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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Best surfspot name...
From: sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake)
Date: 15 Apr 1997 00:45:53 GMT

Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.

What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

Here's three of my faves:
1.  Acid Drops (Kauai):  You gotta be on acid to take the drop!
2.  Pray for Sex (Oahu):  Break is near a makeout spot.
3.  Ma'ala'ea (Maui):  Sounds nice, if you know how to pronounce it.

sponge
http://www.iav.com/~sponge/

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: c.m.ware@hobbes.larc.nasa.gov (C. Myron Ware)
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:19:11 GMT

sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:

>What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

I like to check Boiler's on the way south on Pea Island, NC.  It's
named for the huge steam boiler left from when a ship ran aground.
The waves pummel it, but it will probably always be there.  I can't
remember the ship's name right off, though.  And of course, the town
of Waves, NC.
Myron
C. Myron Ware   Senior Prog/An, CNE3/CNA4 |  NASA Langley Research Center
Email c.m.ware@hobbes.larc.nasa.gov       |  Hampton, Va   23681
            Homepage:  http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/1370


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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Tauras <tsulaiti@slonet.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 09:35:21 -0700

C. Myron Ware wrote:
> 
> sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
> 
> >What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

Killers... because if the waves don't drill ya the locals will, if the
swell is anything over 1.5X and South of West. Its a point/reef that
blows out at the first thought of wind. These spring days I mostly
surfsail it, its always empty since the typical surfsailer will not walk
the 0.5 miles with 40 lbs of equipment on their backs ;)
-- 
Tauras Sulaitis              Current Project: Bunga
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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: a149153@sh56.dseg.ti.com (Stewart Legler 952-5869)
Date: 15 Apr 1997 21:25:58 GMT

C. Myron Ware (c.m.ware@hobbes.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
: sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:

: >What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

: I like to check Boiler's on the way south on Pea Island, NC.  It's
: named for the huge steam boiler left from when a ship ran aground.
: The waves pummel it, but it will probably always be there.  I can't
: remember the ship's name right off, though.  And of course, the town
: of Waves, NC.
: Myron

also have a Boiler's at surfside in texas 
stew

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: John M <jm28888@swt.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 01:53:00 -0700

Stewart Legler 952-5869 wrote:
> 
> C. Myron Ware (c.m.ware@hobbes.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
> : sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
> 
> : >What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
> 
> : I like to check Boiler's on the way south on Pea Island, NC.  It's
> : named for the huge steam boiler left from when a ship ran aground.
> : The waves pummel it, but it will probably always be there.  I can't
> : remember the ship's name right off, though.  And of course, the town
> : of Waves, NC.
> : Myron
> 
> also have a Boiler's at surfside in texas
> stew
\

A better spot name in Texas is ASSHOLES... Named after some guy who
lived in a beachhouse overlooking the beach... Its near boilers...

We got a spot in Matagorda called Dead Cows... Its at a shelled sand bar
where a dead cow was layin... Only in Texas, where the cows watch us
surf.

Oh yeah Dookie Point too... Its in 'gorda... Its where all the shit and
sediment collects from the river mouth. 

I think my favorite is Swami's in Encinitas California.

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: zpjames@unl.ac.uk
Date: 16 Apr 1997 10:41:24 GMT


>> : sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
>> 
>> : >What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
>> 

Just got back from a part of Ireland which doen't feature in either the
StormRider Guide or the Surf Reports, so we named the breaks ourselves.

There was one left called Udders (because of the cows wading around on the
beach), and the best rider that day was named King Of The Clag-ons.

Later on we stumbled across a beach protected by some hefty looking bullocks in
black shorts, "You want beef", obviously friends of the Moo-ey, and this is
what we called the break.

	James
	London Surf Club
	http://www.unl.ac.uk/surfing/lsc.html

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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: georgeb@qualcomm.com (OBsurfr)
Date: 17 Apr 1997 21:39:20 GMT

Swami's has been renamed to "Swarmies", you figure out why.



