There appear to be some exceptionally odd doper names round. Please… explain your choice of name 
Hey that finished a month ago 
And I can’t search grrrdammit ok I guess I’ll go and sit in a corner and not create any more threads
Hey I wasn’t criticizing. I knew you couldn’t search so i therefore provided you with the link.
I came, I saw I registered.
I saw that I needed a user name, and all I could think of was cornflakes.
No, it has nothing to do with Cecil’s famous epithet. It came from a high school memory. My band was putting together a flyer. We asked a friend for a quote and he said, “All I can think of is cornflakes.” Actually, he said fishsticks, but I got that one wrong too.
This was the only username that wasn’t already in use.
But… ummm…
Mange Tout is French for ‘eat everythiing’ - which is an allusion to my voracious gourmandism.
I am not named after the vegetable called mangetout (which in turn is named the same as me because you eat the whole thing)
I am not named Man Get Out (I wasn’t even aware of this division of the letters until after I chose the name and it caused a ver amusing misunderstanding the first time someone pointed it out to me in a chat room)
I am not the famous Frenchman Mr Mangetout, who eats aeroplanes, light bulbs and trees and who, despite rumours, did not choke to death on a strawberry.
I am not French, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
At the time, I lived in Canada’s Northwest Territories. I also have red hair.
I **AM ** the Hypno-Toad! From Futurama of course.
Well I wanted something that captured the essence of my personality ----err, my pretend personality ----couldn’t bring myself to register under “whimper” which would be a more apt description.
“Metacom” sounds like the name of a failed dot com, which is fitting because I work in the tech industry, and it was also the name of one of the first American Indians to declare war on the European settlers in North America. I like the dualism. 
I started using mine years ago at some site where I was frustrated that every name I chose was unavailable. When next asked for a name I typed don’t ask and that was acceptable.
A colophon is the mark a publishers uses to identify itself on a book. I work in publishing (although not books), and I also thought “colophon” sounds like a device one might use to listen to somebody speaking out of their backside.
So it’s doubly appropriate. Also, I just thought it sounded nice.
Odin, cheif of the Norse gods gave one of his eyes to gain wisdom.
Right before I started posting, I lost the use of my left eye. I like to think I gained wisdom from the experience.
But who knows.
Declare war on the Europeans. IPO a dot com. You’re right; the end results are the same.
All hail the Hypno-Toad. :
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My handle comes from my love of sniper rifles in first-person shooters. If I could change mine again, I’d love this handle: It’s Not Camping; I’ts Strategic Emplacement
I’m small, pink(ish) and my Dad was a Major.
Is that enough of an explanation?
[sub]If not, try a Google on “Small Clanger”[/sub]
My name is Gyt_fx, pronounced, quite simply: Gee-Why-Tee (underscore) Eff Ex.
I got GYT pretty randomly from playin D2, and it stuck; so I adopted that as kind of a tag on my internet names. Then the ‘fx’ comes from my clan on D2. Gyt_fx.
On my names in Halo or Counterstrike, it’s Gyt_fx[Bigwig], so people know that Bigwig is the one killin em :p.
I’ve been using scumpup since the 90’s when bulletin boards and ICQ and such really started to explode. I began using it as a form of mockery against all the people who were using names like FoxxieLadie and rAMrOD and Sexgoddess and WellHung.
But wouldn’t it be a [properly solemn] riot if he had?
No fair us telling you and you not telling us.