of places and names ....

[Tshern]

Oddly, adopted mine in 1995 (although I did not use it exclusively then) and I am probably quite bit younger. Silly mIRC!

A long story, a cookie, cake or whatever one prefers if he finds out the origins.

okay, here it goes:
I'm guessing it is short for Tshernovskij, the Russian biologist -- an entomologist, to be more specific (did some work on chromosomal evolution, as well as some other stuff).

I'm just about tapped-out.

It was a worthy try, I do not deny that, but unfortunately not correct. Slightly deeper than that!

[wotmaniac]

Oddly, adopted mine in 1995 (although I did not use it exclusively then) and I am probably quite bit younger. Silly mIRC!

A long story, a cookie, cake or whatever one prefers if he finds out the origins.

okay, here it goes:
I'm guessing it is short for Tshernovskij, the Russian biologist -- an entomologist, to be more specific (did some work on chromosomal evolution, as well as some other stuff).

I'm just about tapped-out.

It was a worthy try, I do not deny that, but unfortunately not correct. Slightly deeper than that!

Well, if it isn't related to this, or this, or this, then I guess I'll never know.

[Tshern]

The middle one was really interesting. One that I had not even seen before.

[Agita]

My first guess was Chernobyl, but that's not spelled with a Tsh in English (no idea about Finnish).

[Tshern]

It would lack the H. Anyway, the original point was not to figure out how my nickname came to be. Sorry for the derail.

[wotmaniac]

It would lack the H. Anyway, the original point was not to figure out how my nickname came to be. Sorry for the derail.

meh -- I got the answer I was originally looking for, so wherever this goes doesn't really matter (at least not to me).

[kurashu]

I always use Kurashu.

I'm such a fucking nerd. I was upset -- and still maintain rightfully so -- that Capcom never featured CrashMan in the Megaman.EXE series. So, I created a MM.EXE roleplay board -- it's probably still around, I don't remember if I hosted it or if it was up somewhere else -- but one of my friends told me that Crashman.EXE in Japanese was KurashuOtoko.EXE. Eventually I shortened it to just Kurashu -- some people also call me Crashu.

I've also gone by Jupiter/Jupiter.EXE, Agent Orange and Greenbomber. Probably a few others, but it's been years since I've gone by anything but Kurashu (joke name notwithstanding) -- at least six.