Mine goes back to Uni and an Anime/Manga called Bubblegum Crisis. The main antagonist in it was Genom Corporation, I loved the series and it was something short and easy to use as a User ID in the online stuff at Uni. (All my mates were computing students and gamers, so Cyberpunk style stuff was common)

Vulpine - My name was a rather boring story. Back In 1998 I was doing a 40k chaos space marine force. I had them based on wild dogs so, so simple I looked up latin for fox/wolf etc.

I thought, Vulpine, sounds cool!

Naming the Chaos commander Vulpine, then when playing Cyberpunk, Hero quest, Warhammer Fantasy RPG, Necromunda etc I used that name a lot.  

Then with the invention of the Internet and the birth of geeky forums (yeah! although, as a side effect  we had the unfortunate death of soggy forest porn, I know Luddite grieves with me ), the name stuck.  

Main Entry: vul·pine
Pronunciation: \ˈvəl-ˌpīn\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin vulpinus, from vulpes fox; perhaps akin to Greek alōpēx fox â€" more at alopecia
Date: 15th century
1 : of, relating to, or resembling a fox
2 : foxy, crafty <a vulpine smile> <vulpine charms>

Years ago I was driving home with my son and daughter and hit a deer.  I was only driving about 20mph because of the weather.  The deer bounced off the car, snorted, then ran away leaving me with destroyed front-end.  My daughter then said 'it's a good thing we didn't hit a moose because moose don't bounce'.  Not sure where she came up with that because there are no moose in our part of New York state.

There's a few others in a previous thread here: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,1753.0.html, good to hear some of the newer members reasons as well!

Herts = Hertfordshire, just north of London. Blue = a follower of the Stamford Bridge tribe, currently European champions. Oh, and the stadium is actually in Fulham - but there's already a tribe of that name. 

QuoteI rather liked the cheeky naming for that chieftain of course as I think it takes the pi.. on the Germans trying to speak english.

Well then..bow to se true King of Dschörman Englisch:
(In the beginning he explains why everyone needs to be proficient in English  )


@topic: as unimaginative as it gets; my name is Jeremias Schmidt (J.S.)  
Euqates to Jeremy Smith in English and I usually ask Brits to call me Jeremy, because it sounds just horrible when they pronounce Jeremias (Cherrymyass...whod? )

Quotecurrently European champions