In article <3354936C.4FC9@swt.edu>, jm28888@swt.edu says...
>
>Stewart Legler 952-5869 wrote:
>> 
>> C. Myron Ware (c.m.ware@hobbes.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>> : sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
>> 
>> : >What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
>> 
>> : I like to check Boiler's on the way south on Pea Island, NC.  It's
>> : named for the huge steam boiler left from when a ship ran aground.
>> : The waves pummel it, but it will probably always be there.  I can't
>> : remember the ship's name right off, though.  And of course, the town
>> : of Waves, NC.
>> : Myron
>> 
>> also have a Boiler's at surfside in texas
>> stew
>\
>
>A better spot name in Texas is ASSHOLES... Named after some guy who
>lived in a beachhouse overlooking the beach... Its near boilers...
>
>We got a spot in Matagorda called Dead Cows... Its at a shelled sand bar
>where a dead cow was layin... Only in Texas, where the cows watch us
>surf.
>
>Oh yeah Dookie Point too... Its in 'gorda... Its where all the shit and
>sediment collects from the river mouth. 
>
>I think my favorite is Swami's in Encinitas California.


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Stephen Trapani <trapani@wwics.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:56:26 +0000

Pounders on Oahu. Not very original, I know, but the name is so
appropriate for the place. It is a shorebreak that can get big, but it
is almost always just barely closed out, and it is *right* on the shore,
meaning it is ridable if you don't mind a 2 second ride and a severe
pounding if you make a mistake. :-)

Stephen

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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: bgreen@dyson.brisnet.org.au (Bob Green )
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:54:29 GMT

The best names I have come across besides "Spot X" were in 

NZ:

Last Chance (to flick out before you are on the rocks)
Point Annihilation 
Rolling Stones (the rocks are supposed to move in a big swell) 

West Oz:

These names are unpronouncable except to locals so there are some good
ones there.

Regards,


Bob


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: rory@connectnet.com (Rory Wicks)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 17:55:43 -0800

In article, sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
> 
> : >What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
> 
I always liked "Tuck and Duck", a name given years ago to a small right
reef break just inside Cuatro Casas' middle reef.  Why?  Because the name
aptly describes the wave!

rorywicks

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: zpjames@unl.ac.uk
Date: 16 Apr 1997 10:32:24 GMT

>sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
>
>>What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

We've named one wave to the South of Bude "Field Of Chod" due to the amount of
sheep shit you walk through to reach it.

Gadget should be able to guess where this is as it's down his way...


	James
	London Surf Club
	http://www.unl.ac.uk/surfing/lsc/html

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: gadgetpjt@aol.com
Date: 16 Apr 1997 17:20:35 GMT

zpjames@unl.ac.uk writes:

>We've named one wave to the South of Bude "Field Of Chod" due to the 
> amount of sheep shit you walk through to reach it.
>
>Gadget should be able to guess where this is as it's down his way...

Yup, got that one.  It's a good job it doesn't work in the summer...
pooey toe-jam.... yuck.
Praise the Lord and pass the wetsuit booties.

Gadge.



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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: surffohio@aol.com
Date: 17 Apr 1997 03:22:34 GMT

In article <5j29ro$cb0@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>, zpjames@unl.ac.uk writes:

>We've named one wave to the South of Bude "Field Of Chod" due to the amount
>of
>sheep shit you walk through to reach it.
>
>Gadget should be able to guess where this is as it's down his way...

Now I see why Gadget tries to  keep his spots secret.  All those darn sheep  following him, defacating near his  spots. :-)

Swell: 3 to 5
Wind: 10 knots
Conditions: Heavy sheep dung.

You are a lot of fun, Gadge.

Surff


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: gadgetpjt@aol.com
Date: 17 Apr 1997 13:32:06 GMT

surffohio@aol.com writes:

> zpjames@unl.ac.uk writes:
> > We've named one wave to the South of Bude "Field Of Chod" 
> > due to the amount of sheep shit you walk through to reach it.
 <SNIP>
> Now I see why Gadget tries to keep his spots secret.  All 
> those darn sheep following him, defacating near his spots. :-)

That's why it's good to hang out in this newsgroup...  gives me 
plenty of practice in wading though other peoples shit <Boom-boom>.
Ay thenk yew...

