Ohhhhhh. I always thought there was something either considerably more racist or considerably more ethnic, or both, about your nick.
My bad.
Its badger, with all the vowels removed
OK Ice Wolf… I just wasn’t sure whether you were having a go at me or not! That tp was active before I joined this wonderful place, so I never saw it! But thanks so much for that! I read and enjoyed!
Actually, thanks to everyone for posting. I am so enjoying reading all about your nics and the stories behind them. Keep 'em coming! 
Uh … heh. “tp” is a typo for “to”, as in what I meant to type, 'cept my Kiwi fingers got all a-tangle:
“I just linked that to here for an FYI, that’s all.”
Don’t worry, I wasn’t slinging new jargon at you, there. Just me bein’ klutzy. 
And wendyrules – I’d not have a go at you. Whatever for? Fellow Australasian! Take care, mate.
For a while I was a member of an on-line chess playing website, and I used the tag line from that site when I arrived here. Was pure laziness, at the time I did not want to have to remember another username and password. Karpov was World Champion 1975-1985.
The idea was to give the impression I was a reasonably good player but…
I like rats. shrug 
Gmork, I actually screamed out loud when I read your post. I had no idea that wolf had a name. It terrifies me to this day, and whenever I see The Never-Ending Story, I always debate about whether or not to just shut my eyes until the scene is over. (I can’t watch the scene with Artex in the swamp, either; I’m such a wuss.)
I have a nic I routinely use on other boards, but the SDMB didn’t like it. It also didn’t like the next eight choices I tried, including my real name.
It finally accepted “wang-ka”, which I plugged in more due to desperation than anything.
I later added the “master” partly to jack up the pun content, and partly to celebrate certain recent educational achievements, and partly due to having seen John Belushi’s old “eighteen-year-old Perfect Master” comedy routine…
I’m far from racist, I have friends from all over the world. People that consider themselves liberal in the race department look like Klan members next to me. HA!!!
I came across it while doing a project on elephants. The congodwarf was supposed to be an African elephant which never passed 5’ in height. Being an elephant lover (not to mention short) I felt it fit.
I am very interested in space and women.
my nic means I am not creative.
My name is Misty.
I’m dead sexy, and also incredibly stupid.
Colonel Dax was the character played by Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick’s ``Paths of Glory,’’ very possibly my all-time favorite movie.
Well, I’m an animist, and I’ve always been very interested in snakes/dragons/dinosaurs, and animistdragon has a better beat than animistsnake or somesuch. And my old SN used to be VoodooDragon, so I stuck with the layout.
The fear of beautiful women. I used to have it.
It means I can’t spell and couldn’t have been bothered to look it up in LOTR:FOTR.
I was close…
I’ve told it before, but what the heck – new folks pop up all the time, as Ice Wolf says. So:
I chose my user name for these guys. Even though I am not orange, feline, or male. I do share their appetites in some respects, however.
it’s an affectionate term my hubby uses for “tree huggers” or just someone who likes “natural” things
earthpuppy is cute! Never heard of it before.
Mine reflects aspects of my life… very love/hate. I love the color sanguine and I hate spiders. My life’s been in the love/hate mode for awhile now and it seemed to roll off the tongue.
Not that you asked for this part but my new sig line is just super duper cool compared to my old sig line. I’ve got Nordic/Celtic ancestry and it was sort of a joke on the epic poems of Norse tradition. I could have made it longer but I’m NOT one for overkill. No, not me… never.