Mine is boring but efficient.
D = first initial of first name
Yager = Last name
NH = From New Hampshire

I can pull a bunny out of a hat where previous there was none and I can put the bunny back into the hat....but sadly I cannot change the hat into a bunny

Yes you can. Just pull the bunny out of the hat, then throw away the hat!

Well I'll have my hat back please, and the bunny.

With the right techniques in leatherworking I guess one could technically also change a bunny into a hat

That's more like it!

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@ Ogion, I just assumed you wanted to be called "Onion" and it was a typo.

My username derives from the fact that I am called Jamie, live in the UK, and first set up an e-mail account in 1999.

Mine is pretty obvious. It is the name taken from an Athenian philosopher, who lived from 460 to 400 BC, and has been called the father of scientific history.

Ah, hang on... Bugger...

That's my other account...

Mine is from my very first D&D character.

Mine is my bear's name, Freddy Fortescue Cholmondeley (the latter is customarily pronounced 'Chumbles' - another oddity of England, like Belvoir, which is always good for getting Americans confused as to why anyone would pronounce it THAT way).

A nobilization of what anyone named Mark was invariably called if you were alive in the early 90s.

There was a magic the gathering card called mindbomb and it was my favorite card for a long time the art was so cool. so I just decided brain bomb would work.

jamiet, what about the t?

Whenever I read jamiet, in my head I pronounce it with the same end sound as nyet.

Jamie TIME!

It's funny... I spent quite a long time pronouncing it in Romeo and Jamiet kind of way. We live and learn

The hallowed Creator of Diplomacy, Allan Calhamer, was working for a company called Sylvania when he made the game up. He should have been advancing Sylvania's interests, not his own.
I just signed up to vDip for the first time and have switched it to the infinitely better Vylsania... which is a lot less reminiscent of Sylvanian Families.

I've always gotten a chuckle out of MarquisMark, I must confess. I'm liking the Romeo and Jamiet, too.

I'm still hoping for 2ndWhiteLine to weigh in, although maybe I was too close with my guess.

Any other cryptic ones you guys are curious about?

(Alas, if I'd encountered Game of Thrones before joining, the Onion business might have been a good call. I've soft spot for Ser Davos. )

MarquisMark! That's quite clever/cute :)

I have a tendency of choosing my account names from Tolkien-verse. Hence, Balrog.

Mine's an acronym. It's composed of the first letters of each of the words in the dark incantation I use to summon the spirits of the dead so that they may eat my enemies. I was entering it on my phone, which is why it starts with a capital letter, and the capital P was because I had heard the last name Prado was popular in certain countries, so that would be a good cover.

Call my bluff, I dare you.

I double dare you :p

Hmm. Trying to figure it out. Obviously isn't "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul." because that spells "Andangantab-ik" which would be kind of a cool name, now that I think about it.

There are a couple of questions above about name changes- we almost never allow username changes. Part of the reason is that we don't want people to be able to hide from their reputation, and another part of it is that users having the same name all the time is good for community building (when you read a SoW post by THM, you know him by reputation to be a player worth listening to).

We do occasionally allow name changes, but only if there is a very good reason, and we treat each request individually. We usually don't discuss the reasons for the name change, but I will say that an important factor is whether it will be confusing for the rest of the site after the change. To quote WJ's examples, Gobbledydook -> Gobbledygook is therefore a better change than Ogion -> Onion. As I said, all changes are treated on their own merits, and both of those changes are unlikely to be accepted without good reason.

WJ's suggestion that we should be clearer that you can't change your name once you've signed up is great. I will add that change to the site todo list.

~webDip Dev Team

Oh, and I am A Tin Can, because the tin canning process was allegedly invented by Frenchman Philippe de Girard and the idea passed to British merchant Peter Durand (who was used as an agent to patent Girard's idea in 1810).

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