2bags - where does that name come from? Give the man a hand!!

Ok people youve all seen him around, some of you on here have even been lucky enough to meet him

But me - ive known this chap now for far too long and one thing still bugs me...........

Everytime im with him he intorduces himself to people as 2bags......... thats cool, i introduce myself as strugz, but here the thing.......

People say where does strugz come from........ and i reply its my surname (strugnell) but hey, its the truth

Then people say to 2bags - where does your name come from.......... his response....

No where - i made it up......

So what ive been telling him is to create a story for the name, it may be lying but it will satisfy those people so much more when they ask - "2bags where did that name come from"

So as he just cant think of anything and wouldnt have the balls to open it for discussion........... i have

So people please feel free to create a short story / random event / moment of super hero power for which Steve can say he got the name 2bags from.



Over to you mad imaginary types

i suppose he could say that his favourite nursery rhyme was baa baa black sheep and he used to sing it wrong. like

'baa baa black sheep have you any wool,
yes sir, yes sir, 2bags full'

He has sooo many toys he needs 2 bags to carry it all...come on strugz...(said that to avoid possible rude response) does he have 2 pigs in 2 bags I will never get over that. who can get a pig in a bag????

bags just arnt packed like they used to be eh, who would have thought that you could buy a ready bagged pig

actually I thought of: a pair of poi in each hand, after watching COL5.....two bags, sounds a bit weired, but for me it was some kind of explanation!

bad strugnell

i didn't make it up as such. i was at a juggling convention in birmingham on st. patrick's day a few years ago. i went to the pub that night and got very drunk with a couple of friends of mine. i woke up the next morning and we could distinctly remember refering to me as "2bags" for some silly reason, but we couldn't quite remember why (however, i'm sure it had nothing to do with juggling, poi or anything dirty).

so i started using "2bags" as a nickname and it was mostly only me that refered to me as "2bags" until i joined hop.

but i suppose that mr strugz is right: that is possibly the least exciting story ever (apart from "it's my surname" ). so i would be extremely grateful if people could come up with a longer story for me to use. i'd like it to take up about three minutes of conversation, preferably be funny, hopefully have a happy ending and not at any stage involve teabags.

aukay, try to make something new up and contact you as soon as ....I have your name story!



tina

I still think you should have pigs in bags, (stupid dark aged market traders)
pre-packaged and ready for sale

Hmmm... No teabags?

Is that the tea kind, or the *ahem* kind?

Anywho...

One sunny day in July, I think it was, and A young Steve was walking along merrily, minding his own business, and whistling. Yes, whistling sounds good...

He was walking along when he came across some money lying in his path. He picked up the money, and saw it was a ten pound note. "well" said Steve, "one ten pound note isn't enough for me, I want two" (I think you can guess where this is going...) Anyway, after pocketing the money, Steve decides to walk on.

Later that day, Steve is sitting relaxing on a lawn, somewhere, and decides to play with his poi. "one set isn't enough for me, I need two. That should show people how great I am!!"

The next day, Steve decides to go a travelling. He packs up all his worldly possessions in a hobo pack on a stick, (mainly his poi) but they don't fit. "I know" says Steve to himself, "I'll have two bags!"

After securing his two bags to a stick, he goes off a wandering, and passes his old old grandfather on the way. Now Steve's Grandfather is very old, and at that time in your life, you tend to get a bit forgetful.He sees Steve walking past with his two hobo packs, recognises him, but can't quite remember the name. Steve carries on walking, and doesn't see his grandfather at all, because he's thinking of how he can make himself better and more important in the world of poi. After a while of trying to remember his Grandson's name, Steve's Grandfather gives up and shouts out to Steve: "Hey, you, 2bags!!" (referring to the hobo packs, Steve's only distinguishable feature ). Steve realises who is talking to him, and is a bit embarrassed that he should be called '2bags' by his own grandfather in public. He turns round to see that many people have spotted him, and are laughing at the use of '2bags'.

Unfortunately, Steve has never managed to live down this fateful day, and has instead tried to embrace the name 2bags, by taking it as his own, in hope that, in time, people would forget about the origins of the name and he would cease to feel the jabbing humiliation of the emergence of that dreaded name, teabags, I mean 2bags...

Sorry, you can see how bored I get...

