It occurs to me that, like Meat, we have been aaked a few times where our names came from, so, like Meat, we should now resort to giving the biggest bullshit reasons for our usernames we can think of
My user name comes from my days as a human cannonball.
Every year we used to do a different cartoon theme to shoot me out of the cannon, and one year it was Tom & Jerry (with myself in the role of Jerry).
I'd just whacked Tom with an oversized novelty broom, and I jumped into the cannons barrel (suitable dressed as a mouse hole).
Unfortunatly the powder charge was somewhat larger than usual because two people both believed they were supposed to charge tha cannon that day, and were blissfully unaware that the other had also done it.
The bang was quite loud in the confines of the barrel, and I knew that there was something wrong.
Flying through the air at speed, it's only my lightening fast reactions that saved me, when I ripped off my tail, made it into a lassoo, and roped one of the feet of a helicopter which was very usefully hovering nearby.
As I was carried to safety, I heard the announcer cry to the crowd "look at that flying mouse go", so it sort of stuck
