Clothahump is the name of the elderly Turtle Wizard in Alan Dean Foster’s Spellsinger series of novels. I’ve used the nick for so long now that it is rather disconcerting to go back and read the books again. 
Brendon Small is a neurotic 8 year old film-maker in a cartoon known as Home Movies. I love it.
Brendon
Ha! I love that show.
“Yes, let’s kill children.”
I think perhaps the best random line ever came from season 1:
“I’m gonna punch his butt”
cracks me up every time…
Brendon
I play music for a living. At the time I chose my username, I had been playing bluegrass pretty much exclusively for about 5 years.
Not so much anymore - I’ve been playing with an electric band for a while now. But I’m still a picker at heart.
My location of course refers to the most sublime of all places to sit and…you know, just play…
I mentioned it once in another thread, but my nick is the name of a fallen god from my imagination as a kid.
Yag Rannavach was a god who collected the souls of living things. The collected souls were used as a sort of fuel to increase Yag’s power. The souls that were collected were also preserved for eternity as a self-perpetuating energy source.
The reapers are the second god-faction of that world, and they stood in opposition to souls and those who would preserve or protect them. For this reason they were the enemy of Yag. They wanted to destroy Yag’s power source, and for a while, Yag and the reapers were locked in a stalemate. The reapers couldn’t get enough power together to break through Yag’s defenses, and Yag lost too much power in skirmishes with the reapers to be able to obliterate them.
The stalemate was finally broken when a group of humans who decided that death and non-existence was preferable to being imprisoned by Yag. They sided with the reapers and gave them enough power to break through Yag’s defenses. Once they did, they destroyed all of the souls Yag was using as power, and that was the end Yag.
After there were no gods left to oppose them, they easily overran world and destroyed the soul of every living thing. After they had no more souls to consume for power, they slowly faded out of existence, leaving Yag to wander the barren world with only the memory of lost power as company.
Mine is utterly boring compared to most people in this thread but here it is anyway. I was looking for a screenname for msn chat back in 2000 and because I didnt know who to do the fancy letters everything I tried was taken so I settled on The Future of Earthly Delites… bit long for chat so people in a room I started to go to alot shortened it to Earthly Delites, which was still a bit long so it got shortened to Delly.
Like I said boring story but there it is. The inital name was taken from a Savage Garden remix album, and not from the painting.
Uh-oh.
That Hopeless Doper Crush may come back to hurt me.
:: glances at the southeast horizon ::
:: glances again ::
I… um, have to leave town. Now. I …have an exam. Yeah, that’s it.
You know, “picker” could refer to a lot of different styles of music. Scraggly-bearded weedsmoker, as a screen name, would have helped me nail down the genre much more closely.* 
- I have no idea whether you fall into this category. This is just my personal observation for the handful of bluegrass jams I’ve had the pleasure of attending. And man, those folks can play. I’m a pretty damn good guitar player, and they had my eyeballs spinning in my head like a slot machine.
I’m still waiting to see if Alive at Both Ends got his nick from the Geneis song Squonk.
Almost ashamed that I know that much…
Mine is from a Kel Varnsen comment (post 13).
Years ago I was in a hotel room drinking Maker’s and feeling crumby. Then I stumbled on the above thread. I have never laughed harder. It’s also where I first fell in love with Kalhoun.
I like words with multiple meanings.
Tis that which I spend much time and money to try to be in the company of.
bob loblaw was the bluth family attorney later in the arrested development series. he was named after me.
bob loblaw is also the purported name of the founder of the loblaw chain of grocery stores in canada. that’s an urban legend.
it’s really just gibberish.
bla bla bla…
Star Trek fans will get mine. Zefram Cochrane was the human inventor of the warp drive. Warp drive had been indepently developed by other cultures and is used as a yardstick for making first contact. Cochrane’s warp flight attracted the notice of the Vulcans, who made first contact with the humans. Even if you ignore the Borg menacing the Earth, and Picard and Co.'s involvement with man’s first warp flight.
On the first message board I signed for, I wanted to call myself Barclay, after Reg Barclay, but the name was taken, so cochrane was my second choice (I usually go by the lowercase) and it’s followed me around.
I took mine from the great Roman general Fabius Maximus, whose masterly delaying tactics I greatly admired when we studied him in Latin at school.
For those of a classical bent, the Latin verb “to delay” is cunctor, cunctari, cunctatus sum.
It’s a combination of a shortened version of my name and my birthdate.
Boring, I know.
It is my name, translated, reversed and shortened
- the pseudonym amused me before the web
- and the shorter version is easier to type
When I started a business a few years ago with some friends, we all wanted really cool titles - like “secret agent”. I said I wanted “All Seeing, All Knowing Master of Time, Space, & Dimension”. I was told it was too long to fit on the business cards, so I said I would settle for an abbreviation. Hence, ASAKMOTSD.