Job related. My alternative nickname I use on other forums and online games where Serotonin has been stolen from me, is Amrypooins. I was typing in IRC with some American friends and was trying to type Mary Poppins. My brain works faster than my fingers when it comes to real time chat.

Andreas Hofer:  (November 22, 1767 â€" February 20, 1810) was a Tirolean innkeeper and patriot. He was the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces.

He was an innkeeper turned politician who fought for Austria against the French during the War of the Third Coalition. In 1809, he became the leader of a rebellion against Franco-Bavarian forces that sparked the War of the Fifth Coalition. He was subsequently captured and executed.

This is becoming a really good (and fascinating) thread....
Keep 'em coming guys....I, for one, am loving it !

Cheers - Phil.

I live in Changchun, the former capital of Manchukuo, and I like the movie the Manchurian candidate. Le Manchou means the Manchurian in French.

Mine originated from early AD&D play. A rather stuffy uber-nerd gamer kept referring to us as Players of Games instead of just gamers. For fun (and to rib the silly bugger) we contracted it and called each other PoGs, then Poggles. For some reason my nickname stuck. Ho hum. 

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