Why did you pick your user name?

It's a derivative of my real name.

Mine's an anagram of Evan Dando. Back in the primordial swamp that was the early internets, chatboards such as this had yet to evolve, so in my search for intelligent life with which I might converse, I eventually stumbled across an online messageboard for devotees of the wondrous Teenage Fanclub - a fanclub, I suppose, some of which's members were probably teenaged to boot. Anyhoo, I was a big Fannies (as they were known) fan, so I was delighted to make the acquaintance of these people.

It quickly became apparent, however, that nearly all of them, in addition to being stupendous followers of the Fannies, were also spectacularly humourless. So one day, when Mr. Dando was being discussed for some reason, I was childishly delighted when an early precursor of the comedy totem that is the internet punfest broke out: we started re-arranging 'evan dando' into silly names. By any standards, this was infantile, puerile stuff: but we were like the apes learning how make a stick into a weapon in 2001: A Space Odyssey, when it came to internet humour back in the late 90's.

Anyway, I ended up typing Dave D. Anon, we all chuckled ourselves sick, and then went back to discussing which of TF's THREE songwriters was the greatest- McGinley, Blake or Love.

Plus, it's my real first name. (First four letters anyway)