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This is a question I can’t get enough of, as people often gets puzzled about my choice of internet handle. The story goes like this:

When I was going to play Diablo 2 online, during junior high school, I was going to be a hell bovine-killing barbarian. For the uninitiated there’s a place in Diablo 2 called the Cow Level, and I’d suggest you read Wikipedia’s article about it. So, I wanted to create a barbarian. But it (or he) had to have a name, or else I couldn’t complete the creation of the character.

The nickname I used at that time was actually Hamfast, which I later on discovered was a relative to Samwise Gamgee from the LOTR-series. That name was already taken, and I sat there trying different combinations with numbers and such. I gave up on that nickname, and figured out that I wanted the barbarian to be named something about either killing cows or just cows (like belgian blue).

I tried “CowKiller” and a lot of other things. Meanwhile, a friend of mine was already online (at BNet), waiting for me to complete the creation. So I found it most hilarious by calling him, the barbarian, cow. The try-and-fail process went like this:

cow (taken) -> kow (taken) -> cöw (not allowed) -> köw (not allowed) -> koew (allowed!)

Posted by AnneHeart:Oh dear...I just saw the original Foriegners thread. I'm glad you banned Yoko and her little pal, they seemed to be quite the nuisance.