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**cpyke**

I used to go by pykeman back in my Age of Empires days. My last name is Pyke, so I changed the "i" in the medieval pikemen to a "y" to match my name and viola! pykeman!

The only problem is that no one got the pikemen reference and always thought I was saying something stupid like "I'm the man!" so I just added my first initial to my last name to make cpyke like google told me to.

**Tappers**

Haven't a clue.

Maybe it was made on a random name generator, or perhaps it is the name of the Holy Emperor Hedgehog III...

We'll never know.

**poppa G**

It's what people are gunna call me when I actually have a family.

**Lounge_Lizard**

My forst foray into wargaming was WHFB. I played Lizardmen. For those of you old enough to remember the Leisure Suit Larry games, the name of the first one was "Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards". So here you go.

**PrehistoricUFO**

I once saw a drawing on the inside of a cave that showed men with spears, and one was pointing in the air and there was a single disc in the sky.

Imagine them visiting us in prehistoric times, seeing us as a fledgling specie, so much potential, so young . . .

**ExNoctemNacimur**

PrehistoricUFO wrote:
I once saw a drawing on the inside of a cave that showed men with spears, and one was pointing in the air and there was a single disc in the sky.

Imagine them visiting us in prehistoric times, seeing us as a fledgling specie, so much potential, so young . . .

And look what we've done to our planet, a once fragile womb, now more akin to a furnace!

**Devoted-to-the-machine**

The IG is a machine and I love The IG so... Devoted-to-the-machine

**VensersRevenge**

Venser is was a planeswalker in Magic the Gathering who died. I always like Venser so now that he's dead, I use VnsersRevenge as my name. I might eventually change it to VenserLoken though.

**gossipmeng**

There is this Korean pop group called Big Bang that had a song I found catchy. Then one of their members called G-Dragon went solo and made a song called - Gossipman.

I found it amusing and wanted to make one of my online game accounts Gossipman, but it was taken. Typed in Gossipmeng, pressed enter, the game accepted it - and it stuck.

**Happyjew**

When I was stationed in Groton at the Sub base, a group of us would get together to play Halo. We all picked a feeling and something about us, so we had Happy Jew, Unhappy German, Angry Canuck, Depressed Injun...

**SSG.House**

I was a Squad Leader in the Army...I led 11 grunts, and was also responcible for a 1.3 million dollar Stryker ICV.
I was a Staff Sergeant and no one could pronounce my last night, so my nickname became House. SSG. Is the abbreviation of my rank.
Its hard to throw 16 years away....so it stuck

**Tactical_Genius**

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED

**MWHistorian**

Mine's an abbreviated name of my history blog.

**Jensvejmand**

My username is based on an old danish song about a poor worker named Jens Vejmand. It's from way back when Denmark wasn't rich. I was taught about the song in school, and thought that it was a sad story, so I stuck with me. I have since then used it as a username for a lot of things.

**-Shrike-**

The Mortal Engines quartet. More specifically, Shrike, a warrior resurrected and sustained by ancient technology beyond comprehension (well, ancient in context, but thousands of years ahead of our civilisation), driven mad by occasional glimpses of his first life. Effectively immortal, he survives he ages alone, remembering the past.
Tl/dr: he's a Necron Lord combined with Wolverine.

I also occasionally sign (paintings, drawings) as Shrike in Saxon runes, but I have no idea why.

**Warpig1815**

Mines a mix of the Warpig (The heavy metal band Motorhead's symbol - a wolf-like daemon with a horned maw) and the date for arguably the greatest British victory of all time - The Battle of Waterloo. It kinda sums up my warlike nature...

**SheSpits**

I had this GF once and.......

I was sitting in my office looking out the window seen a girl eating sun flower seeds. She spit a whole bunch out and the wind blew them right back into her face. I thought it was funny and all the cool names i was using where already in use.

**Velour_Fog**

I'll give you a clue. It's from a Gaunt's Ghosts novel.

**Spartak**

When I was in SERE school part of the training is getting captured, they simulate a POW experience and your interrogated etc. One of the guards was seriously gigantic, he wasn't super tall but his forearms were the size of my thighs, and I'm not small myself (6' 2" and 240lbs at the time). Anyway my buddy Kawasaki (no relation to the motorcycle company, although he is Japanese) made some smart mouth comment to one of the guards. Bad. Idea. The giant comes over and picks Kawasaki up by the front of his ABU's with one arm, the other (much smaller) guard is screaming at my friend but the giant just holds him there and stares at him. Later on in our club med adventure we learned the giants name was Spartak.

**ScootyPuffJunior**

Your mission is to infiltrate the Infosphere and plant this quantum-interface bomb, blasting them into an alternate universe from which there is no return.
Then outrun the blast on this Scooty-Puff Jr.

**Bobthehero**

But ScootyPuffJunior stinks.
Get a senior.

**1-i**

1-i. One eye. Catchy way to give me some numbers for my jersey way back in the day.

So how did I get the name 1-i, well I have it summed up here.
http://www.specialopspaintball.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=35556

**Sword Of Caliban**

I am The Sword Of Caliban!!!!!

**Gutsnagga**

My Warhammer 40k Warbosses name is Gutsnagga Mo-ork
Named because he uses his Power Klaw to kind of snap his foes intestines like an over-stretched piece of elastic
And Mo-ork because he has a mohawk and is an Ork.
So yeah, my username is just his first name.

**yeri**

well I was a big fan of C&C red alert back in the day, and I wanted my username to be my favorite character yuri, I was just a really bad speller back then. heck I didn't even know what the little red squiggles under words meant back then.

**Rainbow Dash**

best pony whoo

**Co'tor Shas**

"hell fire" in Tau

**Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl**

Before it was renamed into Oxyotl, Oxayotl was the only chameleon skink alive. And that's a cool name !

**derke56**

Anung Un Rama wrote:
The true name of Hellboy...

"...and upon his brow is set a crown of fire..."

Give that man a cookie!
I got mine years ago when creating a Runescape account. It was meant to be Dirk56, as in the huge knife scottish people used, but I was 9-10 so I misspelled it and it ended up being derke56, can't remember where the 56 is from though...

In any case, it just stuck and I use it everywhere

**Vargard Obi-wan**

what is my name any way? huh... oh, thanks, so it's a necron overlord, obviously.