Origin of the Lobster Girl nickname.

I don't suppose too many people care about how I got my nickname "Lobster Girl", but I promised I'd give it up.  The caveat is that I'll give both versions:  The story people like to tell, and what actually happened.  I won't say which is which.  It'll be up to you to decide which version you decide to go with.

I am a Star Wars cosplayer.  Geeky as it may sound it's a lot of fun to play the bad guy in a stormtrooper / Magmatrooper / Jango Fett costume.  No, I don't wear it around the house or while doing yardwork or whatever (unless I'm trying to win a photo contest, but that's another matter entirely).  I wear it to charity events for multiple causes like disease research (Cancer, Diabetes, Downs Syndrome, Autism), charitable organizations like Make-A-Wish, Toys-4-Tots.  Soon I'll be wearing it to an event at a deaf center to help raise money for a new playground.

Anyway, I was at a friends house (we'll call him Dude for now.......I don't know why) doing some research on how to build a costume.  I was logged into my chat room from his computer.  Dude brought over some Kool-Aid which was apparently spiked because I started typing "I want to be a lobster girl" and various other lobster-related phrases in the chat room.  How I managed to type so coherently and with perfect spelling is beyond me. There's got to be a market for a drug like that somewhere.  Anyway, since then all those that were in the chat room that night dubbed me Lobster Girl, and they have told all their friends so that nickname, whether I want it or not, has been super-glued, epoxied, bolted, and riveted into place.  Most people still just call me Splat, but "Splat, the Lobster Girl" is what they're thinking.

The other version isn't quite as much fun.  I simply left the keyboard I was using for a minute (while still logged in to the chat room) and Dude came over and typed all that stuff under my username.  Yeah, I'd probably tell the first version too.

Interestingly enough.  I had the "Lobster Girl" tag before I got red stormtrooper armor.  Now the name is mine for as long as I know these people whether I like them or not.  To be fair though, I've embraced it because there are certain advantages.  For one, I get noticed a lot more then the classic white stormtroopers when I go to events.  I get called the Love Trooper because I get pictures with lots of pretty girls, and who knows what possibilities are waiting for winning U of U tickets (to anything) or something Valentine's Day related.

-LG

P.S.  I couldn't find a picture of a lobster that looked decidedly female without being slightly pornographic, so for now I'm going with this one.