> Swell: 3 to 5
> Wind: 10 knots
> Conditions: Heavy sheep dung.

Oh damn...  the muse abandons me!!  There must be SOMETHING 
funny to say at this juncture.
The definitition of a wag, a person who says immediately, 
what takes the rest of us 30 minutes to think.

>You are a lot of fun, Gadge.

Want a good time, sailor?   ;-)

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Gadget       [Bude, Cornwall, UK] email: gadgetpjt@aol.com
Oscar Wilde:  How I wish I had said that.
Whistler:  You will, Oscar, you will.
    -- James McNeill Whistler
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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: pasigal@aol.com (Pasigal)
Date: 18 Apr 1997 07:20:33 GMT

<We've named one wave to the South of Bude "Field Of <Chod" due to the
amount of
<sheep shit you walk through to reach it.

We've got one in Big Sur called Cowpaddies for 
the same reason. 'cept it's cows. 

There's also one down there called Homos because
its a pretty weak wave. Not necessarily PC, though..

Peter


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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: fcivian@aol.com (Fcivian)
Date: 19 Apr 1997 12:35:55 GMT

Sewer Peak . . . guess what used to be there; warmish water and what
looked to be kelp bulds but turned out on closer inspection to be . . . 

Sprouts . . . one of the the only surf spots in the world accesible
through verdant files of brussel sprouts



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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: garyb@fly.com (Gary Blumenstein)
Date: 20 Apr 1997 01:00:51 GMT


Have all you people lost your minds!?  :-)  Why the best surfspot name in
the entire history of surfing has to be, without question:

                   THE BANZAI PIPELINE!

I know what you're thinking;  Ahhh, that's too obvious.  But admit it, 
just seeing, hearing, or saying the name conjures up quite an image, 
doesn't it?  

To me, everything else is just kid stuff.  :-)  :-)

-Gary



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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Mark Plunnecke <markp@wpi.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 19:28:14 -0400


My favorite, ballsy, fullon best surfspot name would be...

wimpy wussy 

That way, no one would clue in that it's a good spot.  But those that do,
well jokes on you!  It IS a wimpy wussy spot.  So go away and let me ride
these totally excellent 2 ft. monsters.  With no fear might I add.

Marko


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: gadgetpjt@aol.com
Date: 15 Apr 1997 18:04:15 GMT

sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) writes:

>Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.
>
>What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

I'll bite.

Most of our breaks don't have nicknames that I know
and you wouldn't get my favourite sounding name out
of me if you attached electrodes to my nipples.  I'll give 
you a clue, it ends in Y.
But here are some nice names:

1)  Portleven
2)  The Bench, Kimmeridge
3)  lots of others I dare not name

sorry,
Gadget

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: surffohio@aol.com (SurffOhio)
Date: 15 Apr 1997 22:48:27 GMT

Gadget writes:

>Most of our breaks don't have nicknames that I know
>and you wouldn't get my favourite sounding name out
>of me if you attached electrodes to my nipples.  I'll give 
>you a clue, it ends in Y.

Gadge, I have seen where you live on the map. From whom do you hide your
breaks from? Sheep? Heathcliff? 

Surff

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: dp025@seqeb.gov.au (Bear)
Date: 16 Apr 1997 23:46:57 GMT


In article <19970415224700.SAA09801@ladder01.news.aol.com>, surffohio@aol.com 
says...

>Gadge, I have seen where you live on the map. From whom do you hide your
>breaks from? Sheep? Heathcliff? 
  Ok so it was humor..but...Surff
          with a population of around 60Million, even tho surfers in the
 UK are something of a minority, for at least 4-5months of the year about
 90% will want to spend at least _some_ time on that 150km (100mi) or so
 of coastline where our thespian friend has his secret spots.
    Also most of the sheep are in Wales, where I came from. Many a flat
 spell was made less boring by donning Wllington boots and chasing these
 little beauties over the hills. I only ever got the ugly ones B-(
 B-) B-)
      Bear


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: surffohio@aol.com (SurffOhio)
Date: 17 Apr 1997 23:17:47 GMT


surffohio@aol.com 
says...

