Defend Your Handle Part II

iceshack149 · 06-30-2021, 08:57 PM

Ten years ago a thread was started in the Welcome Wagon section of this beautiful site. It was closed for reasons unknown and I'd like to revisit it. It was titled "Defend your HANDLE" and it was a great conversation that gave insight into our B&G username and some of our personal history.

Regarding Blackandgold.com: I registered in March 2003 right after I moved to a Northwestern Alaskan village called Kotzebue. I realized that any discussions about the New Orleans Saints would not be an option there and even NFL chatter would be hard to find. I messed around with a search engine and I believe that this was the first site to come up, lucky for me.

Regarding my handle: In my younger years I went icefishing every weekend with my closest friends because there wasn't much in our town of Fairbanks to offer teenagers. So what better way to get away from parents than drive 50 miles out of town to the icehouse we built to go fishing... and much

We had to register our iceshack with the State every year and our number was 149. Thus, Iceshack149.
I'm not actually too fond of my handle. Had I known that I'd still be on this website almost 20 years after registering I would certainly have chosen a different name.

06-30-2021, 08:57 PM	#1
iceshack149 1000 Posts + Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Fairbanks, AK Posts: 4,103 Blog Entries: 1	Defend Your Handle Part II Ten years ago a thread was started in the Welcome Wagon section of this beautiful site. It was closed for reasons unknown and I'd like to revisit it. It was titled "Defend your HANDLE" and it was a great conversation that gave insight into our B&G username and some of our personal history. Regarding Blackandgold.com: I registered in March 2003 right after I moved to a Northwestern Alaskan village called Kotzebue. I realized that any discussions about the New Orleans Saints would not be an option there and even NFL chatter would be hard to find. I messed around with a search engine and I believe that this was the first site to come up, lucky for me. Regarding my handle: In my younger years I went icefishing every weekend with my closest friends because there wasn't much in our town of Fairbanks to offer teenagers. So what better way to get away from parents than drive 50 miles out of town to the icehouse we built to go fishing... and much We had to register our iceshack with the State every year and our number was 149. Thus, Iceshack149. I'm not actually too fond of my handle. Had I known that I'd still be on this website almost 20 years after registering I would certainly have chosen a different name. jnormand, RailBoss, Rsanders24 and 10 others like this.
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