Well this is a long story to tell,but i will take my time and shorten it a little bit...
Story about my nick goes back for about 6 years...
I'm huge fan of RPG games, especially FF serial...
so first RPG i stumbled to was FF VIII, there last boss is Grivier ( part of final boss) and for him ( when you scan it ) says:
" The strongest GF main character could imagine "
and so it interested me - nick...i searched online to see if it has some sort of hidden meaning, and it does...
I found that it's word used in ARGOT language... And i found it means " soldier"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argot http://www.lmffi.com/info/argot.html

hope this has cleared few things to some people...

Grivier

I'm just about to start with ff8, after finishing ff7 (again)
Now you spoiled the end!!

Griever (mind the spelling) isn't the final boss -- just a creature that the final boss summons. It's really not a spoiler.

Beerhunter you made a mistake,
it's Grivier not Griever...
i'll forgive you cos almost everybody makes this mistake...
oh, 1 more thing i said " Part of final boss "
Grivier

It's Griever, unless you're playing an unofficial translation or something. Would you like a screenshot?

Thanks for removing the other data ANd I was just kidding about the spoiling part actually

no,i'm not playing some unoficial game or something...
i have original game for PS1, dang now i'll have to play it again till it asks him to name his GF
i'll prove it's grivier...try to get some evidence...if i'm wrong i'll admit it... fair enough...
@ Inferno: it's not any spoiler,unless you want me to say what happens in the end
well here it goes, it happens:
gotcha you

Grivier

You don't need evidence Your nick is just Grivier and we are all willing to accept that

I'll drink to that!

To stay on topic, I called myself 'beer hunter' for a while since I thought it was a funny variation on 'Deer Hunter'. More recently, I've been going by 'defenestrator', hence my avatar. :-)

Mine started a long time ago (maybe 20 years ago).

In the days of the Atari ST, I had a game where I needed to enter a character name. At the time (age 7 or 8) I thought "The Chaos" was cool

Over time this was just shortened to "Chaos". Unfortunately, registering that nick on any site will result in it already being in use. At some point I added "dreamer" and since then thats all I have used