[bootless]

Mine is a nickname I fell into ... another forum had a wild discussion about something, and it was getting tense. Finally, someone posted the Elizabethan Insult List, which consisted of two columns of adjectives and a third column of nouns. "Bootless" was one of those adjectives. Turns out it means "useless", but I didn't learn that till last summer. :-)

[strela]

Elizabethan insults - how quaint!

(I've always liked wielding "gormless" myself) ;)