[Argh]

It's not just a reaction to the depressing stuff I read in the news. About 4 years ago, when I first got on the internet, I used the name Arglebargle IV, but I quickly got tired of explaining it to everyone, so I shortened it.

It comes from a footnote in Bored of the Rings, a Harvard Lampoon spoof of Lord of the Rings. I'd read this in about 1970, but remembered a reference to some king in the text, identified in a footnote as "Either Arglebargle IV or someone else". It's around page 29 these days I'm told (or is it page 19?), if you have a current copy.

[Xenalyte]

It comes from a footnote in Bored of the Rings, a Harvard Lampoon spoof of Lord of the Rings.

Dude, you just HAD to bring Frito into it, didn't you?