>Gadge, I have seen where you live on the map. From whom do you hide your
>breaks from? Sheep? Heathcliff?

dp025@seqeb.gov.au (Bear) writes:
 
>> Ok so it was humor..but...Surff
>>          with a population of around 60Million, even tho surfers in the
>> UK are something of a minority, for at least 4-5months of the year
about
>> 90% will want to spend at least _some_ time on that 150km (100mi) or so
>> of coastline where our thespian friend has his secret spots.

Thank you Bear, but I must evaluate the data from this English Squire
named Gadget.

Let's see,  90% is probably 100 surfers. Now, I would venture to say the 4
or 5 months you speak of is spring and summer. This is the flat season.
Spreading out the surfers, you have .1 surfer per good spot during the
flat season.

I still say that Gadget is hiding his spots from sheep and Heathcliff ( of
Wuthering Heights fame. )

Surff

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: ric@discoveryinternational.com (Ric Harwood)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 21:17:26 GMT

In alt.surfing, on 16 Apr 1997 23:46:57 GMT dp025@seqeb.gov.au
(Bear), wrote:

>    Also most of the sheep are in Wales, where I came from. Many a flat
> spell was made less boring by donning Wllington boots and chasing these
> little beauties over the hills. I only ever got the ugly ones B-(

Best not go into too many details there Bear... <g>
Ric.
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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: robt2@ix.netcom.com(Rob(t.) Brannan)
Date: 20 Apr 1997 00:19:33 GMT


log cabins, silver strand , blacks , el porto, anywhere big and fun.

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: tgm@swbell.net (tgm)
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 01:29:36 GMT

On 20 Apr 1997 00:19:33 GMT, robt2@ix.netcom.com(Rob(t.) Brannan)
wrote:
> 
> log cabins, silver strand , blacks , el porto, anywhere big and fun.


"SALSA BRAVA"

A big wave spot that breaks on a very shallow reef in Costa Rica on
the Caribbean side located by a rasta town.

Full on barrel from start to finish in blue warm water.

- t

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: castlmagic@aol.com (CASTLMAGIC)
Date: 21 Apr 1997 09:34:27 GMT

Surfing's a great sport, because they're arent any dipshit beauracrats
telling us what and what not to call our spots. If we want to name a spot
"Suicides" or "Acid Drops" or whatevers, we can and Screw them! 
fave name:
Suicides, below Diamond Head on the South Shore. When the trades are light
say below 20mph, or the winds are out of the North, or best, non existent,
this bowling left goes off. On light wind days, it bowls a little further
Ewa than on regular windy days, the takeoff zone forms in the same place,
and 
on the right wave, you're gonna get a long rippable left that you can take
all the way almost into the old pillings and shit that stick out of the
reef point. It's perfect for floaters and off the lips and even sometimes
there's a little barrel. It tends to barrel way more than say cliffs,
naturally, and it is a little more protected from Trades by the Diamond
Head point than Cliffs and Righthands. But the most important thing about
Sui's (is that how you spell it?) is to catch it when the winds are light
and there is a moderate south swell. No sense in going out to Sui's when
the swell is over five feet, because it just pretty much closes out even
when the swell moves far out past the main lineup. There is always a cool
little indicator
break Ewa of the Sui's lineup, that breaks and then backs off-those are
the ones
that line up pretty good when the wave hits the main lineup part of the
break.
The crowd is cool and mostly regulars--oh yeah, you can catch a few nude
women on the beach pretty regularly. Kooks just stay outta my way..i
ignore you anyway.
"This is my new friggin' Haircut, man!" 

Crazy Randal, Lost Enterprises

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Fred <freddyv@geocities.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:02:52 +0000

One day at Venice Beach, I was out with one other guy when a very nice
looking young lady came out on a bodyboard wearing a thong bikini...

We were at the pier, and as far as the two of us knew, this spot had no
special name other than "the pier", so we decided to rename it
"ButtCheeks". 

