The origin of "Dagwolf"
Back in the old days of Telnet clients and 386's, I often used the nick "blackwolf"on irc. If that was taken, I was "Redwolf". After AOL hit the internet, I found it harder and harder to log into IRC with my chosen nicknames; one time, when I could find no satisfactory variation, I screamed, "Dadgummit, wolf!" and typed dagwolf in as a contraction of the same.
Well, I've never had a problem since with someone taking my nick. Now this could be because, as I later discovered, "dag" is an australian word for a piece of shit dangling from a sheep's ass, the equivalent of the american "dingleberry". And a Brit once told me that a "dagwolf" was slang for a person who eats ass.
That nagged at me for a few years, until recently when I discovered that "Dagwolf" is Dutch for "Day Wolf". Now, that suits me just fine.
