:

One day many years ago as I was milking Cows on our Farm. My Dad caught me smokeing Cedar Bark behind the Barn, He looked at me and said" I had a lttlie dog Named Skeeter who jumped through a Fence and Skinned his Peter""

I just cut off the er/

Skeet.

Ah ha! Now I understand why some have called you "Skeeter Peter." About the "smoking cedar bark" -- is that a Texas thing?

The Gull - 1-2-2010 at 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DENNIS

Quote:

Reference your source. This isn't your writing. I've read you and if your style had ever approached this professional style, you wouldn't be here in the restroom. You'd be in the Halls Of Ivy.

What is "behaviour"? Is that the way anthropology majors talk to each other in Santa Barbara? Try harder next time Karla, your spelling is atrocious - the word is Kleptoparasites. If you are going to plagiarize , at least get most of the big words right, OK Muffy?

Gee what I wouldn't give to be an expert on so many fronts, such as you want others to think about you. Meanwhile, I can only hope, along with the President.

Animalandia

[Edited on 1-3-2010 by The Gull]

BornFisher - 1-2-2010 at 08:52 PM

Cuzzzz I wazzzz!

Martyman - 1-4-2010 at 04:53 PM

Because I don't have any original thoughts

elgatoloco - 1-4-2010 at 05:32 PM

Because spidy dancing was already taken. :dudette:

capt. mike - 1-5-2010 at 08:25 AM

Skeet - did you ever smoke from the dogwood tree?
the limbs/branches are porous. my Dad showed us when we were kids in KS.
cut off a piece the ring size you want and the length.
instant free cigar.

bajabass - 1-6-2010 at 09:42 AM

Huh, it was grape vines back in Michigan. Mine was chosen for my favorite past time, chasing calicos and cabrilla.

wessongroup - 1-10-2010 at 07:12 AM

Wessongroup came from an outing with my Dad after getting out of the service.. we had not been down to Johnson Ranch in a long while, it was 1967.

I asked a few of my friends to come on down to the "Baja".. and they did

Well, durning that trip my Dad said he would never go anyplace with me and my friends again.. folks were walking in the fire, my wife's cousin almost cut his thumb off with a "Bowie Knife" .. was using it to open clams that he was holding between his thighs in his crotch.. my Dad had yelled at me to stopped him as he would probably kill him self.. I told him to stop about four times, it was 9 in the morning we were digging clams and he was drinking Tequila .. he was just out of the service too.. well, the knife slipped, and got his thumb.. I poured Tequila into the wound, and use a towel to apply direct pressure to stop the bleeding.. and went back out to digging clams.. my Dad thought he would bleed to death.. he didn't. .and when we got back to the camp in the sand dunes and pickle weed.. he was washing the Tequila down with beer...

But, the Wessongroup name came that evening when two Mexican Army soldiers came by, with weapons to "look us up"

Well, my Dad who had been coming down for a long time, took over ... told them to sit down, and have some clam chowder, fresh tortilla's and anything else they would like to eat and/or drink that we had..

They asked him for identification, and he explained that he Mr. Wesson and his two son's were down surf fishing and digging clams and had brought some friends too.. later in the evening, around the campfire.. the soldiers had put their rifles in our tent and were drinking Tequila and talking about the Vietnam war which was going on at that time.. and most folks in Mexico did not agree with the position the United States had taken.. we talked all night and the guys stayed the night with us... when the left in the morning, they told us the Wessongroup was OK "thumbs up" we were not like the politicians in the United States making policy, but were just folks out on the beach, surf fishing, clamming, eating good food and drinking (a lot at that time)

On the way out, we stopped at an old place once we got back to the main road.. had a camera it had a timer on it I put it on top of my 1957 VW and took a picture of all the guys and my Dad.. always like the memory of how the term "Wessongroup" was given and have keep the picture .... just wish I had taken a lot more.. was young and not thinking about that at the time... was not thinking about much of anything and did not want too either....

[Edited on 1-10-2010 by wessongroup]

David K - 1-10-2010 at 10:41 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by wessongroup
Wessongroup came from an outing with my Dad after getting out of the service.. we had not been down to Johnson Ranch in a long while, it was 1967.

I asked a few of my friends to come on down to the "Baja".. and they did

Well, durning that trip my Dad said he would never go anyplace with me and my friends again.. folks were walking in the fire, my wife's cousin almost cut his thumb off with a "Bowie Knife" .. was using it to open clams that he was holding between his thighs in his crotch.. my Dad had yelled at me to stopped him as he would probably kill him self.. I told him to stop about four times, it was 9 in the morning we were digging clams and he was drinking Tequila .. he was just out of the service too.. well, the knife slipped, and got his thumb.. I poured Tequila into the wound, and use a towel to apply direct pressure to stop the bleeding.. and went back out to digging clams.. my Dad thought he would bleed to death.. he didn't. .and when we got back to the camp in the sand dunes and pickle weed.. he was washing the Tequila down with beer...

But, the Wessongroup name came that evening when two Mexican Army soldiers came by, with weapons to "look us up"

Well, my Dad who had been coming down for a long time, took over ... told them to sit down, and have some clam chowder, fresh tortilla's and anything else they would like to eat and/or drink that we had..

They asked him for identification, and he explained that he Mr. Wesson and his two son's were down surf fishing and digging clams and had brought some friends too.. later in the evening, around the campfire.. the soldiers had put their rifles in our tent and were drinking Tequila and talking about the Vietnam war which was going on at that time.. and most folks in Mexico did not agree with the position the United States had taken.. we talked all night and the guys stayed the night with us... when the left in the morning, they told us the Wessongroup was OK "thumbs up" we were not like the politicians in the United States making policy, but were just folks out on the beach, surf fishing, clamming, eating good food and drinking (a lot at that time)

On the way out, we stopped at an old place once we got back to the main road.. had a camera it had a timer on it I put it on top of my 1957 VW and took a picture of all the guys and my Dad.. always like the memory of how the term "Wessongroup" was given and have keep the picture .... just wish I had taken a lot more.. was young and not thinking about that at the time... was not thinking about much of anything and did not want too either....

[Edited on 1-10-2010 by wessongroup]

Wow, very cool... My dad and I also camped near San Antonio del Mar (by the giant sand dune) west of Colonet in the 60's... Had my first raw clam at 8 or 9 years of age there... Fished for corbina... did well!

I last went there in 1980, camped near the same place, drove my ATC south towards Cabo Colonet and found a bottle with a message in it from Nat'l Geographic!

wessongroup - 1-10-2010 at 10:55 AM

Going to try and take the wife down to where we used to go... I known it has changed quite a bit, as folks talk about traffic.... used to make a right turn at an old abobe fence.. seems there was only a "green structure" on the left side of the road, which served for some of the Doctors who would fly in to provide service for the folks in the area (seems there was a strip there too) .. as there wasn't very much around in those days..

Clamming and fishing was always good as I recall also... great times and a great place for the same..