[Elspode]

My usual handle is Starship Trooper, but it is so incredibly popular these days (as is the short from I use, Trooper...even more popular than ST, as a matter of fact) that I decided to use Elspode. This derives from a name which my friends and I used to call each other in junior high school, Spode, which is itself a brand name of fine porcelain dinnerware. I added the "El" part, because, wouldn't you know it, Spode is also a widely taken name in these days of the Internet.

I really wish I'd been more diligent in using Starship Trooper during the early days of the Internet when you could still get a decent username with relative ease...it was my CB handle as far back as 1975!