I can't remember what the surf was like that day, but I remember those
perfect cheeks like it was yesterday.

Fred
CAUTION: The following page contains an explicit picture of pussy - 
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2303/AboutFred.html



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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: zpjames@unl.ac.uk
Date: 17 Apr 1997 08:17:55 GMT

In article <19970415224700.SAA09801@ladder01.news.aol.com>, surffohio@aol.com (SurffOhio) writes:
>Gadget writes:
>
>>Most of our breaks don't have nicknames that I know
>>and you wouldn't get my favourite sounding name out
>>of me if you attached electrodes to my nipples.  I'll give 
>>you a clue, it ends in Y.
>
>Gadge, I have seen where you live on the map. From whom do you hide your
>breaks from? Sheep? Heathcliff? 
>
>Surff

It gets really crowded at the popular breaks at times. I've seen over 100
people out at Croyde on a small Summer's day. Some of the spots near Gadget
can't handle much of a crowd, so best not to encourage any new comers. There
are enough clues floating around to find a lot of spots that aren't usually
surfed.

	James
	London Surf Club
        http://www.unl.ac.uk/surfing/lsc.html

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: gadgetpjt@aol.com (Gadget PJT)
Date: 19 Apr 1997 14:09:42 GMT

zpjames@unl.ac.uk writes:

>There are enough clues floating around to 
>find a lot of spots that aren't usually surfed.

So I'm giving you enough clues eh?
I'd better concentrate on the disinformation then...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gadget       [Nepture, Outer Solar-System] email: gadgetpjt@aol.com
"For secrets are edged tools,
and must be kept from children and from fools."
    -- John Dryden
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: ric@discoveryinternational.com (Ric Harwood)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:42:14 GMT

In alt.surfing, on 15 Apr 1997 22:48:27 GMT surffohio@aol.com
(SurffOhio), wrote:

>Gadge, I have seen where you live on the map. From whom do you hide your
>breaks from? Sheep? Heathcliff? 

Nope, from the "Emmets"...
Ric.
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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: dp025@seqeb.gov.au (Bear)
Date: 16 Apr 1997 06:27:06 GMT

In article <19970415180400.OAA19645@ladder01.news.aol.com>, gadgetpjt@aol.com 
says...

>Most of our breaks don't have nicknames that I know
 Aw come on....
               Boobies &
               Red River
                          for starters (in your neck o'woods)
>and you wouldn't get my favourite sounding name out
>of me if you attached electrodes to my nipples.  
  and ^ this ^ is just a blatant attempt to get us to engage
  in some Tory Party/English Gentry style fun with ya!
  B-)
       Bear
             

Email: dp025@seqeb.gov.au
      bearup@powerup.com.au


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To: surf4life@compustuff.com
Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: 102476.2613@compuserve.com
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:11:34 -0600

In article <5iuj41$c1s@lana.zippo.com>,
  sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
>
> Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.
>
> What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
>
> Here's three of my faves:
> 1.  Acid Drops (Kauai):  You gotta be on acid to take the drop!
> 2.  Pray for Sex (Oahu):  Break is near a makeout spot.
> 3.  Ma'ala'ea (Maui):  Sounds nice, if you know how to pronounce it.
>
> sponge
> http://www.iav.com/~sponge/

Okay how 'bout:

1.  'R' Beach: Don't know what 'R'stands for but, those in the know, know
it's not "Our" beach!!

2.  Bong waters:  With the runoff from Isla Vista, smells like it sounds!!

3.  <spot name>:  Dosen't just piss you off when they won't talk ;-)

surf4life

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: hangten <hangten@wired2.net>
Date: 15 Apr 1997 21:28:45 GMT


Best name:

Pleasure Point.

From what I gather there used to be a brothel on the cliff at The Hook 
(close by) hence the name "Pleasure Point".





