Mine comes from my younger days of play D&D. My brother was DM running some quests in the Dark Sun realm (I can't remember if that is the actual name. It was a desert realm, metals were very rare, etc...) Anyways, I made a character that was a Thrikeen (A large bug, Praying mantis like.) So I couldn't think of a name for him, so I started looking through the books and found the name Tk'kyl. I used it for my character's name and its kind of stuck since them. However its gone through a couple changes. In most game, you aren't allowed to have an apostrophe in your name. So I had to srop that. And then, Tkkyl looks kind of silly to me, so I shortened it to Tkyl. So thats the history beind my name.

Guilty as charged. (Except the rude and self centered part, whoever wrote that can eat my toenail clippings )

You can find the story of many long standing goodjers' names in this thread, if you are interested.

Edit: Right, what PurEvil said.

My nick comes from using AOL in 1993. I had to have a username so that I could have my own IM account. My real name, Elliott, had already been taken. I was 9 years old at the time and was a freak of nature with math so I was already doing some rudimentary pre-algebra. I figured I wanted to add just one other letter/number to my name as Elliott was already a pretty unique entity in my opinion. I went with X as it stood for variable, treasure...etc. And I just felt it was cool.

I've kept it for the rest of my life because nobody ever takes it. I never have to worry about remembering my username to a site/game.

The only annoying thing is that some people read it as ElliotTX, and they assume I'm from Texas.

I was in the 6th grade playing CS 1.6. I tried to spell Boggle and missed. It's stuck.

My WoW name was Grendwar. I didn't want to steal directly from some book characters, so I kinda mashed them together and switched some letters and settled on Grendwar. As I made friends and guildmates they would only type and say (via Vent) Grend, Gren, or Grenny. I joined GWJ for the WoW community, so I figured that my name would be close to what it was online, but I didn't like Grendwar that much anymore so I settled on a shortened version of it. The "d" in Grend is obnoxious, and Grenny makes me sound like a girl, so Grenn it is. The extra "n" is a typo I didn't fix.

EDIT* That's a lot of text for something so inconsequential(sp?)

No comment.

Because I've been using it for years, and I can never think of anything else.

Because I'm an idiot.

There is another thread like this from July 26, 2003. Also worth a look... Link!

As for name... first reply in that thread.

I've been called a "codger" since college. Probably had something to do with the pipe, cigars, bourbon, vocabulary, politics, etc.

Straight up "Codger" makes for a dull name (and frequently taken), so I adjusted. . .

Hey, I know a guy from Texas. Do you know Jim? Crazy sumbitch from Austin or Dallas or something, I forget his last name. He was in my dorm my freshman year and left after the first semester following a particularly disturbing foreign object insertion gone awry. What a card that Jim!

The story -- or lack thereof -- of mine.

Gross!

Gemini - engaging, curious, childlike, versatile, witty, entertaining, charming yet....superficial, duplicitous, flaky, restless, nervous, chatty

Who me? Couldn't be. C:

I picked up mine from the Heinlein novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress; it's an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch".

I've been using it as a on-line name since 1977 (no, that date is not a typo). It's always my first choice for user name but sometimes it's taken. Here it wasn't.

Visit a lot of economic forums do you?