iceshack149

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.

"...it's good to have friends, no matter where they are."--JOESAM2002

frydaddy

I spent about 12 years working in kitchens. I was primarily a fry cook at this one restaurant, and I had 3 kids at the time, so the manager started calling me frydaddy. I got a kick out of it, so I embraced it. Now I'm 8 kids deep and I call them my tater tots.

jeanpierre

Try to keep this simple; born in Thibodaux - raised on Bayou Cane (Houma)

How I got my nickname/alter ego?

We have a vendor, Bryan that visits for the first time and wants local cuisine and to meet real Cajuns.

Our best friend, Bubba, arranges for a couple of his hunting podnuhs to have Lunch with us at what is now Hebert's Cafe...

Bryan sits next to one of Bubba's friends, Jean; and Bryan is just eating up the sidebar conversation - having the time of his life...

I drive him back to New Orleans for Dinner and we meet with Bryan and his boss, Jim, who had flown in to NOLA, but didn't want to leave the city...

Jim asks Bryan about the day's events in front of several people at the table...

Bryan geauxs on about the area, the food, and the people with respect to Lunch that day; Jim asks him what Bryan and Jean talked about - Bryan says "I don't know, it was all in Cajun French - isn't that great!?!"

I started laughing and then had to explain to him that Jean doesn't speak French but that he talks fast and low (i.e. Farmer Fran/Waterboy)

Well this just slayed Bryan; his boss was not impressed as he's pretty much an Adam Henry...

Bryan and I went out for drinks with some of my buddies in NOLA to ease his public disappointment and somewhere between Lucy's and Fat Harry's I became Jean Pierre as we laughed about it...

So that's it...

It's not that my way is the right way, I just make the right way my way...

jeanpierre

IceShack, you're avatar still cracks me up till this day...

One of the first times my Dad, when he was still alive, and I shared a moment on the internet was seeing that image...

He made me email it to a friend with a plot printer down the street who printed it and hung it on his board behind his desk at our family business...

Your avatar always reminds me of Dad, and makes me smile over our shared laughter over that image...

Boston Saint

Good thread Ice! My handle (like SFIAH) is pretty self explanatory, a Saint fan in Boston. I gave my back story not too long ago back in November when I joined, so I won’t take up space repeating it unless someone missed it back then and wants it repeated.

AsylumGuido

My nickname has been Guido since back in my college days (late 70's). It was what my roommate's friend called me for some unknown reason and it stuck. Later while in the auto sales business I'd lend money check to check to a couple of the other salesmen so it became more entrenched. Then came the internet. Guido was my first and only screenname/username. I joined a fantasy football forum called FantasyAsylum.com many, many years ago. It eventually was merged with another forum and there was already a defunct username of Guido, so I started using AsylumGuido, instead.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” — Winston Churchill

stickman

Stickman was my nickname in college (always been skinny). And my avatar is... well, Avatar.

Lord_Saint83

Mines come from Lord Vader. I always liked when the imperial officers called him that. And of course the saint part is self explanatory

gosaints1

Ice, I’m not too fond of my forum tag either, as it’s very simply the alphanumeric portion of the email address associated with registering here. Apparently I wasn’t first in line as Yahoo opened up for registering email addresses using GoSaints, I was second, thus GoSaints1.

It is what it is.

My preference would be “Springer” as I have an unhealthy affliction for Springer front end motorcycles. I have a 1995 FXSTS (Softail Springer) and also a 2002 FLSTSI (Heritage Springer) along with several Springer projects/builds. And a couple other fun bikes that aren’t Springer’s. Regardless, my forum tag says only that I’m a Saints fan, that’s it.

Boston Saint

Dude, there’s honor in having a gosaints1 if that means you were second. That’s street cred.