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Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle
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Since I've had so many people ask.

Rip Van Winkle is the main character in a short story by Washington Irving. You can read this really wonderful classic story Here. If you don't want to read the whole story though theres a summary below.

Plot Summary from Wiki:
The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent, lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. An amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect, he is loved by all but his wife. One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. After encountering strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins, and after drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village. He finds out that his wife is dead and his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he hails himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place. An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter eventually puts him up. As Rip resumes his habit of idleness in the village, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, certain hen-pecked husbands especially wish they shared Rip's luck.


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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.


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Re: Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle [Re: RipVanWinkle]
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Ha! thats awesome. LEts eat some shrooms.


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Re: Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle [Re: rodfarva]
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Wow, thanks for summoning a nostalgic memory of a book I had read to me as a child (my mom was a hippie). It's a mite different to me now.

So what's it to you specifically? Just like it?


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Re: Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle [Re: SevenFlowers]
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The story is very sentimental to me, it was a favorite when I was a wee lad, and have always had a special place in my heart for it :heart:


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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.


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Re: Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle [Re: RipVanWinkle]
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I thought EVERYBODY knew who RipVanWinkle was, figurativley speaking.:grin:


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Re: Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle [Re: Apollyphelion]
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I used to think so too. Its amazing how many people ask me where I got it from


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Re: Where I got my name, RipVanWinkle [Re: RipVanWinkle]
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that was one of my favorite stories growing up.

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