It's been a while since we've discussed this, so given the newly registered 'Alvin Molethrottler'... what's the reason behind your username?

Mine is fairly obvious I'd think, I'm a huge fan of Jean Reno... 

I wrote some articles for various GW magazines. I needed a name for an Elven general and came up with "Ithoriel."

Shortly afterwards a series of amalgamations of Internet Service Providers meant that my previous pseudonyms - "Ozymandias" and "exterminatus_est" were no longer available to me unless I appended a number, which I was not willing to do (I am not a number I am a free man!   ), so I started using Ithoriel instead.

Quote from: Leon on 19 August 2016, 01:30:57 PM
It's been a while since we've discussed this, so given the newly registered 'Alvin Molethrottler'... what's the reason behind your username?

Mine is fairly obvious I'd think, I'm a huge fan of Jean Reno...  

So not down to a hankering after a life in livestock husbandry?

I have no imagination :-)

d_Guy
The short version of my nomme de faux-guerre: Guillaume d'Guy, which in turn is a play on my real name and neighborhood of birth.

Quote from: Norm on 19 August 2016, 01:46:09 PM
I have no imagination :-)

Imagination is vastly overrated!

I've been called Wulf since I was at school. Everywhere except the Bank, Council tax and Jury Service...

Mine is not, as Techno would have it the initials of my name which is, as Techno would have it Frederick Simeon Nobbs.

It comes from my bon mot - "flipping* say nothing" which came to me from the less than law abiding side of the family and described their relationship with the gentlemen of law and order. A distant relative of mine was coachman to Colonel Blood, of crown jewels robbing fame, and it was a great aunt of mine who was the partner of Victoria Helen McCrae Duncan, the last convicted witch in Britain. My aunt exited the parish just before the flatfoots (flatfeet?) entered.


*Other adverbs are available.

Techno is the shortened version of 'Technodestructorman', a daft 'superhero' name I was given by one of my colleagues at the Evil Empire.

I haven't got a clue how he came up with that particular name. Certainly not at that particular time of my life.....Though it might be regarded as quite apt nowadays.

Cheers - Phil

Seempills.  I am originally from Westmarch.

Mad Lemmey - blame DanJ! 

Originally because I would have supported parliament rather than a foppish, self-centred king. Latterly because I am in awe of the stand the Belgians put up against the invasion of 1914. My favourite cartoon is of the Belgian boy standing up to the club wielding adult bully.

In keeping with my interest in the Mongols, the superstitious side of my subconscious thought that naming oneself after a famous commander-albeit a relatively unknown commander in the west- would actually increase ones wargaming prowess...does it bo**ox! I have just stuck with it.  More recently I have mostly been using a more sensible name.

MickS

Quote from: Techno on 19 August 2016, 02:40:44 PM
Techno is the shortened version of 'Technodestructorman', a daft 'superhero' name I was given by one of my colleagues at the Evil Empire.
I haven't got a clue how he came up with that particular name.

He was prescient.

Quote from: Westmarcher on 19 August 2016, 02:48:36 PM
Seempills.  I am originally from Westmarch.

What? The imaginary place made up by Thomas Hardy?  Says a lot.

Until now I thought "fsn" stood for Fox Sports Network!

Flatfooters maybe?