Why/how did we choose our nicknames?
 

The 'what are you listening to?' thread made me come up with the idea for this thread (well, a few ales too) so I was just wondering why and/or how we chose the nicknames we use on this site and generally.

I do use two nicknames (not on this site!) 'Manny Fagnett' which simply swap the first letters of each word and I also use 'Bum Farto' which really is a person, in fact a fire chief from a small town somewhere in the U.S who got done for drugs.

Found my nickname in a rather simple way: 'The Leprechaun' is the title of the Chick Corea CD I heard while registering at VEF. ;)

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Mine comes from my service with a dimensional and time traveling mercenary army.

Some not-so-random literary character.

Hmm
 

I figure mine is kinda obvious...
Not that I can visit as many as I see/read about, but I can dream...
:D

Mine is the nickname of one of my footballing heroes! "Feed the Goat & he will score"!

Mine is a type of freshwater sportfish in US/Canada (although one might mistake the term for something only females have).

See an early (1986?) Escort cover (or was it the big fold-out pic?) - as in I'd love to lick her split...

and of course a fondness for cunnilingus and vulvas in general!

VEF is like a Intensive Care Unit for my Brain :)

Mine is an anagram of spitalhouse. I randomly rearranged the letters and ended up with ......... spitalhouse.