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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: dp025@seqeb.gov.au (Bear)
Date: 15 Apr 1997 23:22:08 GMT

In article <5iuj41$c1s@lana.zippo.com>, sponge@iav.com says...
>
>Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.
>
>What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
>
   OK...
            1 Pakala...it just sounds nice
            2 Llangennith, Llantwit and Lleyn.....coz English-only
                            speakers just can't pronounce the Welsh
                            double 'l'
            3 Whangamata bar...it's just such a gob-full of 'a's and
                            the Kiwi 'wh' is pronounce 'ff'
            4 Anywhere surfers have reduced to numbers/letters:-
                      Number 3s, Three M's, LHS, 
                      because it's just so 'us' isn't it?

            I'll think of others no doubt

        Bear

Email: dp025@seqeb.gov.au
      bearup@powerup.com.au


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: jborrero <jborrero@castor.usc.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 1997 17:08:36 -0700


Here are some good ones from puerto rico:

Inches - breaks in inches of water
Los Tubos - self explanatory
La Ocho - from the bus stop #8 which is right in front.
Aviones - situated under the flightpath of all planes leaving San Juan

from other places:

I think anything with the name "Sewers" is kind of funny, makes you wonder
though...

But of course, the best spots are the ones with no name at all...

The search goes on! 


-jose


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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: dmc <davismch@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:53:34 -0700

Shitpipe.  Just north of El Porto.  And that's exactly what it is.

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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Fred <freddyv@geocities.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:30:08 -0700

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Neal Miyake wrote:

> What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
> 
> Here's three of my faves:
> 1.  Acid Drops (Kauai):  You gotta be on acid to take the drop!
> 2.  Pray for Sex (Oahu):  Break is near a makeout spot.
> 3.  Ma'ala'ea (Maui):  Sounds nice, if you know how to pronounce it.

I usually make up my own names for spots since I often surf places(on
the bodyboard) that no one else would care to surf.

Here are a few names I've come up with:

1. Sandshits - A mean shorebreak in Venice that would have me shitting
sand for days. Sometimes, days later, a big wad of sand would appear
from an ear...yuck! 

2. Kamakazi - Just a typical El Segundo beach break. But I caught it in
a nastly mood one day...

3. Swami's - Okay, I didn't name this. But it matches the spot
perfectly. hmmmmmm...

4. Puke's - My private name for where I learned to surf in overhead
surf. I always felt like I wanted to throw up when I'd wake up in the
morning and just know it was going off and I'd regret it if I didn't go
out.

I've made up a million, so...I'll be back.

Fred
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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: ric@discoveryinternational.com (Ric Harwood)
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 10:42:16 GMT

In alt.surfing, on Tue, 15 Apr 1997 22:30:08 -0700 Fred
<freddyv@geocities.com>, wrote:

>http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/2303/TubeTime.html
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Tut tut Fred, you should know better.

Regards,
Ric.
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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Elmo <elmo@innocent.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 18:16:15 +1000

> What's your favorite surfspot name?

Hiya,

round here (Ostraliya) we got a few interesting ones, off the top of my
head:

- The Whomp (Mona Vale Basin) - just a shorey that has been compared to
Waimea Bay
- Suck Rock
- Needledicks
- Crackneck - that's reassuring
- The Zone
- Dilemmas

___________
Elmo - [ http://www.speednet.com.au/~elmo/ ]

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake)
Date: 16 Apr 1997 17:53:51 GMT

[jborrero wrote]
>Here are some good ones from puerto rico:
>
>Inches - breaks in inches of water

Doesn't the name refer to the wave size over there?

>Los Tubos - self explanatory

Never got a chance to surf there.  Must need a big swell.

>La Ocho - from the bus stop #8 which is right in front.

Couldn't find the spot.  Looks like a hell paddle

>Aviones - situated under the flightpath of all planes leaving San Juan
     
Good wave, but blown most of the time.

I hope I get back there someday.

One of my fave spot names in PR is Domes, named after the old nuclear (?)
power plant fronting the spot.

