Gargamel is actually the villain on the smurfs, a cartoon from the 80's. It's been my primary internet handle and/or avatar for most of the online games I play. Second choice would be SirCarmine, named after a knight in a game realm I created. If you see either name in any of the games I mention in my profile.. say hi sometime.

ZippyChippy is a local race horse for 15+ years in the Finger Lakes region of New York State who has never ever won a race! 2nd , 3rd many times but never first!
He's garnered national attention once or twice, he's even raced a minor league ball player from home plate to first base (...and lost) as a promotional thing for the ballclub.

Because I don't really take myself too seriously, I started using the name when I was a rookie in a long standing Fantasy football league. (trying to set low expectations)

I did win the FF league one year so I kinda tarnish the horse's reputation!

my grandaughter did it for me, because i like the commercials.

my previous name wet34t of canada, i was born on a rainy day, so wet, 34 is my lucky number, and t is my favourite letter. I'm from Canada

Hello world, well, hello world..

aquaholic, again, i'm born on a rainy day. Plus, i live in vancouver, where it rains like 99% of the time.

my family gave me the nick 'Perrin' when they decided to join the SCA for a relatively short spurt.. and the numbers are related to an old friends phone number.. I got tired of always having my nick taken, since it came from a popular book series, so decided to mix the two for SnG, and It's stuck..

haha I always thought your name was directly from W.o.T

that's where my family got it from, lol

I have the most terrible time creating usernames for anything, ( I absolutely have to have a different username for everything xD ) while signing up I got fed up with how long it was taking and decided to use sarcasm and poke fun at my own lack of imagination when it comes to usernames. It has been very useful for making even more bad puns during my games :P

Back in middle school my friends and I were making up Sith names for ourselves. I was dubbed "Darth Armoress" because I wore this Under Armour shirt. Since then I have shortened it to Darth Armour, or just Armour. I spell it with a 'u' just because I like the way it looks.

Wow, some of these are creative. Mine is just because my name is John and I am from Texas. The "clantag" just says "Yangshuo, China", which is where me and some friends who play all live.

oh yeah, i forgot to mention reasons 2 and 3:

2: an ex-gf used to call me this. i intentionally only treated her well 75% of the time, bc she refused to take the necessary action for our relationship to take the next step. (she meant 'demon')

3: [Guiguzi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guiguzi): possible teacher of sunzi & founder of the school of diplomacy in ancient china.

Because i'm Yoshi

I like the terry pratchet novels:

http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Callus_Tacticus

long story.

"Maugrim" comes from C.S. Lewis's "The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe," one of my favorite books series growing up. He is a wolf and I've always loved wolves, and I got to play his part in a play I did in high school.

Henns is my gamming name, when it`s ocupied i`d go for Hennns;)

When I got an invitation to play a game here, I had no idea I would actually play more than one game ever, and didn't really care about my name. I am terrible at coming up with names, and decided I needed to type something, so I put "TypeSomething". Over a year and many games later I got my doctorate, so I decided to be the classic annoying doctor and add Dr. to the front of my name.

I use it almost everywhere online since I was about 13.
It is from a fantasy book (Hungarian one, you probably never heard about it), it was a name of a wizard, who destroyed a whole continent with a spell, but became a god in the process.

I only got to know it later, that it means north in many languages, and it is often referencing to nordic cultures.

Mary Juana... Haha

Armour, it looks better with a u because that's how armour is spelt ;-)