You'll never guess!
I have been buried in Surfer magazine’s archives, searching for hidden Lisa Andersen nuggets for the forthcoming documentary Trouble. It is difficult work in that distractions lurk on every page. Old Gotcha ads, secret spots’ like Mavericks and Nias revealed, Kelly Slater’s long forgotten nickname from the early 1990s.
Kelly Slater. His mom calls him Willie, but can’t remember why. The press calls him “the next Tom Curren,” and other things that are impossible to live up to. Other surfers call Slater overrated, until they see him surf — then they just call him a mutant. And the teenage girls of America, they call Slater often and at all hours, forcing him to change his telephone number. It isn’t easy being highly-touted, but Slater shows he has that side of surf-stardom in control and let’s it all flow around him.
Willie.
Ol’ Willie Slater.
Weird.
And now is the time to fess up. Do you have a lost nickname? Something your mom used to call you that has almost faded from memory?
Slick Willie Slater.
Welcome to Willie Slater’s Surf Ranch.
Weird.
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https://youtu.be/tr92NNqz9AA
Willie online troll flat earthers or won’t he.
so Kelly’s mum is a fan of willie. good for her. if she wasn’t a fan, Kelly may have been an in-vitro job from Denmark, and who knows how the last 25 years of surfing would have panned out with out him.
Aubrey: When my dad was in Kuwait, he said the flyboys would zoom and in use these rockets with phosphorous markers called Willie Petes to mark the enemy. And then with the I-rockies were chalked, butts burning and flaring to the sky, another set of flyboys would roll in from high and bomb and missle away. Saved our butts so I can come home to you.
Alice: Aubrey did you dad ever tell you to shut up? Kelly Slater is not related to AC Slater
Chole: But I would walk 500 miles, And I would walk 500 more, Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles, To fall down at your door
Da da da (da da da)
Kelly Slater!
Da da da (da da da)
AC Slater!
Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da
And when I come home (when I come home) yes I know I’m gonna be, I’m gonna be the man who comes back home with you, I’m gonna be the man who’s coming home with you
Aubrey: Medina criticized but all your bullets ricochet . .. You shoot me down, but I get up
I’m bulletproof nothing to lose
Fire away, fire away
John John, you take your aim
Fire away, fire away
You shoot me down but I won’t fall, I am titanium
You shoot me down but I won’t fall
I am titanium, eleven time champion, twelfth time titanium, I am titanium
Alice: *pie face* We’re only supposed to do Willie Nelson set list.
If you can handle the surprise reveal, yes.
Willy wonka fetish explained.
I was unaware that there was even one?
Could they have meant Tim Curran?
I feel like Willie Slater is like the alternative Kelly. The one who surfed brilliantly but didn’t react well to all the attention. Ended up running surf charters in the Caribbean.
Porn name generator, take favourite surfer x favourite country singer.
Mine would be Hank Curren.
Johnny Reynolds for me
Channelbottom Wallers
Mason van Zandt.
Dick Haggard
Dane Country Music Is Horrible And I Hate All Of It
Its not possible to hate Johnny Cash
Let me assure you, it is.
Im not a big country fan but I thought he transcended the genre
Try these:
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
https://m.youtube.com/watch…
I appreciate the effort, but you and I both know that Country Teasers are A: from Scotland and B: no more “country” than the Meat Puppets.
So are you saying that Scotland isn’t a country?
I think ole Chazza Chazz McChazz might like a quiet word with you.
Oh certainly not! I love Scotland and it’s fabulous music despite Chazzy McBagpipes. I’m simply saying their good fortune of being Scottish precludes them from being a “Country” act.
Do Scotland have their own passports, or compete in the Olympics? More like a province.
How bow dah?
https://youtu.be/frcK2lukOPg
Guys in mesh-backs and cowboy hats a’dancin in the back. Gotta count fer sump’un.
The only man in a cowboy hat that steals my heart is Tracy Pew. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
sage twain?
do I have to listen to them or look at them?
Your doing it all wrong
My mom just never called me.
See if you can find the Lisa Anderson quote about ‘style’. Was something along the lines of “Style is wearing a pair of Levis until they are almost worn out” (or something like that). Quiksilver must have been stoked 😛
At least Willie is a boy’s name.
Ol Willie Slater looks pretty fetching as a gay cop.
He sure likes ‘em young
Not as fetching as a certain arctic cammo wearing wave sniper tho..The logical side of me likes to think it’s for rock fishing purposes, like you blend into the sky from a fishes perspective but my heart and those chinos tells me otherwise..
Now if there’s that much expectation on someone they quit the tour and become a free-surfer
Wot? You means dey don’t got paid? Nuthin?
Yeah. Just ask Wade Goodall
Everyone calls me cunt, even Mum
my beautiful neighbor who used to mow the lawn in jean shorts an a bikini top would call me mattapuss. she could probably call me worse. le drool.
Wonka.
Kelly’s mom is a huge Willie Nelson fan.
Kelly Slater shares images of some of his personal memories and inspirations. Here: “Me and Willie Nelson on the set of ‘The Big Bounce.’ He was one of my mom’s favorite musicians, and she always called me Willie.”
CreditCourtesy of Kelly Slater https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Well that was lots better than my weak lob. Actually informative!
Jack Johnson wrote a song about Willie. But which one?
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
still don’t know why he was Wille instead of one of his brothers
Oh mannn, I think if I went into the Surfer archives I would never resurface! So many things to gawk at.
Willie. Heh.
Knew a bloke in Bali by the name of Ben. Was known as Chongy*. He made the point of disliking the name , so it stuck. Still known by this name 20 years later.
*Benc(h)ong is Bahasa Indonesia for lady-boy.
those benchongs can fool the most astute observers, so I’ve been told.
Know a mate called pinky..
Mix up post blow job as an astute participant
From NN?
Nah, he was from WA.