Is that what happened steve
sounds true

great start LTC

Im working on mine but im now trying to sensor it

I know he introduced himself as "Steve" when calling Kit for staying with her during Überpoi. She was very confused. Maybe he just says 2bags to keep Kit from being confused. I'm glad it's 2bags though, I know too many Steves already.

While in Africa a few years ago searching for the rare pink Elephant, Steve, a world-renown wildlife film-maker, came across a great discovery -- the Elephant used its Leg for dancing on Oranges!

Capturing this on film was difficult. At first, the Elephant was very scared. One day, Steve approached the Elephant with some Oranges. The Elephant ran away with the Oranges attached to its Leg!

"Oh My God! I must get that on film!" cried Steve, who went to get the movie camera from the tent.

When Steve returned, the Elephant had danced the Oranges into the ground before Steve had a chance to film anything! He tried this again but the same thing happened.

He then realised he had run out of oranges.

So he went into a local village to get some more.

Steve went up to a small old man and said "Where can I buy 2 bags of Oranges?"

The man Replied "I called Pan, you called 2bags"

Steve asked many of the villagers this question but they all replied the same "I called Pan, you called 2bags"

Steve gave in and went home.

When he got home he told his friends and family the story and from that day forward they all called him 2bags.

My imagination kinda ran away with me but it's worth reading for the laugh!

man i want to know what happend to the dancing elephant..........! did steve succeed in its filming?

**reminds himself its a STORY**

ah yes....... back to 2 bags

i suppose i could muster the energy to do part at some point.

trust me to think of the dirty connotations of 2bags

been there, done that, too polite...

i think i should right part 2 to my story

When I saw the name 2bags the first thing I thought was...

Written by:

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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole multi colored collection of uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

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thats a song

{singing}
One toke over the line...

it's erm.... boogie pipms. or it's on one of the boogie pimps songs anyway

aaaargh.

Its Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love, a 60's psychedelic rock tune from Chicargo. The boogie pimps sampled it and made it into a cheap bootleg. My advice, if you like the tune, is to get hold of the original and imagine yourself in the middle of the 60's psychedelic wave

The quote itself is from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" that was written by Hunter S Thompson (RIP ).

On the soundtrack to the film the quote is just before a track by Brewer & Shipley called 'One Toke Over The Line".

I'm such a geek.

i think thats probably my favourite 'what to pack' list ever..
we love hunter.

Funny thing is, there already IS a story of 2bags. Hes just too embarassed to tell it. I, however, am not.

As a young child, 2bags was very energetic. He loved to climb. He would climb anything he could get his grubby mits on. He climbed the biggest tree in Edinburgh, he climbed the tallest lamp post in Brighton, He even climbed Mount Everest! One day a kid, exactly the same age as 2bags, walked up to him as he stood staring into the sky. "Hey you!" the kid exclaimed. "I hear you think you can climb things." "Thats right!" replied 2bags, "Im the best climber there ever was." "Oh yeah? Well I bet you can't climb that fence over there." The boy pointed to a fence no taller than 2bags' waist. 2bags laughed histerically for what seemed to be an hour. In fact it was an hour. By the time 2bags had stopped laughing, the boy was gone. However, as someone who never passed on a bet, 2bags climbed the fence anyway. He climbed it many times. Up one side, down the other. Back and forth he went all the while thinking about how dumb that kid was. After the 100th time over the fence, he stopped. "You know, I dont think I like climbing anymore." he said to himself. "I think I will take to jumping from this day forward." With that, he looked back at the fence. "This was no challenge to climb but it would be a PERFECT place to start jumping!" It was set. This fence would mark a new era in 2bags life. He walked away from the fence, a good 5 meters and calculated the leap. In his head, he counted down... "3...2...1..." Quick as a bullet he went racing towards the fence. Closer and closer he got - full steam ahead. With one final stride he jumped with all his might. His legs split wide at the peak of his arc and he smiled happily as he began sailing over the fence. What 2bags didnt realize is that the boy who bet him to climb was actually hidden in a nearby bush. The boy jumped out and grabbed 2bags foot just before clearing the obstacle.

And this is where the story ends. The details from this point on are rather gory and were deemed unsuitable for this message board. However, I trust that your imaginations can fill in the rest. That fence did indeed mark a new era for 2bags. It is where he got his name. And thus, the moral of the story: Dont laugh at someone for an hour then decide to jump a fence.

I think everyone should just call him teabags because he LOVES to be called that.

you wanna be careful with that pink, he might sing at you!