> I know there was a thread titled "Handles" about a year ago that concerned this topic; I just read that thread and found it very interesting. However, there were only a few folks who posted to that thread who are still current regulars today (Issachar, Howard, Darien among them). I am curious about where people's nicknames come from.

I sat down and said "Pliffilif". =) Well, I was trying to come up with a name for a fake Pokémon at the time. My other names are basically the same thing... Feuteil, Daleopalmarathis, and ]V[ash-lo, which was derived from my first one, ]V[aRSHMaLLo.