Well, I like Norse mythology (as well as other mythologies) so I named him Balderus after the white god Balder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldr

I am the first steve in the jones clan

April- the month I was born in, plus I've always liked the name April.
Ice- my birthstone is a diamond. They are also known as white ice.
Hence, Aprilice :)

I hate when people take my super unoriginal name and I have to come up with variations of it.

Eh, it came to me in a dream once, this one did. So no idea where my subconscious got it but at least it's never taken.

I used to be uuniperuna, people called me Uuni so I cut off the extra crap
Uuniperuna = baked potato in finnish
uuni = oven in finnish

Manta was born on Three Rings' other MMO, "Puzzle Pirates" in about April of 2004.

I had been playing a few months and experimented with a couple of other names, but decided I wanted something easy to spell, quick to type, and obviously sea-worthy.

Over the years, variation and nicknames have evolved, so I also answer to "Mantacakes", "Mantapants" and the common typo, "Matna".

However, whenever someone in my party says, "Man" ... I'm not sure if they are talking to me...

usually i would go by the name user102 which means nothing but then i couldn't type in the numbers so i just used this name because there was always slime/jelly monsters in most MMO's...i think

My usual internet username is thinkmooinc, but since I prefer to punctuate it all lowercase or with interspersed capitals [ThinkMooInc], I went for Arcelia instead. Arcelia is a Spanish name [of course with Latin roots] that means "altar of heaven" or "altar of the sky," depending on how flowery you feel about it. Other names I would've gone with are Aurelia ["golden"], Lysander ["liberator"; male name], or possibly Con-Duolo [Italian? for "with grief"].

And, on the topic of names, my blog url is a blatant ripoff of the guild , who I am not affiliated with at all, but...well, I liked the name.

I got my name by my favorite anime show (Fairy Tail) it not like fairys with wings and stuff, so my favorite character is Natsu and he a Dragonslayers so I got the name Dragonslayers :P

I got mines because poop stinks. duh

Stole it from one of the most lovely and charismatic unexplained enemies of a fantastic PS1 jRPG.
As I did with my Account name.

I didn't know. What game is it?

My name is self explanatory. In 1997 I first adopted the handle to espouse the OS because no one knew what it was and it was awesome even then.
And yes, I do use the OS almost exclusively and have since 1997.

Well Tyhlosion came from Pokemon... favorite pokemon in the original silver and gold and crystal series. I just took out a P from Typhlosion. also I have another account that i dont use. his name is Quilavah. added an h.
My username was supposed to be Helios935-934 but I noticed I couldnt have numbers...I tried Helios oh but that was used by an Admin. Yes I dislike him for jacking my name. He could have used Apollo but finders keepers >.> he got here first. So I just used Tyhlosion and stuff.

Yea he is Iron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Bridget

Sometimes taken in games that I play, but I usually get it first when it matters. People seem to really want to put two Ls in it. My guild in Spiral Knights has created some very amusing nicknames for me. Despite being named for a lady, I am in possession of Y chromosome.

@Iron

1. Aggron
2. Tyranitar
3. Salamance
4. Swampert
5. Typhlosion
6. Garchomp
7. Blaziken
8. Dragonite
9. Charizard
10. Gallade

@Heavy
What am I allergic too bro.

So many people ask me what my name is, if it isn't Bob (actually, many people assume it is Bob and I'm being all "ironical" and stuff), then what is it?

Well, the name Notbob doesn't actually have to do with my name at all. The better question is "what does Notbob mean?", which only a few people have asked.

So, here's the semi-long and hopefully-not-too pretentious story behind this username:

It goes back to somewhere around 1991 (OK, I know some of you weren't then born yet. Shut up, you noisy kids!) when I was in junior high, probably 9th grade. Our science teacher was new and besides this being his first teaching job, I was part of a highly gifted magnet program, a group of the sort of kids that will run roughshod over any teacher that can't challenge them intellectually. After a couple of years, I think he was disillusioned with teaching (he later left to pursue comedy, or something) so he finally just told us to come up with our own projects, just make them vaguely science-related.

A friend of mine and I decided to build a model of a fake planet, but a planet built by corner-cutting bargain planet-builders (think sleazy Magratheans), and we also made a travel brochure to go with it. The arts supply store we went to didn't have anything decently spherical for us to use, so we decided on two hollow hemispheres. We put a marble inside as the core (the explanation being that the people that ordered the planet had specified the type of core they wanted, but nothing about the other layers, so all they got was a loose core and the surface of the planet) and then glued the halves together. Unfortunately, they didn't quite match up and there was a ridge going all the way around the sphere.

For all of the features we made and put on the model--they were all pretty silly, given that we weren't taking this seriously, and we had grown up on Monty Python re-runs on PBS and a hefty dose of Douglas Adams--we described them with little stories in the travel brochure. The story I came up with to explain the ridge running around the globe was that it was the fault of the shoddy construction work that went into the planet, and had come to be known as the Circumglobal Ridge. I included a note that no-one had ever been able to hike to the end of it, but one old man had being trying since he was very young. The natives of the planet referred to him as "Bob", which, in their language, meant "really stupid".

My group of friends began describing anything particularly stupid and shortsighted as "bob", and I expanded it to encompass anything born from a narrow-minded perspective and to represent a person incapable of or unwilling to look around them and face the world in a rational and open-minded way.

This was fresh on my mind when I started using BBSs around the same time (note for the kids--back before the internet was pervasive, our electronic communications were limited to local-area privately-hosted Bulletin Board Systems), and so I chose the username "Notbob" as both a declaration (that nobody would get) that I wasn't "bob" in terms of that expanded definition above, and as a reminder to myself to not become so.

As the internet began to invade our lives I kept Notbob as my username, and I try to use it whenever I can--I've had it for 20 years now after all.

Occasionally it's taken if I come to a game/online service late, so I made an alternate username from a random assortment of letters (I don't use it here, though).

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TL;DR: It's a silly private joke that ended up with a meaning. Don't be lazy, read the post.

^Start separate thread in Gremlin Chatter?^

Mines is basically a greeting.
xo=hugs and kisses, so "Hello -hugs and kisses-"

Mine is a long heartbroken story....

Long story short... I had a fiance who I was deeply in love with, and one of her most adorable pet names for me was Darke, (pronounced dark-ee), Obviously I took that nickname and engraved it into my life... Sadly, she passed away christmas eve of 2009, and ever since I've kept her memory alive by keeping that nickname for everything. Sadly Darke was taken, so i added another "a" for some odd reason...

My favorite drink is a Strawberry Daiquiri.

It was too long, so I dropped the 'Strawberry.'

Hence, Daiquiri. C:

Double Dragon 3 was the first game I had for my NES, still works. Looks odd on 32" screen though