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**Gen. Lee Losing**

Mine, well... if you see me playing a game, "I'm generally losing."

**Papadoc**

Because creole is awesome

**Gen. Lee Losing**

Papadoc wrote:Because creole is awesome

Can't argue with that!

**yakface**

Mannahnin wrote:When this forum started (in 1997 or 1998) it was focused on the local Dakka Dakka gaming group, and the guys used it for setting up games, writing battle reports, and sometimes writing in-character reports or challenges. So a lot of the guys had handles corresponding to their army commanders. When I joined the forum and the league in May of 1999, I used the name of my Farseer in my league army. My Eldar army was my first, and the fluff was a mix of 2nd ed classic Eldar fluff and Irish pagan cosmology. Mannahnin is a phonetic misspelling of Manannan (mac Lir), the Irish god of the sea, and of the borders and mists between worlds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manannan

Your name drives me nuts because:

A) I can never remember how to spell it.
B) If anyone should use some variation of their real name on a 40k forum, it is you.

HFJor wrote:
In retrospect, I don't really care for the name, but, meh.

I can change your name if you'd like. PM me if you're interested.

As for my handle,

Back in high school when I still thought Star Wars was cool (before the prequels) someone bought me a book covering all the Star Wars merchandising from the 80's as a present. The book had a two-page pictorial showing every single old school Kenner action figure and the caption read something like (I still have the book but I'm at work so I can't dig it out):

"Pictured here is the complete line of Kenner Star Wars action figures except for the elusive yakface. . ."

I thought the term "the elusive yakface" was awesome/hilarious so when I started a band in high school we went with that name. Of course, the band broke-up before we even played a single gig but I really liked the name and I didn't just want to 'let it go', so when it came time to start patrolling the internet and I needed a pseudonym, I took the name for my own.

**legoburner**

If anyone else was curious, then this is what yak looks like (not that yakface, this yakface):

**Deadshane1**

Deadshane-Just getting a jump on the zombie apocolypse.

I love everything "zombie". Hence the moniker.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Mine was used originally on Portent. I was signing up, had the Ork Codex next to me, and pop, there it went!

I have registered the user name on various Forums now.

**Destrado**

Yakface has a battle staff? Kewl!

The "Elusive Yakface" sounds too good, actually. I would've never have guessed that it came from Star Wars, though.

**SonsOfLoki**

my forum name is the name on my homebrew chaos legion
and i am half Icelandic
and my god is Loki
god of mischief
not slannesh mischief
just mischief

**Ryan**

My name is........well...........my name??

**Orkeosaurus**

Elnicko5 wrote:Mine is a testament to my inability to speak spanish. In highschool spanish class, my buddy an I used to have to speak to eachother as a group activity in class, but we were both rubbish at spanish, so we took english ( which we had only a minor mastery of) added o's and a's and tossed in a bit of el's and magically, el nicko and tituso spent class speaking something that passed as spanish unless you payed atention to what we were saying. Needless to say, we both failed spanish.

That pretty much happened to me too.

Anyway, I chose my name because I wanted to have a badly photoshopped avatar.

Then photoshop wasn't working on my computer, so I used MS Paint.

(Also, I play Orks)

**Corey85**

Pretty straightforward, just my middle name plus year of birth. I usually went by last name or middle because my first name was really common in school. So someone would say hey Justin and three or more guys would look up. So after awhile I didn't respond. So then people always called out my middle or last name.

**MinMax**

Mine is the name of a character from a fantasy webcomic I used to read, called Goblins. MinMax the Unstoppable Warrior...

**Khor'Ghurneth**

Khor - Khorne in Chaos speak (back of the old Beastmen Army book)
Ghur - Beast in Chaos speak (back of the old Beastmen Army book)
Neth - Lord in Chaos speak (back of the old Beastmen Army book)

Slap them together in the most phonetically pleasing way and Voila!

And MinMax, that webcomics still going strong, Look it up again sometime, or PM me for a link.

**Illeix**

mine is taken from the genus of holly trees, ilex, then warped into something I find more fun to say.

**focusedfire**

Mine, fairly obvious for a tau player,is the act of dumping all your firepower on a specific target until its no longer s threat. And it is more fitting than my other handle of North American Silverback.

**Xav**

My username is my name "xav" is short for "xavier".

**Angry Marine!**

I'm.. an Angry Marine! GNYAAAAARGH! *flails bat with nail in it*

**sonofruss**

I am really a son of russ

and as you can tell by my avatar I like space wolves allot that is a tatoo on my skin

**Tri**

gah so many cool names ... i'm just a long term gamer and Tri is just latest version ...
Mad Mike - started online gaming just seen Mad Max on video ... i was 8 it was cool
Mad Man Mike - joined a clan on Delta Force and it all ready had a Mad Mike (didn't help i kept meeting other M@D M1K3's)
3M or MMM - got lazys
Tri-M - sounded cooler and its rare to meet other tri's
Tri - get cut when i can't fit the '~M' ^_^

**don_mondo**

Many years back while still in the army (circa 1988), I came in from PT with my hair all sticking up in every direction (yeah, I wore it a whole inch or two long). Anyways, someone yelled, Hey, look, it's Jon Bon Jovi. Someone else yelled, No, it's Don Mondovi. Over the next few months it got shortened to Don Mondo, and I've used it ever since.

**Obscurum**

Darkness in Latin. Don't ask me.

**M_Stress**

Ryan wrote:My name is........well...........my name??

Nice

M_Stress, for Monsieur Stress, is my nickname at the local friendly gaming store

**Tathrim**

Mine is my Xbox Live Gamertag

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

When I joined the original Dakka boards back in 2003 I was a Scythes of the Emperor player so went by the name CaptainReaper or Captain Reaper (can't remember which exactly.)

When the board restarted here, I had been hanging on Warseer for a while so used the same username I had there. Although for some reason I tend to have different names elsewhere, most are Druchii or Zhang Liao related in general.

Oh and the reason behind this username was just me messing around, a play of words based on the rumours about her and her son, although for a long time on Warseer I was suggesting it was because she is the secret mother of Stitch. (Yes, from Lilo and Stitch, and no I have zero idea where that came from, odd mood that week perhaps?)

**smiling Assassin**

I smile as I kill you!

~sA

**mist**

Mine is pretty boring, as it just my middle name. For most online communities, I use my first name or a variant on that, but I don't want to associate my presence on this forum with my other identities, so a new name was found. Not that I'm ashamed to be here, or anything, I just like to keep my hobbies separate.

**Nuclear Mekanik**

Mine comes from my job (I work in a nuclear power station) and the fact that I collect Orks and like modifying/converting vehicles. (both Orky ones and real ones!)

On other forums I'm known as Do Glatem Live which is a lyric from the song "7734" by Sabaton, if you spell it backwards it spells Evil Metal God

**somecallmeJack**

some people call me Jack.... most do in fact, because its my name

**Velsharoon**

Velsharoon the Archmage of Necromancy, also known as the Vaunted, is a fictional deity of the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. Velsharoon is the undead demigod of necromancy, necromancers, evil liches, lichdom and undeath.

I just picked it up one day while playing DnD and hijacked it as my user name, for some reason it stuck

The carebear stems from the MMORPG eve online, although this has now been superceded by "running bear" on warseer for the comedic value.