CanadianSue aka ChadCrackWhore bows graciously to PCW for the most ummm interesting explanation 
I am me… accept it or not.
hmmm…well Ya know I would have gone into more detail my fellow crackwhore friend, but they gotta pay me a mule! (You taught me well… payment before services)
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas
Note to self: Send 1 Mule to PCW immediately.
Haven’t answered this before, so I’ll share the story:
I have a couple of drinking buddies who happen to work at the same company as I, in different departments. We would commiserate about the lack of skill, paractical knowledge, and vision of upper management whenever we got together after work. After one particularly aggravating day, I’d been going on and on about what management does wrong, and how I’d change it if I had the power to do so.
The more pessimistic of my companions turned to me and said, "You don’t get it do you? You can’t change anything. You’re not expected to. All you’re supposed to do is sit down, shut up, and do your job! You’re too idealistic for your own good.
“You know who you remind me of? You’re Don Quixote, going out there tilting at friggin’ windmills, then getting together with your buddy, Sancho,” indicating our other friend, “over there and bitching when shit don’t work!”
I didn’t take it as an insult, it had a fair amount of truth to it. I even liked the romanticized imagery of being the one true idealistic knight in the corporate wasteland of drudgery, fighting for what’s right. So the name, as an adjective, fits. And I still call my other friend Sancho.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
To annoy Satan.
Cristi is a nickname, off of Christine. The goofy spelling was my mom’s idea. When I ask her why she chose to spell Cristi the only way no one ever thinks of spelling it, all I get is “it was the thing to do at the time.” BTW, Christine is my middle name.
My email address, Mrstrag767, has a pretty simple explanation too. My husband is a musician, and he has a stage name, Tragedy James. His screenname is Tragdjames. I’m Mrstrag. Our 2 year old daughter is Kidtragedy. I like that one best. 
Self-explanatory, I would think.
Dig, y’all?
From an old college nickname. Garfield was still pretty new when I went to university, and one of the cartoons showed Odie tripping over nothing and Garfield referred to him as “Odie, the wonder dummy” and because I ahve a tendancy towards clumsiness it stuck. My roomate had it worse, his nickname was Pooky because he looked like Garfields teddy. the mand part was added when i needed a seven letter log in name for some computer(i don’t know where???
But you can call me Keith
You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!!
I esplained mine once, but I think that was a couple of “User Name” thread generations ago. Here it is again. (This time with just a little more detail.)
The thing I regard as my biggest character flaw is my tendency to act smarter-than-thou. Realizing that, I started to poke fun at myself over it as a way of keeping my ego in check. “MrKnowItAll” is, of course, one of the personas of Bullwinkle Moose, and he is anything but. It seemed appropriate, especially considering the nature of this BB.
Mr. K’s Link of the Month:
My name is Megan Elizabeth, and when I was very little, my Dad always called my MegE. Every time he’d come home from work or wherever, he’d grab me, toss me up in the air (my Mom hated this when I was a baby; she thought I was going to get whiplash or something) and say, “It’s MegE!!”
When I started to “talk”, one of the first things I said was “It’s MegE”, but shortened to “Smeggy!!” The greeting always stuck.
My Dad died when I was 12, (I am 30 now) but everyone in my family still says “Smeggy!!” when I arrive. (Kinda like on Cheers how everyone shouts out “Norm!”)
Meg
Meg, I suggest you do not watch Red Dwarf with some friends over.
Mine is fairly obvious now, but in fact when I first went on IRC I chose PigeonMan as my nick. Until one day somebody else had already claimed it, the bastard. So I changed over to his sidekick (who is more like me than PM is anyway) and since then I can safely assume that I am the only GuanoLad in the whooooooole world!
And if another comes along, I’ll sue the slimy jerk.
-PIGEONMAN-
Hero For A New Millennium!
The Legend Of PigeonMan - updates every Wed & Sat. If I can be bothered.
Same reason as Canadian Sue, except that when I was first on the board, all the names I saw were classical - Polycarp, Phaedrus, Eutychus, Gaudere and so on, and I thought I shd follow suit (if I’d realised that sth like PurpleCrackWhore was an option, I might have gone for something with more zing, of course). Durnovarianus = man from Durnovaria = Dorchester = my home town.
blindly selected four letters at random and lucked out
My name is a nickname of what my best friend calls me. It’s pronounced silly mon, and it covers the mispronounciation of my last name, and my love for reggae.
1988 is when I graduated high school ,and I like the number 88.
You say “cheesy” like that’s a BAD thing.
Once upon a time four geeky high-school sophomores thought they would start a 'zine.
This would be no ordinary 'zine. . . this would be the UBERZINE, the 'zine to end all 'zines. The Alpha and the Omega of 'zines.
The four students combined their creative powers and came up with. . . really funky nicknames.
Grim, Fluffy, Sylence, and Skeezix.
Lame, n’est ce pas?
– Sylence
p.s. I haven’t tried to speak French in three years, so if that’s wrong, you can eat my shorts.
And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.
The boring explanation, one more time. Always had cats – moggies, mutts or randombred cats, no purebreds. Hence Catrandom
Catrandom
Another boring one…
Enright is my middle name, and when was first on AOL a zillion years ago, I was just Enright. Then I dumped them, and joined them a year or so later, so I was Enright2, I then dumped them and joined them again. This time for about three or four years. AOL wouldn’t let me have Enright, Enright1 or 2. So, Enright3 it is.
My name is quite self-explanatory, in my own definition. I used to have it be a nickname in other e-mail services. I decided to integrate it into this message board as my user name.
Basically, in my own definition, sunset lightning is the most beautiful thing nature has to offer.
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Well, mom and dad were at a wedding reception and mom had a little too much wine.
'nuff said.
El is the Spanish masculine form of “the”. Elle is the French word for “she”. It’s a play on my initials & I’ve used it for awhile.