A bit of a fun one this week, what is the reason behind your username?  Something simple like 'Leon' or 'nikharwood', or something more cryptic?  Maenoferren?  Goat Major?  Blaxkleric?

My initials

me name, but i know lots of silly ones.

ians

when i first picked this nickname (for another forum) i was in the middle of painting the command group for the 23rd foot (Pendraken figs natch). Although ironically i didn't actually do them a goat figure...

A nickname from my days in green

A reminder of *Happy Days* before Political correctness, health and safety and oxygen thiefs were decreed the norm

Blax The Cleric was the name I gave to one of my first Citadel Models (which still sits half-painted on my painting desk almost forty years later). 
My other hobby is cartooning, and one of the first original characters I started hand-drawing were the adventures of Blax The Kleric. Because I wanted to create my own fantasy world, I changed the spellings/names of things slightly... Trolls are Fnolls, Orcs are Gibberlings (though I've since found out D&D have a creature called that), and Clerics became Klerics. When I started drawing using a computer I took the name with me as my Username and over time I've simply dropped the 'the' from it.

In typing this I've realised I haven't drawn him since 1996 as my audience (my boys) prefer alien invasions to fantasy. 

Blaxkleric
http://fantorical.blogspot.com/   

Name of the album I was listening to when trying to think of a username a few years ago, since kept it for most forums.

Quote from: goat major on 22 November 2010, 04:44:31 PM
when i first picked this nickname (for another forum) i was in the middle of painting the command group for the 23rd foot (Pendraken figs natch). Although ironically i didn't actually do them a goat figure...

But I have a goat sat here for you to use, but you didnt pm me your address


Dazza  -  had it since a kid     (Darren)

Basically a gift from the sysop at a company I was working for at one time. 7 letters of last name, and 1 initial. Bet he never heard of DBM and BUA's, though!

Scipio von Lentulus was an Austrian and Prussian general who is mentioned in Charge! as the hapless opponent of the narrator -- which is how it became my wargaming nickname back in the 70s

Quote from: Leon on 22 November 2010, 03:47:32 PM
Something simple like 'Leon' or 'nikharwood'

Who are you calling simple? 

No more chant your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood
His feats I do little admire.
I'll sing the achievements of General Ludd,
Now the hero of Nottinghamshire.
Brave Ludd was to measures of violence unused
Till his sufferings became so severe,
That at last to defend his own interests he roused,
And for the great fight did prepare.


The guilty may fear but no vengeance he aims
At the honest man's life or estate;
His wrath is entirely confined to wide frames
And to those that old prices abate.
Those engines of mischief were sentenced to die
By unanimous vote of the trade,
And Ludd who can all opposition defy
Was the grand executioner made.

And when in the work he destruction employs,
Himself to no method confines;
By fire and by water he gets them destroyed,
For the elements aid his designs.
Whether guarded by soldiers along the highway,
Or closely secured in a room,
He shivers them up by night and by day
and nothing can soften their doom.

He may censure great Ludd's disrespect for the laws,
Who ne'er for a moment reflects
That foul imposition alone was the cause
Which produced these unhappy efrects.
Let the haughty the humble no longer oppress,
Then shall Ludd sheathe his conquering sword;
His grievances instantly meet with redress,
Then peace shall be quickly restored.

Let the wise and the great lend their aid and advice
Nor e'er their assistance withdraw,
Till full-fashioned work at the old-fashioned price
Is established by custom and law.
Then the trade when this arduous contest is o'er
Shall raise in full splendour its head;
And colting and cutting and squaring no more
Shall deprive honest workmen of bread.


The Luddites foresaw the ills of capitalism from the very beginning;

Luddism at its core was a heterogenous howl of protest and defiance.
It made its point, loud and clear: the progress of industrial capitalism, and the misery and pain and upheaval that came with it, was hurtful and odious to the English working family and demanded resistance.
But if that point was only to be submerged beneath the unstoppable tide of the Industrial Revolution, what else could these powerless and desperate people do?

I've always identified with their sentiments, wisdom and bravery.

I also enjoy the misunderstanding of the modern world that the Luddites are 'anti-technology', and in that false context the irony of being a 'Luddite on-line'.    

Been online for something like 14 years so way back then As a naive little internt virgin I decided to call myself StephenR, however some dammned colonial already had it, so after SteveR etc etc etc, I would have ended up with StephenR12495749 or something like that. So I hunted about for a name I ended up with two - Lowforce (named after the waterfall on the Tees I used to fling me and my Kayak off and Maenoferren is the incorectly spelt version of Maenofferen, a quarry in Wales. Maenofferen Quarry is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales and one of the major users of the Ffestiniog Railway (where I used to work). It continues to produce crushed slate on a limited scale under the ownership of the nearby Llechwedd quarry.
Basically I used to mooch around the place after hours and wander the tunnels of the various mine workings around Blaenau.. So there we go now you know

Quote from: Maenoferren on 22 November 2010, 11:06:51 PM
...Lowforce (named after the waterfall on the Tees I used to fling me and my Kayak off...

Probably a safer bet than Highforce!   

Quote from: nikharwood on 22 November 2010, 07:50:05 PM
Who are you calling simple?