Aloha,
neal
http://www.iav.com/~sponge/

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: hangten <hangten@wired2.net>
Date: 16 Apr 1997 20:50:50 GMT


Best names:

Shark's

Alamoana




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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: John Shumate <john_e_shumate@non-hp-sandiego-om2.om.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:06:29 -0700

Neal Miyake wrote:
> 
> Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.
> 
> What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
> 
> Here's three of my faves:
> 1.  Acid Drops (Kauai):  You gotta be on acid to take the drop!
> 2.  Pray for Sex (Oahu):  Break is near a makeout spot.
> 3.  Ma'ala'ea (Maui):  Sounds nice, if you know how to pronounce it.
> 
> sponge
> http://www.iav.com/~sponge/


Without a doubt, Swami's is my number 1 break.  Although lately, it has
been so flat, it's hard to call it a world class break - maybe world
class heartbreak...

Then there's John4surf's favorite spot - Suck Outs, just north of
Cardiff Reef.

They just closed up Cardiff Reef this morning - now Escondido has got to
hold their sh*t!  Right, John?!

See ya!
Johnny the Shu

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Carlos <crios@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:26:24 +0000


> Neal Miyake wrote:
> >
> > Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.
> >
> > What's your favorite surfspot name and why?
> >
> > Here's three of my faves:
> > 1.  Acid Drops (Kauai):  You gotta be on acid to take the drop!
> > 2.  Pray for Sex (Oahu):  Break is near a makeout spot.
> > 3.  Ma'ala'ea (Maui):  Sounds nice, if you know how to pronounce it.
> >
> > sponge
> > http://www.iav.com/~sponge/

My favorite spot names are probably........

	1) TunaBowls -  a solid right bowl that can just go top to bottom on the 
	*very* shallow reef.  Probably named 'cause there was once a larger
	population of Ahi (Tuna) just outside the reef.

	2) I don't knows -  I've never surfed there, but have seen countless
	pictures of epic pits.  

	3) China Walls -  when you get caught inside on the right day, the sets'll 
	look like the Great Wall of China. Too bad it only gets good once or twice a 
	year.

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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: jessek@cdsnet.net (Jesse Kempa)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 01:56:34 GMT

STEAMER LANE!! 

NOT the cuntafornian knock-off, the origninal huge-swell-that-barely
broke-so-cannot-catch-it-with-anythin-but-one-redwood-plank 

Waay outside of Waikiki, my father used to surf it (came up once every
other year or so) many years ago
:-)
*********************************************
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Email: kempaj@oit.edu -OR- jessek@cdsnet.net*
Web: http://home.cdsnet.net/~jessek/        *
Web: http://internet.oit.osshe.edu/~kempaj/ *
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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: keensurf@no.spam.cts.com (Thomas Keener)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:34:56 GMT

sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:

>What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

Point Panic, Oahu
Hospitals, (once known as Banana Beach) which is just down the way from 
Wipeout Beach (both in La Jolla)
Scorpion Bay, Baja
And a sampling of names from the Surfing Guide to SoCal.:
Abalone
Avalanche
Cockroach
Crabs
the Freaks
Garbage
Jelly Bowl
the Loser
Old Joe's
Surfrider
Tijuana Sloughs

Why? They just sound good.


--
TomK        keensurf@cts.com


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: ponokai@aol.com (PONO KAI)
Date: 18 Apr 1997 03:59:33 GMT

How about Ocean Beach.  Isn't that just a great and original name?

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: gadgetpjt@aol.com (Gadget PJT)
Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:35:32 GMT

ponokai@aol.com (PONO KAI) writes:

>How about Ocean Beach.  Isn't that just a great and original name?

Bloody 'ELL !!  He has got a sense of humour.
Where did you find it, down the back of the sofa?

Gadget.

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Troy Doney <outsurfn@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:27:52 +0800
CC: Troy

PONO KAI wrote:
> 
> How about Ocean Beach.  Isn't that just a great and original name?


I think 'Hospitals' is a great name. Be there at low tide when there's
surf and you'll see why its called that.

