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Rings on 8-Aug-2012 At 7:35:54 PM hangdog

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On 8/08/2012 kuu wrote:
>On 8/08/2012 dangermouth wrote:
>> (snip)
>>Can anyone tell me why in my 'climbers guide to the rest around Mt. Victoria'
>Geoff
>>Weigand is called Ralph Weigand? Did he change is name to something phonetically
>>harder after 1982?
>
>If my memory is correct (questionable) I believe the nickname "Ralph"
>was used by Geoff's 'friends' as a form of put down.

The story i was told was that Andrew Penney started calling him ralph after ralph the mouth the character from the happy days tv show. Andrew wrote the guidebooks so he went in as ralph. There was another guy who named garry prime who went into the guidebook as A.Wanker.
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