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: ZSSC33B@prodigy.com (Mike Patrick)
Date: 18 Apr 1997 06:59:57 GMT



Pic Nic Tables 
Old Patricks Pier (hey my name is patrick I gotta love it).
Officers Club (at the AFB)(we mess up their scenic view) LOL
Shark Pit (no sharks, but keeps geeks away & was named by either Corky 
or
                 Murph the Surf)

Spanish House (because of an ol' spanish style house)
Monster Hole (because if you stand on top of Sebastion bridge you can 
some-
                         -times see sharks swimming out the inlet right 
into this break                             that is actually a 1/2 mile 
or more out in the ocean.

Favorite name...   New Smryna (cause it's a nude beach!) hahaha


Peace out crew Mikeee P


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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: msalamon@la.hodes.com (Mark Salamon)
Date: 17 Apr 1997 23:14:14 GMT

In article <5iuj41$c1s@lana.zippo.com>, sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:


> What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

Hole in the Head, Maui.

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: "Chris Carroll" <chris@ob.ucsf.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:14:26 -0800

Shitpipes
pacifica, CA
part of the beach at Linda Mar where the sewer overflow pipes let out.
and when they do, look out.

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: p-kun@japan.sun.com
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 01:21:10 -0600

In article <5iuj41$c1s@lana.zippo.com>,
  sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
>
> Is this ng going sour, or is it just me?  C'mon, let's start a thread.
>
> What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

Neal,

In the spirit of the thing heres two from Japan....

1. Onsen Point (Misawa, Japan) - There's a pipe that sticks out of the
beach near the road that dumps warm water from a nearby onsen(hot bath).

2. Kuso-Pa (Chigasaki, Japan) - This point is between two other points,
"Park" and "Kuso-Shita"...combine the two and you've got "Kuso-Pa".

Thanks.

kp

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>   sponge@iav.com (Neal Miyake) wrote:
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Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: Surfer Bob <rtaylor@geog.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 15:15:58 -0700
CC: rtaylor@geog.ucsb.edu

> What's your favorite surfspot name and why?

Well when I was  kid learning to surf in the South Bay (LA) area,
there was this heavy little beachbreak we referred to as "Thumps,"
as in "Thumps yer ass." I broke a leash out there.

I always thought "Gas Chambers" was evocative. Where I grew up,
it was the spot just past "Boneyards." The other non-spot that no one
ever surfed was called, "Spiders," for no apparent reason. I'm not sure
why a non-spot had a name, but it did.

I spent a summer surfing with Will Borgeson once at a spot I came to
call "The Tease" because it was so damn fickle (esp. w/ regard to tide).

I always liked "TOADs", short for "Take Off And Die." It's just down the
beach from "Faceplants." I lost some skin out there.

Then there's that mysto Todos spot, "Thors Hammer," and "Chickens",
which is just around the corner from and much smaller than "Killers."

Some San Elijo spots seem to have multiple names. I surfed a fun
occasional peak there once that a little kid told me was called
"Barney's." No adult has ever been able to give me a name for it.

I got my first ever barrel at an anonymous peak down one of the San
Onofre Campground paths that I dawn patrolled with a High School friend.
We called it "Towels" because our beach towels were the only
identifiable feature in sight up or down the empty beach. 

We used to take a boat out to this Pt. Loma spot a lot. It let us down
often, but we always paddled out because it was such a long trip to get
there. You'd take off and it would look like it was going to be good,
then fade away. My friend named it, "Broken Promises."

The first time I ever surfed a certain northern Baja spot was the best
I've ever caught it. We met a little girl on the beach who wanted her
daddy to take her down the beach to look at the pangas. Her name was
Serenity. God, did we get some dreamy waves that day. Five years later,
we still call the place "Serenity's."

Best I could do,
Surfer Bob

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Newsgroups: alt.surfing,alt.surfing.bodyboard
Subject: Re: Best surfspot name...
From: surfer@mail.island.net (Surfing Vancouver Island)
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 17:13:28 GMT

On the inside passage, between Vancouver Island and the Mainland there
is a  point break near Nile Creek. Being in protected waters, it works
only when a SE storm has been blowing. There is 100 mile long path of
deep open water to build a swell. You have to sit and wait for the
storm to drop, and catch the waves as they clean up. Usually the
window of opportunity is just a couple of hours.
We call the spot "Denile".
Cam 
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